What Will Organized Criminal Violence Bring Next To Our Streets?

PA Pundits International

By James Carafano ~

Organized riots.

That sounds like an oxymoron, but it’s what we’re seeing in many cities in this season of COVID-19 and protests.

A federal law enforcement agent with a gas mask faces demonstrators during a night of protest against racial injustice, police brutality, and the deployment of federal troops to U.S. cities July 29, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. (Photo: Alisha Jucevic/AFP/Getty Images)

I’m not talking about peaceful protests. Many of those have been conducted successfully since the death of George Floyd. Clearly, huge numbers of Americans have felt it important to march peacefully, in solidarity, against racism.

Soon, however, many cities saw radical political agendas pushed to the fore, including calls to “defund the police.” The Marxist voice of the Black Lives Matters network and violent tactics of groups like Antifa began to piggyback on the peaceful protests and overshadow those other voices.

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