Left-wing rallies are at the epicenter of a unique and amazing phenomenon. They're peaceful rallies that "suddenly" turn violent. The media reports that 1,000 people march for civil rights in Ferguson or Seattle... and then suddenly it ends with half the local businesses being looted and molotov cocktails being thrown at cops.
I've been at plenty of protest rallies myself. None of them "suddenly" turned violent.
Rallies do not magically turn violent. They become violent because their intentions were always hostile and aggressive.
The turn happens when a sizable contingent of your rally gets bored with chanting and turns to overt violence. Or because your rally all along intended to engage in confrontations with police officers or people of opposing views. And then suddenly your angry hipsters or community organizers are struggling with police officers or smashing windows because that was the real goal all along.
And this happens in Seattle a lot. It happens a lot for a reason. The usual excuse is to blame a bloc of violent anarchists who wear black. But that excuse has been used long enough for all the original anarchists to be in retirement. And a basic part of rally management is to coordinate with police to reduce disruptive elements. The Seattle police certainly don't want another day of being in the news for tear gassing protesters. That's what the protesters want. And it's what they get.
It's media dishonesty that is the tiresome factor here. Every left-wing rally, no matter how violent, is described as a peaceful march for justice, candy and unicorns. Until suddenly a mysterious phenomenon occurs and the front page is full of photos of police and protesters struggling. And, below all the photos of the mean cops in black, we learn in the final paragraph that the police were violently assaulted.
Left-wing rallies are often violent. They're based around violent rhetoric. And they have violent consequences. Ferguson was full of violent rallies that were misleadingly described as peaceful. Then the police were blamed. At least until the media itself was attacked and everyone was watching stores being looted online.
But in the media textbook only the right can be violent. The left is peaceful. Reality need not apply.