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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Sacks 5th Avenue surrounded its flagship Manhattan store with razor wire yesterday to keep thieves

from stealing expensive merchandise.

While protests across the U.S. were more peaceful last night, the Associated Press announced

this morning that at least 9,300 people have been arrested since George Floyd's

death. Yesterday, I made the claim that violence is not the right response to violence. I've seen

two counter-arguments we didn't have space to consider in my article. One is that violent protests

are as American as the Boston Tea Party. New York Times

columnist Charles Blow tweeted, it is estimated that the Boston Tea Party, the riot that gave

birth to this country, resulted in $1.7 million, in today's dollars, in property damage.

Tea.

I'm just going to leave this right here for whoever needs to read it.

I'm not certain that the Boston Tea Party was a riot.

It was conducted by men in disguise under cover of darkness,

or that it gave birth to this country.

Our origins are far more complex.

George Washington voiced strong disapproval of the perpetrator's conduct and destroying the tea. Benjamin Franklin insisted that the British

be reimbursed for the lost tea, and even offered to pay for it himself. Columnist Joshua

Lawson noted, though many witnessed the event's aftermath, it was a moonlit,

covert act completed in three hours. No harm came to the ships and crews. No violence or

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