rioters loot, criminals run over police officers with cars, and President Trump declares he'll

unleash the military if chaos continues. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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expressvpn.com slash Ben. Well, chaos continued last night because once again,

our government has failed to protect you, the law-abiding, taxpaying citizen. It is apparently better to be a rioter and looter in major American cities than it is to be a law-abiding citizen. If you were law-abiding, you were locked in your home at sunset last night in Los Angeles, curfew went into affected variously either 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. last night. And apparently this is all okay. It's all okay because, after all,

the protests are legitimate and their outrage is legitimate. Now, you can believe that protesters

who are exercising their First Amendment rights in law-abiding ways are doing something perfectly

American. You can even agree with the

agenda of the protesters with regard to police brutality. And even if you disagree on their broader

agenda, which is that America is endemically racist and that America has to be remade from top

to bottom, you can still agree that obviously them out marching. That's an aspect of Americanism

that is quite good. Okay. But that does not mean that you have to believe that rioting and looting ought to be allowed to roam our major cities.

And the attempt by the media to conflate the rioters and the looters and the protesters is absolutely insane.

They're doing it for political purposes.

And it is hard not to believe that some members of the media are not thrilled with the amount of conflict that is being generated here.

Because how else could you possibly explain the takes that are happening in the media?

I mean, it's nearly impossible to explain without some sense that people are excited by the

possibility that this is going to be the tip of the spear in breaking down the old ways in

America, in remaking America in some new unspecified way. Okay, so last night,

here's how events went. You can, again, the media coverage of this is absolutely insane.

Last night, the big story was not President Trump going to a church. Last night, the big story

was that there was mass looting in New York City, mass looting in New York City. There are police

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