On Saturday, counter-protesters descended on Boston, Massachusetts to try and stop a gathering billed as a “free-speech rally,” which was attended by some white nationalists. It didn’t take long for the radical leftist element known as Antifa to bring the chaos as they violently assaulted innocent people and the police. But come Sunday, both ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Sunday Today downplayed the violence Antifa brought with them.
During the introduction to ABC’s report on the Boston rally, reporter Stephanie Ramos touted the protesters claiming “people who showed up to counter protest were passionate, few were rowdy, but similar scenes played out across the country.”
When it came to reporting the facts of the violence by leftist extremists, Ramos’ report was sorely lacking. All she had to show of the violence was a clip of police dispatch asking they needed gas masks and briefly mentioning that 33 were arrested.
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