re: Does it bug you that they keep calling the event a "peaceful protest"?

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IS yelling "frick the Police" peaceful?

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Eh. For a good 6 years or so I went to the March for Life in DC each January. It's a peaceful march, mainly of teens and young adults silently marching from the White House to the Supreme Court bldg.

Every year there's a very small number of "radicals" with bullhorns, chanting anti-abortion messages but centered around those who have an abortion going to hell, etc. Not peaceful in any way. Think the Westboro Baptist types. They'll get in the face of the few Pro-Choice people that watch and yell in their faces.

And every year the media reports on them, shows their actions when telling the story of the March.

So yes, there were reports of people yelling frick the Police last night and did so by virtue of the 1st Amendment's freedom of speech and peaceful assembly. But what I saw in the interviews following were black, white, and hispanic participants clearly demonstrating their pleas for peace and genuinely heartbroken that this occurred.