“Our country was started because, the Boston Tea Party. Rioting. So do not get it twisted and think this is something that has never happened before and this is so terrible and these savages and all of that. This is how this country was started.” - Don Lemon, CNN
"Please, tell me where protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful." - Andrew Cuomo CNN
"It’s indicative of the pain and sadness in this country of people who feel they have no other alternative but to exhibit this behavior in our country. No other option. When you have nothing to lose, you have nothing to lose.” - Don Lemon CNN
"Why Violent Protests Work" - GQ Magazine
“How Riots Built America,” published June 12 in HuffPost.
"Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence. To use the same language to describe those two things is not moral" - CBS News
“This will guide our reporting in MN. ‘While the situation on the ground in Minneapolis is fluid, and there has been violence, it is most accurate at this time to describe what is happening there as ‘protests’ — not riots." Craig Melvin, MSNBC
"People will do what they do." - House speaker Nancy Pelosi 2020 Riots