Rat-bastards at NPR imply that the 90 consecutive days of riots in Portland aren't really riots

Hey, didja hear about the riots they've been having in Portland (and dozens of other U.S. cities that never make national news)?

Oh, wait: The left-wing morons at NPR have now educated us peons.  Jonathan Levinson implies that what you've been watching in Portland have NOT really been riots.  Not one of  'em.

Amazing, eh?

Now if you've seen any of the hours of video footage of the riots it's clear that the communist anarchists in the mob are throwing rocks, ball bearings, frozen water bottles and chunks of concrete at the cops. 

By sharp contrast, the cops aren't allowed to throw any of that shit back--something that would very likely put a stop to that mob shit pretty damn quick!  (Can you imagine the shrieking and screaming and howling of "police brutality!" if each of the cops started throwing that shit back at the mob, all at once?  Wow!  And then we'd have the delicious irony of the Lying Mainstream Media trying to rationalize why it's perfectly fine for the mob to throw rocks at cops but not the other way round, eh?)

The mob has also set several public buildings on fire.  But again, per NPR's Levinson, dat ain't no riot.

Oh, and Levinson--like all liberals--says the rioters "mostly peaceful protesters" only started a "small" fire.  Wait, other than strategic bombing, don't all fires start small, and grow from there? 

Just asking.

So NPR is using their coveted, invaluable license to lie over the public airwaves to imply that throwing rocks at cops and setting fire to public buildings is NOT a riot

You may well wonder how the hell NPR/Levinson can imply that those things are NOT considered a riot.

Levinson claims it's cuz the laws governing those declarations are vague and have "roots in Oregon's deeply racist past."  Now, that doesn't specifically say "the riots aren't riots," but the entire thrust of the article is to sneer that da riots jus' couldn't be real, ya know, RIOTS, cuz the law on riots has "roots in Oregon's DEEPLY racist past."

In other words, NPR has played the race card to imply that these massive rock-throwing, fire-starting riots should NOT be called riots, cuz...da law has raaaaacist roots! 

Is Oregon's law on riots vague?  Racist?  Portland Police Bureau's Deputy Chief explained Oregon law regarding riots: "A riot is when six or more persons engage in tumultuous and violent conduct."

Note that law doesn't say "When six or more BLACK persons engage..."  No mention of race at all.  So Levinson's bitch must come down to the definition of "tumultuous and violent conduct."

So for Levinson/NPR to make his bullshit article stick, he must claim the riots are not "violent conduct."

Ya know, I think the rat-bastard communists at NPR--and yes, that's every damn one of 'em--need to learn first-hand if having fist-size rocks thrown at 'em, and their house set on fire, is "violent."

I'm pretty sure that if either thing happened to them--to every one of them--they'd suddenly view things a lot differently.

Source.  But it's entirely propaganda, depicting the "protesters" as totally innocent, dindoonuffins.  See, dey only be starting SMALL fires, bro, so why you upset?