NEW YORK – The nation's unrest has made for an unprecedented nightly action show on television, with control rooms that switch quickly between cars ablaze, police officers advancing on demonstrators and ransacked stores in cities across the country.
What's easy to get lost are peaceful protesters concerned about police treatment of minorities — the raw wound reopened by George Floyd's death.
Floyd's brother, Terrence, publicly asked Monday for those people outraged by how George died last week after a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee to his brother's neck to make their feelings known peacefully.
That's daytime television, however. When darkness falls and prime-time television begins, earnest activism is replaced by tense scenes of