Media folks: get your narratives in order now, and get it right. THINK.

Trump & co will try to get you to repeat talking points about violent thugs and radical left agitators and mobs.

Portland was peaceful until Trump’s people arrived.

Don’t give him his martyr.
Don’t forget why and how this uprising began.

Don’t give him another excuse to create violence.

And remember: for all we know right now, the dead white supremacist could have been shot by one of his own.

EYES UP.
What you do with this information will be as important to what happens next as the developing facts.

You have a role to play in whether Trump gets his supporters to kill more people, or whether it stops tonight.

For chrissakes, don’t let him control the narrative. DO NOT.
Because YOU KNOW, just as well as Tucker Carlson knows that praising a 17 year old white supremacist on the air knows it, that the death of a white “patriot” is going to be used as an excuse to murder more Black people.

YOU KNOW IT.

DON’T BE AN ACCESSORY TO MURDER.
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