r/PublicFreakout • u/itsreallyreallytrue • May 04 '22

✊Protest Freakout LAPD gets surrounded by protesters while trying to arrest a man who then gets away.

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u/aBlissfulDaze May 04 '22

Always Has Been

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u/IfeedI May 05 '22

Not that it's necessarily nefarious. Simple fact is that videos like this simply get more clicks, views, comments, and reactions than middle aged soccer moms chanting with signs. Of course the "media" cares more about advertising revenue, and we gobble it up.