The View’s Sunny Hostin just lied her a– off defending the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, claiming there was very limited destruction of property and violence.
Seriously:
There is no comparison to the BLM riots and the January 6th riot, other than they were both a riot. But BLM was spectacularly worse in about every way. The destruction at the hands of rioters in cities all across America left a massive amount of damage, and that’s an understatement.
Axios at the time said the amount of damages from this riot eclipsed any and all riots in US history:
The vandalism and looting following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police will cost the insurance industry more than any other violent demonstrations in recent history, Axios has learned.
The protests that took place in 140 U.S. cities this spring were mostly peaceful, but the arson, vandalism and looting that did occur will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims — eclipsing the record set in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who brutalized Rodney King.
A company called Property Claim Services (PCS) has tracked insurance claims related to civil disorder since 1950. It classifies anything over $25 million in insured losses as a “catastrophe,” and reports that the unrest this year (from May 26 to June 8) will cost the insurance industry far more than any prior one.
That number could be as much as $2 billion and possibly more, according to the Insurance Information Institute (or Triple-I), which compiles information from PCS as well as other firms that report such statistics.
I remember that BLMers burned down an entire police station in Minnesota and torched car lots in Wisconsin. Just to name a couple of things that come to mind.
Sunny Hostin is a damned liar and ABC News should make her apologize and then fire her. They won’t, but they should.