{"id":1516586,"date":"2022-06-15T08:05:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T12:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516586"},"modified":"2022-06-15T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T12:05:43","slug":"jack-del-rio-was-right-about-the-george-floyd-riots-and-he-was-punished-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jack-del-rio-was-right-about-the-george-floyd-riots-and-he-was-punished-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Del Rio Was Right About The George Floyd Riots, And He Was Punished For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjack-del-rio-was-right-about-the-george-floyd-riots-and-he-was-punished-for-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516586&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/dc.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>National Football League defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/commanders-ron-rivera-fines-jack-del-rio-january-6-riots\">fined $100,000<\/a> by the Washington Commanders last week after he dared to voice an unauthorized opinion regarding the partisan Jan. 6 show trial now underway on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Refusing to parrot tired Democrat-issued talking points, Del Rio made a fairly straightforward observation to reporters when he contrasted the media\u2019s hysterical response to what happened at the Capitol building with their muted interest in covering the violent riots sparked by the death of George Floyd in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see the images on TV. People\u2019s livelihoods are being destroyed. Businesses are being burned down. No problem. And then we have a dust-up at the Capitol \u2014 nothing burned down \u2014 and we\u2019re going to make that a major deal? I just think it\u2019s kind of two standards,\u201d Del Rio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2022\/06\/08\/jack-del-rio-insurrections-comments\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cIf we apply the same standard and we\u2019re going to be reasonable with each other, let\u2019s have a discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, reasonable discussion isn\u2019t allowed in our modern political climate. Anyone who deviates from the approved script must be immediately condemned and then humiliated. So, predictably, Del Rio was forced to apologize for his remarks. Commanders Head Coach Ron Rivera then issued a remarkably dishonest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Commanders\/status\/1535323474406920193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1535323474406920193%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fsports%2Fcommanders-ron-rivera-fines-jack-del-rio-january-6-riots\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make it clear that our organization will not tolerate any equivalency between those who demanded justice in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s murder and the actions of those on January 6 who sought to topple our government,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cCoach Del Rio did apologize for his comments on Wednesday and he understands the distinction between the events of that dark day and peaceful protests, which are a hallmark of our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rivera is intentionally conflating two very separate issues. Any sane football fan who isn\u2019t looking to advance a radical political agenda knows that Del Rio wasn\u2019t speaking about those who peacefully \u201cdemanded justice\u201d but was instead referring to the unprecedented destruction caused by a subset of protesters.<\/p>\n<h2>$2 Billion in Damage from Summer 2020 Riots<\/h2>\n<p>There were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2021\/09\/09\/realclearinvestigations_jan_6-blm_comparison_database_791370.html\">many more casualties and arrests<\/a> during so-called \u201cpeaceful protests\u201d back in 2020 than on Jan 6. Additionally, documented incidents of vandalism and looting during the summer of civil unrest resulted in up to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/16\/riots-following-george-floyds-death-could-cost-up-to-2b\/\">$2 billion in property damage<\/a> nationwide. More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/businesses-year-after-floyd-1596610\">1,500 businesses were damaged<\/a> in Minneapolis and St. Paul alone.<\/p>\n<p>One of those businesses belonged to Ibrahim Demaag, who immigrated to Minnesota from Ethiopia 30 years ago. \u201cWe left our country for a future\u00a0to see the American dream and look how it happened,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/lauraingraham.com\/2020\/08\/laura-ingraham-speaks-to-minneapolis-business-owners-who-saw-their-lives-destroyed-during-unrest\/\">told<\/a> Fox News\u2019s Laura Ingraham after his business was burned to the ground by rioters. \u201cYou work hard. You pay our taxes. We have not done anything wrong,\u201d Demaag continued.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s Linda Carpenter, whose furniture store in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/26\/kenosha-store-owner-in-tears-as-she-sees-business-burnt-to-ground\/\">reduced to ashes<\/a> during violent protests in that town. \u201cIt\u2019s all gone \u2026 we didn\u2019t do nothing to nobody,\u201d Carpenter said while sobbing. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s justifiable for anyone to destroy anybody else\u2019s property.\u201d Her store had been in business for more than 40 years before being torched. There are thousands of stories just like this one.<\/p>\n<h2>Del Rio Incident Highlights Class Divide<\/h2>\n<p>Yet Democrats and the corporate media are unbothered by these stories and others that directly affect the daily lives of regular, hard-working Americans. They have no interest in covering violent crime rates in big cities, record-breaking inflation, or disastrous energy policies that have led to soaring gas prices. The country\u2019s out-of-touch elites are insulated from all of it. Can\u2019t afford fuel? Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/let-them-buy-teslas-electric-car-owner-stabenow-says-gas-prices-dont-matter\">buy a Tesla<\/a>, they shriek.<\/p>\n<p>More than anything, what the Del Rio story from the world of sports highlights is the growing and pervasive class divide in the United States of America. While leftist elites obsess over the events of Jan 6., the rest of the country is rightly concerned about the things that actually matter. <\/p>\n<p>They want to know if they\u2019ll be able to afford groceries or find baby formula for their newborns \u2014 not who Donald Trump Jr. last texted. Del Rio, in this way, spoke on behalf of millions of men and women. In so doing, he shined a light on an utterly fraudulent and painfully dishonest professional class that is unworthy of being taken seriously. In the end, that was his real crime.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kiyan Kassam is a conservative writer and journalist based in Vancouver. Follow him on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kiyankassam\">@kiyankassam<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Football League defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio was fined $100,000 by the Washington Commanders last week after he dared to voice an unauthorized opinion regarding the partisan Jan. 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}