June 9, 2025 – CNN, MSNBC refer to LA riots as ‘peaceful’ 170 times

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LA riots break out due to ICE doing their job. (Credit: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

CNN and MSNBC referred to riots in Los Angeles as “peaceful” 170 times as of Monday afternoon since the violence broke out following a Friday raid by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a Daily Caller News Foundation review found.

President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to deploy Saturday as the riots continued in Los Angeles following a raid by ICE at a Home Depot, with video posted to social media showing an individual wearing a motorcycle helmet throwing rocks at the windshields of vehicles containing ICE agents with the FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to that person’s arrest. Despite the videos of fires burning appearing on those networks, they used the term “peaceful” dozens of times, according to a DCNF review of Grabien data.

While the phrase “peaceful protests” did not appear on CNN until Sunday, it has appeared 30 times on the network, with 25 of the utterances taking place Sunday. The phrase has been used 16 times on MSNBC, 12 of them on Sunday.

The term “peaceful protest” was used 124 times from Friday to Sunday on the two corporate 24-hour news channels. CNN used that term 69 times, while MSNBC used it 55 times.

In one instance Monday, MSNBC host Ana Cabrera claimed “vastly peaceful protests” against the ICE raids were occurring in Los Angeles.

“Let’s bring this all back to where it started,” Cabrera said during a segment with , the deputy state director for California for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). “Vastly peaceful protests of ICE operations in the Los Angeles area.”

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