A freelance journalist on CNN claimed that characterizing the protests in Atlanta right now as being violent is inaccurate.

GALLAGHER: Atlanta is home to CNN. These guys have become so twisted that when a bunch of Antifa rioters burn police cars and damage buildings and conduct acts of violence, the Left tries to pretend it is not violence literally. I want you to hear some journalist, David. I don’t care who he is. He probably writes for Rolling Stone or somebody. He is talking on CNN about what Atlantans know full well was violence and rage over the shooting death of an Antifa guy who reportedly shot and nearly killed a state trooper. It is one of these autonomous zones again in Atlanta. The wacky looney Left doesn’t want a police training academy in a wooded-area of Atlanta and so they have occupied the area. I saw it on social media last night. Something about saving the forest. It is another autonomous zone like Seattle had. Atlanta, Georgia put up with this? These punks that think they can occupy a territory and when the police finally came to clear them out, one young man shot and nearly killed one of the law enforcement officers who promptly returned fire and killed him. Antifa was so enraged that this kind saintly young man was killed that they went on a rampage through the streets of Atlanta. Listen to this freelance journalist on CNN trying to downplay and pretending that violence isn’t really violence.

PEISNER: As even the chief himself said, this is a small group. This is also within this defend the forest movement, there are no leaders. So people go off and do their own thing. That doesn’t make them justifiable. But I do think that, you know, you keep using these words violent, violent, violent, violent. And it gives the impression — the only violence or the only acts of violence against people that I saw were actually police tackling protestors.