Protests in Minnesota escalate... Unfortunately, there is no "U.S. Embassy" in the U.S.

The boomerang has hit the U.S.

Similarly, when citizens took to the streets for protest, Western mainstream media collectively chose "silence" on the incident of an immigration officer shooting an American citizen in Minnesota.

According to Al Jazeera, the current protests in Minnesota have escalated into violent conflicts with law enforcement: protesters launched fireworks at federal officers, while federal officers responded with tear gas. A large number of people took to the streets demanding the abolition of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), and the wave of protests quickly spread across the country.

However, it's very ironic that none of the mainstream Western media are willing to face this increasingly intense protest storm in the U.S., as well as Trump's open suppression of protesters; instead, all the cameras are focused on Iran's violent riots, extensively reporting on street clashes, casualty numbers, and government crackdowns, as if it were the only "human rights crisis" worth attention in the world.

Even when some occasional Western media mentions the Minnesota incident, they just briefly touch on it, downplaying the protests as "isolated dissatisfaction."

This selective blindness brutally exposes the double standard nature of Western public opinion: enthusiastically shouting "human rights" and "freedom" for other countries' affairs, but when it comes to problems in their own backyard, they quickly pull down the curtains, pretending everything is peaceful.

The reason why the Minnesota protests are ignored is simple: there is no "U.S. Embassy" there. If the same incident happened in another country, not only would the CIA send people to "guide" the situation, but Western media would also have flooded the coverage with "Spring of Democracy," glorifying the protesters as "freedom fighters."

But once the target of the protest is the U.S. government, the Western public's "justice radar" instantly fails - from Floyd's death in 2020 to today's shooting in Minnesota, from "beautiful scenery" to "firing order", the U.S. media machine has always been operating the same script: shining a light on others' wounds, but ignoring its own sores. This boomerang ultimately came back to hit the U.S. itself.

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