I would usually not be watching any of the putrid MSM masquerading as "news" but I happened to catch a glimpse of CNN when over at my in-laws.
They spent a good 10-20 minutes discussing how peaceful the protests were the night before, and how they are bastions of multicultural solidarity. They immediately transitioned into criticizing Drumpf's use of the military to enforce the curfew and these same peaceful protesters.
Because of this simple moment of exposure but also a lifetime of others like it, it's easy for me to believe that the media's hand in bringing about the current crisis was heavy and intentional. They do not give a shit if they incite a race war, in fact it might be what they're after because someone who wants power doesn't have it enough. The other side does it just as much, and would do the exact same as the left if the roles were reversed. They all pretend to care about real issues with real people and spin them towards manipulating the public emotionally; blacks first and foremost in this case, then whites. It's disgusting. They moan the death of innocent people out of one side of their mouth and egg on the murderers with the other.
Narrativic control is why the Twitterverse is somewhat taken aback by minority groups showing explicit racism towards one another, like the Latinos and blacks; it isn't part of the spooled and netted narrative, which is white majority = evil vs black/minority = good or less evil. It's why CEOs of corporations are forced to feign absolutely uninspired and insincere posts of "hey, we aren't racist by the way so that means you can still buy our product". Because it's been developed as the assumption unless stated otherwise, when in reality few people are as racist as the media's racist placing of an entire ethnicity in an abstract rubric of thinking black lives don't matter. Just like how companies had to state their vegetables don't have gluten when making the statement should be unnecessary, but the absurdity of it is that if they don't, people won't be sure of their product and buy the other person's who made the statement.
It's also why taking pride in your skin color -- which everyone should have -- is not okay and only not okay for white people right now and is synonymous with peak racism, even though this makes zero sense. Just like it makes no sense that a black man's wrongful death is more egregious of an act of inhumanity than the wrongful death of any other innocent person. But again, the narrative has been pushed so forcefully, that it has become an impediment to actual discussion on the important topic -- conversation ends the moment a white person isn't apologetic and ashamed of who they are because to express anything other than the scripted response in the narrative is inexcusably racist, and someone is morally right to knock the shit out of you for it.
Narrativic control is also why the same mouthpieces of the media are suddenly and inexplicably unconcerned about large gatherings of people, peaceful or not, in the setting of an unprecedented and unresolved pandemic, which if still active is bound to be an exponent on these events' death toll. They have changed gears from one narrative to the next because it is no longer convenient for them to front, and can erase the sentiments they had a week ago that should bother them instead with no reflection, just as those of their demographic will.
Innocent lives taken is never okay, in any setting, with any actors, involving any skin colors. The riots are doing the same thing that so was disgusting about George Floyd's death, just look at some of this footage posted here. So remember when you see talking heads chewing their words on the MSM channels and blogs, and the CEOs who probably facepalm at their own social media propaganda that it has come to this; those who support the death, destruction, and innocent bloodshed from the riots have corpses in their mouths.