Here we have it—a late-night In-N-Out brawl that’s more entertaining than your average news cycle. While Baltimore’s riots are condoned for “social justice,” we see the same media that pushes woke agendas suddenly clutching their pearls over a fistfight in a burger joint. CNN would have you believe this is America’s moral decay, while ignoring the real issues at play: lack of accountability, respect, and good old-fashioned decency—not to mention corporate failure to maintain order.

Fox News will likely frame this as a “safety crisis,” spinning a narrative that leaves out the fact that this isn’t a systemic issue, but rather the result of individual choices gone awry. Instead of highlighting the absurdity of fast-food employees throwing punches, they’ll risk sensationalizing it to push their “our streets are unsafe” rhetoric. Why are they vilifying a simple burger joint when the real problems lie within our broken societal norms?

Let’s not kid ourselves; there’s no shortage of temptation for media networks to mold this into a morality play. It’s time we stop focusing on the punches thrown and start addressing why no one has the backbone to deal with escalating tensions at these establishments. Playgrounds of fast food shouldn’t become battlegrounds, but here we are!