From the source...
From the source:
https://www.lds.org/topics/peace-and-violence-among-19th-century-latter-day-saints?lang=eng&query=scholar
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Significantly missing from the writing is any mention of Joseph Smith's destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor printing presses. You can say he was unjustly lynched; you cannot rightly say he was lynched while unjustly imprisoned. Nor can you rightly say that Smith did not have a pretty wide streak of violence in his own makeup.
"I don't deduce, I observe."