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San Jose police chief defends officers accused of failing to protect Trump supporters from violence
The San Jose Mercury News ^ | June 3, 2016 | Julia Prodis Sulek

Posted on 06/05/2016 11:04:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

SAN JOSE -- A day after a melee erupted outside a Donald Trump rally, the San Jose police chief and mayor on Friday defended themselves from a national backlash over their handling of the dramatic and at times violent protest.

On radio talk shows and across social media, some called for Mayor Sam Liccardo's resignation because of his comments suggesting that Trump was to blame for igniting violence, while police were criticized for failing to protect Trump supporters from angry protesters throwing punches, water bottles and traffic cones. Some videos showed those attacks and suggested they were unprovoked, but others showed Trump supporters taunting protesters, ripping their Dump Trump signs and throwing the first punches....

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To: dragnet2

We know that. But that is not the narrative that the news media, with the approval of the Republican Party is espousing. And the goons will continue to escalate the violence until a Trump supporter defends himself and injures a goon or a goon injures himself and blames it on a Trump supporter. Them the media goes 24/7 with the stories they have already filed about how the violent and hateful Trump supporters attacked the peaceful protestors.


21 posted on 06/05/2016 11:34:58 AM PDT by sport
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To: sport

I really hope some CC folks don’t happen to walk by one of these events while loaded for bear and are attacked. And if this happens, they’ll have every right to unload on these violent criminal attackers.


22 posted on 06/05/2016 11:38:27 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
TRIGGER WARNING
TRIGGER WARNING

23 posted on 06/05/2016 11:38:43 AM PDT by Ray76
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It sounds like this POS Mayor is giving AMERICAN CITIZENS to start BEATING THE CRAP out of EVERY ILLEGAL ALIEN they see, because they are Provoking Citizens merely by being present in the US ILLEGALLY.

Same goes for the Mayor and the Police, THEY PROVOKED AMERICAN CITIZENS, THEY DESERVE TO BE BEATEN, Dragged out Naked, TARRED AND FEATHERED, After ALL THEY PROVOKED IT!!


24 posted on 06/05/2016 11:43:58 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mexicans attacking Americans while American police paid by Americans do nothing.

Any wonder why Trump wins in a landslide?


25 posted on 06/05/2016 11:46:01 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Ray76

Petition to remove mayor of San Jose now has over 6000 signatures.
https://www.change.org/p/san-jose-mayor-liccardo-resignation


26 posted on 06/05/2016 11:47:15 AM PDT by The Continental Op
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To: sport

I understand. But it does need to be repeated, that the violent people are going to these Trump rallies. They’re choosing to go to them for the purpose of intimation and violence. The Trump side, which includes kids, the elderly, teens and women, are simply wanting to attend a rally, not go to a brawl where they’ll be physically attacked.


27 posted on 06/05/2016 11:48:48 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Intimidation too....


28 posted on 06/05/2016 11:53:33 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

After this display of utter crap I no longer want to know the way to San Jose........grrrrrr


29 posted on 06/05/2016 11:58:47 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: dragnet2

Seems like CC’ers need to have many staged outside to protect the attendees when they leave. The police are not doing their jobs so they have no reason to complain. Of course the police would attack the CC’ers.


30 posted on 06/05/2016 12:05:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If there were such videos, one would think that is all we would have seen these last few days.

Exactly!

31 posted on 06/05/2016 12:06:55 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: dragnet2
 
 
One word - corruption.
 
 

32 posted on 06/05/2016 12:19:44 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There needs to be a BIG civil rights lawsuit against the city of San Jose, its mayor, the police chief, and the chief’s subordinates. Last time I looked, southern California was in the U.S.A.


33 posted on 06/05/2016 12:22:47 PM PDT by Company Man (Trump towers.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“..Mexicans attacking Americans while American police paid by Americans do nothing....”

And herein lies the problem for LEOs, especially those in these craphole communist bastions. Do they answer to their communist overlords or do they uphold their oath of office?
IF they stand down on something like this, God help em down the road. They’re already being knocked off at random by the BLM crowd. Can you imagine becoming the enemy of an entire heavily-armed society? Right now, most of us would bend over backwards to help a LEO in trouble. However, IF they refuse to defend “law and order”, maybe not so much anymore. Once you lose the trust of society, you’re finished.


34 posted on 06/05/2016 12:33:39 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you repeat a lie often enough...


35 posted on 06/05/2016 12:34:44 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: dragnet2

...by a colossal idiot. The chief should be fired...and exiled to mexico.


36 posted on 06/05/2016 12:37:07 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So we have come from the cop on the corner chastising a yute for stealing an apple - then paying for it and sending the kid on his way

TO

People being told Police can not do much if someone threatens you until they actually carry out their plan.

TO

Illegals attacking citizens in broad daylight with the police observing and saying it didn’t get violent enough?

Then the Chief has the audacity to say the attendees were the cause of their problems with the mobs that gathered to impede the attendees

AND

Then the Mayor BLAMES the headline attraction for having the nerve to come to HIS city...

Best line in whole string here was

Foreign Illegals pounce on tax paying citizens, while cops the tax paying citizens are paying the salary of sit back and watch...

WTF happened to ‘Serve & Protect’?

Bizzarroooo World... Indeed


37 posted on 06/05/2016 12:43:25 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Difference between man and animals is man can kill from a distance")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The city set it up to have the Trump supporters walk through a gauntlet of protestors. The city deserves a class action suit by everyone at the rally. Period.


38 posted on 06/05/2016 12:47:29 PM PDT by Yaelle (Tinkerbelle glittering up the runway for Trump Force One!)
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To: lgjhn23

Right now, most of us would bend over backwards to help a LEO in trouble. However, IF they refuse to defend “law and order”, maybe not so much anymore. Once you lose the trust of society, you’re finished.
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This is exactly where they are and had better recognize it and decide carefully.


39 posted on 06/05/2016 1:09:15 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: dragnet2

No kidding.

SJOD has always allowed cinco de mayo celebrations to get waaaay out of hand.

They do not handle large protests well because they don’t want to hurt anyone. Read the police chief’s comment about not being an occupying force....for a long tome they have not been any kind of force at all


40 posted on 06/05/2016 1:13:16 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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