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Police: 5 charged after throwing water balloons at 'a bunch of liberals' outside Lindsey Graham's
The Post and Courier ^ | 1/31/2017 | Caitlyn Byrd

Posted on 01/31/2017 6:05:25 PM PST by simpson96

(full article title: Police: 5 charged after throwing water balloons at 'a bunch of liberals' outside Lindsey Graham's Lowcountry office)

It all started with a green water balloon.

Now, five teens — three 18-year-olds and two 17-year-olds — face misdemeanor charges of malicious mischief after Mount Pleasant police say they threw water balloons at protesters Monday afternoon.

According to an incident report from the Mount Pleasant Police Department, a green object was tossed from a passenger window of a gold Ford F-150 truck and hit a woman who was protesting outside of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham's Mount Pleasant office, 530 Johnnie Dodds Blvd.

Martha Rhodes, 41, said she was one of the protesters hit by a water balloon. At the time, Rhodes said she was holding a sign that read "Bigotry destroys democracy."

"I didn't honestly realize it was a water balloon." Rhodes said Tuesday. "I was a little bit shaken up. One of my concerns has been the normalization of behavior that we wouldn't have found acceptable until now."

As officers were trying to see if anyone else was hit by balloons at the Monday protest, they reportedly heard sounds of water balloons breaking in the area. (snip)

officers asked one of them what they were thinking when they threw water balloons at protesters.

An 18-year-old responded he "threw water balloons at a bunch of liberals."

(Excerpt) Read more at postandcourier.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: protesters; waterballoons
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To: simpson96

Lindsey faking his own hate crimes now?


21 posted on 01/31/2017 6:24:44 PM PST by The Toll
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To: DoughtyOne

right? we get attacked and beaten and the cops look the other way, yet water balloons and people are arrested?
gimme a break.

Hopefully DJT and Bannon have something in store for violent protestors once they get all their people through.


22 posted on 01/31/2017 6:26:10 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: simpson96

But a thousand leftists at an airport attacking 4 Trump supporters?

That’s OK


23 posted on 01/31/2017 6:26:58 PM PST by mowowie (Press 2 for Deportation)
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To: DoughtyOne
The guys throwing the water balloons were not a part of the political class. To be a member of the political class, one has to be a Democrat.

Trump supporters get the hell beat out of them and put in the hospital. Pulled from their vehicles and beat up. And the police just tut tut. What I advise people to do is stay away from them. Sooner or later, as sure as Sunday follows Saturday,they will be coming for us. They are not going to be satisfied until they provoke a war with us.

24 posted on 01/31/2017 6:27:06 PM PST by sport
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To: snarkytart

I think you’re probably pretty spot on there.

Thanks for the response.


25 posted on 01/31/2017 6:28:16 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: sport

I hear ya...


26 posted on 01/31/2017 6:29:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: Stentor

you and I.
Told my kids that when I was there age in the teens we used ot do this and that, but today there are cameras everywhere and you are charged for stupid pranks.
I am so happy I lived when I did as a young kid as being a teen today is boring.


27 posted on 01/31/2017 6:32:50 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: snarkytart

I had hoped that things would change once Trump got in. But it looks to me like things have actually gotten worse. I saw that Portland “Riot Squad” at the airport after the Trump supporter got his head beat in. The only people they scared were themselves. In fact, it looked to me as if the police feared the rioters, instead of the other was around. I realized at that moment that we were on our own.


28 posted on 01/31/2017 6:33:49 PM PST by sport
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To: ETL

Did any of them do the Wizard of Oz witch routine: “I’m melting!”


29 posted on 01/31/2017 6:35:59 PM PST by Bigg Red (The best f-word we can apply to Obama on this glorious inauguration day is "former".)
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To: Terry Mross

Halloween


30 posted on 01/31/2017 6:37:10 PM PST by Bigg Red (The best f-word we can apply to Obama on this glorious inauguration day is "former".)
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To: simpson96

Throw a water balloon at a liberal and get arrested, but drag a guy with a MAGA hat from his car and kick and punch him and nothing happens.....
What’s wrong with this country?


31 posted on 01/31/2017 6:37:14 PM PST by griswold3
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To: dead

They should be charged.

Of course, the literal beatings of Trump supporters is never a crime.


32 posted on 01/31/2017 6:39:11 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Bigg Red

How about that scene in the Exorcist when the priest splashes Holy Water on the possessed girl and she screams “it burns!”. Turned out it wasn’t really holy water. The priest just told her it was.


33 posted on 01/31/2017 6:43:05 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: petitfour
Teenagers throwing water balloons? What is this world coming to?

Contrast that with leftist protesters throwing eggs at guests attending inaugural balls. Were any leftists charged for throwing eggs at people that night? Didn't think so, because they were liberals.

34 posted on 01/31/2017 6:45:25 PM PST by roadcat
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To: simpson96
"I was a little bit shaken up. One of my concerns has been the normalization of behavior that we wouldn't have found acceptable until now."

I suppose he being knocked unconscious while your assailants scream "How about THAT, Nazi girl!" would be perfectly acceptable to her.

35 posted on 01/31/2017 6:47:43 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: The Toll; Bodleian_Girl; Terry Mross

“Lindsey faking his own hate crimes now?”

We all had the same suspicion.

Hmm; water balloons. Water balloons....

Protesting outside Lindsey Graham’s office. One of the most outspoken *critics* of Trump’s policies. But it does lend him a little halo-effect victim cred.

There have been fake victims of fake hate crimes who used Sharpies to write slurs on their bodies, or spray paint to mark their homes, rather than stage fake knife attacks or beatings. All the publicity for a meager investment.

And since the media never reports the outcome of the investigation, really, why bother getting yourself mussed up, just to make the accusation?


36 posted on 01/31/2017 6:50:32 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Yeah, real violence and urine balloons thrown at anyone not a lefty is deemed OK, but this is lock them up charge. I’m hoping Sessions can encourage rule of law here.


37 posted on 01/31/2017 7:02:47 PM PST by VermithraxPejorative
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To: VermithraxPejorative

I agree. We have to get back to it, an this mob intimidation stuff has to be cracked down on very hard.


38 posted on 01/31/2017 7:03:46 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: simpson96

Trump should issue a pardon immediately!


39 posted on 01/31/2017 7:04:52 PM PST by The Toll
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To: simpson96

Overkill. Liberal appeasement.


40 posted on 01/31/2017 7:05:04 PM PST by Crucial
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