Posted on 08/19/2017 9:49:25 PM PDT by thecodont
Berkeley officials have tweaked local laws to give the city more power over unauthorized demonstrations, just days before another far-right rally is planned for downtown.
The City Council passed the emergency ordinance on a 7-1 vote during a special meeting Friday evening. The move gives the city manager the power to issue rules for street events whose organizers did not obtain a permit.
The planned protest next Sunday, billed as an anticommunist rally, will be the fourth such gathering in the city this year. Pro-Trump events in March and April drew throngs of counterprotesters, including self-styled “antifascist” groups, as police struggled to prevent confrontations. But skirmishes and all-out brawls broke out, resulting in bloodied participants on both sides, a cache of confiscated weapons and numerous arrests.
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Law enforcement agencies from around the East Bay, who are planning to provide support and extra officers to help Berkeley police next weekend, are on high alert after a driver used his car to plow into a crowd of counterprotesters at the Aug. 12 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
The Berkeley municipal code previously allowed officials to impose rules on unauthorized events in public parks, as they did April 15, when police prohibited an array of items — from eggs and baseball bats to ice picks and rocks — from coming into Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park.
But if demonstrators spilled onto sidewalks and streets outside the park, as they did in April, the police lost their authority to seize the weapons. The ordinance passed Friday, which immediately went into effect, eliminates that restriction, according to the proposal, to preserve “public peace, health, and safety.”
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I mean honestly this country is gone. We have a few cities with the media cheering on violent attacks on people exercising their right to free speech and an entire political establishment cheering them on as well.
We can’t depend on our own party to defend us AND THIS IS A PRETTY CLEAR CONSTITUTIONAL CIVIL RIGHT. NO GRAY AREA. FIRST AMENDMENT.
Planning more riots.
They made the 2nd in case you didn’t listen to the 1st
Take our non-violent pro-American demonstrations to the heart of lefty-land, e.g. Berkeley, SF, Boston, college towns. Keep the Nazis and KKK types away and wave the Stars & Stripes, not the Stars & Bars. Signs should support the 1st and 2nd amendments and the police and military, or oppose Venezuela, Cuba and Illegal immigration.
That should be enough to bring out the violent Antifa types. Let the left-wing vandalism (of their own community), violence and cop-fighting be the news and photos.
The Mayor of Berkeley (end of the article) mentioned he’s working with community organizations to create (alternate) events far away from the upcoming rally Sunday the 27th.
OK, sounds good. Let us know how it’s going.
The nazis, kkk and antifa are all getting funded by the same side. This is just a side show while we make more monthly payments for Obamacare. Ridiculous #protestitutes.
What Berkeley has done here is tiddlywinks compared to what Mcauliffe just did in Virginia. He has suspended the right of the people to “demonstrate” in public for a period of ninety days. Here’s what’s being prohibited:
“The term “demonstrations” includes demonstrations, processions, picketing, speechmaking, marching, vigils, and all other like forms of conduct, that involve the communication or expression of views or grievances, engaged in by one or more persons, the conduct of which is reasonably likely to draw a crowd or onlookers. This term includes the display of flags, banners, or other demonstratives designed to communicate a message.”
I don’t think it’s possible for an executive to issue a more clearly unconstitutional order. Hopefully Dictator Mcauliffe will be soundly rebuked by the judiciary by the end of the week!
Why doesn’t a group sue his corrupt ugly butt?
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