Posted on 06/26/2016 1:55:16 PM PDT by Wolfie
Multiple people stabbed at Sacramento white nationalist rally
Multiple people were stabbed and beaten in a brutal clash between white nationalists and counter-protesters just outside the California capitol building in Sacramento on Sunday, city fire officials said.
Five people were taken to hospitals with injuries, some with “critical trauma stab wounds”, the fire department said after what it called a “mass casualty incident”.
Sacramento police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey said the main fight broke out when people carrying sticks rushed into the rally area, a park by the capitol building. California highway patrol officers eventually broke up the fight, he said.
Photos and video posted online showed chaotic fights between people clad almost entirely in black and other protesters, some of whom carried signs labelled “anti-fascist”, “Nazi scum” and “smash patriarchy + racism”.
Despite the presence of police in body armor and mounted on horses, violence broke out, leaving blood spattered on sidewalks and people visibly wounded.
People used pepper spray and flagpoles to attack each other, and video showed others swinging blunt objects wildly, beating people to the ground and dragging and kicking bodies.
Police intervened, sometimes riding horses to break up crowds, but they were unable to separate all combatants before serious injuries were inflicted.
At an impromptu briefing, an officer told reporters that the force was working to disperse the protests while respecting peaceful demonstrators’ right to free speech.
“Our primary focus was to de-escalate the situation,” the officer said. “We are going to continue working with the California highway patrol to ensure that the event is held in a relatively calm fashion.”
A group calling itself the Traditionalist Workers party had planned a rally near the capitol for several weeks, and some arrived bearing shields and shirts covered in Nazi imagery.
Counter-protesters also spent weeks planning what they called a “shut down Nazi rally”. Dozens turned out to protest.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based watchdog that monitors hate groups, calls the Traditionalist Workers party a white nationalist group.
The march was organized by the Golden State Skinheads, the California wing of the group. Their leader is Matthew Heimbach, a 25-year-old former radical rightwing student organizer whom the SPLC describes as “the face of a new generation of white nationalists”.
In a post to the organization’s website, Heimbach wrote that he was aware of plans to counter-protest but said: “After carefully weighing the pros and cons, we have decided that this would be our Thermopylae, no matter what it costs. “We will defend ourselves by any means necessary, and if the police in Sacramento do not protect our right to speak, we will do it ourselves.”
Heimbach was accused of assaulting a black woman at a Donald Trump rally in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this year. He was named in a lawsuit filed by protesters against the candidate for president, and acknowledged in an online post, as described in the lawsuit, that he had shoved her. The incident was caught on video.
The counter-protesters organized in part via Facebook, writing: “Anti-Fascist Action Sacramento does not believe in allowing hate to have a platform and we are calling upon the community to shut down their rally. Fighting fascism is a moral duty, not a political one.
“We believe most people are good and are willing to stand up against racial hatred,” they added. “Our objective is to force the nazis off our streets and to send a strong message that they are not welcome in society and especially Sacramento.”
Unrelated to anything else going on in this thread, (there's a white nationalist on FR??) but: Imagine how Christians feel, reading the Talmud where Rabbis teach how to use dung and animals to cure disease, or stories of Rabbis overruling the law of God.
THAT'S a man's religion right there. Or, at least, a very perverted and low IQ man.
Go after this guy for his National Socialist websites or whatever, but please do not make unnecessary anti-Christian comments.
We know what it means because it has been handed down in an unbroken line from G-d and Moses on Mt. Sinai.
We're not talking about "your opinion is as good as mine" (and vice versa) here.
You are not very religion savvy. You are obviously a totally secular person with totally secular values. That those values are opposed to those of the Communists does not make them one whit less secular.
All secularism is death. Left or Right, it makes no difference.
What “National Socialist websites”??
As for white nationalists, America’s founders and our forefathers up until the leftist upheavals of 1960s believed, said, and wrote exactly as the WN types of today(and I can prove it), would they be banished from FR??
Hahaha, as if you know anything about me.
And as I said, just go ahead and keep to that totalitarian “there’s only one way, and that’s the way I say God says”—as I indicated, it’s a surefire way to eliminate controversy and opposition, you’ll have nothing but smooth sailing and sunshine with that approach, sparky.
I approve of every single thing you have wrote thus far.
Thanks, you can have of my dirt sandwich when we’re in the re-education camps. ;-) But they’ll probably separate us.
Well-stated summary.
I only read his post and didn’t read the thread. He mentioned “white nationalist” websites (or else I hallucinated that part). I was just whipping him for that obnoxious comment of his that I addressed in my reply.
You didn’t hallucinate it, but he sure is hallucinating some whacked-out b.s.
Antifa. Check them out.
Was Zionist Conspirator banned because of his comments in this thread?
The only thing worse than a Fascist is an Anti-Fascist.
Of the 30 men who showed up, at least one was ``stabbed in the arm, and it ended up nicking up one of his arteries,’’ Heimbach, a landscaper, said. ``They had to use a belt to slow down the bleeding, but he lost a lot of blood before he had to go to the hospital.’’
He said the person is expected to recover.
Heimbach cut the call short, after saying he was receiving a ``call from a comrade in Moscow.’’
Neither Parrott nor Heimbach were at the rally, Parrott added. Both live in Indiana.
Parrott said the march was organised roughly two months ago and advertised over Facebook and Twitter.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/rightwing-rally-at-california-capitol-turns-violent-20160627-gpsk99.html
Commies in Indiana...whodda thunk?
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