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Protesters who destroyed property on Inauguration Day were part of well-organized group
The Washington Post ^ | January 21, 2017 | Peter Hermann, Keith L. Alexander and Michael E. Miller

Posted on 01/23/2017 1:49:27 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Scores of demonstrators charged with rioting in the District on Friday were well organized, ready to confront police and prepared to violently disrupt the inauguration, according to some of the protesters and organizers.

Details of the disturbances in a four-square-block area downtown that led to more than 230 arrests began emerging after protesters made their first court appearances Saturday, a process that continued through the evening as defendants were brought into D.C. Superior Court in batches of 10. Most faced a felony charge of rioting, which carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

The preparation undertaken by protesters included arriving armed with hammers and crowbars, police said in court filings that also said officers moved in to make arrests after windows were broken on storefronts and a city emergency vehicle, and a parked limousine was set on fire shortly before President Trump’s swearing-in ceremony.

Before protesters took to the streets, leaders of an umbrella organization for the demonstration operated a detailed website, designated a media spokesman, had “street” medics to tend to injured demonstrators and said in news releases that the group included protesters who were willing to be arrested.

The group protesting in the District was accompanied by a volunteer lawyer from Colorado who was among those arrested, court records show....

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: anarchists; inauguration; inaugurationprotests; paidprotesters; paidprotestors; protests; radicalleft; rentamob; riots; thugculture; trump; trumpinaugural
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1 posted on 01/23/2017 1:49:28 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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The prosecutors ought to hit them with conspiracy charges on top of everything else they qualify for.... and RICO prosecutions for the organizers and associated organizations!


2 posted on 01/23/2017 1:56:13 AM PST by Enchante (Hoping the Clintonistas are gone from our public life forever!!)
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To: Enchante

We’re so close to the PROOF getting out there that paid protestors and organizers are at the core. Those who go to promote their personal causes are mostly useful idiots. Why not Sedition and any laws involving Anarchy be the charges against the bad actors? That will wake up at least a percentage of the useful idiots, thus cutting down on the numbers at riots.


3 posted on 01/23/2017 2:05:03 AM PST by grania
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The group protesting in the District was accompanied by a volunteer lawyer from Colorado who was among those arrested, court records show....

Nothing to scoff at here. This guy has great potential down the road as a 'Rat politician or future Secretary of State.

This is the direction of the 'Rat party.

4 posted on 01/23/2017 2:05:55 AM PST by C210N
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To: Enchante

Exactly. If an organization conspired to commit another type of felony such as selling drugs or stealing cars, they would be prosecuted for conspiracy. Do these organizations have some sort of defense for criminal action because they’re left wing? Baloney.


5 posted on 01/23/2017 2:08:11 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (It's no longer Right versus left, but Americanism versus globalist scum.)
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To: Enchante

Evry company that lost property to these aholes, every insurance company, every private citizen, should sue the perps individually and as class action - bankrupt the morons


6 posted on 01/23/2017 2:13:37 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Use the little fish to get to the big ones. Get them to squeal, then squeeze them until we find everyone at the top. The enemy inside the walls is more dangerous that those without.


7 posted on 01/23/2017 2:26:59 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://nlgnyc.org/2017/01/12/j20-online-legal-observer-training-11417/

#J20 Online Legal Observer Training: 1/14/17
By Executive Director, January 12, 2017 11:19 am
Join the National Lawyers Guild for our online Legal Observer (LO) training in preparation for the Presidential Inauguration in Washington, DC, Jan. 19-20! Will webinar will be hosting by NLG-DC Chapter Mass Defense Chair Maggie Ellinger-Locke and NLG-DC Co-Chair Caleb Medearis. The online training will be presented in a webinar format, taking place this Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, at 2 PM EST/11 AM PST.

The NLG DC Chapter will be coordinating on the ground legal support for #J20 (Presidential Inauguration) demonstrations—we are seeking volunteer LOs who will be on the ground in DC for at least some portion of #J20 related events, Jan 19 -21.


8 posted on 01/23/2017 2:38:35 AM PST by maggief
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well paid rioters too.


9 posted on 01/23/2017 2:41:47 AM PST by CptnObvious
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder if the SPLC will tag the group as a terrorist or hate group.


10 posted on 01/23/2017 2:46:29 AM PST by fruser1
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THIS took THREE men to write??? And they didn't even reveal WHO was behind these groups.....well I'll tell you who financed them...GEORGE SOROS!!

Hey anarcharists...there's a new SHERIFF in town, and people walking around in Masks and Crowbars and Hammers and Bats will not be tolerated.....I hope.

11 posted on 01/23/2017 2:50:14 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Compost buys a clue.


12 posted on 01/23/2017 2:50:54 AM PST by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: Nailbiter

Good idea.


13 posted on 01/23/2017 2:53:37 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The anarchist segment of the vast leftwing conspiracy.


14 posted on 01/23/2017 3:01:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We have a word for so-called “protestors” who destroy property, Washington Post - that word is “rioters”.

#fakenews


15 posted on 01/23/2017 3:04:30 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As Gunny Ermey famously said, “Well (comma) no shit!”


16 posted on 01/23/2017 3:15:38 AM PST by W. (A funny thing happened on the way to the forum...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is the use in having laws if you do not enforce them? Enforce the laws or repeal the laws. You can't have it both ways. Drain the Swamp!


17 posted on 01/23/2017 3:24:33 AM PST by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Lazamataz

Protestors to Inauguration Paid In Tulsa
Back Page ^ | 12 January 2017 | Backpage

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3514462/posts

We on FR were the first to nationally expose this nefarious operation.

It became clear by post #115 that it was a national operation. Delegitimize Trump....right out of the Alinsky handbook: Rules for Radicals.

Many thought it was a phishing site. Laz got it right, saying it was likely real.


18 posted on 01/23/2017 3:55:58 AM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: vannrox

I doubt Trump will send an “Eric Holder” to throw out the charges and let them go.


19 posted on 01/23/2017 4:12:53 AM PST by 3catsanadog
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To: Enchante

The crime was terrorist in nature and conducted in war like manner


20 posted on 01/23/2017 4:15:27 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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