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  • Why Did the Judge Acquit a St. Louis Police Officer of Killing a Black Man?

    09/20/2017 7:42:50 AM PDT · by KeyLargo · 32 replies
    New American ^ | 18 Sep 2017 | Bob Adelmann
    Why Did the Judge Acquit a St. Louis Police Officer of Killing a Black Man? Bob Adelmann The decision on Friday to acquit a white St. Louis police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man back in December 2011 predictably set off rioting in the city. It didn’t occur to the rioters that, according to the evidence in the case, Officer Jason Stockley’s use of force was reasonable, to defend his own life against a potentially lethal threat exhibited by Anthony Lamar Smith. It didn’t matter that the judge found that the state failed to prove its allegation...
  • ‘Spontaneous’ left-wing group with scripts hates being described as ‘scripted’

    04/05/2017 6:19:32 AM PDT · by rktman · 8 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 4/4/2017 | M.D. Kittle
    The nationally organized, local left-wing grassroots group known as Indivisible is getting pretty ticked off about being described as “scripted” — even though its members are raising their own concerns about Wisconsin Indivisible chapters working from scripts. The outrage – at least the latest outrage – follows an op/ed last week in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by an Nicole Tieman, communications director for U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls. The piece, takes aim at the notion that the so-called Indivisible “uprisings” are part of an organic movement, instead of a scripted, well organized and, it appears, well financed national “resistance...
  • Democrats must denounce the rise in violence against Republicans

    09/18/2017 9:19:21 AM PDT · by richardb72 · 8 replies
    The Hill ^ | September 18, 2017 | John R Lott Jr
    As masked leftists use clubs to shut down free speech at Berkeley and elsewhere, Democrats have unfortunately been reticent to condemn the activity. But Antifa violence is not the only kind of condemnable disruptive activity. Democrats should also disavow the organized campaign to harass Republican congressmen and stop Republican town halls. One group in the thick of this battle is “Indivisible.” The group was founded by a former staffer for Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, and its COO, Matt Traidi, is the research coordinator for the Service Employees International Union. Indivisible provides these instructions on how to prevent other town hall...
  • BLACK AND WHITE FEMALE OFFICERS HIT IN HEAD BY BRICKS IN ST. LOUIS

    09/17/2017 2:57:54 PM PDT · by Enterprise · 103 replies
    http://www.frontpagemag.com ^ | September 17, 2017 | Daniel Greenfield
    St. Louis Police Officer (26-year-old white female with over 1 year of service) injured by thrown btick, broken jaw, conveyed to hospital. St. Louis police officer (25-year old black female with over 2 years of service) injured by thrown brick, head pain and dizziness - conveyed to hospital. (snip) These were not the only injuries. A large number of other police officers were also hurt. The injuries include a St. Louis police officer who suffered a dislocated shoulder from a thrown brick and a police officer with facial injuries from a thrown brick.
  • St Louis Simmers on the Edge of Violence After Cop Acquitted in Murder Case

    09/16/2017 3:07:13 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 09/16/2017 | Rick Moran
    Following the announcement of a "not guilty" verdict in the case of Jason Stockley, a white former St. Louis police officer who killed a young black man, protesters took to the streets.Prosecutors accused Stockley of murdering Anthony Lamar Smith after the police interrupted a drug deal. Smith took off in his car and eventually crashed. Stockley claims he saw Smith with a gun and fired.But prosecutors said that Smith didn't have a gun and Stockley planted a weapon.Associated Press: Dashcam video from Stockley’s police car captured him saying he was “going to kill this (expletive), don’t you know it.”...
  • Left Wing Whacko Shoots Trump supporters! (shooting at Washington high school)

    09/13/2017 1:59:46 PM PDT · by Freedom of Speech Wins · 69 replies
    WBCQ ^ | 09/13/17 | Unstated
    A radical left-wing maniac took a gun into a Spokane, WA High School and started shooting Trump supporters! One person is dead, at least three others are injured. A person has died and at least three people have been injured in shooting at a high school in suburban Spokane, Washington. http://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news/u-s-national-news/1234-left-wing-wacko-shoots-trump-supporters-one-dead-and-at-least-three-injured-in-shooting-at-washington-high-school-read-more-http-www-dailymail-co-uk-news-article-4881362-six-injured-shooting-washington-high-school-html-ixzz4sayigyx0-follow-us-mailonline-on-twitter-dailymail-on-facebook
  • Liberals sick of the alt-left are taking 'the red pill'

    09/13/2017 10:00:32 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 38 replies
    Fox News. com ^ | September 13, 2017 | Elizabeth Ames
    The mainstream media failed to see the rise of Donald Trump in 2016. Now it’s overlooking another grassroots movement that may soon be of equal significance— the growing number of liberals “taking the red pill.” People of all ages and ethnicities are posting YouTube videos describing “red pill moments”—personal awakenings that have caused them to reject leftist narratives imbibed since childhood from friends, teachers, and the news and entertainment media. You might say that those who take the red pill have been “triggered.” But instead of seeking out “safe spaces,” they’re doing the opposite, posting monologues throwing off the shackles...
  • Controversial Antifa Expert Prefers ‘Social Revolution’ to ‘Terrorist Group’

    09/12/2017 10:41:43 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 40 replies
    Bedford + Bowery ^ | September 12, 2017 | Mary Reinholz
    Bluestockings bookstore quickly filled to capacity last night for Mark Bray, a former Occupy Wall Street organizer turned Dartmouth history lecturer who is making waves with the publication of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. Soon after its release last month, the president of Dartmouth rebuked him in a strongly worded statement after Bray, appearing on “Meet the Press,” expressed support for the sometimes violent tactics of Antifa, that mysterious network of masked anarchists, socialists, communists and varied others who have clashed with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, tragically in Charlottesville. About 100 of Dartmouth’s faculty then attacked the president for criticizing their...
  • Portland protests turn violent as Antifa members arrested (Oregon)

    09/11/2017 7:29:20 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 29 replies
    News2Read ^ | September 11, 2017
    At least seven people were arrested after clashing with police in Portland where white nationalists and Antifa counter-demonstrators faced off in tense dueling protests on Sunday. Two police officers were injured in the violence, local media reported. Authorities in the city were preparing for violence at around noon as anticipation grew for a rally that was staged by Patriot Prayer, a right-wing organization. At around the same time, police made sure to create a buffer between Patriot Prayer and several hundred counter-protesters belonging to another group which demonstrated under the banner ‘Shut Down White Supremacy’. There was also a street...
  • US House committee urges vigilance against violence by Erdogan bodyguards

    09/10/2017 4:58:00 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 18 replies
    The Turkish Minute ^ | September 9, 2017 | TM
    The US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs on Friday sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson requesting that he take steps to ensure that another violent incident involving the security detail of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan does not take place during Erdoğan’s visit to New York for the UN General Assembly on Sept. 12. “The violence on May 16 outside the Turkish Ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C. was only the latest in a disturbing series of violent, unwarranted behavior by the security forces accompanying President Erdogan while in the United States. In 2011, Turkish security...
  • Who is Behind the Rise of “Antifa”?

    09/06/2017 9:39:36 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 21 replies
    The Jewish Voice ^ | September 6, 2017
    Just what is the Antifa movement? Who are these people, who funds them and what are their goals? The name is short for Antifascist. In other words, those young, white and black kids marching in hordes with masks covering their faces, wearing black uniforms, carrying baseball bats, knives, chains and home-made flame throwers claim they are against fascism. They insist they are on the scene to combat the hate emanating from President Trump, white nationalists, neo Nazis and anyone else for whom they have contempt. Any idea, philosophy or data that conflicts with their world view is heresy. Throw the...
  • Why the Media are in a Never-ending Hunt for Right-wing Violence

    09/01/2017 7:34:57 AM PDT · by Liberty7732 · 17 replies
    Human Events ^ | 8/31/17 | Ann Coulter
    Facts on the ground: — Approximately every other year since forever, liberal hooligans have been rampaging through the streets, beating people up, setting off bombs, killing cops, smashing store windows, assassinating politicians and burning down neighborhoods — against capitalism, Vietnam, Nixon, Wall Street, a police shooting, Trump, Starbucks, a sunny day. — Conservatives, mostly families, have generally avoided even the mildest forms of political protest, and, when they finally are driven to petition the government over their grievances, they pick up after themselves — at tea parties, town halls, Trump rallies and so on. Result: The entire media are constantly...
  • Violence Next Time

    09/05/2017 6:08:11 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 8 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 5, 2017 | Stephen Moore
    Does hatred and violence reside only on the far right, as the media seems to be spinning things? Consider this personal anecdote. Late last year I was attending a board dinner for the American Legislative Exchange Council in Pittsburgh. ALEC represents conservative state legislators around the country. The left hates ALEC because it promotes conservative reforms to state government and challenges the public-sector unions. In the middle of our meal we were jolted by shouting, shrieking and banging. Shortly thereafter about 25 left-wing activists pushed past a security guard and stormed into the room. I don't know if they were...
  • Sacramento approves $1.5 million to tackle gun violence (Pay gangs not to shoot)

    09/05/2017 6:30:55 AM PDT · by KeyLargo · 33 replies
    ABC 10 News ^ | 9-1-2017 | Jennifer Cruz
    Sacramento approves $1.5 million to tackle gun violence 9/01/17 | by Jennifer Cruz The city of Sacramento is tackling gang violence. Critics claim the council just voted unanimously to pay folks not to commit crimes. So what's the deal? We spoke with the Director of the Mayor's Gang Prevention and Intervention Task Force back in March. We asked just how big a deal is gang violence here in Sacramento? It's a part of an 18-month program where those involved get job-training and mentoring. If they complete six months successfully, they could also receive up to $1,000 per month for nine...
  • The Left-Wing Threat To Liberalism

    09/05/2017 12:56:55 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 2 replies
    The Jewish Daily Forward ^ | August 30, 2017 | Cathy Young
    Liberalism, in its classic sense of a free society based on individual rights, intellectual pluralism, and democratic government, is in peril—as numerous voices have warned over the past two years. The common assumption is that the illiberal tide comes from the right: the xenophobic populism, nationalism, and authoritarianism represented by Donald Trump in the United States and figures like French National Front leader Marine Le Pen and Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in Europe. Recent events in Charlottesville, where a far-right rally featured Nazi flags and anti-Semitic chants, were a stark illustration of this resurgence of reactionary forces — all...
  • Thank your local Antifa (No, she's serious)

    09/04/2017 9:08:43 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 20 replies
    Molntana Kaimin ^ | September 4, 2017 | Erin Goudreau
    There seems to be an insatiable appetite among the punditry class for the “antifascists are as bad as fascists” argument, a subset of that orthodoxy of the moderate which argues for peace in the face of violence and love in the face of hate. In the last week alone, The Guardian published “Step Aside, Antifa. You Undermine the Trump Resistance,” Truthdig published Chris Hedges’ “How Antifa Mirrors the Alt-Right,” and Trevor Noah devoted an entire segment of his show to the issue of the “Punch Drunk Left” in which he referred to Antifa as “vegan ISIS.” The Department of Homeland...
  • Sacramento Plans to pay gang members $1.5M to keep the peace.

    09/04/2017 4:16:20 PM PDT · by Tammy8 · 109 replies
    FOX News ^ | September 1, 2017 | Benjamin Brown
    How bad has gun violence gotten in Sacramento, Calif.? City leaders now plan to pay gang members $1.5 million for a cease-fire. Following a fatal shooting last weekend in a city park, the Sacramento city council unanimously approved a controversial program called Advance Peace in an effort to address a recent spike in violence. The program offers gang members cash stipends for graduating from school and generally staying out of trouble.
  • Houston’s heroes should inspire us to unite against the disaster of growing extremism

    09/02/2017 2:22:21 PM PDT · by TBP · 6 replies
    The New York Post ^ | September 1, 2017 | Ben Shapiro
    Because there are certain enemies we hold in common. We hold death in common; we’ll help all but our worst enemies escape the grave. We hold natural disasters in common as an enemy; we’ll react to them by helping out our neighbors. And we hold civilizational threats in common; we’ll fight together against the Nazi scourge or the Soviet threat. merica was built on the foundation of free speech, liberty in personal action and freedom from violence and governmental tyranny. Those principles are now under attack by groups like Antifa, far-left-leaning militants, which maintains that there is an existential threat...
  • Workers clear out of Russian consulate in San Francisco

    09/02/2017 2:32:44 PM PDT · by BlackAdderess · 13 replies
    The Los Angeles Times ^ | September 2, 2017 | Garance Burke, Eric Risberg
    Acrid, black smoke was seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco and workers began hauling boxes out of the stately building in a historic area of the city Friday, a day after the Trump administration ordered its closure amid escalating tensions between the United States and Russia.
  • Public School Teachers Behind Violent Antifa Group

    09/01/2017 8:33:39 PM PDT · by Enterprise · 87 replies
    http://dailycaller.com ^ | 09/01/2017 | Peter Hasson
    Public school teachers are behind a leading far-left militant group that is part of the Antifa network that federal officials say is committing “domestic terrorist violence.” By Any Means Necessary, which has played a key role in riots in Berkeley, Sacramento and elsewhere, has dozens of public school teachers among its members, including among its most prominent leaders. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security began paying closer attention to Antifa groups in general after BAMN and other extremists started a riot and attacked marchers at a white nationalist rally in Sacramento last July, Politico reported on Friday. The Sacramento...