Posted on 07/26/2020 3:53:37 PM PDT by Libloather
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Chief Smith took the podium and immediately addressed the planned Monroe Park profanity-laced flyer circulating on social media. He said that the flyer was provoking ‘intimidation’ and was “clearly from outside of Richmond.”
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Smith continued to discuss the riots that led to a dump trick being set on fire - and said he will bluntly refer to those who took park as “rioters.”
Six individuals were arrested for Unlawful Assembly throughout the course of the night.
Smith said that officers were assaulted with bricks and batteries - and thanked Richmond Fire Department for their swiftness in tending to multiple fires that were started across the city by rioters. He said three of the fires were started at RPD HQ.
Chief Smith continued by thanking the leadership of Black Lives Matter - and says they did not participate in the violence that happened Saturday night that saw police encounter rioters until around 2:30 a.m.
He also said that the groups that took part were clearly there to incite violence - and says he believes ANTIFA took part in the protest.
Listing the ‘Boogaloo Boys’ as one of the groups present, Chief Smith says a majority of the individuals in the riots were Caucasian.
“White supremacists were marching under the banner of Black Lives Matter,” Chief Smith said. “I would like to give a thanks to Black Lives Matter - it was not them. They shared the fliers and had concerns. It was not them and they told their members not to come. This group came to bring violence to the city and that is not us.”
Mayor Levar Stoney then took to the podium after Chief Smith’s statements.
“Here in Richmond, our standard for protests is all protesters walk away safe. That’s not what happened last night,” Stoney said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wric.com ...
I am very impressed with the organizational skills of these white supremacists....
Nah—I am very impressed with the blatant lying of the city authorities.
That is just what the authorities are saying, doubt that is the case. The media calls Nazis right wing when in reality they Leftist
BS propaganda. How do they know these white guys torching a Starbucks are racists but the whites guys torching the Cvs are antifa while the black guys torching Wendy’s are peaceful protesters.
“”“I would like to give a thanks to Black Lives Matter - it was not them.””””
Sure, if you say so.
Antifags are white supremacists?
Bet they will be shocked to find that out.
This whole Bugaloo Boys nonsense is really BS Boys - there is precious little evidence that this is even real and if it is there are about the same number as there are for the Klan, maybe dozens as opposed to the democrat party brownshirts reenacting Kristalnacht every night while being “inclusive” by including everyone that doesn’t agree with them.
Um, sorry, dumbass. Those aren't "boogie men". Those are pasty white anarchists there to destroy your city. Assclown Richmond mayor and chief of police.
Yes, and the Fascist rioters call themselves Antifascist.
Get this news out there which MSM won’t
LOOK WHO IS USING CHINESE SLAVES
Pro-Black Lives Matter Corporations
many are Using Chinese Slave Labor
in their factorys in that moslem province
using prractices which Trump condemed
7/9/2020, 2:25:08 PM · by yoe
Daniel Greenfield/Sultan of Knish ^reports on
| July 9, 2020 | Coca-Cola CEO
would like you to know that it cares
about oppression and believes America is evil.
In a rambling statement by CEO James Quincey*
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'Bout as clear-cut as a "dump trick" fire. Whatever that is.. d;^)
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Predictable BS.
And the Leaders in Richmond eat it up.
I watched the Live Feed from the Minneapolis Riots, and then the next day the articles said, not from around here, Not BLM, not minorities.
The exact opposite of what the Live Feed showed.
If you recall, the Media did the - they’re not from here stuff during after Baltimore and Ferguson Riots.
It’s simply a Lie.
When the Police were shot in Dallas, they said not us, not BLM, and it came out the guy Hated White People, plain and simple.
They just deny, deny, deny.
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$100K in damage to VCU buildings.
VCU has been all in for supporting these riots.
White communist supremacists. Let’s not kid ourselves: the Black lives Matter delegation that eschewed the violence is probably the equivalent of the Sinn Fein political wing of the NRA.
Oopsie, I meant the IRA (Irish “Republican” Army). Only San Frasicko would think the NRA had anything to do with this crap.
Somebody should check the evidence room, this guy seems to be on something, there is no way in hell a rational thinking person could come to his conclusion without serious mental deficiencies or being whacked out on drugs.
Thanks Stoner. You are destroying this city. I live in Midlothian. Stoner and Northam let this garbage continue. The property values will plummet
Nice going Ahole. Oh, and congratulations, voters. You too deserve full blame for this city’s demise.
I think Trump should put a 25% tariff on every single thing coming out of China, from shoelaces to steel beams like the ones in the new I-80 San Francisco Bridge. And yes, that includes medicines and other medical equipment. At the same time, he and Congress should lower the repatriation rate from 15.5% to 5.5%, to make it more likely that affected companies can beat feet out of China and bring the supply chain back home.
In the meantime, because this stuff won’t happen all at once, we should draw up and ratify a much-scaled-down version of the TPP, without all the globalist, open-borders, environ-MENTAL gobblygook, and that plays fair with the USA, similar to the USMCA. That way, until we truly get our economic house in order, certain things can be manufactured offshore without being manufactured in China, while benefiting other countries (and us in the bargain) that are under threat from the CCP.
what do they want?
VIDEO/TRANSCRIPT: 15 Jul: Democracy Now: The Left Remakes the World: Amna Akbar on Canceling Rent, Defunding Police & Where We Go from Here
Presenters: Amy Goodman, Juan González
We speak with Amna Akbar, law professor at Ohio State University, who wrote about how to respond to all of this in her op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times headlined “The Left Is Remaking the World.”...
AMNA AKBAR: But it might be worth taking a moment to talk about private property, which is also everywhere and structures our everyday lives, but is arguably a bit more subterranean in how it does. Private property is the basis of our legal regime. It’s a settler regime, a capitalist regime, a racial regime. It creates these relationships where some people own property and most people don’t. And if you don’t own property, you have to pay for it. This is pretty weird, if you think about it. We are human. We have physical bodies. We need space to exist, to sleep, to eat, to take care of one another. But we live in a society where you need to pay for space to live. The private property regime then creates a direct contradiction with meeting people’s needs...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Professor Akbar, I wanted to ask you, though: What is singular about this movement compared to movements in the past that also believed that they were remaking the world? I’m speaking, for instance, of the anarchists, the Magonistas, in Mexico; the International Workers of the World in the early 1900s; the communist and social movements of the 1930s, right after the — in the wake of the Great Depression; the New Left movement of the 1960s, which I was a part of. Our slogan then was not “defund the police”; it was “off the pigs.” And yet, each of these movements thought that they were going to remake the world. However, capitalism proved to be a lot more resilient in its ability to co-opt and to adjust to the threats. I’m wondering how you think that this is going to be any different? And also, are you taking into account the potential for a fascist or right-wing response to the current movement?...
AMNA AKBAR: And so, whether this is a more powerful formation or powerful moment than any other one across the — you know, in the history of the United States or around the world, that I don’t know. But I do know that over the course of my life, this is certainly the strongest the left and working-class movements have been. And I feel hopeful about where we are. And, of course, I feel apprehensive, because our opponents are not going to pack up and go home, as Rachel Herzing put it the other day when I was talking to her. We are going to see, and we are seeing, state repression all over the country, whether it’s federal prosecutions of protesters or all sorts of local and state prosecutions, not to mention the ongoing criminalization and prosecution of working-class people for their survival. And so, the odds against us are long, but we are also stronger than we have been over the last few decades...
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/15/amna_akbar_on_canceling_rent_defunding
11 Jul: NYT: The Left Is Remaking the World
“Defund the police” and “cancel rent” aren’t reforms, but paths to revolution.
By Amna A. Akbar
(Ms. Akbar is a law professor who studies leftist social movements)
Or consider the environment. The Green New Deal does not merely call for less pollution. It requires that we restructure our economy so we can move to clean, renewable energy sources and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
To get there, the Green New Deal calls for enormous investments in public transit, universal health care, free public college tuition and millions of high-wage green jobs. It emphasizes that everyone ought to carry out its projects, with a central role for working-class people of color. The bill’s vision is so counter to the actual practices of the state, and to the talking points of the Democratic and Republican Parties, you have to stretch your imagination to understand it. And that is the point...
The way to respond is to stay focused on building mass movements of ordinary people who are serious about restoring and redistributing social wealth, as the Red Nation’s Red Deal puts it, to those who created it: “workers, the poor, Indigenous peoples, the global South, women, migrants, caretakers of the land, and the land itself.” Here, too, you see the connections — among Indigenous resistance, environmental justice and more.
Leftist movements today see our crises as intersectional. Police violence, global warming and unaffordable housing are not disconnected, discrete problems; instead, they emerge from colonialism and capitalism...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/opinion/sunday/defund-police-cancel-rent.html
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