It got hot so they went inside where it is air conditioned.
Posted on 07/05/2020 2:51:07 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
Are there any cities/towns which have had protests which might have devolved into rioting, but were stifled?
Even if it was just a few people starting up, but it was quelled?
It occurred to me, of course after wondering how many cities are letting this rioting go on, if any are quelling the mobs?
I've never heard word one that this is the case, but I'm wondering if they just don't make the news?
Anyone aware of problems that could've started, but haven't yet?
Not talking about just plain non-protest towns, I mean where it looked like something would go wrong.
Yucaipa CA east of Los Angeles had a great stand-off. Should be on YT.
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Hundreds of well-armed citizens came out on short notice the first week of June on the rumor that antifa was headed here to riot.
Antifa did not show up, so the lib kooks naturally proclaimed “See? Nothing happened. You all over reacted.”
The only one I’ve heard of was Coeur d’Alene, Idaho...apparently a very large counter-protest, possibly armed, showed up in response to a BLM protest and nothing bad happened. But in terms of larger cities, no, I haven’t heard anything. Richmond, VA did finally run BLM protesters off from around the Robert E. Lee statue that they had defaced, but that took over two weeks to do and they’re still planning to take the statue down and there have been other protests with vandalism.
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Forgot to mention that the Mayor and City Council put out a tremendous joint statement afterwards about preserving law and order.
Tacoma had a bunch of marching over several days. Only the second night had 4 shop windows broken.
Seattle is where the action is, so “real” anarchists went there.
From what I’ve read and seen on the telly, Phoenix had one or two days of rioting. Then the protest leaders talked with the police. The following days and nights of protests were peaceable, with very few arrests.
Oddly, I recall Portland, Oregon, cops quieting some unruly youths a week or so ago.
Jacksonville seems to have put a damper on it pretty quickly. That’s why there are no headlines from there, that and the Republican mayor. One might expect the MSM to get all hot and bothered about the tyrannical mayor who was heavy handed on the peaceful store burners but probably determined that that their readership would take it all wrongly.
Ramona California was going
To blow up like
LaMesa till the
“Peckerwoods” biker
Club showed up.
.
Perhaps, 3 weeks ago.
Well, there was some nastiness in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
But most Rapidians heard about it on the news.
Atlanta actually saw very little rioting.
Most of it was limited to the downtown area around Olympic Park (essentially the town square) and adjacent CNN (which shortly thereafter announced they’re leaving the iconic site).
Remainder was in the area where Rayshard Brooks was killed (for shooting at a cop) and his white girlfriend torched the adjacent Wendy’s in retaliation. Not a nice area.
The rest of Atlanta saw some peaceful protests but no rioting.
Funny that, considering Georgia has rather lax gun laws.
Riots were limited to as close to “gun free zones” as we get around here. Nobody was going to get shot for rioting where they did.
Nobody rioted where they would get shot, which is most of the state.
Panama City FL. There were a few protesters but not aware of violence or destruction. They did stand at the bridge between Panama City and Panama City Beach but no one is dumb enough to walk in front of that traffic.
The second night of the rioting, and perhaps the third, the black Democrat mayor (and former police chief) of heavily black ( downtown) Savannah Georgia, declared an early curfew. There were no riots.
Memphis, strangely enough...
Thanks for asking the question. Anybody in suburbs seen action?
Near a small town...maybe 2600 souls.
No problems here at all...…….
The Sheriff let it be known violence would not be tolerated.
The protests were peaceful.
The "protests" only become riots where the politicians in charge are complicit with the rioters.
Interestingly, I get a sense that the municipal government of any city that meets both of these conditions can pretty much gun down its own citizenry and kill hundreds of people to quell disturbances without ever facing so much as a mild rebuke:
1. The city has a black mayor.
2. The city had already been through riots in the 1960s.
It got hot so they went inside where it is air conditioned.
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