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2nd night of protests against GOP convention in Charlotte
AP via Yahoo ^ | 8/22/20

Posted on 08/23/2020 5:31:02 PM PDT by Libloather

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Protesters returned to the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to demonstrate for a second night as GOP officials gathered in the city for the Republican National Convention.

Police used bicycles to block protesters Saturday night from gathering close to the Charlotte Convention Center, the site of the convention. The Secret Service set up a perimeter, news outlets reported.

The demonstrators' chants included, "No RNC in CLT” and “Black Lives Matter.”

Several people were arrested Friday, and at least one person was arrested Saturday. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police tweeted that a protester armed with a gun was arrested, and earlier stated that pepper spray was used to stop another protester armed with a pole “from advancing on officers.”

Friday night, a group of about 60 demonstrators left a park and began a march throughout uptown Charlotte, authorities said.

Police said the group briefly trespassed onto light rail tracks, temporarily disrupting service. Demonstrators later impeded traffic by surrounding a vehicle that was attempting to travel through an intersection, police said. William Gissentaner was arrested and charged with impeding traffic, disorderly conduct and resisting a public officer, police said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: bidenrally; charlotte; convention; dncbrownshirts; gop; mostlynonviolent; protest; voterintimidation
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To: dragnet2

They can walk all they want.

Disrupt anything and your ass is going to jail.


21 posted on 08/23/2020 6:05:16 PM PDT by eyedigress (Joe, put your mask on!)
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To: eyedigress

They should have a permit and they should not block any traffic going anywhere that is not covered by the permit.

Otherwise they should sit in jail for the duration of the convention.


22 posted on 08/23/2020 6:07:52 PM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: cgbg

Charlotte is not going to play.

Portland is run by idiots.


23 posted on 08/23/2020 6:09:46 PM PDT by eyedigress (Joe, put your mask on!)
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To: BenLurkin

In 2000, in Los Angeles, the mayor was Richard Riordan (r) as nd the chief of police was Bernard Parks. I think that would not happen with the current mayor and chief of police.


24 posted on 08/23/2020 6:10:44 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: lgjhn23
And yet the normal convention “couldn’t” have taken place thanks to the likely colluded DNC/china bat flu.

Touchè!

25 posted on 08/23/2020 6:15:20 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Libloather

A live feed of these protesters getting led into a blind and then all arrested, zip tied and put on buses headed to the Police Station would be a ratings winner.


26 posted on 08/23/2020 6:19:18 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: cnsmom

Charlotte, the Marxist/black Marxist thugs center of North Carolina. Would like to know which groups were involved in this riot.

Also, trains should not stop for illegal protestors. It is hard to get the mangled bodies out of the undercarriage so bumping them to the side is a more environmentally friendly way of doing things.

(I was on a train that hit and killed a man walking down widely used railroad tracks. We looked for his body but it was not found under the train, only later far away in the brush near the tracks. No one ever saw him getting hit as we thought it was an animal. A tragedy, but a preventable one on the dead person’s part.


27 posted on 08/23/2020 6:24:57 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: nwrep

#16. Look like the Jonas Brothers or “New Kids on the Block”. sarc, sarc, barf. At least it was a racially, gender diverse group of thugs. It is a shame they were taken alive.

In my neighborhood, they would have been known as “The Sushi Four”.


28 posted on 08/23/2020 6:27:32 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: eyedigress

#18. Where I come from, a “non-descript jail with concrete walls” is known as a coffin. /sarc


29 posted on 08/23/2020 6:28:25 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Libloather

Death Race 2020

Extra points for ANTIFA splatters


30 posted on 08/23/2020 6:33:18 PM PDT by digger48
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To: eyedigress

EXACTLY SO. - FYI, I once lived in Charlotte & the MCSD deputies “have little sense of humor” about rioters/thieves/assorted thugs causing trouble n Mecklenburg County/Charlotte.

Also this convention “ain’t their first rodeo”.

Yours, TMN78247


31 posted on 08/23/2020 6:38:59 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, F'by 241836)
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To: nwrep

Extreme left (haha!) - I see that Uncle Fester got a toupee!


32 posted on 08/23/2020 6:43:27 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Libloather

When they committed crimes, such as trespassing, why are they not all rounded up and Arrested?


33 posted on 08/23/2020 6:56:46 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: cgbg

A very simple trick is just to arrest the disupting lefties and toss them in jail
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Nah just tie them to the light rail tracks


34 posted on 08/24/2020 3:36:21 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: nwrep

walking dead is a training series


35 posted on 08/24/2020 6:38:26 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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