Posted on 08/16/2023 11:01:00 AM PDT by Signalman
During the George Floyd riots in the spring and summer of 2020, BLM rioters were essentially allowed to wreak havoc as they pleased without consequence. The nation watched as rioters burned and defaced buildings, and liberal-controlled cities did little to stop it. Washington, D.C., for example, refused to prosecute rioters who defaced buildings, yet, when pro-life protesters used chalk on an abortion clinic, the city threw the book at them, and two pro-life activists were arrested in 2020.
In response, the Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America sued the city, and the court unanimously agreed that Washington applied its anti-graffiti ordinance in a “discriminatory” manner and allowed BLM rioters to deface property without any consequences.
“The District all but abandoned enforcement of the defacement ordinance during the Black Lives Matter protests, creating a de facto categorical exemption for individuals who marked ‘Black Lives Matter’ messages on public and private property,” the court ruling reads. “The complaint offers a number of examples. The day after Mayor Bowser’s street mural was revealed, protestors added an equal sign and ‘Defund the Police,’ so the message read ‘Black Lives Matter = Defund the Police.'”
The court also noted that “Police officers watched as the alteration took place and did nothing to stop it” and that even though BLM protesters didn’t have a permit or permission, “they were neither arrested nor charged under the defacement ordinance. In fact, the District left the addition in place for months, eventually removing it in mid-August.”
Protesters also “covered construction scaffolding outside the Chamber of Commerce with graffiti, murals, and photographs” yet were never stopped or arrested for violating the anti-graffiti ordinance.
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The BLM and ANTIFA are the democRAT black shirt communist terror gangs.
Since funding, command, and control, comes from the federal government, yeah, I’d say they are above the law.
I thought no one was above the law
that’s what morons screech at trump
Thank you for recusing yourself, Jefferson Sessions.
Of course they were treated as if they were above the law, they are above the law..they are Democrats, actually Communists who did the bidding of the Dem party. Remember when Kamala Harris said that during the riots it will NOT stop even after the election that they will continue..gee a call to violence, I dont see her in an orange jumpsuit
And what about all the bogus charges against Trump?
With the veep candidate working to raise funds for their bail....
Annotated in their ‘permanent records’. RUH ROH!
So, they found speech discrimination violating the First amendment. What was the remedy? Apparently, there was none other than finding the First Amendment violation. Which means they will do it again come the next riot when the natives get restless
BLM, ANTIFA, and the FBI are all “direct action” wings of the Democratic Party.
How many millions of dollars did BLM funnel through ActBlue and hand over to Democratic politicians? Of course they are above the law
If ya' REALLY wann'a make amends, press those commie judges to drop Trump n' turn towards fixing the America your grand kids should see with the same eyes YOU used.
They did and it was intentional, with full knowledge and awareness.
The dems deliberately let the street thugs commit theft, arson, assault and murder, and condemned anyone who objected.
Where was Trump dispatching those rioters?
Should the BLM rioters been shot on sight for defacing and destroying property?
Were they in the act of arson, throwing Molotov cocktails and the like?
BLM were treated as above the law, because they ARE above the law
They were created / nurtured by Obama’s DOJ. Think “brownshirts” or political street-muscle. The USA deep-state has organized similar groups in places like Serbia, Tunisia, Ukraine and elsewhere, so why not do the same in the good-old USA? They can be very useful for manipulating politics.
Did not White House records show that BLM founders visited the White House something like 50 times?
Yep. Unfortunately I agree.
Is that the threshold of just property damage?
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