Posted on 05/07/2016 8:25:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Authorities say 33 people were arrested at San Francisco’s City Hall during a protest calling for the firing of the city’s police chief.
Dozens of protesters converged on the building Friday night and clashed with deputies in riot gear. […]
The standoff came after five people who are on their 16th day of a hunger strike to demand the firing of Police Chief Greg Suhr were taken to the hospital and their protest camp outside the Mission District police station was packed up. …
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People should be able to protest, but when it involves taking over government offices or establishments, it has crossed the line.
Civil disobedience is not civil.
Get a permit. Conduct your starvation diet in a park, or someone’s home.
Don’t try to commandeer public property to get your point across.
There are too many protests, and you can’t simply stop the government from operating.
Why do they want him fired?
Didn’t say. Weird.
Other sources say the “protesters” are alleging “systematic racism” at the SFPD.
These days, I almost wish the entire department were all clones of Dirty Harry Callaghan.
http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/the-many-scandals-of-police-chief-greg-suhr/Content?oid=4345894
The Mission District cops are CORRUPT AS HELL, but....their reasons for having it in for the chief seem like the standard lefty agitator BS:
http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/the-many-scandals-of-police-chief-greg-suhr/Content?oid=4345894
This ‘60s redux will be gone when Obama is gone.
The protest crowd everywhere is getting in their last licks before sanity returns to America.
Hopefully returns, I mean.
That... and they will shoot you in the head.
Because he knows the difference between right and wrong.
“If they can all shoot like that I wouldn’t care if the WHOLE department were queer” ...Harry Callahan.
Maybe he wasn't queer enough.
Sanfagsicko is really the cesspoll. It needs a good cleaning.
Knowing that could get you fired in San Francisco.
SanFagSicko
Thats good, I’ve not heard that one before. ; P
Seems to me some stiff fines and/or lengthy vacations in a county lockup might change some behaviors. But, then, I am a Fascist so-and-so who loathes these kinds of going ons, so what do I know?
They walk. Bailed out the same day by Soros bail out fund and charges are dropped weeks later. It’s a game that only leftist are allowed to play.
He probably arrested an illegal.
It is probably the most liberal department in the US, but that never satisfies the left.
From the Christian Science Monitor: “In January, Chief Suhr announced all police would annually pledge to avoid hate, bigotry, and intolerance and report any instances they encountered.”
So, the department genuflected to the left, and of course it wasn’t enough. Crime is very bad up there because police are afraid to arrest anyone. Even the lefty residents up there are complaining about the epidemic of burglaries (while wondering what they did to deserve it).
Bottom line: Left fighting for total surrender of department to the Marxists who run the place.
The bad news?
The protest left City Hall with smashed front windows and destroyed metal detectors, at the side facing Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place.
"Thousands of peaceful individuals have long expressed their views in protest on our front steps," City Administrator Naomi Kelly said in a statement. "However, yesterday's actions crossed the line, causing thousands of dollars in property damage and impacting weddings and elections activities."
The good news? At least these weren't those violent, dangerous Tea Partiers or Trump supporters.
I remember a recent protest where citizens took over an unoccupied federal building. There were no threats or violence directed at law enforcement yet one of the protestors was killed and the rest are in jail with no bond facing decades in prison.
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