Posted on 11/10/2016 5:11:46 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
RICHMOND, Va. — Hundreds of people marched through Richmond to protest the election of Donald Trump, and three Confederate statues were vandalized, authorities said Thursday. A dozen people were arrested. Crowds gathered Wednesday night, blocking streets near Virginia Commonwealth University. Online video showed marchers chanting, “No Trump. No KKK. No fascist USA,” and carrying banners reading, “Not my president.”
Troopers responded to Interstate 95 around 10 p.m. and guided a large group of protesters off the highway, state police said. More than an hour later, troopers were called to the Downtown Expressway, where protesters sat in lanes and many refused to leave. Around midnight, troopers arrested four men and six women between the ages of 20 and 26 and charged them with unlawful assembly and being pedestrians on an interstate, according to the statement.
Richmond police arrested two more people on the opposite side of the road who will face the same charges, the department said. No arrests had been made in connection with the damage to statues along the city’s Monument Avenue, which authorities believe were tagged during the protests.
Graffiti on the side of a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis said, “Your vote was a hate crime.” Also tagged were statues of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and naval officer and oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury.
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The headquarters of the Republican Party of Virginia was also vandalized during the protest, chairman John Whitbeck said in a statement. TV station WWBT reported the doorbell was broken and graffiti was painted on the building.
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The media aka the PKK = PRESS KLUX KLAN
They’re having a field day publicizing the supposedly racist graffiti popping up all over liberal-land. I suspect the handwriting is exactly the same as that found on the Confederate statues.
So they use the fascist and KKK tactics of violence and intimidation to proclaim that they are against fascism and the KKK. I wonder if any of them is even vaguely aware of the irony in that.
I would answer "Not my fellow citizens. Your president is in Mexico. Go home."
I don’t live downtown and this is an example of why I don’t.
If they try this out in the suburbs they may find they are unwelcome, to put it mildly.
They are so clueless they don’t know that the KKK was started as a para-military arm of the Democrat party to intimidate blacks.
The party of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee won Virginia, so exactly what are they complaining about, and why are they vandalizing their statues????
Any guesses on how long after 1/20/2017 Soros gets charged under RICO?
Blocking an Interstate or any central artery should be a jail sentence.
I am SO damned sick of these people.
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“Any guesses on how long after 1/20/2017 Soros gets charged under RICO?”
I’d pay money to see that old Capo frog marched out of his house and into court.
“Blocking an Interstate or any central artery should be a jail sentence.”
If we bring steel bumpers back, it could be a death sentence.
Driving through a crowd with the chincy plastic bumpers we have now would damage your vehicle too much.
There have been some obvious false flag graffiti events that only Leftists would be stupid enough to not see through.
Desecrating the statue of Robert E. Lee could cause serious repercussions. Good thing I’m not close to Richmond. I believe I’d have to do something about that.
No, my vote was legal. Your vandalism is a crime.
Right now Obama is the pres--ent. They're about 7 3/4 years late to protest.
Seriously now. The world is big and filled with a variety of Presidents. Choose a president and move to their country.
Ideologies have flipped somewhat. Why would they, with the current Democratic ideology, go after statues of Davis and Lee? You already know the answer, but it doesn’t fit the popular narrative.
Defacing monuments is a hate crime. Lock them up.
Liberal democrats have for decades dehumanized their opponents with branding them bigots, racists, xenophobes, etc.,etc., The liberal media parrots the message and divides the people into victim classes. This has been successful for too many years. President Donald J. Trump played their game and effectively blew it up.
Don’t the dumbasses even know that Mrs. Bill Clinton won Virginia?
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