[artichokegrower]

Meetings have been held to discuss the best way to protect local businesses, said Berkeley Chamber of Commerce CEO Kirsten McDonald.

Arrest the rioters?

[bigbob]

Both of them? /s

[blueplum]

how best to protect the businesses? how about how best to protect the peaceful participants?

I have an idea for them, tho. Force a perimeter 10 blocks in each direction from the event. Cross the line, go to jail. Ya’ll got jails, don’t you, Berkeley?

[heterosupremacist]

To use the word 'counterprotesters' is per se media malpractice! They are not going there to counter a protest, rather to protest against Americans' freedom of assembly and freedom of speech! More fake news from the propaganda ministry...

[sergeantdave]

“Trump supporters planning to take to the streets of Berkeley”

This news will deeply upset a handful of soros/GOPe trolls here on FR who believe that we should never physically fight the leftists. Instead, we should fall on the floor like GWB and let the democrat commies and nazis stomp our nuts into the concrete.

[forgotten man]

They should be wearing hazmat suits and kelvar.

[mac_truck]

This is probably the dumbest location for a pro-Trump gathering I ever heard of.

Would not surprise me a bit to find out the radical left are actually the ones organizing it.

[Chad N. Freud]

Awaiting the reports of the outcome of this.

Color me suspicious.

This doesn’t pass the sniff test; it doesn’t even past the cringe test.

Implicit is the assumption that there are an appreciable number of in-your-face Trump supporters willing to challenge Berkeley, and give forewarning of their presence.

Violence at this event, as they will well know, will only harm Trump supporters’ image in the press. It will also help balance and therefore erase leftists’ deserved reputation as the side that is causing violence.

I suspect that some student has just learned about the Skokie march, and thought, “Hey, we could recreate the same thing here. I could even testify before the Supreme Court! I hope I get hit!”

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Just called my broker - popcorn futures.

[Jane Long]

Invite Milo.

That’ll get ‘em.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

city officials...are worried about what will happen if counterprotesters show up.

You will protect the peaceful demonstrators, and arrest the communists when they assault them.

[sport]

Arrest the rioters?

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Are you kidding? If any arrests are made, it will be the Trump supporters that are arrested.

[Trillian]

Didn’t their students and faculty damage a starbucks during their milo riot?

[Right Wing Assault]

Popcorn time!

Half of the locals will run to their safe spaces. The other half will put on their black masks and throw bricks while chanting, "You haters hate freedom of speech!"