Posted on 05/02/2020 10:33:53 AM PDT by Perseverando
Capitol Square closed for nearly two hours Friday afternoon while a group of about 20 people protesting Gov. Ralph Northam's "stay-at-home" order and calling for the government to "reopen Virginia" refused to leave after Capitol police asked them to disperse for violating the order that prohibits gatherings of more than 10 people.
The group, which at first numbered between three and four dozen, according to Joe Macenka, spokesman for the Division of Capitol Police, arrived around noon Friday at the pedestrian plaza entrance of the Capitol at 10th and Bank streets.
Around 1:15 p.m., some of the group broke off leaving about 20 people who marched up the South Portico stairs toward the Capitol building, "which has been closed for some time," Macenka said.
Police asked the group to disperse because it was larger than the 10-person limit allowed in the governor's executive order to prevent spreading of the novel coronavirus. When the 20-or-so people refused to disperse, Capital police closed the square.
It reopened around 3:15 p.m. after a brief downpour of rain cleared the square. No one was cited or charged.
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Great pic of a guy with USMC and Gadsden flags.
Northam is rapidly losing control of the situation
The guy on the right is in blackface. Maybe he’s mocking KKK governor Northam.
Oh, wait. I think the guy on the right just has a black beard.
Good eye. I didn’t catch that. LOL!
Northam losing control....
Aides told him not to go outside in blackface and sing Mammy.
Worked great for Al Jolson, though.
Was thinking, 10 people in blackface would be legal, right? Force the media to show it. They’d probably pixellate the faces...
The klansman is winning so far. He’s passed everything he threatened, and then tossed out voter ID.
...no one could be more pro-Second Amendment than I am... learned to shoot in Virginia; bought my first gun there; love the state still... but why do people have to show up at these events with weapons... just because they can....okay; doing that just gives the anti-gun folks more evidence [sic] that we are all right-wing, gun-nut loons... even Hannity remarked about this on last night’s show....again, I am PRO gun; love my AR-15 and they can come and take it from my cold dead hands of they wanna try....but, folks, be reasonable....
From Central Texas.... good luck Virginia....MOLON LABE....!!!
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