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AG Barr: DOJ Has Evidence That Antifa, Other Extremist Groups Instigated Rioting
CNS News ^ | 4 Jun 20 | Melanie Arter

Posted on 06/04/2020 12:23:50 PM PDT by SkyPilot

Attorney General Bill Barr announced Thursday that the Justice Department has evidence that Antifa and similar extremist groups instigated violent activity among those protesting George Floyd’s death during a police arrest in Minnesota last month.

“While many have peacefully expressed their anger and grief, others have hijacked protests to engage in lawlessness - violent rioting, arson, looting of businesses, and public property, assaults on law enforcement officers and innocent people, and even the murder of a federal agent. Such senseless acts of anarchy are not exercises of First Amendment rights,” he said at a DOJ press conference.

They are crimes, designed to terrify fellow citizens and intimidate communities. As I told the governors on Monday, we understand the distinction between three different sets of actors here. The large preponderance of those who are protesting are peaceful demonstrators who are exercising their First Amendment rights.

At some demonstrations, however, there are groups that exploit the opportunity to engage in such crimes as looting. Finally, at some demonstrations, there are extremist agitators who are hijacking the protests to pursue their own separate and violent agenda.

We have evidence that Antifa and other similar extremist groups, as well as actors of a variety of different political persuasions, have been involved in instigating and participating in the violent activity, and we are also seeing foreign actors playing all sides to exacerbate the violence.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifa; bagpipes; barr; doj; dosomething; moretalk; riots
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To: SkyPilot

Another front flat tire on the Trumpmobile.
This makes two of them in a row.


21 posted on 06/04/2020 12:37:03 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SkyPilot

AG Barr aka tits on a bull.


22 posted on 06/04/2020 12:37:53 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: NohSpinZone

Good meme.


23 posted on 06/04/2020 12:37:57 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: SkyPilot

That third group didn’t simply hijack the protests, they organized them to start with.


24 posted on 06/04/2020 12:39:10 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SkyPilot
Attorney General Bill Barr announced Thursday that the Justice Department has evidence that Antifa and similar extremist groups instigated violent activity among those protesting George Floyd’s death during a police arrest in Minnesota last month.

GREAT! Now f**king DO something about it!

25 posted on 06/04/2020 12:39:15 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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To: SkyPilot

Well, arrest their punk asses. We are waiting.


26 posted on 06/04/2020 12:40:32 PM PDT by odawg
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To: SkyPilot

Black Americans can proudly claim that Democrat politicians and privileged white Communists on skateboards played them for fools.


27 posted on 06/04/2020 12:41:47 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SkyPilot

What a useless POS.


28 posted on 06/04/2020 12:42:10 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: SkyPilot

They are a little behind..


29 posted on 06/04/2020 12:43:33 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Until I see footage of ANTIFA organizing college professors being handcuffed and perp-walked at 5AM a la Roger Stone, it’s just more bagpipes.


30 posted on 06/04/2020 12:45:49 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: SkyPilot

Okay, so whatcha gonna do about it?


31 posted on 06/04/2020 12:46:02 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
. Now, do something about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These very words spewed out of my mouth not 30 seconds ago!!!
32 posted on 06/04/2020 12:48:30 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me Deplorable)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Until I see footage of ANTIFA organizing college professors being handcuffed and perp-walked at 5 a.m. a la Roger Stone, it’s just more bagpipes.

WHAT ABOUT THE WAY BLM treated the folks out west over the land dispute? Hmmm...didn't back down there, did they? Killed La Voy Finicum over nothing, didn't they? Apparetnly, a lot of Americans just don't care. And, the way they treated Paul Manafort? Man, when they want to amass force, they do don't they?

33 posted on 06/04/2020 12:49:23 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: SkyPilot

There’s evidence of an attempted coup too but ...


34 posted on 06/04/2020 12:51:07 PM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: SkyPilot

When did the boogaloo group become a real group. I was under the impression it was a joke to trigger people.


35 posted on 06/04/2020 12:53:29 PM PDT by DEPcom
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To: NohSpinZone
This is perfect:


36 posted on 06/04/2020 12:58:06 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Yawn.

Let me know when you arrest somebody.


37 posted on 06/04/2020 12:59:03 PM PDT by moovova
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Screw ANTIFA, FOLLOW THE MONEY!

Time to cut off the head of the snake.


38 posted on 06/04/2020 12:59:39 PM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: jjotto

and right so what. If someone tells me to burn down the house across the street, does not exempt me from my actions because someone incited me to do it? NO, both guilty and both should pay the price. When the number of those needing to pay price exceeds ability of police to take control, time to employ everything in the arsenal.


39 posted on 06/04/2020 12:59:51 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Vendome

Trump needs a wartime consigliere this guy is Tom.


40 posted on 06/04/2020 1:00:06 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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