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.
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Another front flat tire on the Trumpmobile.
This makes two of them in a row.
AG Barr aka tits on a bull.
Good meme.
That third group didn’t simply hijack the protests, they organized them to start with.
GREAT! Now f**king DO something about it!
Well, arrest their punk asses. We are waiting.
Black Americans can proudly claim that Democrat politicians and privileged white Communists on skateboards played them for fools.
What a useless POS.
They are a little behind..
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.
Okay, so whatcha gonna do about it?
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?
There’s evidence of an attempted coup too but ...
When did the boogaloo group become a real group. I was under the impression it was a joke to trigger people.
Yawn.
Let me know when you arrest somebody.
Screw ANTIFA, FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Time to cut off the head of the snake.
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.
Trump needs a wartime consigliere this guy is Tom.
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