Posted on 07/26/2020 12:35:25 PM PDT by karpov
Atlanta Black Lives Matter protesters blasted a federal building with fireworks and shattered windows as they took out their wrath on an immigration office there on Saturday, according to reports.
Demonstrators smashed windows and set fires outside the downtown building, which houses Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices, while footage from the protest posted on Twitter shows fireworks being hurled at the entrance.
“DHS/ICE Field Office ransacked by frontliners in Atlanta in solidarity with the freedom fighters of the #PortlandProtests and every other suffering poor person trying to build a new world,” one of the posts says.
Other posts, using the hashtag #PortlandSolidarity, said demonstrators had barricaded a section of Ted Turner Drive overnight, WXIA-TV said.
Portland has become one of the nation’s most volatile hotspots for protests, with nightly clashes with police for the past two months, with federal troops now there to attempt to quell the violence.
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Source is New York Post (so you can read the whole thing at the link), not the WSJ. Sorry.
Are the American people going to vote for the leaders of these groups? The DemocRAT party?
The authorities could wrap this up in 15 minutes if they wanted to.
Be conservative and say 48 hours tops.
BLM is just about wrecking the United States. Anything will do. Interestingly, Latin Americans seem to be keeping their distance. They came here because they wanted to be part of the good life we had, not destroy it.
Did the Atlanta police politely ask them to consider rioting in another location?
Got a yt limk? NYT requies an app to see video. /:(
Blacks are probably hurt by illegal immigration more than any other group. BLM is basically fighting to replace Blacks with illegal aliens.
Yes they could...Prefer the hell on earth instead....
This is a sure sign that the leaders do not want a better environment for Blacks. Most inner city Blacks are against bringing in more competition.
My brother-in-law and his idiot wife are. Along with most of my wife’s cousins. We don’t talk politics with them, it’s masochistic to do so.
All these attacks on cities has been high coordinated. They should get the ringleaders if possible. If this was done by Islamic rioters burning down cities the US forces would be on it and would know who the ringleaders are. As it is, this is a coup of the Democrats against Trump and they and their people in intelligence won’t expose anybody.
Anyone here keeping track of the number of cities that are rioting?
And of course there will be no federal troops mowing them down. And so they will do it again, and other neo-marxists in other cities will do it because they know there will be no one mowing them down.
We are in a civil war, and one side is practicing extreme restraint. If that side were to do what is appropriate to people burning, destroying, assaulting and killing people, these riots would stop.
look at the pictures from Portand and Seatle... see something almost completely missing? oh yeah.. blacks!
just the same ole anarchists using a new name and some black guys death as an excuse.
That's why I hate them. Except for my wife, FR, and the 63 million Trump voters last time. The others are destroying MY great country.
The trouble is with the people more than the vile leaders. The people enable this rioting as "expression of anger" and then say ok to the NFL & MLB, nod agreement to Nike and other corporate virtue signalers, and worst of all---vote Dem for "the little guy", "for the minorities" and "because police shouldn't brutalize and kill blacks all the time." They allow leftist city mayors to choose when to obey a federal law. And say burning a city and endangering officers is just fine with them.
Screw them.
The terrorists (antifa) and the racists (BLM) will continue to act like this until they’re stopped ... no doubt by force. You would think people — even those with advanced TDS — would demand action.
I see a lot of Black Lives Matter signs in white suburban neighborhoods in squidgy Iowa. It makes no sense, except Iowans are like Minnesotans... they want people to think they are nice.
With such a high rate of getting killed and aborted, I doubt that they are growing in terms of their proportion in the population.
My sympathies. Most of my extended family will vote democrat.
I have a cousin who was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. His son is an avowed democratic socialist. He lives in Oregon. I have no doubts he supported or participated in the Portland riots.
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