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AP finds most arrested in protests aren't leftist radicals
AP ^ | Oct. 20. 2020 | ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Posted on 10/20/2020 8:31:53 AM PDT by PROCON

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent urban left-wing radicals. But an Associated Press review of thousands of pages of court documents tell a different story.

Very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly organized extremist groups, and many are young suburban adults from the very neighborhoods Trump vows to protect from the violence in his reelection push to win support from the suburbs.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; ap; associatedpropaganda; catchandrelease; disinformation; dncbrownshirts; dnctalkingpoints; electionviolence; fakenews; klantitfa; mediabias; protests; unconvictedfelons
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Sure, they're just local yutes protesting, don't believe your lyin' eyes.

Also:

Defense attorneys and civil rights activists are questioning why the Department of Justice has taken on cases to begin with. They say most belong in state court, where defendants typically get much lighter sentences.

1 posted on 10/20/2020 8:31:53 AM PDT by PROCON
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More fake news as told by the guy who Veritas interviewed said would happen.


2 posted on 10/20/2020 8:33:08 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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Very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly organized extremist groups...


Duh. Who said they were?


3 posted on 10/20/2020 8:33:13 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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Non-affiliated kids in it for the Soros money, eh?

Yeah, they want to say Antifa is just an idea, not something they’re members of. That would be the hidden lie.


4 posted on 10/20/2020 8:33:45 AM PDT by rx (Truth will out!)
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P*ss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.


5 posted on 10/20/2020 8:34:02 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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Yep.

An AP reporter is going to look at “thousands of documents”.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!


6 posted on 10/20/2020 8:35:49 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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>>Very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly organized extremist groups

AmericanPravda covering for Klantifa

Same as when a terrorist pledges his allegiance to ISIS but because he wasn’t fully paid up on his dues and not carrying a membership card and not referring to it as “ISIL” it “Didn’t count”.


7 posted on 10/20/2020 8:36:15 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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BS


8 posted on 10/20/2020 8:36:15 AM PDT by caver (Somwo)
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Burn down my house and tell me “its not extremist radicals”.


9 posted on 10/20/2020 8:36:26 AM PDT by cgbg (Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman.)
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To: PROCON

So anarchists getting free Google Play cards from George Soros...what difference does it make?


10 posted on 10/20/2020 8:36:33 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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AP found the common strain among them was not politics but stupidity, much like its journalists.


11 posted on 10/20/2020 8:36:36 AM PDT by chuckee
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The left wing radicals instigate the trouble and then step back and watch as idealistic stupid youth step in and get in the line of fire.

It’s all well organized, with the organizers well trained in how to avoid getting themselves arrested or injured. These tactics have been used by radicals for over a century.


12 posted on 10/20/2020 8:37:19 AM PDT by Rocky
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A distinction without a difference.


13 posted on 10/20/2020 8:37:31 AM PDT by bwest
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AssPress denies that Communist groups have been behind the “protests movements” we’ve seen for the past 20 years.

No matter how many flags, Che and Marx shirts, radical literature, etc. are present, they rarely make the news photos and never make the print text.


14 posted on 10/20/2020 8:37:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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Much of Antifa’s strategy is to induce otherwise unaffiliated people to join & perform the rioting. Sure they’re not “leftist radicals”, they’re just locals who got caught up in the festivities. Organizers & facilitators ensure they themselves are not actually targeted for arrest, and have means to get out quickly if arrested. So yeah they’re, on the whole, just local yutes - aka useful idiots - protesting/rioting.


15 posted on 10/20/2020 8:38:12 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
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The “honchos” watch from the sidelines while their “cannon fodder” mind-numbed robots are the ones getting arrested.

The generals sit on their white horses on the hilltop, watching through binoculars while the grunts are bayoneting one another down on the plains.

The police need to learn tactics and “cut the head off of the Snake” by locating and arresting the Antifa/BLM leadership.


16 posted on 10/20/2020 8:38:17 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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If it walks like a duck...

Regards,

17 posted on 10/20/2020 8:38:23 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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You gotta love how the AP is siding with criminals. Nobody gives a damn if arsonists and looters are highly-organized. The store owners whose property has been destroyed, and the insurance companies whose loss rates have skyrocketed certainly don’t. The reason federal charges have been levied is simple - local Dem pols are releasing these criminals so they can continue their destructive ways.


18 posted on 10/20/2020 8:38:34 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Surprise, surprise. Very, very surprising such a claim would be made by AP! I am shocked and stunned AP would try to fool people into believing such a lie. This is going to make me distrust the MSM I tell ya.


19 posted on 10/20/2020 8:38:49 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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They’re Marxists.
20 posted on 10/20/2020 8:39:15 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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