Posted on 01/22/2021 10:53:12 AM PST by karpov
President Trump has left office, but peace and harmony have not descended upon the land. Left-wing rioters rampaged in the streets of Portland, Ore., and Seattle on Wednesday, no matter Joe Biden’s unity plea.
In Portland, rioters smashed the windows of the Democratic Party headquarters and scrawled graffiti on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building. Demonstrators carried signs reading “we are ungovernable” and “we don’t want Biden—we want revenge! For police murders, imperialist wars, and fascist massacres.”
Portland police say some rioters carried “pepper ball guns, electronic crowd control weapons similar to Tasers, large fireworks, shields and rocks” and that “weapons were seized including Molotov Cocktails, knives, batons, chemical spray and a crowbar.” No doubt mostly peaceful protesters, as CNN likes to describe this sort of thing.
In Seattle, protesters burned an American flag outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, and rioters shattered windows at the federal William Kenzo Nakamura courthouse, an AmazonGo store, and the Pike Place Starbucks. Some chanted at the police, “We protect people, you protect property,” according to the Seattle Times. Law enforcement arrested three people for property damage, burglary and felony assault.
The rioters in both cities identified themselves as anarchists or Antifa members who claimed to be protesting racism, fascism and police brutality. Yet in damaging a federal courthouse and Democratic headquarters, they attacked the judiciary and democratic institutions.
A spokesperson for Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan told us she “has consistently denounced individuals who are targeting small businesses and government facilities,” adding that property destruction was “unacceptable.” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s spokesman said he “condemns all forms of violence, intimidation and criminal destruction.” Yet both had blamed Mr. Trump as the cause of their urban violence, and both cities have imposed restrictions that hamper the ability of police to respond to violent protests
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Can’t control their monster.
“The rioters in both cities identified themselves as anarchists or Antifa members “
but note, the MSM refuses to call them Antifa.
they are the ‘Seattle protestors’
This could be stopped in one day.....IF the governors and mayors wanted it stopped.
Cool...burn thise cities to the ground.
Rioting?? All I saw was Peaceful Protests.
Suck on it, Wall Street Journal.
Only one set of VERY mild attacks and they’ve already stopped.
This is kabuki theater so the Dems can show that their AntiFa paramilitary arm isn’t associated with them. (Like the KKK wasn’t)
Just like Code Pink disappeared after Bush left office.
Just like the feminists suddenly don’t care we have a rapist in the presidency.
Anyone else smell a rat here?
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
ONLY to make it appear that the democrats are not connected nor responsible for these anti-American looting and rioting criminal thug orgs. I surmise that it’s a ruse orchestrated by the Obozo and GS.
Kamalalala said they wouldn’t stop, said they shouldn’t stop.
“Anyone else smell a rat here?”
I dunno. Anarchists got many tastes of blood last year. Those angry young men just got started venting their worked-up rage.
Do we think they’ll just say “Oh, well...that’s over.”
Biden has clearly failed as president.
Hehe
Yep they created it
Where the hell is the FBI? Federal property is under attack!
Now that Biden and Co. have seized power they are going to need their own version of “Night of the Long Knives”. They already had their version of a Reichstag Fire with the Capitol protest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
Pretty much. Let the crater be a testament to liberal management.
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