Posted on 09/09/2021 5:47:34 AM PDT by RandFan
Capitol Police are warning of potential clashes or unrest during a Sept. 18 right-wing "Justice for J6" rally, CNN reported.
According to the network, a Capitol Police memo notes a rise in violent rhetoric and heated discussions surrounding protester Ashli Babbitt's death on Jan. 6. The event may also serve as a "Justice for Ashli Babbitt" rally, Capitol Police reportedly added in the memo.
The rally, which aims to support the more than 570 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, reportedly started seeing increased attention online after the police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt spoke out for the first time and revealed his identity. Some online discussions also suggested violence against Jewish centers and liberal churches while police are preoccupied with the rally.
Police expect Capitol fencing reinstalled for the rally, a source told The Hill. But an unidentified security official told CNN that the temporary fencing Capitol Police requested ahead of the event is expected to be smaller than in the past and may not obstruct traffic.
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has warned that law enforcement will need to take the rally "very seriously."
"I think they should take it very seriously. In fact, they should take it more seriously than they took the same sort of intelligence that they likely saw on January 5," McCabe told CNN.
Matt Braynard, the leader of Look Ahead America, the group organizing the rally, said that it will be a "completely peaceful protest."
"And we have told people that when they come, we don't want to see any messaging about the election, we don't want to see any messaging on T-shirts and flags or signs about candidates or anything like that," he told the network.
CNN noted that around 500 people plan to attend the event, though the group's past events normally had a lower turnout and were peaceful.
At least one Proud Boy leader has reportedly encouraged his followers to attend, while "White Lives Matter" is also planning a rally that same day and has supported the insurrectionists online.
Capitol Police told the network it cannot discuss security arrangements.
"After January 6, we made Department-wide changes to the way we gather and share intelligence internally and externally," Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said in a statement, according to CNN. "I am confident the work we are doing now will make sure our officers have what they need to keep everyone safe."
The left continues to perpetuate the lie that right wingers are dangerous subversives trying to destroy the country. I guess their Antifa and BLM buddies who were burning, looting, assaulting and killing Americans all over the country during the 2020 Summer of Hate is just an asterisk to them!
So which unarmed person(s) are the DC cops gonna shoot this time?
Where will the FBI try to set people up?
Will AntiFa try something?
I’m betting there will be more deep state provocateurs there than actual protesters.
I wish I could go but I have to work.
Shit is hitting the fan in the public eye and courts, and this is a diversion.
Keep the great pressure up in your local/state capital cities.
Any violence will be perpetuated by antifa counter protesters.
Better to let the clownish capitol police put the barricades up, wear their space
age body armor, naturally fully armed with the latest in sophisticated weaponry,
then have absolutely nobody, except undercover feebles, show up.
Punk the punks.
Translation: The government is going to turn their BrownShirts (AntiFa) loose on them
Wonder how many they are planning to shoot?
“Insurrectionists”
BS article again.
Has anyone up to now seriously heard of a “White Lives Matter” group? Of course, IT is racist and evil, but BLM is flowers and rainbows.
We cannot cower in fear forever, so kudos to Matt Baynard for doing this.
“This is a FALSE FLAG. Do NOT attend!”
I agree. The Deep State needs the Afghan debacle and the AZ forensic audits off the news among other things.
I bet there is another something that happens. Watch Trump show up there. Lol.
Half of the attendees will be FBI employees and the other half will be FBI controlled assets IMO.
Either CNN or I am confused. Since the FBI staged much of the Jan6 “riot” why is CNN against demonstrations supporting them?
Are they going the way of BBiden? Random?
FBI controlled assets: Antifa types wearing Trump gear.
They are right to be very concerned. The FBI has not informed the Capitol Police yet of the names and identities of the FBI personnel assigned to be provocateurs in the crowd. Nor have they disclosed whether or not one or more Capitol cops are to sacrificed (for purposes of optics) so that the real shooting of patriots can start.
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