Posted on 06/26/2016 1:55:16 PM PDT by Wolfie
Multiple people stabbed at Sacramento white nationalist rally
Multiple people were stabbed and beaten in a brutal clash between white nationalists and counter-protesters just outside the California capitol building in Sacramento on Sunday, city fire officials said.
Five people were taken to hospitals with injuries, some with “critical trauma stab wounds”, the fire department said after what it called a “mass casualty incident”.
Sacramento police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey said the main fight broke out when people carrying sticks rushed into the rally area, a park by the capitol building. California highway patrol officers eventually broke up the fight, he said.
Photos and video posted online showed chaotic fights between people clad almost entirely in black and other protesters, some of whom carried signs labelled “anti-fascist”, “Nazi scum” and “smash patriarchy + racism”.
Despite the presence of police in body armor and mounted on horses, violence broke out, leaving blood spattered on sidewalks and people visibly wounded.
People used pepper spray and flagpoles to attack each other, and video showed others swinging blunt objects wildly, beating people to the ground and dragging and kicking bodies.
Police intervened, sometimes riding horses to break up crowds, but they were unable to separate all combatants before serious injuries were inflicted.
At an impromptu briefing, an officer told reporters that the force was working to disperse the protests while respecting peaceful demonstrators’ right to free speech.
“Our primary focus was to de-escalate the situation,” the officer said. “We are going to continue working with the California highway patrol to ensure that the event is held in a relatively calm fashion.”
A group calling itself the Traditionalist Workers party had planned a rally near the capitol for several weeks, and some arrived bearing shields and shirts covered in Nazi imagery.
Counter-protesters also spent weeks planning what they called a “shut down Nazi rally”. Dozens turned out to protest.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based watchdog that monitors hate groups, calls the Traditionalist Workers party a white nationalist group.
The march was organized by the Golden State Skinheads, the California wing of the group. Their leader is Matthew Heimbach, a 25-year-old former radical rightwing student organizer whom the SPLC describes as “the face of a new generation of white nationalists”.
In a post to the organization’s website, Heimbach wrote that he was aware of plans to counter-protest but said: “After carefully weighing the pros and cons, we have decided that this would be our Thermopylae, no matter what it costs. “We will defend ourselves by any means necessary, and if the police in Sacramento do not protect our right to speak, we will do it ourselves.”
Heimbach was accused of assaulting a black woman at a Donald Trump rally in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this year. He was named in a lawsuit filed by protesters against the candidate for president, and acknowledged in an online post, as described in the lawsuit, that he had shoved her. The incident was caught on video.
The counter-protesters organized in part via Facebook, writing: “Anti-Fascist Action Sacramento does not believe in allowing hate to have a platform and we are calling upon the community to shut down their rally. Fighting fascism is a moral duty, not a political one.
“We believe most people are good and are willing to stand up against racial hatred,” they added. “Our objective is to force the nazis off our streets and to send a strong message that they are not welcome in society and especially Sacramento.”
The attackers probably that they were attacking Trump supporters and they would not defend themselves if attacked. And got a taste of cold steel fro their miscalculation.
Sounds very simple. Violent leftists with sticks attack and try to beat neo-Nazis, who had knives and stabbed their attackers.
Do not bring a stick to a knife fight.
This police tactic will be amply demonstrated throughout the summer both at the Republican National Convention and various Donald Trump speeches and rallies.
Matt Heimbach reportedly said that the Trump campaign is like a gateway drug to his group. CNN hosts (Suzanne Malveaux) nodded in agreement.
You have got to be kidding. That harshes the narrative.
Donald Trump, The "Gateway Drug" To White Supremacy - Mar 25, 2016
At an intimate meeting with a controversial group in St. Louis, Missouri, Matthew Heimbach, a charismatic, young wannabe politician laid out his plan to revolutionize the political discourse in this country by cashing in on the far-right-wing rhetoric of Donald Trump.
So you’re smearing pro-white advocates and thereby siding with progs in vilifying them. Great.
They were in fact attacking Trump supporters. Except these ones aren’t cuckservatives, they don’t grovel and quiver in abject submission to anti-racism diversity worshippers.
I seriously do not care about a person’s race.
What matters is the content of their character.
I never heard of Heimbach before, even though Towson U. is just up the road. From what I’ve seen so far, the guy is an utter kook. Often, I don’t try to classify kooks as “right” or “left” wing—they are just kooks.
And nazis were socialists, putting them square on the left.
Right, as if all cognition only and always deals with individuals whose characters are known to each and every other. The general is forbidden, the specific is the only sense permitted. Brainwashed us all well, didn’t they?
The racial egalitarian crap is liberalism, period.
I'm not. I'm saying it's the left up to their old tricks again pulling the ole LGBT didn't get a tip from the white Christians because I'm gay scenario only this time pretending to be a white supremicist group acting badly. They're famous for this stuff...
B.S.
You mean that they are the type that when attacked, they defend themselves. They do not automatically fall to their knees cowering and groveling.
You just join with the SPLC in vilifying pro-white advocates, as all cuckservatives do.
You implied that they weren’t Trump supporters.
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i am most definitely not brainwashed by anybody. i’ve been conservative and interested in politics since about 1977, when i was 9 years old. i had an elementary school teacher who was a huge democRAT and she made the whole class watch Carter’s inauguration. i refused and turned my back to the TV.
...and stop with that manosphere cuckservative stuff. i’m red pill enough to know how the world works. just because i don’t have the exact same opinion as you, doesn’t mean i’m some brainwashed “beta” still stuck in the matrix. if you insist that the difference between right and left is all related to racial issues, you won’t find too many people to join you in that echo chamber. what’s more, you’ll be playing right into the leftist media narrative that everyone on the right is secretly a racist. it’s not true and it’s a lazy smear that the left has been using for 50+ years now.
Listen we’re on the same team and appear to have friends in kind per your profile. It’s hard to interpret “tone” online so I’m not sure what you mean for certain.
Heimbach’s views on race are EXACTLY the same as our revered founders’ views, and exactly the same as those of most whites throughout our history until the leftist revolution of the 1960s.
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