Posted on 08/28/2017 11:58:39 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Many on the left are starting to see the goons of Antifa as the menace they are. Too bad the Berkeley, Calif., Police Department remains clueless.
The college town saw a large Rally Against Hate on Sunday, initially planned as a response to a right-wing demonstration that wound up canceled over security concerns.
A few pro-Trumpers and other miscellaneous rightists still turned out to show their flags and so did the ninja-wannabes.
Yet when hundreds of masked, armored thugs arrived in quasi-military formation, carrying shields banned under police rules, the cops were ordered to retreat.
Some 400 officers from the Berkeley, Oakland, UC Berkeley and Alameda County forces had been keeping control, confiscating anything that could be used as a weapon.
But when the goons broke through police barricades and checkpoints and started beating and pepper-spraying others, We made a strategic decision to move our officers, said Berkeley police spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Coats.
As the police left, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lizzie Johnson tweeted: A sea of black masks as far as I can see. This is what WAS NOT supposed to happen.
Berkeleys police chief, Andrew Greenwood, argued that his orders avoided violence: The potential use of force became very problematic, and he didnt see a need for a confrontation over a grass patch.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Either the Berkeley PD’s rank and file subscribe to the Nuremberg defense, or the PD’s higher ups have cherry picked officers who do.
Q for Berkeley’s officers: Which is it?
I anticipate that’ll be the case; be armed when voting.
The problem facing most people is the Democrats lack of morality. They control many cities in the USA even if the Republicans control the state. With this in mind the mayors tell the police what to do and that is stand down when it comes to ANTIFA
Woah! Using the Nazi Prison Camp Guard defense to defend Commies who are attacking people. !
If the cops want to side with Commies, they'll be targeted as such. The cops can choose to do what is right or they can die along side their Commie comrads.
Kinda puts the lie to that "Thin Blue Line" between civilization and anarchy. "Serve and Protect" who?
For all you’d want to know about these commie-anarchist protest groups plus a bit more, check out my FR Home page, at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/
We should write it this way every time we see it. We can flip this dishonest title back on them....just like with the term Fake News.
Phooey...let them burn down the whole damned campus. It would be cleansing.
antifa not equal anti-fascist
The potential use of force became very problematic, and he didnt see a need for a confrontation over a grass patch.
See how it works is, they let the left run wild until some one tries to defend themselves THEN they move in to “stop the violence”.
Democratic Party=Political wing of the left wing Media
Mob of Thugs=Muscle wing/goon squad of the left wing Media
Dare to disagree with the left, they will pass laws making disagreement illegal and sic the “Justice” department on, you
or they will denounce you on TV “News”
or they will target your employer and demand you be fired
or failing all that, they will simply have their mob
physically attack you.
Do you really think the Post's editorial board is clueless? Who here in this country - or world-wide for that matter - doesn't understand exactly what is occurring?
The kabuki theater in which all sides mime and pantomime their respective positions (ie false left right) is simply the modern day equivalent of media control in the evil empire.
Only Trump is able/willing to break these artificial boundaries. Only he has stated the obvious which everyone knows is the truth.
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