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Cops must never stand down against ‘antifa’ thugs
NY Post ^ | August 28, 2017 | Post Editorial Board

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.”

Berkeley’s police chief, Andrew Greenwood, argued that his orders avoided violence: “The potential use of force became very problematic,” and he didn’t see a “need for a confrontation over a grass patch.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andrewgreenwood; antifa; cowards; orneonazis; patchofgrass
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To: \/\/ayne

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?


21 posted on 08/29/2017 4:25:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
These police officers who let mobs run wild under political orders must have no self-respect at all.

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"Police officers have been ordered to stand down by their leadership. The officers have no choice. They cannot disregard their commanders."

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I understand that but at what point will they blow the whistle and/or resign? How far against the law and Constitution will they go before it's too far?
22 posted on 08/29/2017 4:30:56 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: joshua c

I anticipate that’ll be the case; be armed when voting.


23 posted on 08/29/2017 4:43:14 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

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


24 posted on 08/29/2017 4:46:39 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: The_Media_never_lie
They cannot disregard their commanders."

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.

25 posted on 08/29/2017 4:47:14 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Police officers have been ordered to stand down by their leadership. The officers have no choice. They cannot disregard their commanders.

Kinda puts the lie to that "Thin Blue Line" between civilization and anarchy. "Serve and Protect" who?

26 posted on 08/29/2017 4:47:31 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu"))
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To: All; Oshkalaboomboom

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/


27 posted on 08/29/2017 4:52:06 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: Slyfox
antiFA (anti First Amendment)

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.

28 posted on 08/29/2017 5:10:53 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Phooey...let them burn down the whole damned campus. It would be cleansing.


29 posted on 08/29/2017 5:15:18 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: Mr Radical
Fascists wear black masks.

antifa not equal anti-fascist

30 posted on 08/29/2017 5:21:35 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL, NPR)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The potential use of force became very problematic,” and he didn’t 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”.


31 posted on 08/29/2017 6:42:58 AM PDT by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: All

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.


32 posted on 08/29/2017 7:46:30 AM PDT by Jonah Johansen ("Coming soon to a neighborhood near you")
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
This isn't a case of clueless police, more like a clueless Post editorial board.

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.

33 posted on 08/29/2017 8:05:20 AM PDT by semantic
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