Posted on 09/07/2020 3:18:21 PM PDT by lowbridge
The city of Rochester is busing in town “elders’’ to act as a “buffer’’ between protesters and cops Sunday night after a large violent clash there hours earlier over the police death of Daniel Prude, officials said.
Rochester Police Chief La’Ron Singletary said at a press conference with the city’s mayor Sunday that local authorities have “credible information one of the areas [marchers] want to target is a symbolic feature’’ — the town’s public-safety building, which houses its police department.
Mayor Lovely Warren said she and local pastor Myra Brown came up with a plan to have about 50 “elders’’ form a line of peaceful defense between the protesters and cops to thwart any potential attack on the building or other violence.
“[We] are calling on the elders of this city and our community to meet at [Brown’s] church’’ at 6:30 p.m., Warren said, adding that the local government would help out by transporting community leaders around, according to footage of the presser by local WHEC-TV.
“They will stand as the buffer between our protesters and our police department,’’ she said of the “elders.”
Three cops were injured and nine people arrested overnight during what amounted to the city’s biggest protest so far involving Prude’s death. Cops fired tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd of at least 1,500, while they were battered by bottles and commercial-grade fireworks by marchers who refused to disperse.
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Don’t invite this “Elder”. He has a 30-06.
Will these “elders” be like the “moms” in Portland, most of whom had no kids and several who weren’t even women?
Just like Hamas or the Taliban, to use human shields
“...THE POLICE DEATH....” Thanks NY post. Fah-Q
Oh great, people AntiFa and BLM can beat up.
Lovely is a racist pig
I assume this too. They are probably there to facilitate more rioting, and more violence against cops, whites and anyone not to their liking. Evil that the idiotic City is involved with this.
Who came up with this brilliant idea?
Bring on the nude protestors, they have a new dance routine to perform.
If they’re not armed elders, this might not mean diddly-daddly.
what could possibly go wrong...
what could possibly go wrong...
It is cheaper and more effective to just shoot them.
Wow. No wonder the leaders act this way. Majority non-white city. Does not seem to correlate with good governance.
If the “elders” show up for that they deserve it.
If the line does not include interlocking fields of fire and good flanking fire, forget it.
Was this Andrew Cuomo’s idea?
Elders? That concerns me.
If the “elders” show up and the Nazi Antifa kill them all, it will never be reported in the Nazi media.
The elders need to be backed up by 1,000 riflemen from the local American Legion, VFW and Marine Corps League.
Way past time to take on the nazi democrat scum and threaten them with violence. It’s what leftist pigs understand.
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