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From what I have been able to glean in reading, it beginning to look like a very large number of the BLM/Antifa types have criminal records of one kind or another. That would explain their hatred of the police and authority. For the first time in their lives, someone told them "No, you can't do that!" and they are in a rage. These are young people who were never taught to respect authority and have virtually no value system. I have a very close relative who grew up like that and he is one hateful man when it comes to...

As a deadly pandemic resurges in Washington, city leaders in Seattle are preparing for a weekend of probable Portland-level conflict between newly arrived federal agents, the Seattle Police Department, and...let's call them.................groups of demonstrators using different strategies to protest police brutality and a capitalist, white supremacist, colonialist patriarchy that relies on state violence to sustain itself. **SNIP** Durkan asked the city to "stand together to denounce" a group of protesters who busted up and lit fires within businesses and public buildings last Sunday afternoon and Wednesday night. She said this "relatively small" group is "bent on destruction," and referenced social...

My bill would hold officials accountable for failing to protect their constituents. The area radicals took over in Portland last week is the second autonomous zone lawless criminals have set up in the city during the eight weeks of riots since the death of George Floyd. Fringe progressives have also set up autonomous protest zones in six other cities in the past few weeks—in Asheville, N.C.; New York; Philadelphia; Richmond, Va.; Seattle and Washington. These radicals hate the police, reject the rule of law, and are intent on terrorizing their communities. In Seattle, police were forced to abandon the precinct...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Police have released photos of five people they’re trying to identify in connection with riots in Pittsburgh. Police are looking for five people they say are suspected of throwing “various objects” at police during protests downtown on May 30. The man with a black shirt, bicycle and tattoo on his upper left arm is accused of throwing multiple objects that hit police. Police say the man in a gray shirt with long black shorts threw multiple objects at officers, burglarized businesses and broke store windows. The bald man in gray shorts, a dark t-shirt, a dark jacket...

President Donald Trump on Monday said he's considering sending federal law enforcement to other major cities to counter unrest after controversially deploying federal agents to respond to demonstrations against racism and police brutality in Portland, Oregon. "In Portland they've done a fantastic job," Trump said of the federal agents sent to the Oregon city. Trump described the protesters as anarchists who "hate" the U.S. and signaling he might send federal troops to cities like Chicago, New York, Detroit, Baltimore, and Oakland... The federal officers sent to Portland are with the U.S. Marshals Service and an elite U.S. Customs and Border...

Durham police arrested 23 people in connection with the vandalism and protest at the former Durham Police Department Headquarters Saturday evening. Officers arrived at 505 West Chapel Hill Street Saturday evening and found protesters gathered in front of the building and others breaking windows. Damaged furniture and spray-painted graffiti were found on several floors. Police said one man was assaulted by several members of the crowd and was thrown to the ground. He was treated at the scene by EMS. Officers ordered the crowd to disperse but several people refused to leave, according to police. The following arrests were made:...

Daryl Turner, the head of the Portland Police Association, said Sunday that city politicians have not acted in the best interest of the city after weeks of violent protests and instead prioritized their own political agenda as the city burned. **SNIP** The situation on the ground in the city has been described as dire. Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf tweeted Friday, federal officers in Portland have been “assaulted with lasers and frozen water bottles” by suspects attempting to damage federal property. On Sunday, the Oregonian reported that hundreds of protesters gathered in the city’s downtown and the crowd doubled. The...

Peaceful protesters don’t try to burn down federal courthouses or jails or the headquarters of a local police union, nor hurl rocks and bottles at cops, night after night for weeks on end - nor assault a police station: What’s going on in Portland is somewhere between riot and insurrection, and demands a strong federal response even if local officials are in denial. Antifa types are besieging the Mark Hatfield Courthouse and other federal buildings, as well as the Multnomah County Justice Center. They’re assaulting not just buildings and law-enforcers, but the very rule of law. Questions do need asking...

Anarchists and radical left revolutionaries have long been entrenched in Portland, Oregon, but they have become especially emboldened in recent days as Democratic officials in the city all but align with them to push out federal agents in the city. Violent protesters continue to lay siege on the city some eight weeks after the death of George Floyd, and while some in the media still call it a Black Lives Matter protest, the chaos in the streets has little to do with racial justice. On what marked the 52nd straight night of protests, police declared a riot as radicals set...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Protesters broke into a building, set it on fire and started dumpster fires late Saturday night in Oregon's largest city, police said, as demonstrations that have been taking place since the death of George Floyd intensified for another night in Portland. The fire at the Portland Police Association building was put out a short time later, Portland police said on Twitter. The department declared the gathering a riot, and began working to clear the downtown area. Tear gas was deployed, according to pictures and video from the scene. Fencing that had been placed around federal courthouse...

At least 18 Chicago police officers were injured Friday after a crowd of at least 1,000 left-wing rioters sought to topple a statue of Christopher Columbus. The Chicago Tribune reports “At least 1,000 people swarmed the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park on Friday evening in an attempt to topple it after a march turned tense and chaotic when some people began throwing fireworks and cans at the police[.]” Videos of the assault, which look like something out of a zombie movie, are everywhere on social media. You can see that the officers, who are not wearing protective riot gear,...

On Saturday Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to the federal agents as Nazi stormtroopers. They are there to restore peace and Pelosi compares them to Nazis. This is a disgusting new low even for Nancy Pelosi. Democrats are siding with the rioters who are destroying this country. And now they’re comparing federal agents to Nazis. This from the Democrat Party leader.

An arrest warrant was issued for a Madison man who was charged Thursday with looting two shoe stores at East Towne Mall and taking part in beating a man who had tried to stop the looting of a State Street shop earlier the same night. A criminal complaint charged Martin J. Engelhart, 21, with substantial battery, two counts of burglary and one count of attempted burglary, all for events he is accused of taking part in on May 30, the first night of protests that began Downtown over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. He was also...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) -- On Friday, police confirmed three more people have been arrested in connection to the downtown Scottsdale riots that happened on May 30. All three individuals who were arrested are from the Valley. Police say Aaron Medina, a 28-year-old man, is accused of driving his Honda Civic through the intersection of Scottsdale and Camelback roads various times, as he taunted officers and didn't stop when they commanded him to. He eventually fled from officers while going the wrong way down a street that was closed off. He was arrested for failing to stop for a police...

The city’s top uniformed cop was injured when he was attacked by a group of people who were at a George Floyd protest on the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday morning, police said. Chief of Department Terence Monahan received “non-life threatening injuries” during the scuffle and was taken to an area hospital for treatment, an NYPD spokesman said. A police source said Monahan’s hand was injured and required stitches after protesters attacked NYPD officers with a chain during the morning rally. At least two other officers were also injured.

See link. BLM disrupting dinner in downtown Dallas, situation ends up with Police on scene.

A New York City store owner is suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, accusing state and city leaders of failing to send in law enforcement to respond to the rioting that happened during recent protests, according to the attorney handling the case. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Domus Design Center, an interior design business located on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, also names Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea as co-defendants. “Basically, the city and state government owe a duty to the individual storefronts to protect them," attorney Sal Strazzullo said Friday on “Fox & Friends.” "My law firm...

FARGO - Federal prosecutors have charged a 30-year-old man after video allegedly shows him smashing the windshield of an occupied police car during the May 30 riot in downtown Fargo. Errick Steven Toa of Fargo appeared Wednesday, July 8, in federal court for a civil disorder charge that carries up to five years in prison. It’s possibly the first case in North Dakota history in which a protester has faced such a federal charge as a result of civil unrest or rioting, U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley said Wednesday as he unveiled the criminal complaint against Toa during a press conference....

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin' Our very street today Burns like a red coal carpet Mad bull lost your way

During demonstrations in downtown Portland, Oregon, protesters blocked traffic on Main Street and launched fireworks from the street, injuring officers, the Portland Police Bureau said in a Sunday statement. I DONT WANT ANY MORE OF CNN HERE.