AND IT BEGINS

Via Reuters

In day of pro-Trump rallies, California march turns violent

Supporters of Donald Trump clashed with counter-protesters at a rally in the famously left-leaning city of Berkeley, California, on a day of mostly peaceful gatherings in support of the U.S. president across the country.

At a park in Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, protesters from both sides struck one another over the head with wooden sticks and Trump supporters fired pepper spray as police in riot gear stood at a distance.

Some in the pro-Trump crowd, holding American flags, faced off against black-clad opponents. An elderly Trump supporter was struck in the head and kicked on the ground.

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Organizers of the so-called Spirit of America rallies in at least 28 the country’s 50 states had said they expected smaller turn-outs than the huge crowds of anti-Trump protesters that clogged the streets of Washington and other cities the day after the Republican’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

“There are a lot of angry groups protesting and we thought it was important to show our support,” said Peter Boykin, president of Gays for Trump, who helped organize Saturday’s rally in Washington.

In many towns and cities, the rallies did not draw more than a few hundred people. At some, supporters of the president were at risk of being outnumbered by small groups of anti-Trump protesters who gathered to shout against the rallies.

In Berkeley, the total crowd of both supporters and detractors numbered 200 to 300 people, police spokesman Byron White said. Three people were injured in the clash, including one who had teeth knocked out, and police made five arrests.

One Trump supporter who took part in the violence came equipped with a baton, a gas mask and a shield emblazoned with the American flag.

White said police did break up fights between the two sides.

“We’ve made a number of arrests, it’s one of those things where we monitor the situation and take action as necessary,” he said.

The violence comes a month after mask-wearing protesters at the University of California, Berkeley, shut down a planned speech by a provocative far-right commentator by lighting fires and smashing windows.

On Saturday, smaller skirmishes broke out in other parts of the country.

In Minnesota, 400 Trump supporters packed the state capitol rotunda in St. Paul and were met by a smaller group of counter-demonstrators, according to the Star Tribune. Scuffles erupted and six counter-protesters were arrested, the newspaper reported.

In Nashville, Tennessee, Trump supporters and counter-protesters cursed at each other and occasionally made physical contact, but state troopers broke up the fighting, according to the city’s public radio station.

Most rallies appeared to take place without any disruption or violence, like one outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing.

“How can anyone be disappointed with bringing back jobs? And he promised he would secure our borders, and that’s exactly what he’s doing,” said Meshawn Maddock, one of the organizers of the rally which drew about 200 people.

Brandon Blanchard, 24, among a small group of anti-Trump protesters, said he had come in support of immigrants, Muslims and transgender people, groups that have been negatively targeted by Trump’s rhetoric and policies.

“I feel that every American that voted for Trump has been deceived,” Blanchard said.

More than 200 supporters of the president rallied in downtown San Diego.

“After this, I think people will take the hint,” said former U.S. Marine David Moore, 42, a participant in the rally. “It’s okay to voice support for the president and the country.”

In Palm Beach, Florida, where Trump is staying this weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort, the president’s motorcade stopped and Trump stepped outside his car to wave at a crowd of dozens of supporters. A smaller group of protesters stood across the street.

In New York, about 200 people demonstrated their support for the president in front of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan. In Washington, about 150 people marched from the Washington Monument to Lafayette Square in front of the White House to show their support for the president.

 

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hardscrabble farmer

Any LE care to explain why the police simply stand around and watch people assaulting each other and not find probable cause for arrest? Based on the kinds of things we’ve seen that get people shot, like hiding behind a mattress, you’d think these kinds of events would qualify as worthy of police intervention.

I’m not at home in this world anymore.

Bryant Cochran
Bryant Cochran

There is no legal obligation for the police to intervene. If you were to get hurt or killed, you would
not win a lawsuit against the local government. Public policy and morality could bring them to action, but they can wait it out until the fighting is over without penalty.

Flashman

Living in the Bay Area I can tell you the BPD are little more than metro sexual SJWs.
They must submit to the political ethos or find employment elsewhere.
This is not a defense it’s simply an explanation.

Gayle

Trump supporters don’t need to be on the streets imitating the tactics of the left. They only provide the anarchists and paid protestors more opportunity to create chaos. Trump won the election, so the Ametican people have already shown adequate support. These rallies were a dumb idea.

TampaRed
TampaRed

Quit trolling Gayle.
Trump people need to be on the street holding signs & if cops will not protect us,we need to form a protective reserve to come in & overwhelm the leftists when they start the violence.
Lawsuits against the cops & governments that refuse to protect non violent protesters should help also.

Bryant Cochran
Bryant Cochran

There is no legal obligation for the police to intervene. If you were to get hurt or killed, you would
not win a lawsuit against the local government. Public policy and morality could bring them to action, but they can wait it out until the fighting is over without penalty.

Gayle

I’m not trolling. The rallies had low turnout and provided opponents and police from a liberal community like Berkeley to abstain from “interfering” just like the cops at UC Davis and UC Berkeley did when Milo came to town. At present, no one in the power structure, especially in California, will protect Trumpeters unless things get extreme and blood starts flowing.

Energy would be better spent filling a football stadium for a Trump event once a month.

Tucci78

At present, no one in the power structure, especially in California, will protect Trumpeters unless things get extreme and blood starts flowing.

I’m considering the fact that even in California, where the hoplophobic state and municipal governments violate the constitutional Second Amendment and therefore the natural right of the individual to bear arms, the Trump supporters of the remnant are likely going to present themselves in these protests ready to deal out deadly force.

If these government officers are manifestly removing themselves from the lawful exercise of the police power in the preservation of the public peace, they’re encouraging vigilantism.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Gayle – You seem to be suggesting that Trump supporters need to submit to violent opponents and stay off the streets to avoid attack or they’re responsible for being attacked.

Are you Swedish by any chance?

PatrioTEA
PatrioTEA

Or filling the Capitol lawn like the Beck rallies.

Ed
Ed

You’re right, Gayle. These rallies come about because asshats post demands online that Trump supporters go out and act like these fucking SJWs. Wonder how many of the “WE HAFTA SUPPORT OUR PRESIDENT” keyboard commandos were there? I would estimate that the number is zero.

ragman
ragman

hardscrabble: the cops are worthless, they are a big part of the problem. Without official police protection, these assholes(antifa, commies, &TC) would be neutralized in short order.

underfire
underfire

Americans holding flags, coming out to support our president? I didn’t know there was such a thing in Berkeley. Kudus to those.

Tucci78

“Every society rests on a barbarian base. The people who don’t understand civilization, and wouldn’t like it if they did. The hitchhikers. The people who create nothing, and who don’t appreciate what others have created for them, and who think civilization is something that just exists and that all they need to do is enjoy what they can understand of it — luxuries, a high living standard, and easy work for high pay. Responsibilities? Phooey! What do they have a government for?”

— H. Beam Piper, Space Viking (1963)

rhs jr
rhs jr

Don’t ya just love the leftist wanting to destroy America to death.

Macumazahn
Macumazahn

This is anarcho-tyranny.
The “authorities” claim a monopoly on the use of force, then simply sit back and watch while their favored groups use force against their disfavored groups. Only those disfavored individuals who dare to protect themselves shall face prosecution – never the violent instigators.
The only thing that’ll put a stop to this is when these anarchists come up against well-prepared citizens. When the post-demonstration news reports start showing anarchists lying dead on the ground from multiple gunshot wounds, the scum of the Left will begin to be discouraged.
If there’s to be blood in the streets, let’s make damned sure it’s the blood of the Left.

Rise Up

“To serve and protect” – read: to serve the 1% and protect their assets (buildings, businesses, etc.).

The police have no duty to protect you. I wonder if someone who was being attacked in one of these situations and pulled legal firearm to defend their life would stand a chance in court.

Notice in the video the ones in ski masks and black hoods were anti-Trump.

Now even former AG Loretta Lynch is sublimely hinting for more violence:

Loretta Lynch: Need more marching, blood, death on streets

If this shit escalates, better be ready for it.

Overthecliff

When a person fears for his life orfearsgreatbodily harm he is justified to use deadly force to protect himself. Threatening leftists are asking to be made the Horst Wessels of their movement. It will happen. We may be looking at the S of SHTF.

PatrioTEA
PatrioTEA

Watch out for the leftists embedded into the good side to make it look bad for us.

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