Weetabix wrote:
Agreed. My beef is with the police's reported behavior. I read a bit about this elsewhere, and it seems that the police stood by and did nothing while the antifas attacked the altrights. Then funneled the altrights into the antifas when they decided to shut it down. What a recipe for success. It's possible the reports I read were not accurate. Though I have no doubt they were biased.
The police either ought to be keeping the peace or just plain stay away. To stand by and watch seems a bit ... wrong.
That's my biggest beef with this situation too.
Here and
here are a couple of stories that claim that the police either just stood by and watched or actively funneled the altrights into the antifa when they decided to shut things down.
Attendees began attempting to leave via exits 1 & 2 and were set upon by antifa as they attempted to do so. After a quick consultation, a small group of rally headliners and attendees decided to engage in civil disobedience and get ourselves arrested, myself included.
That's from the Daily Caller article and is written by someone who was actually there.
Both exit stairs were defended by rally attendees with shields, and antifa skirmished with them at each stairway.
It sounds like the police actually pushed the peacefully assembled people into the group that was actually fighting against them.
We were respectful and informed them we would not resist arrest but we refused to leave the park willingly.
Police on the line did not say a word and refused to arrest us while shoving with their shields and swinging them at us.
After a few minutes of shoving, our line was pepper-sprayed from a cop behind the police shield wall, and our resistance crumbled.
Any use of force is a 4th Amendment seizure. If it was an unlawful assembly, how come the police didn't arrest these people when they refused to disperse?
The whole police response is a cluster.
We ran west on Market St, running a gauntlet of antifa throwing bottles, sticks, and rocks.
I followed them closely but then dropped back as the crowd hurled everything they had at another protest headliner, luckily missing with most of it
At that point the police had completely lost control of the city. The State of Emergency order meant that any public gathering was de facto illegal, but antifa were still allowed to roam freely bearing weapons and attacking people. This chaos ultimately led directly to the vehicular incident that killed a woman and badly injured more than a dozen others.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.