Posted on 07/03/2020 6:29:46 PM PDT by lasereye
Protesters blocked the roads leading up to Mount Rushmore ahead of President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July speech that is scheduled to take place there Friday evening.
Footage from the RSB Network shows protesters standing on top of several large white vans and blocking traffic in South Dakota, where Trump is scheduled to give a speech and a fireworks display Friday night. The protesters were holding signs and flags and had reportedly slashed the tires of the vans they were standing on.
Riot police were eventually called to the scene. A video from the RSB network showed a group of officers forming a line in front of the protesters.
President Trump’s plans to host a Fourth of July celebration at Mount Rushmore sparked backlash from Democrats who accused the president of “glorifying white supremacy.”
“Trump has disrespected Native communities time and again,” the Democratic party’s official Twitter account wrote in a now-deleted tweet. “He’s attempted to limit their voting rights and blocked critical pandemic relief. Now he’s holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore, a region once sacred to tribal communities.”
Native American groups have also protested the event and said Mount Rushmore is a “symbol of white supremacy.”
“Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and well in society today,” Nick Tilsen, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, told the Associated Press.
“It’s an injustice to actively steal Indigenous people’s land, then carve the white faces of the colonizers who committed genocide,” he added.
Is it time?
This is the enemy.
They have no desire to live peacefully.
It’s their way, or violence and chaos.
Yes.
Yes
The national guard and police have cleared the blockade, forced (and have kept) the protesters to the side of the road and are allowing traffic through now. I’m sure some who planned to attend got discouraged and turned around but hopefully it won’t have been many.
‘Protesters’ peacefully protest. Would be communist thug revolutionaries slash tires and other criminal acts
It’s tine to take these bastards out. Scare the next group from even thinking about it.
Yep
Just use a big snow machine with a V blade. Flame throwers on the side.
Time to kill these mofos with extreme prejudice
US MEDIA says: …””OKAY!”
Is it leal u catch slashing your tires, since they have to be holding a ‘slashy’ weapon?
I’m ready.
Key board?... IS it legal to shoot someone you catch slashing your tires, since they have to be holding a slashy weapon?
The protesters had a designated area to protest from. They did not stay there. Blocking roads is NOT peaceful protesting. It is illegal. As long as LEO allows it, it will continue.
Be the victor, or be the carcass.
There were several groups. The Indians were peaceful. There were according to tje RSB reporters about 10 other thugs who attacked the police and a trump supporter.
Already cleaned and oiled my battle rifle ... already had mags loaded for the dance.
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