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San Jose police chief defends officers accused of failing to protect Trump supporters from violence
The San Jose Mercury News ^ | June 3, 2016 | Julia Prodis Sulek

Posted on 06/05/2016 11:04:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

SAN JOSE -- A day after a melee erupted outside a Donald Trump rally, the San Jose police chief and mayor on Friday defended themselves from a national backlash over their handling of the dramatic and at times violent protest.

On radio talk shows and across social media, some called for Mayor Sam Liccardo's resignation because of his comments suggesting that Trump was to blame for igniting violence, while police were criticized for failing to protect Trump supporters from angry protesters throwing punches, water bottles and traffic cones. Some videos showed those attacks and suggested they were unprovoked, but others showed Trump supporters taunting protesters, ripping their Dump Trump signs and throwing the first punches....

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


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I never saw such videos. Did you?
1 posted on 06/05/2016 11:04:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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This mayor, Sam Liccardo is a real POS. In fact I believe the San Jose police chief has some real issues in regard to public safety.


2 posted on 06/05/2016 11:06:47 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Suppose it were true? It does not absolve Chief Garcia of his abuse of authority. It does not excuse his stand down order.


3 posted on 06/05/2016 11:08:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Murky News is just being its reliably leftist self. Garbage from front page to last.


4 posted on 06/05/2016 11:09:30 AM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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If there were such videos, one would think that is all we would have seen these last few days.


5 posted on 06/05/2016 11:10:33 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Chief Garcia stated: Unless a victim's life was in peril or the violence was "spiraling out of control," he said, officers held back to avoid inciting more violence and having the crowd turn on officers.

Colossal idiocy.

6 posted on 06/05/2016 11:10:47 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

We have people on this forum that posted that they campaigned for him.


7 posted on 06/05/2016 11:11:24 AM PDT by sport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We would have been plastered 24/7 with such video clips if/when Trump supporters threw the first punch. And we have to ask if it had gone through msm-editing.

Did that answer the question?


8 posted on 06/05/2016 11:15:23 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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"we would have seen these non-stop [the] last few days."
9 posted on 06/05/2016 11:15:59 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The mayor or Mercury is deflecting.

The problem was not that the police did little. The problem was that the police apparently had a ‘stand down’ order from the mayor. Shades of Baltimore.


10 posted on 06/05/2016 11:16:35 AM PDT by TomGuy
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showed Trump supporters taunting protesters, ripping their Dump Trump signs and throwing the first punches.

Ya knew the glaring media lies would follow these events. There is no question 99 percent of all the violence are coming from violent Mexicans and assorted violent leftist.

It is the violent Mexicans and leftists who went uninvited to where the Trump supporters gather for rallies. Trump supporters did not go to their rallies and become violent. End of story.

11 posted on 06/05/2016 11:21:07 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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It was a setup by the mayor and police chief.

An attendee said they had to go right past the “protesters” when they left the event. They intentionally put the attendees and thugs in close proximity.


12 posted on 06/05/2016 11:22:57 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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Can I see the link to that?


13 posted on 06/05/2016 11:23:13 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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"Death to America!"


14 posted on 06/05/2016 11:24:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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Beating up Trump Supporters = Free Speech

Verbal denigration of H->! = Domestic Terrorism

15 posted on 06/05/2016 11:25:28 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Gary Webb was the last San Jose Mercury reporter worth anything.


16 posted on 06/05/2016 11:27:42 AM PDT by Vic S
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Was the mayor and Police Chief not following these historic recent events which became violent at the hands of violent Mexicans and assorted violent leftists? Did the Chief of Police not see what occurred in Chicago, Albuquerque, Costa Mesa, et al?

Is the Chief and Mayor alleging he had no idea about these recent violent patterns and the potential for innocents to be physically attacked?

The San Jose Mayor and Police Chief are lying.


17 posted on 06/05/2016 11:29:08 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

18 posted on 06/05/2016 11:33:39 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: joshua c
"I can say if there was a single excessive baton blow on anyone in that crowd," Liccardo said Friday, "that would have made national news."

OMG, thank God no violent Mexicans and leftist who went looking for trouble were not injured or offended.

Think how bad that might have looked?

19 posted on 06/05/2016 11:34:20 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I heard it as speculation on 2 different radio talkshows the morning after.

That was the ‘rumor’ going around.


20 posted on 06/05/2016 11:34:25 AM PDT by TomGuy
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