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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....
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
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I never saw such videos. Did you?
To: All
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.
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:06:47 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Suppose it were true? It does not absolve Chief Garcia of his abuse of authority. It does not excuse his stand down order.
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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.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Murky News is just being its reliably leftist self. Garbage from front page to last.
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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.)
To: BenLurkin
If there were such videos, one would think that is all we would have seen these last few days.
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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.)
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:10:47 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2
We have people on this forum that posted that they campaigned for him.
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:11:24 AM PDT
by
sport
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?
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:15:23 AM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"we would have seen these non-stop [the] last few days."
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.
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:16:35 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: sport
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.
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:21:07 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2
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.
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:22:57 AM PDT
by
joshua c
(Please dont feed the liberals)
To: TomGuy
Can I see the link to that?
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:23:13 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Zero's Third Term Ping.
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"Death to America!"
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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.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Beating up Trump Supporters = Free Speech
Verbal denigration of H->! = Domestic Terrorism
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:25:28 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gary Webb was the last San Jose Mercury reporter worth anything.
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:27:42 AM PDT
by
Vic S
To: joshua c
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.
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:29:08 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:33:39 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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?
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:34:20 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2
I heard it as speculation on 2 different radio talkshows the morning after.
That was the ‘rumor’ going around.
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posted on
06/05/2016 11:34:25 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
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