Looks dirty 'cause I just trimmed hedges with it.
Posted on 06/26/2016 1:55:16 PM PDT by Wolfie
Multiple people stabbed at Sacramento white nationalist rally
Multiple people were stabbed and beaten in a brutal clash between white nationalists and counter-protesters just outside the California capitol building in Sacramento on Sunday, city fire officials said.
Five people were taken to hospitals with injuries, some with “critical trauma stab wounds”, the fire department said after what it called a “mass casualty incident”.
Sacramento police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey said the main fight broke out when people carrying sticks rushed into the rally area, a park by the capitol building. California highway patrol officers eventually broke up the fight, he said.
Photos and video posted online showed chaotic fights between people clad almost entirely in black and other protesters, some of whom carried signs labelled “anti-fascist”, “Nazi scum” and “smash patriarchy + racism”.
Despite the presence of police in body armor and mounted on horses, violence broke out, leaving blood spattered on sidewalks and people visibly wounded.
People used pepper spray and flagpoles to attack each other, and video showed others swinging blunt objects wildly, beating people to the ground and dragging and kicking bodies.
Police intervened, sometimes riding horses to break up crowds, but they were unable to separate all combatants before serious injuries were inflicted.
At an impromptu briefing, an officer told reporters that the force was working to disperse the protests while respecting peaceful demonstrators’ right to free speech.
“Our primary focus was to de-escalate the situation,” the officer said. “We are going to continue working with the California highway patrol to ensure that the event is held in a relatively calm fashion.”
A group calling itself the Traditionalist Workers party had planned a rally near the capitol for several weeks, and some arrived bearing shields and shirts covered in Nazi imagery.
Counter-protesters also spent weeks planning what they called a “shut down Nazi rally”. Dozens turned out to protest.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based watchdog that monitors hate groups, calls the Traditionalist Workers party a white nationalist group.
The march was organized by the Golden State Skinheads, the California wing of the group. Their leader is Matthew Heimbach, a 25-year-old former radical rightwing student organizer whom the SPLC describes as “the face of a new generation of white nationalists”.
In a post to the organization’s website, Heimbach wrote that he was aware of plans to counter-protest but said: “After carefully weighing the pros and cons, we have decided that this would be our Thermopylae, no matter what it costs. “We will defend ourselves by any means necessary, and if the police in Sacramento do not protect our right to speak, we will do it ourselves.”
Heimbach was accused of assaulting a black woman at a Donald Trump rally in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this year. He was named in a lawsuit filed by protesters against the candidate for president, and acknowledged in an online post, as described in the lawsuit, that he had shoved her. The incident was caught on video.
The counter-protesters organized in part via Facebook, writing: “Anti-Fascist Action Sacramento does not believe in allowing hate to have a platform and we are calling upon the community to shut down their rally. Fighting fascism is a moral duty, not a political one.
“We believe most people are good and are willing to stand up against racial hatred,” they added. “Our objective is to force the nazis off our streets and to send a strong message that they are not welcome in society and especially Sacramento.”
I am of the opinion that the group with the permit approached it very logically. To protest against one group you do not agree with is fine...when you attempt to get violent don’t be surprised that white guys know how to defend themselves. Good for these people sticking up for what they arranged legally and did just enough to protect themselves.
“Probly another one of George Soros’ 501(c)3 front groups”
Win.
Attempting to smear Trump by associating him with leftist groups like the Neo-nazis and the KKK.
Jim Robinson and family must know alot about this...how far away is Fresno...where I send the money too?
Methinks knife control would have prevented this from happening.
5.56mm
I’m confused.
The fascist is the one who shuts down free speech.
How can those legally exercising their first amendment be the fascist?
Right-wing pro-whites tried to exercise their right to free speech and to peaceably assemble, and they were viciously swarmed and violently attacked by mobs of black-bloc leftist ANTIFA fascists(irony that alleged anti-fascists are the most fascist scum anywhere).
On Twitter you can see video of the masked leftists bashing in the heads of female right-wingers with big sticks. CNN is showing video of right-wingers beseiged by violent leftists weilding big sticks while police sit there on horseback doing nothing but watching.
The TWP was flat out attacked from the videos I’ve seen. Of course, CNN and MSNBC are spinning it like it was their fault.
“It’s all over CNN and MSNBC live right now. The “white nationalist” group had a permit and was attacked by an “anti fascist” mob”
Of course it is....it’s what communists do best. Propaganda.
Wrong. There are right-wingers who are not diversity-worshipping cuckservatives.
Why do we tolerate the fascist thugs of the so-called anti-fascist malcontents deciding who gets to peaceably assemble? The group that was attacked even had a permit. These little communists’ forbears were all about tolerance and rights of free speech and free assembly when it was about getting the thin end of the wedge into our society.
CNN of course featured friendly field interview with immigrant leftist female leader who gloated about it all.
nazis are LEFTISTS (socialists)
as are most totalitarian groups
from all I can tell, what we had here were two leftist groups of thugs (is that redundant?) having a little brawl
more Soros money????
I haven’t seen any video I’m just going by the poorly-written article. if it’s true these guys were decked out in nazi outfits- of course you’re going to get beat up. duh. Wear a suit and tie next time. At least that way people pity you if you get stabbed.
I haven’t seen any video I’m just going by the poorly-written article. if it’s true these guys were decked out in nazi outfits- of course you’re going to get beat up. duh. Wear a suit and tie next time. At least that way people pity you if you get stabbed.
if they are neo-nazis, they are not right wingers. they are left wingers, as nazism is/was a leftwing ideology.
i don’t have a lot of tolerance for neo-nazi groups, although i believe many of them are simply calling themselves that and displaying nazi symbols to get a rise out of people, but the consistent narrative in the media when violence occurs at their rallies/marches is a false one. if they’ve peaceably assembled, then the counter-protesters (who usually outnumber them by a factor of 3x or 4x or 5x) that show up and start the violence are the ones who should be the subject of the news reports. they should be identified for who they are and as being the perpetrators. however, this never happens because it contradicts the media narrative.
the most violent thugs on this planet are young, leftwing zealots. all you have to do is look at the video footage from the various occupy wall street protests or WTO protests.
The Leftist tradition is to come in and provoke a response.
They got it from the cops in Chicago in 1968 using excrement bags and ‘f-bomb’ tirades.
They must have gone after the Nazis to create a situation that will end up being called ‘violence’ by the media without any context and be used to make political points by cable news talking heads.
Looks dirty 'cause I just trimmed hedges with it.
I caught one who is given plenty of time on CNN saying that they will go after any group that is racist.
And I think to myself, "La Raza?"
If you share the leftists’ equality/diversity worship, YOU are a leftist cuck. If you do not, you’re on the right. Unfortunately, cuckservatives claim to oppose the left, but really only help move the Overton Window constantly leftward, because they agree with the leftists’ equality/diversity worship, and accept the left’s moral authority, quivering in fear of being seen as racist, thereby aiding the anti-white genocide ongoing by putting up ZERO resistance to it, and always denouncing pro-white advocacy.
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