Posted on 03/05/2017 8:15:59 PM PST by nickcarraway
At least 10 people were arrested and many others bloodied and bruised as a Berkeley rally supporting President Trump turned violent Saturday when fistfights broke out between marchers and counterprotesters, and crowds of masked anarchists joined the fray.
“This is a sad day,” Berkeley Councilman Ben Bartlett told reporters. “We’re better than this.”
The rally, one of several pro-Trump events held across the United States, began at 2 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park. That’s less than a mile from the UC Berkeley campus where a violent protest Feb. 1 forced the cancellation of a speech by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
The fighting Saturday started even before the event began, with people throwing punches, swinging signs and tossing smoke bombs. Hundreds of people filled the park, with anarchists and counterdemonstrators far outnumbering what rally sponsors estimated were 60 to 75 Trump supporters.
By 3 p.m., the self-proclaimed anarchists were dominating the crowd. Dressed all in black and wearing cloth bandannas over their faces, they stopped traffic as they marched from the park through downtown with the smaller mix of Trump supporters and counterprotesters. In the park, people opposed to Trump threw eggs and burned both American flags and the red “Make America Great Again” Trump campaign hats. Kiki Valenzuela, a sophomore at Berkeley High School, was at the rally to protest Trump. She wore a short-sleeved shirt reading “liberal elite” and said she was excited for her first taste of activism. But when the crowds became violent, with people beating each other until they bled, the 16-year-old became scared and ran to the perimeter.
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This is the true face of the Democrat party.
Nice use of the passive voice, DBM. Wouldn’t fit the narrative to admit who the attackers were, would it?
Unfortunately, I think a few anarchists getting shot is what soros and obama and hillary want to happen.
EXACTLY! THEN they — and all their MSM cronies — can come out screaming “SEE! SEE! WE TOLD YOU SO! It’s GUN CONTROL or more of THIS!! SEE! NEW LEGISLATION *NOW*!”
we need to start to defend ourselves at these events. I’m no expert but we all need to be trained. My thinking is that we need to always revert to a defensive box or square formations that were used by ancient and some modern armies. Armed with batons and pepper gel in a square. i haven’t read all of these but i have done some research. i believe this is a first line of defense at these events. but we need to know how to do this in a real event (training). this in my estimation is where we can starrt to defend ourselves. and get confidence to actually go out in the public square.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_square
http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/infantry_tactics_4.htm
for laughs
https://combatgent.com/pocket-squares
How about an honest headline like “Anti Trump thugs violently attack peaceful pro Trump rally”? Or is the whole reality thing too dispariging of “progressives”?
“WHAT DOES A DEMOCRAT LOOK LIKE?”
“THIS IS WHAT A DEMOCRAT LOOKS LIKE!”
Followed closely by,
"This is not who we are"
Mix with thugs at your own peril.
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"Sadly the cops took me quickly and didn't ask or let me talk about what happened I'm any official manner. The cops asked to know if people are organizing to fight? I told them we only organized to show support. We needed protection they didn't give."
They are fiercely committed to President Trump though and deserve our support as the next generation of conservatives doing good work converting or "red pilling" naive young lefties every day over there...
I hope they wise up quickly otherwise they will be as sheep marked for slaughter.
A deeply biased headline.
Imagine if Obama were President, would the headline be
“Violence Erupts at Pro-Obama Rally”
Or would it be
“President’s Supports Beaten By Masked Attackers”
Awright, I’m gonna say it.... isn’t it a little crazy to go to a pro-Trump rally in Berzerkley?
I switched to a heavy duty steel cane, same look as the much lighter adjustable one. Next step up would be a crow bar.
Very nice looking dense Beechwood canes available here at reasonable prices. Extra strong, very tight grain, dense, makes an oak shaft of same dimension feel like pine.
http://www.fashionablecanes.com/Extra_Strong_Walking_Canes.html
“What is wrong with California?”
Californians.
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The mentally damaged outnumber the normal.
These are the folks that Obama is training for the civilian militia he promised.
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