Posted on 09/07/2020 3:18:21 PM PDT by lowbridge
The city of Rochester is busing in town “elders’’ to act as a “buffer’’ between protesters and cops Sunday night after a large violent clash there hours earlier over the police death of Daniel Prude, officials said.
Rochester Police Chief La’Ron Singletary said at a press conference with the city’s mayor Sunday that local authorities have “credible information one of the areas [marchers] want to target is a symbolic feature’’ — the town’s public-safety building, which houses its police department.
Mayor Lovely Warren said she and local pastor Myra Brown came up with a plan to have about 50 “elders’’ form a line of peaceful defense between the protesters and cops to thwart any potential attack on the building or other violence.
“[We] are calling on the elders of this city and our community to meet at [Brown’s] church’’ at 6:30 p.m., Warren said, adding that the local government would help out by transporting community leaders around, according to footage of the presser by local WHEC-TV.
“They will stand as the buffer between our protesters and our police department,’’ she said of the “elders.”
Three cops were injured and nine people arrested overnight during what amounted to the city’s biggest protest so far involving Prude’s death. Cops fired tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd of at least 1,500, while they were battered by bottles and commercial-grade fireworks by marchers who refused to disperse.
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maybe they could get these “Elders” from NYC.
Oh. I forgot. The mayor and governor killed them all.
The police should set up corridors that lead directly to the mayor’s and city council members Homes and notify the “Peaceful Protestors” that they will not be interfered with.
The optics of senior citizens hacking, gagging and stumbling around blind from tear gas will be good for a news cycle.
Standard Marxist tactic.
What the H are they thinking?
Are you sure? Be-careful what you wish for. Some may end up looking like Hillary - just saying.
I don’t think BLM/Antifa mobs will have any trouble tossing Molotov Cocktails over the heads of the “elders”.
BLM Attacking Random People, Shutting Down Restaurants, Climbing Into Homes in Rochester
https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2020/09/05/blm-attacking-random-people-shutting-down-restaurants-climbing-into-homes-in-rochester/
Don't worry, it won't work. Antifa will beat them down too. They have no respect for anything or anybody. They view Elders as just another oppressor standing in their way of utopia.
The dems have let these thugs run a muck and there's nothing stopping them now.
City dwellers yes, those in the surrounding burbs much brighter and well armed.
These were pastors. There are many black pastors in this community working for peace. They want to stop the destruction of minority businesses by outside agitators. They stood between the mob and the police.
You can say that again!
Which way will they face?
Jeez...I was thinking the very same thing.
These people are horrible.
People the Left has been human shields for: BLM, AntiFa, Saddam’s Iraq....
If the “elders” will talk BLM out of violence, then there shouldn’t be any problem with a peaceful protest. But if the mob doesn’t listen to them and starts throwing Molotov cocktails or breaking things, then the elders should step out of the way and let the idiots face the consequences of their actions.
What a wonderful city...that Rochester. Where High school graduation rate is about 50%. Now ask me the demographics.
Impeding law enforcement action is a felony and they will be subject to arrest, moments before the perps behind them are also arrested.
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