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Conrad says investigators have learned the teens originally gathered at the bridge to remember TARC stabbing victim Me'Quale Offutt.
"People came together at the park to remember Me'Quale," Conrad said during the meeting Tuesday organized by the group ManUp. "I do not believe -- and based on what we were able to see on social media that we looked at, public postings -- that there was any information that we were going to come to the park to cause damage, that we were going to come to the park to rob people, or come to the park to assault people."
You know, I've been to a fair number of Conservative/GOP centered and organized rallies and one common theme that really shined through at them is "self policing."
It's all well and good to claim that there was no intent for violence in the gathering ... but once it started where were the folks (like the reps from this "ManUp" organization) who should have immediately stepped in to shut it down?
Silence and inaction = assent.