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NPR: ‘Vehicle Attacks Rise As Extremists Target Protesters’
NPR ^ | June 21 2020 | Hannah Allam

Posted on 06/21/2020 1:34:44 PM PDT by rintintin

Right-wing extremists are turning cars into weapons, with reports of 50 vehicle-ramming incidents since protests against police violence erupted nationwide in late May.

At least 18 are categorized as deliberate attacks; another two dozen are unclear as to motivation or are still under investigation, according to a count released Friday by Ari Weil, a terrorism researcher at the University of Chicago's Chicago Project on Security and Threats. Weil has tracked vehicle-ramming attacks, or VRAs, since protests began.

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All you defenders of Mitch McConnell: When is he going to defund NPR? He and Paul Ryan ran the Congress for 2 years. Did NPR get money pulled? How about Planned Parenthood?

I am SO not upset with the leftists chanting outside of Mitch’s house the other night. I’m just confused why they regard him as an enemy. He doesn’t fight against them. He fights against MAGA

1 posted on 06/21/2020 1:34:44 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

Good. About time.


2 posted on 06/21/2020 1:36:01 PM PDT by old-ager (anti-new-ager)
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The title is a bald-faced LIE and they know it.

“Extremists” my foot.

These are mostly folks trying to get out of a lynch mob situation. I’ve advised my wife to run them over at 50MPH also if they corner her.


3 posted on 06/21/2020 1:37:23 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: rintintin

Right wing extremist vehicle attacks = drivers being caught in Left Wing Road Blocks and trying to maneuver their way out. Nothing more.


4 posted on 06/21/2020 1:38:30 PM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEXT)
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To: rintintin

https://mobile.twitter.com/HannahAllam/status/1274682091884724225

Even Twitter is railing against this crapfest of an article


5 posted on 06/21/2020 1:38:59 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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If the vehicles are right-wingers, is that an admission that the rioters are left-wingers?

How about you start identifying them as such, NPR?

Never mind. I'll do it myself.

6 posted on 06/21/2020 1:39:13 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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These “attacks” would not occur of the roadway were not being illegally blocked. And no one wants to sit there while a bunch of protestors beat on your vehicle.


7 posted on 06/21/2020 1:39:34 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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8 posted on 06/21/2020 1:39:50 PM PDT by pke
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To: rintintin

Ari Weill is a PhD student at U of Chicago. I would put significant dollars down betting that he is the typical social justice privilege ignoramus who has the right connections and parentally defined pedigree to get into U of Chicago. He should work on becoming aware of the reality of the world around him, instead of becoming another ‘higher education’ PhD parasite on society.


9 posted on 06/21/2020 1:40:39 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Did the GOP defund NPR when they controlled both houses of Congress?


10 posted on 06/21/2020 1:41:13 PM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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Only 18 attacks? After all that rioting and looting organized by DNC’s army aka BLM and AntiFa?
11 posted on 06/21/2020 1:41:45 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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Right.
Wing.
Extremists.

omg

No bias there.


12 posted on 06/21/2020 1:42:12 PM PDT by Proud 2BeTexan
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To: Bryan24

Maybe the answer is to stay in your vehicle and calmly display a weapon?


13 posted on 06/21/2020 1:42:31 PM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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Hi.

I would be happy to explain to Hannah Allan why she is full of shit.

Pro bono.

5.56mm


14 posted on 06/21/2020 1:43:26 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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That’s more a case of self-defense by vehicle, since drivers know they’ll probably be beaten to death if the mob drags them from the car. So you either save yourself or you take as many with you as possible.


15 posted on 06/21/2020 1:45:55 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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NPR:
Antifa and BLM thugs and terrorists - “protesters”
Those resisting the terrorists and fighting back - “Right Wing Extremists”

Where did these so-called “journalists” go to school - Pravda or Chinese Communist Thought Police?


16 posted on 06/21/2020 1:46:42 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: JimRed

I know I would step on the gas if surrounded by a gang of vicious ferals.


17 posted on 06/21/2020 1:48:22 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: Jim W N

“ Where did these so-called “journalists” go to school?”

I don’t know, but the GOP didn’t defund NOR when the GOP controlled both houses of Congress

Thanks, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan


18 posted on 06/21/2020 1:48:55 PM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Vehicle attacks. Could be, but the videos I’ve seen look more like ordinary people trying to avoid being yanked out and beaten to death by moving forward. To avoid being struck by cars, don’t play in the street, don’t block the highways, and don’t threaten people who are just trying to get somewhere.


19 posted on 06/21/2020 1:50:11 PM PDT by Iowa Slim
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To: rintintin

Reginald Denney might disagree with this article


20 posted on 06/21/2020 1:51:41 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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