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Berkeley Mayor: We Should Classify Antifa ‘As A Gang’
KCBS ^ | August 28, 2017 | Staff

Posted on 08/29/2017 12:34:56 PM PDT by Trump20162020

BERKELEY (CBS SF) — Mayor of Berkeley Jesse Arreguin on Monday said it is time to confront the violent extremism on the left by treating black-clad Antifa protesters as a gang.

A large number of masked Antifa activists were seen jumping the barriers at a largely peaceful demonstration in Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Civic Center Park on Sunday.

Some began attacking Trump supporters at the rally.

“I think we should classify them as a gang,” said Arreguin. “They come dressed in uniforms. They have weapons, almost like a militia and I think we need to think about that in terms of our law enforcement approach.”

(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: antifa; antifagang; antifaviolence; arreguin; berkeley; berkeleymayor; criminalgang; gangcrime; gangs; jessearreguin
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To: Trump20162020

He’s talking out of his ass as he aint gonna do shit except require the cops to Stand Down!!!


21 posted on 08/29/2017 1:02:25 PM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Trump20162020

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/04/21/berkeley-mayor-is-member-of-antifa-facebook-group-that-organized-riots/

Breitbart says the mayor is part of the By Any Means Necessary facebook group. Maybe he’s just keeping tabs on them.


22 posted on 08/29/2017 1:08:51 PM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: AppyPappy

I doubt it. I think the Left is worried they’ve allowed a monster to start growing. The public sees Antifa for who and what they are.....and dims know it points to them.


23 posted on 08/29/2017 1:09:21 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: GSWarrior

He’s gone and smacked the tar ba.....tar paper.


24 posted on 08/29/2017 1:09:31 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Trump20162020

25 posted on 08/29/2017 1:24:56 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Trump20162020

So, the Antifa Insurrectionists were seen attacking peaceful demonstrators?


26 posted on 08/29/2017 1:33:45 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: Trump20162020

Is this the same mayor who is associated with By Any Means Necessary, which is just like antifa, just another name. Just yesterday he was urging that the Free Speech Week by cancelled, giving antifa a win without having to engage in as much mayhem as usual. I don’t believe anything this man says, he’s just trying to distance himself because he knows that the majority of people don’t like rioters and arsonists.


27 posted on 08/29/2017 1:39:18 PM PDT by euram
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To: MeganC

The left understands that they have gone way too far and that the silent majority is tired of all the BS. The left understands that the lies told by the FAKE NEWS Media are no longer getting any traction with the general public.

They are going to have to be much more careful now.


28 posted on 08/29/2017 1:43:55 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Trump20162020
The broken clock speaks!

Treat Antifa as a gang and charge the network under RICO.

I won't hold my breath. The AG and DOJ have no intention in stopping them,why should a Libtard Mayor. It's all talk.

29 posted on 08/29/2017 1:55:12 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Robert357

You can’t expect a rabid dog to act peacefully even when it’s in the dog’s best interest.

Likewise I expect the antifa scum not just to continue with their behavior but to escalate it.

I will be surprised if this year ends without the antifa scum killing people. They want blood so badly...so badly.

They won’t be satisfied until they kill someone and then they’ll want to do it again.

Because they’re rabid dogs and that’s what rabid dogs do.


30 posted on 08/29/2017 2:09:17 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: Trump20162020
No, Antifa should be an officially recognized terrorist organization.

Formally recognize AntiFa as a terrorist organization White House petition

31 posted on 08/29/2017 2:22:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Trump20162020

This is a start, at least, in labeling the Antifa gang as domestic terrorists.

Oh, and their uniforms are not like Militia uniforms, except that they are similar in appearance to each other. They don’t resemble a militia at all. Militias tend to be organized and disciplined with a chain of command.

Antifa on the other hand is nothing more than a ragged band of loser low life’s who hate their lives and want to make others as miserable as they are. In other words; a typical far leftist commie.

Not once have I ever heard of militia members take a plastic water bottle of piss to a protest to pour on their adversaries. Not once. They don’t fling their own shit at people like monkey’s and Antifa does either.


32 posted on 08/29/2017 2:23:16 PM PDT by Boomer (Have RINO republican pols been radicalized somehow?)
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To: Arm_Bears

>>AntiFa shenanigans must be polling poorly for the DIMS.<<

Bingo! And this is one of the first Dem leaders to get a clue. More to follow, but too late. By then there will be plenty of GOP campaign commericals in the can.


33 posted on 08/29/2017 2:59:58 PM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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To: ealgeone

>>The public sees Antifa for who and what they are....<<j

Actually, that process is just now getting started. I asked five people two weeks ago, people who are generally informed, and none could identify what antifa was.

And remember, the mainstream press is still not willing to call antifa out for its actions so everyone getting their news from them is still likely to be ignorant. Not to mention all the people who pay no attention to news generally.

Try a little survey of your own. It will be revealing, especially if you ask people who aren’t watching Fox part of the day.


34 posted on 08/29/2017 3:03:22 PM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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To: Trump20162020

We should classify the Berzerkly mayor as a drooling idiot while we are at it.


35 posted on 08/29/2017 3:09:23 PM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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To: ealgeone

Soon the public may actually realize what these black clad, masked, armed with poles and shields AntiFA (anti-First Amendment) look like and are doing. The leftist press will then want to say that they are a tiny fringe group and not representative of loving (/s) Democrats. This would be after two years of almost all violence at rallies coming from Dem supporters.


36 posted on 08/29/2017 3:24:22 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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To: MeganC

I bet this guy is absolutely petrified at the thought of what is going to happen during Free Speech Week next month. He’s also a complete fool if he thinks he can put the Antifa demon back in the bottle at this point. Especially since he’s the one who let it out to begin with.


37 posted on 08/29/2017 4:06:04 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: Trump20162020

Well whatever for? They were just continuing their tradition of “peaceful anti-racism” as described by the mainstream media, Democrats, and Mitt Romney.


38 posted on 08/29/2017 4:11:55 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: MplsSteve

“Wow, a moment of clarity and truth from a liberal Democrat!”

not exactly.

leftist Dems are totally panicked about the major negative impact that the vids of these violent and avowedly anti-USA anarchists are going to have on their electoral prospects.

word has gone out this week on the leftist tom-tom network to condemn these thugs, and more importantly, to signal their financial backers to back off. there’s been a series of articles from major leftist “news” sources in the last week with headlines like “Antifa Anarachists Attack Peaceful Right-Wing Demonstrators”.

WaPo just had an article like that as did the San Fran Chronic, and I’m sure many others.

And now these crocodile tears from the guy who ordered his police to stand down and LET the terrorists jump the barriers.

this is not out of the goodness of these peoples’ hearts, folks: they’ve been told to shut this down for political reasons.


39 posted on 08/29/2017 4:17:56 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: jacknhoo
Gangs have turf, deal drugs, etc. Terrorists have political ojectives. AntiFa are terrorists.

Good point.

40 posted on 08/29/2017 5:12:58 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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