Three BLM protesters charged following confrontation with Pittsburgh diners

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Three Black Lives Matter protesters are facing charges for their alleged involvement in a confrontation with diners in Pittsburg, according to reports.

According to WPXI, charges were filed on Monday against Shawn Green, who goes by Lorenzo Rulli, as well as Kenneth McDowell and Monique ‘Nique’ Craft.

A number of videos of the alleged confrontation surfaced on social media showing protesters shouting at diners went viral. Craft took a drink from a patron and drank it, while another smashed a glass on a table, according to police.

Police said in the criminal complaint that the trio engaged in a course of disorderly conduct from the McDonald's at 500 Liberty Avenue to the Sienna Mercato restaurant on Penn Avenue, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/three-blm-protesters-charged-following-220410484.html

[cwydro]

1. Good. Those "protesters" were just assholes causing trouble.

The video shows pure bully behavior.

[orwell]

2. Violence is never an answer...

...no matter who does it or for what reason.

The only exception is using physical force to protect someone from immediate outside violence or self harm. Even then the force should be proportional to the situation.

Violence is the failure of reason...

[The Magistrate]

3. They Deserve It, Sir

This kind of thing is destructive. A grievance is not a license for criminal behavior.

[TheRealNorth]

4. I think one problem with BLM

is that you have some "activists" like these three that are associated with BLM, but there is no central leadership in BLM to denounce these type of tactics. Hence BLM gets associated with shit like this.

[Squinch]

5. They acted like assholes. This is appropriate.

[cwydro]

7. I'd actually not seen that video until yesterday.

Assholes and bullies.

We don't need people who act like that associated with us.

[Klaralven]

6. Smashing the glass on the table should be simple assault -up to two years and a fine of up to $5,000

"The defendant attempted to use physical menace to intimidate another person with imminent serious bodily injury;"

[flotsam]

8. "disorderly conduct from the McDonald's"

These were not some white elites at a fancy bistro. Rather they were whites most likely from the lower and working classes. It should have been their goal to enlist them in their cause. Instead they bullied and alienated them and made the movement look bad.