Scattered fistfights break out at pro-Trump rally in Berkeley
Source: SF Chronicle
A Berkeley rally by supporters of President Trump turned violent Saturday afternoon as fistfights broke out between marchers and counter protesters, with crowds of masked anarchists joining the fray.
The rally began at 2 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park less than a mile from the UC Berkeley campus where weeks ago violence broke out against a planned but later canceled appearance by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
But fighting started even before the event began, with people throwing punches and tossing blue smoke bombs. While hundreds of people filled the park, it wasnt immediately clear how many Trump supporters were mixed in with the anarchists and counter demonstrators.
But by 3 p.m., the self-proclaimed anarchists seemed to dominate the crowd. Dressed all in black and wearing cloth masks over their faces, they stopped traffic as they marched from the park through downtown toward UC Berkeley with the smaller mix of Trump supporters and counter protesters.
Read more: http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Scattered-fist-fights-break-out-at-pro-Trump-10977508.php
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Can't somebody grab one and find out?
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Still don't agree with their tactics.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)and they insisted that they were "anti-capitalists". To each his own and agree that their tactics actually don't touch the people they are railing against but innocents.
easttexaslefty
(1,554 posts)Thanks
zentrum
(9,865 posts)....a few Black kids in hoodies you can damn well be sure they'd be grabbed, slammed to the ground, handcuffed, arrested.
It's really odd that none of these guys ever gets arrested.
Yupster
(14,308 posts)every time they show up peaceful protests turn violent.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)They are just making trouble for the sake of making trouble. Taking over peaceful demonstrations is not acceptable. They are anti-democratic (little d).
If you ever find your self in a fight with one, rip off their masks, pull off their shirts. Use any means to remove their anonymity and make each one identifiable.
Tag them with tenacious but washable fluorescent spray paint. Different color combos for each one so that the police can go after the meanest most violent ones.
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)Hekate
(90,686 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)Quixote1818
(28,936 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)I'm supposed to be shocked or care? Nope. This cancer is just starting, it will metastasize....
doc03
(35,337 posts)that said Trump Nazies Fuck Off. That takes guts with all the gun toters here.
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)...bring ppl together. dRump is NO LEADER.
Initech
(100,076 posts)There were hundreds of thousands of people at the women's march in similar cities - and no one got arrested. At their rallies, 100 people show up and 5 get arrested. Gee, whose side would win?
sysops666
(2 posts)Last edited Sun Mar 5, 2017, 06:01 PM - Edit history (1)
The logistics of a civil war intrigues me.
Initech
(100,076 posts)juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)and in the article they site a few hundred here and a hundred there.
That's hardly thousands. Are they doing headlines like trump's tweets?
Anyway, to the trump supporters at the rally all i can say is "you stupid people"
That's all.