Raleigh "3" Arrested: "GOP Headquarters Vandalized" (Anarchists)

[KoKo]

GOP headquarters vandalized
Three are arrested after protesters break windows, spray-paint slogans, burn an effigy

RALEIGH -- Vandals attacked the state Republican Party headquarters late Friday, leaving behind broken windows, kerosene-soaked rags, vulgar slogans and a charred effigy.

Three protesters were arrested and charged in connection with the damage and attempted arson.

The two-headed burned effigy apparently depicted Republican President George W. Bush and the Democratic challenger he defeated in last week's election, U.S. Sen. John Kerry.

Commotion erupted in two spots on Hillsborough Street shortly after 11 p.m. One group of 100 people blocked the road across from the N.C. State University Bell Tower while another 100 gathered at the Republican Party building.

As officers responded to the illegal demonstration in the street, they passed the group vandalizing the North Carolina Republican Party headquarters at 1506 Hillsborough St.

Raleigh police Maj. Dennis Lane could not say whether the two events were related.

When police arrived, both groups scattered. Many of those at the party headquarters fled into the Cameron Park neighborhood, a collection of leaf-lined streets and bungalows.

Police caught none of the protesters from either demonstration.

But two neighbors did.

Hearing a commotion, John Robbins and a neighbor captured and detained three protesters until police arrived.

"I found them between the garages taking off their black clothes," Robbins said, adding that one of the female protesters bit him on the shoulder.

"They were saying they didn't hurt anybody, but my thing for going out there was to hold them responsible for the damage they had done," he said. "Doing this sort of thing just isn't right."

Vanessa Marie Zuloaga, 24, and Melissa Lynn Brown, 18, both of Columbia, S.C., and David Reuben Hensley, 20, of Raleigh were each charged with one count of causing malicious damage to property by use of an incendiary device, a felony. All three remained in the Wake County jail late Saturday, each being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

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[FlashHarry]

1. Probably Rove operatives. COINTELPRO

If not, this really, really embarrasses our side.

For years, we've been painted as tree-spiking, communist radicals, when we're actually patriotic Americans who realize that the current administration's far-right policies represent a clear and present danger to the future of this country.

[Old and In the Way]

2. I wonder who John Robbins is?

And the 3 protestors.....

"my thing for going out there was to hold them responsible for the damage they had done,"

Yeah, John, that's what we've been trying to do for 4 years....

[UL_Approved]

3. Its beginning

We know that the anarchist image this portrays is horrible and degrades the Democratic party, but is this really out of line when we have massive voter fraud? Stolen elections? It has been amazing that more of this hasn't happened in the past four years. This is probably the beginning of many more incidents like this.

[KoKo]

7. They burned an effigy of Kerry and Bush...don't think they identify with

Democrats. It was a "two faced" effigy.

[RoyGBiv]

4. Anarchist, eh?

Welcome to 1920.

[KoKo]

6. Yes....they sprayed an emblem on an ATM machine. They have their

own emblem.

[KoKo]

5. We think they were at the Sinclair Stations protest in Raleigh....they

might be real and not Rove...

My husband reconized one of them... They also sprayed a Bank of America ATM Machine. They may be part of the WTO Protestors Movement. :shrug: