[ April 20, 2024 ]
A group of far leftists assaulted President Donald Trump supporters during a rally at Berkeley that would have gone forward peaceably — save for the antifa incursion.
Police detained for a time Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson after he was chased by a mob of thugs who pepper sprayed him, the local KCRA reported.
And then the scene got really chaotic.
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PJ Media has the news:
According San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lizzie Johnson, police say Gibson wasn’t arrested but was rescued from the violent mob.
Via the SF Chronicle:
3:03 p.m. Joey Gibson “rescued”: Police officials said the detaining of Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson was actually a “rescue.” Gibson was placed in handcuffs after being chased, hit and pepper-sprayed by a mob of black-clad demonstrators. He was not arrested or charged.
This video shot by Reveal’s Al Letson shows Joey Gibson being chased by the mob and pepper sprayed at the Berkeley protest.
Other unfortunate people were also chased down and/or beaten by the left-wing mob. One poor man had urine poured in his face.
Urine in his face. Unbelievable.
https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/901915055213625344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Ftrending%2F2017%2F08%2F27%2Fviolent-mob-attacks-trump-supporters-berkeley-patriot-prayer-leader-rescued-police%2F
Here’s another:
https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/901910682030882816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Ftrending%2F2017%2F08%2F27%2Fviolent-mob-attacks-trump-supporters-berkeley-patriot-prayer-leader-rescued-police%2F
And another:
#ANTIFA TERRORISTS
Beat a man
Shove him to the ground
Throw urine in his facehttps://t.co/c5kisDiAn8#MAGA #Berkeley #BerkeleyProtest
— Boca Vista (@bocavista2016) August 27, 2017
More from PJ Media:
Thousands of left-wing activists — including Black Lives Matter and Antifa — marched from the UC Berkeley campus to Civic Center Park Sunday morning for a “Bay Area Rally Against Hate” to counter-protest two conservative rallies that had been planned in the San Francisco area.
Both conservative rallies were canceled out of concern for the safety of participants. A “No to Marxism in America” rally in Berkeley was cancelled Friday evening by sponsor Amber Cummings, who told a San Francisco Chronicle reporter that the threat of violence gave her “grave concerns for the safety of the people attending my event.”
In a lengthy statement on Facebook, Cummings said the purpose of her rally was “to speak out against the political violence happening to people who do not agree” with left-wing ideology, and that the meaning was being lost as rhetoric around the rally escalated. However, she said she “alone” would still show up Sunday.
Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson also canceled his San Francisco “Freedom Rally,” citing concern for his group’s safety after CA. Rep Nancy Pelosi smeared his event, calling it a white supremacist rally. He made the announcement in a Facebook video Friday afternoon.
“We’ve decided that tomorrow really seems like a set-up, it doesn’t seem safe,” Gibson said, blaming what he called “rhetoric” from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and others who have called the event a white supremacist rally.
“We’re not going to go down there. We’re not going to have a rally at Crissy Field,” Gibson said.Gibson, however, told the SF Chronicle that he would be “dropping in an out of downtown Berkeley all day in hopes of talking to normal people.”
The counter-protesters, meanwhile, said in a statement early Sunday that “we fully intend to move forward with (the Rally Against Hate)” on the university campus despite calls by the university police department for people to stay away for safety reasons.
A handful of Trump supporters also decided to show up.
Police broke up a heated verbal altercation between a man wearing a red “Make America Great Again” and another man who was in his face. The two men were surrounded by members of the media and citizens recording the spat on cameras and smart phones.
Arthur Schaller of Torrance (Los Angeles County) stood in the fray with a white Trump flag around his shoulders. He handed out businesses cards printed with the American flag.
“This is a movement bigger than Joey Gibson,” he said, referencing the organizer behind a planned rally the day before in San Francisco. “This state is a beautiful state. We just have bad people running it. We need to expose that hatred in the left. All I want is for liberals and Trump supporters to show up and talk today.”
Make no mistake: by rallying against “hate,” these left-wing agitators meant to hatefully and violently confront decent people who want to promote free speech and oppose communism.
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11 Comments
6 years ago
Threat to subvert free speech event ? why are the antifa/BLM funders not charged for it ? why are these savages not getting arrested and charged for assault and rioting ?
Left/Liberal/feminazis will impose sharia everywhere if there is no resistance to such stupidity. Just like they banning a Model on Instagram for being too hot and sexy http://bit.ly/2v09Kyv
CAN IT get more Ridiculous ?
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
The police have “stood down” several times at different marches and allowed these sorry basts to beat people to a pulp.
6 years ago
Violent Antifa brown shirts are an Alt-Left group of thugs that RINOs like little Marco Rubio have yet to condemn. These are the foot soldiers of the enemedia. Worse than any Alt-Right group I’ve seen.
6 years ago
“Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson also canceled his San Francisco
“Freedom Rally,” citing concern for his group’s safety after CA. Rep
Nancy Pelosi smeared his event, calling it a white supremacist rally” This is how deep the lies are about people on the right. Very interesting how, Pelosi was immediately the go-to person for a comment. Like it was almost planned that way.
6 years ago
The Dreadful Has Already Happened
While all eyes were fixed on the burly dictator in Pyongyang, hardly anyone noticed that North Korea and Iran this week signed a series of new military accords which are no less dangerous to world peace.
Parliament Speaker Kim Yong Nam, who is rated No. 2 in the Kim regime, ended a 10-day visit to Tehran on Monday, Aug. 7 by inking the new agreements. His official errand in Tehran was to represent Pyongyang at the swearing-in ceremony of President Hassan Rouhani and inaugurate the new North Korean embassy building in the Iranian capital. But he came with a large delegation of North Korean military officers who spent hours in conference with the heads of Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, as well as the leaders of the powerful Revolutionary Guards.
The precise details of Pyongyang’s continued contribution to the upgrade of Iran’s technology in those areas under close wraps. But for Kim, the important thing is Iran’s multibillion dollar investment in the partnership in return in return for allowing Iranian engineers and scientists to work alongside North Korean experts in the two fields.
The irony is that, while the Security Council unanimouslyy approved tough economic sanctions estimated to cost North Korea an estimated $1bn in state revenue – for which President Trump praised the world powers – Kim has managed to lay his hands on enough cash from Tehran to keep his nuclear and missile programs moving apace. Some of that cash comes from the sanction relief the Americans and Europeans granted Iran for signing its 2015 nuclear deal.
http://debka.com/article/26175/North-Korea-at-nuclear-threshold-What-about-Iran-
6 years ago
Are police across the country so stupid, that a few can’t go online, create a social media account that in no way traces back to them, and condemn/publically embarrass their top brass/mayors/governors for being cowardly and ordering stand-downs in order to ensure violence against the right?
Especially BEFORE an event?
D
6 years ago
Biohazards.
6 years ago
Then go after the Soros funded groups who hire and manage this scum. Trump needs to put out an arrest warrant on Soros for sedition. Several other countries have already done so.
D
6 years ago
So the Nazis at BLM and ANTIFA won the day. Your day is coming you fascists bastards, the sooner the better
Just as Hitler, Stalin and Mao did in the past you are following they play books to the letter.
6 years ago
Reply to
joc22
joc22
No, they lost. BLM comes and goes sporadically, depending on Soros funding [$25/hr]. Antifa is so systematically, and psychotically violent, they are poisoning public opinion against the authoritarian socialist Dems. I think it’s too late for the Dems to disavow responsibility for the Antifa. The Dems will take a terrible beating in all upcoming elections. The most powerful voting bloc are the independents.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
We can only hope, the Conservative and libertarian people in the US have to get out and vote in these midterms
