Why do BLM activists
get a pass on violence?
President Trump was condemned by the media for condemning the "egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides" in Charlottesville, Va. They portrayed the conflict as a white supremacist rampage, but raw YouTube video tells a different story than the edited footage on the evening news.
In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Wu
J0BK8SA, protesters are surrounded by angry "counterprotesters" carrying Black Lives Matter signs from New York, waving BLM flags, and brandishing wood clubs. They hurl insults, rocks, bottles, and tear gas at the protesters who try to protect themselves with helmets and shields. Police in riot gear stand by and don't try to keep the "counterprotesters" away from the group, which retreats up a set of steps from the sidewalk.
In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcPi
HEZqVxQ, the angry crowd follows the protesters still shouting. Several shoving matches break out and a large white bearded man steps in to separate the shovers and maintain a separation between the groups. Someone in the counterprotesters hurls a heavy metal vending box at the protesters, who then descend the steps to the sidewalk. Several fist fights break out. The police finally come in to disperse the crowd.
So a pre-planned rally with a valid permit to protest the city's vote to sell a Lee statue given to the city in 1924 was disrupted by a gang of BLM folks from New York and was declared an "unlawful assembly" by Virginia's governor half an hour before it was scheduled to begin, and he blames the rally participants for the violence. In the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the governor defended police for failing to keep the "counterprotesters" separated from the group because, "80 percent of the people here had semi-automatic weapons" and "you would have thought they were an army" and yet not a shot was fired even when the protesters came under a barrage of objects hurled by the peaceful counterprotesters.
The protesters left at noon but the counterprotesters remained. Two hours later a young man drove his car into a group of counterprotesters still in the street and five hours later a police helicopter crashed. The governor blamed both events on the protesters even though they were gone when they occurred. He said, "they need to leave America, because they are not Americans." On Sunday when rally organizer Jason Kessler tried to hold a news conference, a man rushed the microphone and punched him in the face. A video showed someone else tackling him to the ground as he tried to get away. The Democrat-Gazette said the police briefly detained the man who punched Kessler, but the man was not arrested.
When did we reach the point where a BLM gang gets a free pass for racism and violence while anyone who disagrees with them gets stripped of their right to protest? I'm glad I took photos of the 1908 monument to Southern soldiers in the Bentonville town square Saturday because on Sunday crazies from Eureka Springs held a rally there calling for it to be demolished.
Phil Warner
Garfield
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JUST IN: God will be making a brief (two to three minutes) statement regarding the presidency of Donald J. Trump.
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Dan Phillips
Centerton
Commentary on 08/19/2017