THREAD: Yesterday following a pro-Trump/anti-lockdown protest in Salem, OR, riot police fired sting balls at conservatives and Proud Boys who refused to step back while trying to confront counter-protesters.
In the moments before the sting-ball incident, portions of the right-wing crowd including Proud Boys came across a group of counter-protesters they identified as "antifa" and began chanting "Fuck antifa!" before police stepped in between.
Folks on the right got particularly agitated as two of the BLM counter-protesters made their way around the police line, one with a paintball gun and one with a firearm.
"What the fuck is going on?" asked one.
"Remove this man right now!" he ordered cops, who didn't listen.
Police charged at the right-wingers as a fight seemingly broke out in the distance.
Officers deployed tear gas and at least one flash grenade, and made a single arrest of a right-winger toward the end of this clip.
"Just tell them we're antifa and they'll give us a handjob!" yelled a conservative angry that one of his comrades was being arrested.
Police continued pushing forward against the right, using sting balls and tear gas.
"No more backing the blue!" one yelled at them.
"Fuck the blue!"
Originally, this sweatshirt reading "Back the blue PDX" with a thin blue line was brought in support of officers by the right.
By the end of the rally in Salem, Oregon, they were trying to burn it.
As the police dispersed, the right wingers took turns stepping on the thin blue line flag they had originally brought to support the cops.
"You have been declared to be treasonists," one yelled at officers leaving. "Only one punishment for treason."
"Fuck the blue!"
Earlier in the day, Trump supporters, Proud Boys and conservatives - some armed - had begun their rally at the state capitol in Salem, Oregon.
They spoke about preparing for "war" and how they were there to support Trump and oppose "Kate Brown's tyrannical emergency law."
The group marched in pouring rain to Gov. Kate Brown's mansion where they held more speeches:
"Even if there was a pandemic, one that was dangerous and spreading uncontrolled, no government body has the power to destroy our way of life by their order!"
Riot police came to protect the Governor's mansion, but violence didn't break out there.
"We will stand strong for our President Donald J Trump and we will not cower and back down to the hypocrites and tyranny of this pathetic lie!" one speaker said.
"End the lockdowns now!"
Here is the full @N2Sreports video summary of the violent face-off that occurred between right-wingers and the police yesterday afternoon.
As always, all footage available to license. Contact me to inquire.
Here is the full @N2Sreports video summary of the anti-lockdown/pro-Trump protest that occurred at the capitol and governor's mansion in Salem, OR ahead of the riot munitions incident.
Pro-@wikileaks activists gathered this afternoon in front of the British Embassy in Washington DC to protest extradition hearings being held in the case of #JulianAssange.
"Free, free, Julian Assange!" they chanted. "There's only one decision, no extradition!"
"What do we want? Free Assange! When do we want it? Now!"
@LeeCamp led chants outside the British embassy before telling the crowd Julian Assange "set an amazing example of courage" and is dangerous to those in power.
A lot of left activists spent their time criticizing the Democrats on the issue of Julian Assange, especially those framed as progressive.
@AOC was criticized for saying she'd have to "think" about whether or not Assange should be freed.
“A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year's coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble,’ her lawyer said.” reuters.com/article/us-hea…
“On March 7, when Wuhan’s top Communist Party official said residents should undergo ‘gratitude education’ to thank the government for its anti-epidemic efforts, Ms. Zhang walked through the streets, asking passers-by if they felt grateful.”
“‘But as someone who cares about the truth in this country, we have to say that if we just wallow in our sadness and don’t do something to change this reality, then our emotions are cheap,’ Ms. Zhang said.
THREAD: I have discovered something online that *could* be relevant to the Nashville explosion, but I want to be extremely clear that I don't know what - if anything - to infer from it.
I'm hoping appropriate experts and authorities can take a look.
A video on Youtube has gone viral showing the scene of the explosion.
The account that posted it is called "S McG" and has no bio or info, and has never posted until today since joining in 2014.
I have obtained exclusive new video of the December 22nd arrest of Eric Braden, who participated in a maskless protest at the North Star Mall in San Antonio Texas against pandemic restrictions.
”I’m a disabled veteran of the United States Army," Braden could be heard shouting.
Additional footage shows that at least 50 participants marched into the mall to participate.
While they all were in violation of the mask requirement, only Eric Braden - who is also a frequent participant in militia activity across southern states - was arrested.
The rest left.
"Braden was arrested and charged with criminal trespass-private property. SAPD says he was taken to University Hospital by EMS 'with complaints of a pre-existing back injury.'"
Here we have a perfect example for people to watch the proliferation of fake news in real time.
Not only does this individual have no source or ostensible access to Trump, but Kyle Rittenhouse is charged in state court, not federal, where Trump does not have pardon power.
At most theoretically, Trump could try to offer some sort of preemptive federal pardon to Rittenhouse to prevent Biden’s DOJ from charging him with a federal crime, but that’s on the margins of legality and clearly this random person on Twitter would not be privy to that info.
For the record, the individual who tweeted “BREAKING: Donald Trump plans on granting a full pardon to the Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse.” now says it was a “joke.”