Protesters organize outside the French consulate in NYC to demand justice for Sarah Halimi, a victim of an anti semitic murder in France who’s perpetrator cannot be tried because he was psychotic from cannabis at the time according to French high courts
The @aclu has these hall monitors attend protests and photograph and identify reporters to each other and protesters
these "protest monitors" and others, like "legal observers" are supposed to be neutral observers on paper but in practice just harass press they don't like and work to assist protesters when they can
there's also something to be said about the type of person who would volunteer to be a protest monitor
Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement protesters geared up in Black Bloc take over NYC Streets carrying a “Death to America” and “Free All Prisoners” banners
Chants of “every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground”
Got accosted and chased by a few black bloc’d protesters, they only tried to kick punch and shove me when I turn my back
Some on-looking restaurant goer’s cleaning up after the protests mess
The largely anti gun media warned about white supremacists & violence at the Virginia Gun Rally in Richmond. I ask attendee's what they think of the medias coverage.
Man with "We Will Not Comply" sign says the media was using a straw man to ban guns from the rally
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This guns rights activist with a Gadsden flag says that the media is seeking to control the narrative and that they want to make money
"you don't make money by showing peaceful protests"
This lady says she's a proud Jewish mother who doesn't stand with white supremacists and that none of them were there
she says the media used the narrative to suppress turnout to the event