Threats to those after Trump attacks them

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Do ad links to your allegations. It is always more interesting to read what happened at the time they happened.

Google it bra.

There's actual video of the deranged Democrat setting the Trump supporter's hair on fire.

The victim's crime?

She was being polite and decent to a Democrat.

The only thing more disturbing than this psychopathic behavior?

Watching Democrats justify it.

Democrats: Deranged sadists

 

[MinTrut]

As I said before, I am TOTALLY against threats and violence from any side.

Hence your starting a thread calling out Trump?

This rather than condemning all such behavior, especially since it's MUCH more prevalent among deranged/sadistic Democrats/liberals.

Your partisan hivemind is showing.

 

[MinTrut]

[ Early in the Trump administration ]

WHEN TEXAS PHOTOJOURNALIST Alexei Wood goes to court in Washington, D.C., on November 15, he’ll be one of the first people to face charges stemming from protests around the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Wood and five others are being charged for their alleged involvement in what prosecutors are describing as a riot on the morning of January 20, hours before Trump was sworn in at on the Capitol steps. All nine defendants face up to 70 years in prison.

The case’s outcome could set a precedent that would affect all of the over 200 remaining defendants awaiting trial for the “J20″ protests who face the same strict maximum sentence.

“The government doesn’t like this kind of activity in its city,” said Wood’s lawyer, Brett Cohen.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia did not respond to requests for comment, but information gleaned from the April 27 indictment indicates the sort of tactics the government will use against the defendants, who will be tried in staggered groups of around eight beginning November 15.

By charging everyone together with conspiracy counts, the government seems intent on making an example of the J20 protesters. “They’re prosecuting us as a group,” Wood said.

The government may attempt to force members of the same defense into a situation in which their aims conflict with one another. “Defendants have to be careful, regardless of how they feel about particular parts of the indictments, that the prosecution’s case not hurt their fellow co-defendants,” said Sam Menefee-Libey, spokesperson for the Dead City Legal Posse, a support network for J20 arrestees that provides housing, court support, and other services to assist in their navigation of the capital’s judicial system.

The conflation of the protesters as a whole with the alleged violent acts of a few in the crowd is worrying to Menefee-Libby. It would be a “radical departure” from a basic understanding of the law, Menefee-Libby said, if the government prosecutes people solely for their proximity to criminality. “Individuals can only be held responsible for their own behavior,” said Menefee-Libby, describing a fundamental tenet of the U.S. justice system.

That the government’s case does not differentiate between actors and bystanders could be an indication of future clampdowns on protest. “Even if we take the government at their word, that members of the protest had unlawful goals,” said attorney Shana Knizhnik, of the American Civil Liberties Union’s D.C. chapter, “it’s undeniable they also had lawful goals.”

THE LAWFUL AIM of the January 20 protesters was to exercise their First Amendment right to express dissatisfaction with the incoming Trump administration. With Trump’s standing as the most unpopular incoming president in at least 40 years, it was unsurprising that the inauguration would be met with demonstrations.

Wood went to Washington to document that discontent, he told The Intercept. A full-time freelance photojournalist for the past three years, Wood’s work has a focus on resistance movements. He left his home in San Antonio, Texas, to travel to Washington and report on events around the inauguration. “I was there to document whatever happened,” Wood said, adding that he had no idea of any planned actions. Wood livestreamed the protests on his phone and recorded them on a separate video camera.

The situation quickly turned chaotic. Some members of the protest crowd adopted black bloc tactics, hiding their identities and taking part in minor property destruction. “There were windows breaking, chemicals in the air,” said Alex Stokes, another journalist who was arrested on the January 20, though the charges against him were later dropped. “The cops didn’t seem to have any control over the situation.”

The Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement it could not offer comment on the specifics of pending litigation, but noted that there were “individuals who chose to engage in criminal acts, destroying property and hurling projectiles, injuring at least six officers.” The police added, “As with any pending criminal or civil matter, we will continue to support and respect the formal legal process. Moreover, all instances of use of force by officers and allegations of misconduct will be fully investigated.”

On Inauguration Day, the march moved through the city “with no real coordination,” said Stokes until demonstrators arrived at the intersection of L and 12th streets. The police then used a tactic known as kettling to trap the protesters in advance of their arrest. “The cops blocked one end of the street and then followed us in from the other side,” said Stokes.

Stokes and Wood said hundreds of protesters — including journalists and legal observers — were caught in the kettle. “It was indiscriminate,” said Wood. A group of around 100 made a break for it and escaped, but the remaining group of over 230 were all arrested and locked up through the weekend. “Journalists, lawyers, the average protester: Those are the people they kettled, arrested, and charged with felony riot,” said Stokes. (Another journalist who faces charges, Aaron Cantú, has contributed to The Intercept, though he was not on assignment for the website on January 20.)

The felony charge came after 36 hours in lockup, said Wood. He added that, while detained, he heard that the government had a list of misdemeanors with which the protesters were going to be charged. While in custody, however, Wood was charged with a felony. Three months later, on April 27, a grand jury handed down a new indictment that added 13 additional counts.

(full article online)

Hundreds Face Conspiracy Charges For Actions Of A Few During Inauguration Day Protests

Journalists, lawyers, and demonstrators alike were charged with conspiracy felonies for the "J20" protest of Donald Trump's Inauguration Day.

theintercept.com

So when Democrat rioters set someone on fire, it's all a conspiracy when a few of the hundreds of wannabe Gestapo goons are held accountable?

Put down the Kool-aid bra - your hivemind hypocrisy is off the charts.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Google it bra.

There's actual video of the deranged Democrat setting the Trump supporter's hair on fire.

The victim's crime?

She was being polite and decent to a Democrat.

The only thing more disturbing than this psychopathic behavior?

Watching Democrats justify it.

Democrats: Deranged sadists

A gullible Trump supporter, bro.

On 20 January 2017, a video showing an anti-Trump protester lighting a Trump supporter’s hair on fire was published to YouTube:



Although the text displayed at the start of the video stated that the incident occurred on 20 January 2017 at an Inauguration Day protest, the video was frequently shared

on social media along with the false claim that it took place at the Women’s March on Washington event the following day:

https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2017/01/womens-march.jpg

At normal viewing speed it’s difficult to tell what happens in the video other than that smoke is suddenly seen curling up from a young woman’s hair, but a slowed down close-up of the video shows a hand clutching a cigarette lighter reaching out towards the woman’s locks.

President Trump’s inauguration was marred by violent protests that led to approximately 230 arrests. The Women’s March on Washington held the following day, on the other hand, was a largely peaceful event that reportedly yielded zero arrests.

A woman identifying herself as Mackenzie Ullom, the Trump supporter in the red hat captured in the video, added some context to the scene in the comments section of YouTube:

I am the girl in this video wearing the red hat, and the girl who was lit aflame is a close friend of mine. I witnessed this entire event unfold. before this video was taken me and my friend were going back and forth with the protesters, all peacefully albeit a few crude gestures aimed at us. The fact that this woman had enough anger towards people with beliefs different than hers that she would go so far as to light them on fire is disgusting. To assault another human while forcefully preaching “love” and “tolerance” is unadulterated hypocrisy. We are doing everything in our power to find the woman responsible. Make America great again.

The video ended with apologies from the protesting group:

I’m extremely sorry. Like, that’s f*cking horrible. Nobody deserves that.

Protester Sets Trump Supporter's Hair on Fire

A video captures an anti-Trump protester setting a Trump supporter's hair on fire with a lighter.

www.snopes.com

Anti Trump apologize for one of theirs actions.

Pro Trump........how many have apologized?
Some for J6. And for thinking that the election was stolen.

It is good when both sides know what is wrong and what is right. Right, bro?

 

[Sixties Fan]

The resignations have more broadly made the county of roughly 27,000 residents — which overwhelmingly backed former President Donald Trump in 2020 — an extraordinary example of the fallout resulting from threats to election officials. Officials and voting experts worry that a new wave of harassment or worse will return in November, fueled by false claims of widespread fraud.

Hamilton, who has clashed with poll watchers in Gillespie County in past elections, said he didn’t want to go through it again.

“That’s the one thing we can’t understand. Their candidate won, heavily,” Hamilton said. “But there’s fraud here?”

He declined to discuss the nature of the threats in a phone interview, referring questions to the county attorney, who did not respond to a phone message. Gillespie County Sheriff Buddy Mills said neither his department nor police in Fredericksburg had received information about threats from elections officials.

Hamilton worked under Anissa Herrera, the former county elections administrator whose resignation was first reported by the Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post. “I was threatened, I’ve been stalked, I’ve been called out on social media,” she told the outlet. “And it’s just dangerous misinformation.”

The departures pile on the examples across the U.S. of how death threats, harassment and unfounded accusations have driven local election officials from their jobs. Citing the potential effect on democracy, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force last year to address rising threats against election officials.

They are familiar to many election workers in Texas, which has been at the vanguard of a Republican campaign nationwide to tighten election laws in response to Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged. Supporters are easy to find in Gillespie County, a popular getaway to booming vineyards and vacation rentals in the scenic Texas Hill Country, which is a short day trip from the state’s liberal capital in Austin but separated by a gulf politically. In 2020, Trump won the county with nearly 80 percent of the vote.

But the resignations surprised Mo Saiidi, chairman of the Gillespie County GOP, who said recent elections had run smoothly. Hamilton said run-ins with poll watchers traced back to 2020 but said other issues weighed on the office, including what he contended was was a lack of support from the county. He also recently decided to run as a write-in candidate for county treasurer, which he said required him to step down.

Saiidi believes funding played a role. “They had some differences and they couldn’t come to a closure, and they decided in frustration to just quit,” said Saiidi, who also serves on the county’s election commission.

WATCH: Expert fears partisan actors may replace election workers who quit over threats

A survey released in March by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law found that one in three election officials knows someone who has left a job in part because of threats and intimidation, and that one in six had experienced threats personally.

In Texas alone, at least 37 election administrators since the 2020 election have left what were previously stable positions, said Trudy Hancock, president of the Texas Association of Elections Administrators, citing a presentation she had seen. There are 254 counties in Texas, not all of which have dedicated election administration offices.

Threats are not all that’s making the job tougher in Texas. A sweeping new voting law gives wide latitude to partisan poll watchers and threatens election workers with criminal charges for denying them access. The same law put new restrictions on mail voting but made a messy debut during Texas’ first-in-the-nation primary in March, when more 23,000 mail ballots were discarded outright as voters struggled to navigate the new rules.

It underscores the challenges a new staff will face getting up to speed under a time crunch. For now, Saiidi said the county clerk and tax assessor have been discussed as possible fills-in.

Hancock, who is also the elections administrator in Brazos County, said her workers could previously take angry calls as voters blowing off steam. “But in this climate and the things that go on now, we have to take everything serious and at face value,” she said.

Less than 24 hours after the office in Gillespie County officially cleared out, the resignations were front of mind at a pavilion in Fredericksburg, where Democrat Beto O’Rourke had swung through in his campaign to unseat Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

Roger Norman, 60, felt the election was still in good hands but called threats a pattern of intimidation. Outside, at a counter rally of Trump supporters, welder Abel Salazar said he had no concerns with elections in the heavily conservative county and that interest in poll watching was high.

“There are a lot of people that have been volunteering,” Salazar, 53, said.

Hamilton said deadlines in his old office are already creeping up.

“They didn’t think we did anything,” he said. “Now they get to see what we did.”


(full article online )

Election workers abruptly quit, upending rural Texas county

The entire elections staff in a rural Texas county has quit less than three months before November's midterm elections. Two full-time elections workers in Gillespie County say threats and harassment drove them out of the job.

www.pbs.org

 

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A gullible Trump supporter, bro.

On 20 January 2017, a video showing an anti-Trump protester lighting a Trump supporter’s hair on fire was published to YouTube:



Although the text displayed at the start of the video stated that the incident occurred on 20 January 2017 at an Inauguration Day protest, the video was frequently shared

on social media along with the false claim that it took place at the Women’s March on Washington event the following day:

https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2017/01/womens-march.jpg

At normal viewing speed it’s difficult to tell what happens in the video other than that smoke is suddenly seen curling up from a young woman’s hair, but a slowed down close-up of the video shows a hand clutching a cigarette lighter reaching out towards the woman’s locks.

President Trump’s inauguration was marred by violent protests that led to approximately 230 arrests. The Women’s March on Washington held the following day, on the other hand, was a largely peaceful event that reportedly yielded zero arrests.

A woman identifying herself as Mackenzie Ullom, the Trump supporter in the red hat captured in the video, added some context to the scene in the comments section of YouTube:


The video ended with apologies from the protesting group:

Protester Sets Trump Supporter's Hair on Fire

A video captures an anti-Trump protester setting a Trump supporter's hair on fire with a lighter.

www.snopes.com

Anti Trump apologize for one of theirs actions.

Pro Trump........how many have apologized?
Some for J6. And for thinking that the election was stolen.

It is good when both sides know what is wrong and what is right. Right, bro?

You're so far down the rabbit hole of your deranged double-standards & hypocrisy that you're essentially unreachable, but for anyone reading on...

1) Did any Trump supporter set any Biden supporter on fire in 2020, and thus make an apology necessary?

2) Was the deranged Democrat who set the Trump supporter on fire ever identified by one of her fellow Democrats, or are they still covering for her?

3) When setting others on fire, is an apology all it takes to make things right again?

Bonus question:

4) Do you genuinely not see how defective & Nazi-like your thinking is, or are you trolling?

 

[Sixties Fan]

 

[bripat9643]

This is who and what conservatives are: violent, lawless, terrorists.

The search of Trump’s property was perfectly appropriate, lawful, and Constitutional – Trump has only himself to blame for the search, the consequence of his corruption and criminality.

Conservatives are violent?

 

[j-mac]

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The second one is your attempt at being knowledgeable. That is all that comes out.

Quit spamming, and you won’t get called on it…simple.

 

[Smokin' OP]

Start a thread on any President of the US, Democrat or Republican, who before Trump created such a number of incidents.

Your gross analogies are nothing more than deflection of the facts one can find since Trump took office.

It's always "whataboutism" with Trump and his cult.
Like it excuses their behavior.

 

[Smokin' OP]

Conservatives are violent?

Conservatives aren't violent.

People claiming to be conservative are.

The man who fired a nail gun into an FBI field office in Cincinnati on Thursday before he was killed by officers was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, officials said.

Two officials familiar with the matter identified the suspect as Ricky Walter Shiffer.


Officers fatally shot the suspect after failing to negotiate with him, an Ohio State Highway Patrol spokesman, Lt. Nathan Dennis, told reporters.

The man raised a gun and officers opened fire, Dennis said.

 

[Votto]

No, poster Votto. You are trying to duck & cover.

Being a "Bernie fan"....is not.....is NOT.....the same as Bernie sending him to kill anybody.

Stating that Bernie "had one of his groupies" do so is a far far different claim that what you are trying to duck & cover with.

I will repeat.....unless you wish to retract.....but I will repeat that your allegation that Bernie Sanders sent one of his fans to kill Republicans at a ball game is reckless, irresponsible, and corrosive.

I never said Bernie sent the person to kill those people

What I am saying is, Bernie knows that people like that exist out there who don't take much to convince to murder as all they need is a less than a push to do so.

Why one earth did he, as well as the rest of the DNC, not condemn the attempted assassination of Kav like they did the entire GOP Congress?

Hmm?

That tells me they are either indifferent or approve of it

There is no other logical explanation, and shows us how low the DNC has gone.

I"ll give you another example of what I'm talking about

When Obama and the entire DNC fed into the notion that law enforcement was racist, especially after Fergusen, police were being assassinated all around the country in droves. In fact, in California they not only shot them, they followed them to the hospital and yelled obscenities at the officers who were fighting for their very lives.

Did this cause anyone in the DNC to denounce the notion that all of law enforcement was systemically racist and oppressors of society? No.

Meanwhile, while Obama was in office he refused to utter the words, "Islamic terrorism" when it occurred. Why? Because he did not want people to take their vengeance out on innocent Muslims who were not involved in the terrorism.

Why then did he not treat the police with the same courtesy?

The blood of those police officers is on the hands of DNC politician like Obama.

 

[maybelooking]

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Thank you for your concession!!

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Yeah, but riots are justified when people get pissed off at the government. That's what you all said about the BLM riots.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

No, poster Votto. You are trying to duck & cover.

Being a "Bernie fan"....is not.....is NOT.....the same as Bernie sending him to kill anybody.

Stating that Bernie "had one of his groupies" do so is a far far different claim that what you are trying to duck & cover with.

I will repeat.....unless you wish to retract.....but I will repeat that your allegation that Bernie Sanders sent one of his fans to kill Republicans at a ball game is reckless, irresponsible, and corrosive.

That dude wasn't a "Bernie fan". He was a Bernie staff member.

 

[Smokin' OP]

Yeah, but riots are justified when people get pissed off at the government. That's what you all said about the BLM riots.

Protest are justified riots are NOT.
No one justified the summer 2020 riots.

Why you people try to compare the two is nuts.
ONE had NOTHING even similar in nature, to the other.

 

[Chillicothe]

"That dude wasn't a "Bernie fan". He was a Bernie staff member"

I had not heard or read that. What vetting can you offer the forum?
What has been reported was that Hodgkinson was an unpaid volunteer to the Sander's Iowa campaign. No mention of being 'staff'.

But more to the point, are you in support of the poster Votto's suggestion that Bernie sent this man to kill Republican legislators?

 

[Chillicothe]

"I never said Bernie sent the person to kill those people..."

Look, poster Votto, you stated on this public social-media site: ".....Bernie Sanders had one of his groupies show up to assassinate..."
Combing the past tense of have with the verb 'show up'.......conveys agency to Sanders.
And to that, I am calling you out. And remain convinced your assertion is irresponsible and corrosive to the social and political dialogue in today's America. Such communication is part of the problem. Not the solution.

Words have meaning, poster Votto.

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"What I am saying is, Bernie knows that people like that exist out there who don't take much to convince to murder as all they need is a less than a push"

I quite agree that there are people like Hodgkinson out there....of several different political or philosophical flavors. All politicians should know by now that there are nutbars and whack-jobs with too easy access to high-lethality weapons. So being careful, cautious, and prudent in one's public pronouncements is part and parcel of responsible leadership.
In contradistinction to Senator Graham's recent comments

 

[TNHarley]

OP, I would have ignored my post too. Blows your retarded thread premise out of the water.
Now, hack away!

 

[Chillicothe]

"...riots are justified when people get pissed off at the government. That's what you all said about the BLM riots."

Speaking of reckless communication. Who is the poster Kelso blaming with his assertion --"what you said about the BLM riots"?
Specifically.
An individual poster on this venue?
Democrats in general?
Liberals? Academics? Police?
Folks sympathetic with the sentiments against police brutality against unarmed black men?
Who?
Specifically.