General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLancaster (PA) officials say group of armed, white men infiltrated protests...
Lancaster (PA) officials say group of armed, white men infiltrated protests, instigated violence Sunday
This is in the city of Lancaster, PA, where protests were peaceful Saturday, and wound up with police pepper-spraying people on Sunday (with pix of police wrestling young, white men to the ground). More investigation is needed to determine what group these outside agitators were with.
"A small group of armed men, possibly white nationalists, infiltrated Sundays protests in downtown Lancaster to instigate violence during a largely peaceful demonstration, city officials said Monday. ...
"Any time officers were pelted with rocks or bottles Sunday, it came from Caucasian men in the crowd, police Chief Jarrad Berkihiser said at the news conference. ...
There were between five and 15 agitators, all white men in their late 20s and early 30s, according to Mayor Danene Sorace, who said video footage is being put into a state police system to identify the agitators...."
[link:https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/lancaster-officials-say-group-of-armed-white-men-infiltrated-protests-instigated-violence-sunday/article_fc43b00c-a41d-11ea-ae65-5ff4808aa46c.html|
BComplex
(8,051 posts)Indykatie
(3,696 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Maybe?
I dunno.
more white privilege.
AllaN01Bear
(18,230 posts)stopdiggin
(11,308 posts)throwing objects at police, that would be grounds for serious assault charges. Absent that .. prosecutors are not real anxious to charge plain old "protesters." Remember charges can be filed at any time. But it's largely determined by what LE is willing to work on in building evidence and a case. If LE wants charges here .. chances are they will get them.
(Also think it should be possible to determine, through cell phones, how and where these individuals came from .. and who they arrived with. Were there assembly and coordination before arrival at cite of protest? And that would constitute conspiracy to commit ..)
Amishman
(5,557 posts)its down towards the bottom of the article
six arrests Sunday
Chief Birkihiser told reporters that police arrested six protesters Sunday and charged them with low-level misdemeanors.
The six are in addition to the single individual arrested at Saturday's protest.
Birkihiser said those arrested were processed Sunday night and released.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)That part of the state is crawling with white supremacists and/or gun nuts.
Amishman
(5,557 posts)also some sovereign citizens, and anarcho-libertarians. Not to mention religious nutjobs (and I'm not referring to the plain folk). Lots of diversity in out right wingers...
I should text my brother in law and ask if he has an alibi. My wife's family is full of heavily armed trumpers, though most of them aren't racist, just extremely closed minded about other cultures (they don't care what color you are - as long as you don't have an accent, like guns, and love Jesus).
Freddie
(9,265 posts)Except one cousin who lives in York. Dont talk her much.
Amishman
(5,557 posts)I don't think half of them even realize I find their opinions repulsive.
Those that do are polite enough, I let them hunt on our land in the fall, they give me a nice share of the meat if they get any deer.
Family comes before politics.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)But just forgot their hoods.
murielm99
(30,741 posts)Not Anti-fa?
that's how i think of them.