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liberalguilt57

(89 posts)
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 01:07 PM Jun 2020

Lancaster (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 Sunday’s 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|
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Lancaster (PA) officials say group of armed, white men infiltrated protests... (Original Post) liberalguilt57 Jun 2020 OP
Lock. Them. Up. BComplex Jun 2020 #1
Cops Wrestled Several of the White Instigators to the Ground - Why No Arrests? Indykatie Jun 2020 #2
They were their kids?? SoonerPride Jun 2020 #7
1 word, white . AllaN01Bear Jun 2020 #8
IF there is video of particular individuals stopdiggin Jun 2020 #11
there were arrests, 6 yesterday, and 1 saturday Amishman Jun 2020 #12
Not surprising Freddie Jun 2020 #3
lots of gun nuts and hardcore right wingers Amishman Jun 2020 #10
My family is pretty much all liberals like me Freddie Jun 2020 #13
they're not bad as you'd think to be around, as long as I don't contribute to certain conversations Amishman Jun 2020 #14
They Thought It Was A Klan Rally DanieRains Jun 2020 #4
Oh, my! murielm99 Jun 2020 #5
Pro-fa barbtries Jun 2020 #9
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Jun 2020 #6

stopdiggin

(11,308 posts)
11. IF there is video of particular individuals
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:05 PM
Jun 2020

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)
12. there were arrests, 6 yesterday, and 1 saturday
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:05 PM
Jun 2020

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.

Amishman

(5,557 posts)
10. lots of gun nuts and hardcore right wingers
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 03:55 PM
Jun 2020

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)
13. My family is pretty much all liberals like me
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:25 PM
Jun 2020

Except one cousin who lives in York. Don’t talk her much.

Amishman

(5,557 posts)
14. they're not bad as you'd think to be around, as long as I don't contribute to certain conversations
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:34 PM
Jun 2020

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.

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