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alp227

(32,033 posts)
Fri May 1, 2020, 04:39 PM May 2020

Cops face off with protesters at California's Capitol as they demand end to stay-at-home order

Source: Sacramento Bee

Demonstrators scuffled with uniformed law enforcement officers in a vivid and tense protest at California’s state Capitol on Friday. At least one person was arrested just before 1 p.m. as protesters lurched toward California Highway Patrol officers that had lined across the west steps of the building to prevent them from entering.

Defying Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order and a CHP ban on protests on state properties, hundreds of demonstrators descended on the landmark downtown Sacramento building to demand the reopening of schools, businesses and churches despite the coronavirus pandemic.

The demonstration started peacefully. By noon, at least 500 cars, trucks, motorcycles, RVs and vans were circling the Capitol, honking horns, waving flags — American flags, banners for Trump and the Gadsden flag that reads “Don’t Tread on Me” — in a procession so clogged it was taking nearly an hour to circle the complex.

At least 400 people were gathered together on the steps and lawn, and dozens of CHP officers formed a line as the crowd chanted U.S.A. and edged toward them. Just before 12:30 p.m., the CHP’s Capitol Detail ordered the demonstrators to disperse from the steps of the building or face arrest, citing health and safety codes.

Read more: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article242421321.html

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Cops face off with protesters at California's Capitol as they demand end to stay-at-home order (Original Post) alp227 May 2020 OP
Those cops should have been given masks. Squinch May 2020 #1
I agree. That was really dumb to let them face all those people yelling without protection. Maraya1969 May 2020 #15
Well, Newest Reality May 2020 #2
Yikes Lulu KC May 2020 #3
In a state of 40 million Mr.Bill May 2020 #11
Good point! Lulu KC May 2020 #21
Exactly seta1950 May 2020 #24
They are really 'Black Lives Matter' protestors, so shoot or arrest them! Miigwech May 2020 #4
LOCK THEM UP................ turbinetree May 2020 #5
THIS. roamer65 May 2020 #9
Time to bring in the National Guard SoCalNative May 2020 #6
Freedom Works is busy busing gun nuts to all the Dem Capitals. nt yaesu May 2020 #7
Bingo! BigmanPigman May 2020 #17
No one will go to their businesses if they do reopen bucolic_frolic May 2020 #8
Toward their just rewards. Squinch May 2020 #16
RUMP (AND PUTIN) truly want bluestarone May 2020 #10
Idiots are endangering us all. Lock them up! SunSeeker May 2020 #12
"banners for Trump and the Gadsden flag" and "at least 400 people" PSPS May 2020 #13
White privilege on full display. SunSeeker May 2020 #14
+1. Alacritous Crier May 2020 #20
You know what I wish? BigmanPigman May 2020 #18
I'm wishing for Police to break out a WWII flame thrower........ Bengus81 May 2020 #22
Up against the wall REDNECK mother........... Bengus81 May 2020 #19
TRump TRash. n/t TheFourthMind May 2020 #23
HA! How quickly they went from "blue lives matter!" to eissa May 2020 #25
How about using water cannons, like they did in the 60's? niyad May 2020 #26
Or that sound cannon they used in Ferguson? csziggy May 2020 #37
Bash all their heads on the roof of the cruiser bluecollar2 May 2020 #27
The Right's move toward civil war. In MI, now CA. Fomented by bloody donnie. ancianita May 2020 #28
500 in this state ain't nothin'. Downtown Hound May 2020 #29
If they get a platform, they're something. Our opponents use astroturfing to get ancianita May 2020 #30
The last thing we need to to make them free speech martyrs Downtown Hound May 2020 #33
I think you are right. nt reACTIONary May 2020 #34
The media needs to stop referring to those RW trespassers as protesters meow2u3 May 2020 #31
In fact, when the Black Panthers showed up armed to the California Capitol in '67... alp227 May 2020 #32
Time to send in... noneof_theabove May 2020 #35
I loved the photo I saw of mounted police facing demonstrators in California. Now that's abqtommy May 2020 #36

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. Well,
Fri May 1, 2020, 04:45 PM
May 2020

Those covidiots and infectriots are really acting like drunk monkeys, lab monkeys that is. Monkey see, monkey do.

They should roll out some nice AstroTurf to protest on.

They loves them that virus. Go COVID! I mean, USA! USA! USA! Utterly Stupid Americans.

 

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
4. They are really 'Black Lives Matter' protestors, so shoot or arrest them!
Fri May 1, 2020, 04:50 PM
May 2020

Or, Native American's protesting the invasion of their sacred lands, shoot them with water cannons and sound weapons.

Arrest these fucking dangerous idiots with guns and no brains!!!!

bucolic_frolic

(43,182 posts)
8. No one will go to their businesses if they do reopen
Fri May 1, 2020, 05:04 PM
May 2020

Only fools who think COVID a hoax will go blithely onward

PSPS

(13,601 posts)
13. "banners for Trump and the Gadsden flag" and "at least 400 people"
Fri May 1, 2020, 05:26 PM
May 2020

In other words, millions counter-protested by staying at home as they should and trump got his campaign rally and free advertising from the media.

SunSeeker

(51,571 posts)
14. White privilege on full display.
Fri May 1, 2020, 05:42 PM
May 2020

Last edited Fri May 1, 2020, 09:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Disobey a peace officer and see what happens to you if you're black or brown.

BigmanPigman

(51,609 posts)
18. You know what I wish?
Fri May 1, 2020, 06:18 PM
May 2020

The same wish as my sister and half the people I know...come on, you KNOW what I wish for the Covidiots. And we don't feel badly for wishing it either.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
22. I'm wishing for Police to break out a WWII flame thrower........
Fri May 1, 2020, 06:33 PM
May 2020

Watch those Trump loving MAGOTS scatter and laugh all the while.

bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
27. Bash all their heads on the roof of the cruiser
Fri May 1, 2020, 07:18 PM
May 2020

As they're being put in the back seat...

Let trump pay for their defense.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
29. 500 in this state ain't nothin'.
Fri May 1, 2020, 07:29 PM
May 2020

They are so outnumbered here that if they really tried anything they would get steamrolled. They're loud and noisy, but at the end of the day, they are nothing.

ancianita

(36,081 posts)
30. If they get a platform, they're something. Our opponents use astroturfing to get
Fri May 1, 2020, 07:42 PM
May 2020

traction for bloody donnie. Firing up the right wing of CA doesn't take much.

Newsom needs to shut them down if they're "nothing."

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
31. The media needs to stop referring to those RW trespassers as protesters
Fri May 1, 2020, 07:52 PM
May 2020

Those Trumpist terrorists endangered the lives of the troopers, especially if it turns out that one or more of the insurrectionists are COVID-19 positive. They were warned to disperse or face arrest (thank God IOKIYAR didn't apply here). So those entitled brats should be treated as peaceful protesters, but rather trespassers at best and terrorist at worst.

alp227

(32,033 posts)
32. In fact, when the Black Panthers showed up armed to the California Capitol in '67...
Fri May 1, 2020, 07:55 PM
May 2020

their protest prompted the state legislature to send to Governor Ronald Reagan's desk the Mulford Act that restricted open carry.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
36. I loved the photo I saw of mounted police facing demonstrators in California. Now that's
Sat May 2, 2020, 10:52 AM
May 2020

intimidation done right!

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