Angry exchanges, sporadic physical conflict, occur on downtown streets while president holds rally
Source: Tulsa World
People marched in the streets. They chanted. And at times Saturday in downtown Tulsa, emotions ran high when protesters and Donald Trump supporters came together.
But there was sporadic physical conflict, and by 11:45 p.m., downtown had grown calm after a day of angry exchanges.
At the height of the tension, police deployed pepper balls near Fourth Street and Boulder Avenue, hours after the agency received condemnation from protesters and national media when it confirmed that officers had arrested a nonviolent protester at the behest of Trump campaign staff.
On its Facebook page, the Tulsa Police Department said a "couple of rounds" of pepper balls were fired into the ground when police were surrounded by protesters.
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Edwcraig
(291 posts)The dismal failure of the Tulsa rally was the victory. I was so afraid we would turn victory into defeat if the protesters took the bait and altercations ensued. Instigating altercations between Trump supporters and protesters was the plan. A sick plan. Glad that Tulsa protesters were smart a enough to recognize this.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)Because frankly I'm finding it hard to control my emotions, I'm likely to have joined those trying to knock some sense into the idiots in this magnanimously overblown, over-the-top and now massively fatal maladministration.
As a caregiver, I cannot judge what a person has done to themselves, only go about my job with a certain professional detachment, but this caveat has me crying:
That the Trumpers at this disease-sharing "rally" are flying home to families, without masks, without a care, only star struck with total abandon of all common sense.
Now freshly inoculated and sharing COVID 19 with their children, with other family, with strangers on the trip home, with anyone unlucky enough to work with them.
It's simply unbelievable how completely idiotic the Nazi Trumpers have become.
And I'll still have to care for them with empathetic detachment. Then shed tears when I implore the heavens WTF they think they are accomplishing after I get home.