BLM protest in Ohio confronted by hundreds of armed counter

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protesters.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-armed-counter-protesters-confront-141959906.html

[DBoon]

1. This deserves more notice

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3. I just saw it on Yahoo didn't know if it had been posted. There were two cops right there

that witnessed the guy getting punched and did nothing. This is like Nazi Germany.

[Hortensis]

6. An arrest warrant has been issued for the attacker.

In Nazi Germany, the cops would have been vicious RW thugs who would either have joined the vicious RW civilians to beat that man and others possibly to death, walked away to leave the others to finish their attack, or taken him into custody, possibly never to be seen alive again.

This is the U.S., though. Those cops were outnumbered in the middle of an incipient riot, the man who was punched was on his feet and actually just fine besides being angry, and the sirens of approaching backup police cars could be heard during all this. After they arrived, information was taken and a report filed. Given that it went no further, it's likely those police are believed to have handled it as well as it could be. And the man's just fine.

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7. So you can assault someone right in front

of a cop and as long you are an armed thug. It was good the guy did not retaliate or the mob may have beat him to death. I saw how the guy hit him slithered away like a f---g
coward.

[Hortensis]

11. That's right. My friends and I do it all the time and never been stopped.

You should try it sometime. And the "slithering" away's just to regroup around another victim, unsuspecting until we attack.

[DBoon]

2. Hundreds of armed counter-protesters confront Black Lives Matter rally in Ohio

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/18/hundreds-armed-counter-protesters-confront-black-lives-matter-event-bethel-ohio

But the demonstration was engulfed by a combination of armed gun-rights defenders, “back the blue” pro-police groups and about 250 people on motorcycles, which forced the group to move two blocks from its original location and led to tumult.

Videos from what turned into a two-hour clash, several of which circulated on Twitter and Facebook, show the counter-protesters shouting racial slurs and “all lives matter” and accosting demonstrators.

“They were grabbing me, and grabbing my mom, and they just seemed to have no respect for the law,” Andrea Dennis, a Bethel resident whose Facebook live from the demonstration shows a man ripping a fellow demonstrator’s sign from her hands, told the Enquirer.

[wcmagumba]

4. Don't read the comments on your link...

Yahoo is way way right wing and the linked article comments reflect that for sure...I could only read a few before total disgust set in....(not a criticism of you just of yahoo, the article itself was informative)...

[Cha]

5. KR.. Scary!

[maxsolomon]

8. "This isn't Seattle! This is a Republican State!"

As a Cincinnati-raised Seattleite, that's a shining example of why I left.

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9. You should live in the tri-state area of Ohio, Western PA

and West Virginia. It's like Alabama. I hear the n word almost daily.

[maxsolomon]

12. Cincy is a Tri-State too:

OH, KY, and IN.

Go outside the city limits, and the xenophobic ignorance explodes.

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13. I guess so. Even worse when you include Indiana. nt

[maxsolomon]

15. Its a nationwide phenomena.

Rural vs. Urban. The divide is real and scrupulously maintained by RW misinformation.

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16. West Virginia got to be the worst they are suspicious

of any stranger outside their holler. To run for office you have to do an ad holding a gun.

[Ex Lurker]

10. This is going to happen more and more

The white backlash is real. If there's a Democratic sweep in November, there might be scattered pockets of open, armed rebellion.

[Cosmocat]

14. Yep

nm

[TheBlackAdder]

17. The Yahoo! comment boards are a cesspool of scum.