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angka

(1,599 posts)
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 12:24 PM Aug 2020

"Back The Blue" Attacks Black Lives Matter In Fort Collins

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Source: Colorado Pols

This is video we were forwarded from several social media sources of an attack [Saturday] afternoon on a group of protesters in Fort Collins, as competing Black Lives Matter and “Back The Blue” rallies took place at different locations in the city. The violent assault on a group of protesters you can see in the video above reportedly took place just a few blocks from Fort Collins Police Department headquarters, after the BLM protesters were forced back into what looks like an area of open space, pushed down into a ditch of some kind, and attacked by a crew of very large white men–the ones wearing shirts sporting pro-Donald Trump and pro-police attire.

About 20 seconds into the video, just before the assault, local fascist “Proud Boy” leader Louie Huey tells the camera that he is there to “march these commie Antifa bastards out of the neighborhood.” It’s the first we’ve seen of Louie Huey since he showed off his rubber bullet wounds after a night of provocateur violence he participated in early in the George Floyd protests.

There has been very little press coverage of this incident so far, but we expect that to change once this horrific video gets out into the wild. The violence in this clip is much more severe and more prolonged than similarly shocking video out of rural Teller County a few weeks ago showing right-wing protesters attacking a “car caravan” protest. There can be no question from what we’ve seen of who the aggressors were. Despite this, the unconfirmed report we have from yesterday is that just like in Teller County, none of the pro-police protesters you can see assaulting people in this video were arrested.

Read more: https://www.coloradopols.com/diary/144318/back-the-blue-attacks-black-lives-matter-in-fort-collins



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"Back The Blue" Attacks Black Lives Matter In Fort Collins (Original Post) angka Aug 2020 OP
Not surprised. This is what we are up against, Trump's Brown shirts. jalan48 Aug 2020 #1
Devastating, especially to me. hlthe2b Aug 2020 #2
K&R! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #3
Spread this far and wide. dalton99a Aug 2020 #4
F'ing fat assed white cowards marauding in a rabid pack in response to Donnie dipshits KPN Aug 2020 #5
Exactly what I was thinking. Fat, stupid white racist yokels. nt Progressive Jones Aug 2020 #12
Now we know. Back the Blue is getting around. ancianita Aug 2020 #6
That's some real economic security wryter2000 Aug 2020 #7
"Back the Blue" was started in Washington by white supremacists last year. ancianita Aug 2020 #8
Fort Collins is better than that. Larimer County is better than that. PatrickforO Aug 2020 #9
Look at that economic anxiety ck4829 Aug 2020 #10
Who are the out of control lunatics again? Initech Aug 2020 #11
Whatever negative the right thinks of 'Black Lives Matter' is also applicable to 'Blue Lives Matter' keithbvadu2 Aug 2020 #13
That one guy was using the flag as a weapon nt alphafemale Aug 2020 #14
Sorry to see this in my state, especially in Ft. Collins, but it shows how pervasive the problem is. CrispyQ Aug 2020 #15
Keep this KICKED.......... Bengus81 Aug 2020 #16
"Back the Blue" people are basically violent, racist and fascist pieces of shit MrScorpio Aug 2020 #17
trump brownshirts at work llashram Aug 2020 #18
Fascists in action. BarbaRosa Aug 2020 #19
Looks like the kind of thing you see in Russia sandensea Aug 2020 #20
At the end, you see Police breaking the fight up, and no attests? WTF? KS Toronado Aug 2020 #21
K&R nt PoliWrangler Aug 2020 #22
The weakest, most pathetic losers in the herd. byronius Aug 2020 #23
This is NOT the Colorado I've known & loved for 40 years! Hmm...I smell lawsuits! Guess I Illumination Aug 2020 #24
LOCKING applegrove Aug 2020 #25

jalan48

(13,798 posts)
1. Not surprised. This is what we are up against, Trump's Brown shirts.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 12:30 PM
Aug 2020

hlthe2b

(101,730 posts)
2. Devastating, especially to me.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 12:31 PM
Aug 2020

LaPorte and several areas of Weld County and into Wyoming are known White Nationalist sympathizing areas. But Fort Collins? No way. This is dispiriting.

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
3. K&R!
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 12:34 PM
Aug 2020

🤬

dalton99a

(81,073 posts)
4. Spread this far and wide.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 12:36 PM
Aug 2020

KPN

(15,587 posts)
5. F'ing fat assed white cowards marauding in a rabid pack in response to Donnie dipshits
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 12:38 PM
Aug 2020

"antifa" rants. We need to hold that bastard and all these assholes accountable for whatever physical harm they have and do cause.

Progressive Jones

(6,011 posts)
12. Exactly what I was thinking. Fat, stupid white racist yokels. nt
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:19 PM
Aug 2020

ancianita

(35,816 posts)
6. Now we know. Back the Blue is getting around.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 12:58 PM
Aug 2020

In Florida, Attorney General Ashley Moody's -- from UF's Levin College of Law and stinky panhandle paper mill town, Plant City -- Back the Blue campaign, as she says, " highlights law enforcement officers, citizens and organizations taking extraordinary steps to forge positive relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve."

Uniformed and plainclothes Gestapo are the new KKK.

wryter2000

(46,016 posts)
7. That's some real economic security
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:03 PM
Aug 2020

For sure

ancianita

(35,816 posts)
8. "Back the Blue" was started in Washington by white supremacists last year.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:05 PM
Aug 2020

The “Back the Blue Act” introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas). The ACLU opposes their S. 1134 and H.R. 2253 bills. I could be wrong, but don't believe either version passed.

The Back the Blue Act would make any assault on an officer a federal crime with a mandatory minimum sentence. But here’s the thing: assaulting a police officer is already a crime in every state and already carries strict penalties set by local legislatures.

The bill is a national policy to nationally validate by law the encouraging of more violence from its NAZI white supremacist backers.

No wonder the Police union building in Portland was set on fire.

PatrickforO

(14,516 posts)
9. Fort Collins is better than that. Larimer County is better than that.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:06 PM
Aug 2020

God damn it, COLORADO is better than that.

I'd say Louie Huey and his brownshirt 'proud boys' are the ones that need to be marched out of this state.

You hear that Louie???? FUCK you AND your disgusting PIECE OF SHIT nazi followers. FUCK YOU. You're just like the skinking shit-bag Hitler brownshirts beating people up in the streets, and you are a piece of human excrement.

Fucking asshole.

ck4829

(34,977 posts)
10. Look at that economic anxiety
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:08 PM
Aug 2020

Initech

(99,915 posts)
11. Who are the out of control lunatics again?
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:18 PM
Aug 2020

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
13. Whatever negative the right thinks of 'Black Lives Matter' is also applicable to 'Blue Lives Matter'
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:22 PM
Aug 2020

Whatever negative the right thinks of 'Black Lives Matter' is also applicable to 'Blue Lives Matter'.

The only difference is the color.

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
14. That one guy was using the flag as a weapon nt
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:30 PM
Aug 2020

CrispyQ

(36,231 posts)
15. Sorry to see this in my state, especially in Ft. Collins, but it shows how pervasive the problem is.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:42 PM
Aug 2020

Bengus81

(6,907 posts)
16. Keep this KICKED..........
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:43 PM
Aug 2020

Fucking NAZI's

MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
17. "Back the Blue" people are basically violent, racist and fascist pieces of shit
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:59 PM
Aug 2020

llashram

(6,265 posts)
18. trump brownshirts at work
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 02:22 PM
Aug 2020

I do hope they get arrested and charged with assault and battery. They are the rabid dogs of trump.

BarbaRosa

(2,684 posts)
19. Fascists in action.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 02:24 PM
Aug 2020

No wonder they keep harping on Socialist.

sandensea

(21,530 posts)
20. Looks like the kind of thing you see in Russia
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 02:56 PM
Aug 2020

And not by coincidence.

KS Toronado

(16,911 posts)
21. At the end, you see Police breaking the fight up, and no attests? WTF?
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 03:15 PM
Aug 2020

PoliWrangler

(139 posts)
22. K&R nt
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 03:16 PM
Aug 2020

byronius

(7,369 posts)
23. The weakest, most pathetic losers in the herd.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 03:22 PM
Aug 2020

All that primate posturing can't disguise the fact that they only act when they have the guns and numbers against peaceful protesters. When those conditions are not in evidence, they are little boys crying inside, frozen, absolutely full of fear. Unloved, untaught, uncultured, unready for any kind of future. They cannot survive and they know it. These years are full of panic for them.

They claim these small 'victories' on a path to their own decay and destruction. They punch women in the face and point their AR's at weaponless students but cannot survive an actual conflict because they are unable to strategize or parse information. They do not read. They cannot grow.

They are utterly dependent for survival on the people they hate the most -- leave them to fend for themselves in a paradise and they're all dead inside a generation or two. There is no escaping the effect of that awful simian programming. Without us, they return to dust.

The ass-end of the human race, on their way out the door. Lords of the Flies. And they know it, deep down.

 

Illumination

(2,458 posts)
24. This is NOT the Colorado I've known & loved for 40 years! Hmm...I smell lawsuits! Guess I
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 03:32 PM
Aug 2020

won't be going to Fort Collins anytime soon wearing my TRUMP FOR PRISON mask!

applegrove

(118,022 posts)
25. LOCKING
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 04:55 PM
Aug 2020

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