Once the protesters arrived at The Foyer Cafe, there was a clear call from protesters to leave to a specific route, following white shirts orders for Protesters to leave. pic.twitter.com/KZ6tw4KDgQ
— Spyder Monkey (DNC ON THE GROUND) (@SpyderMonkey0_0) August 21, 2024
Despite press managing to get out, three reporters were arrested with cops refusing to explain why. @JP_TG was arrested with a visible NYC press pass and @olgfe_images was credentialed not just by Chicago’s PD but has DNC credentials too pic.twitter.com/nT61XJJeL8
— Spyder Monkey (DNC ON THE GROUND) (@SpyderMonkey0_0) August 21, 2024
This DNC event, the massive police state security perimeter around it, is reminiscent of the 2004 RNC event, where George W. Bush was nominated for a second term as the psychopath-in-chief.
Alex Jones made the documentary “Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State” at that RNC event. It was quite a good film. (If you just watch the beginning of it, you can understand the comparison – same energy.)
I guess the difference is, 20 years later, we are all very used to armies of police defending hated politicians from an outraged public.
This is, after all, a democracy. The population has no ability to seek a redress of grievances. The only thing people can do is protest impotently and then get beaten by the cops. Then they can go to jail or go home and dream about voting for someone better, even though they know they will never be given an opportunity to vote for anyone better.
Chicago police arrested around 60 anti-Israel demonstrators on the second night of the Democratic National Convention — many from out of state — when an illegal march following a protest outside the Israeli consulate turned violent.
This is a completely deranged lede.
How is the march “illegal”? Because they were protesting Jews?
Further – why mention they are from out of state? That was an issue during BLM, when people were being bussed all around the country to riot against city governments. But this is a national event. Putting that information in the lede, as if they somehow don’t belong there, is a grotesque spin.
Also: don’t people maybe think it’s weird that the New York Post is defending Kamala Harris?
“Last night was a danger to our city, and a danger to our citizens in this city,” Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said at a press conference of the mass arrest order issued after de-escalation tactics failed Tuesday night.
“We were not the initiators of violence, but we responded to it. Our officers responded to it exactly the way they were trained to respond,” he said.
Scores of protesters, many of them shrouding their faces in keffiyeh scarves, burned flags and clashed with cops on city streets after ignoring orders to disperse.
The good news is: they’re using my “Kid-Killer Kamala” meme.
Unlike right-wingers, leftists actually follow my instructions as issued.
They chanted slogans like “down with American imperialism” and “Killer Kamala, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?”
As protesters broke through scores of cops in riot gear near the Israeli Consulate, the mob chanted, “CPD, KKK, IOF, they’re all the same!”
Snelling said those arrested are facing a range of charges including disorderly conduct, obstruction, battery to police officers and “quite a few more.”
Of the approximately 60 people arrested, 22 were agitators who lived outside of Chicago, many of them from the West Coast, Snelling said.
One local protester, Mike Lehman, 50, held a sign reading, “Make Israel pay all its war-murder costs now.”
Asked what he would want the Democrats to do if they retain the White House in 2024, Lehman said, “Get tough.”
“They’re a s–thole country the size of Indiana and they’re telling us what to do?” he said about Israel.
Yes, why is that, Mike?
Do you think it relates to the fact that the US government is so filled with Jews?
Are we allowed to talk about that now?
🚨 Police shoot taser guns and beat pro-Palestinian protesters outside the DNC Convention in Chicago. Via @JonFarinaPhoto.
“You’re gonna get hurt!” FULL VIDEO below. pic.twitter.com/mEuiQwZHkO
— Status Coup News (@StatusCoup) August 21, 2024
Despite the initial bravado of the rally to not cooperate with police, at no point did the protesters actually engage in any violence against the police nor cause any form of property damage. This was just as peaceful as the march on DNC that happened Monday https://t.co/8DBSIz0K86
— Spyder Monkey (DNC ON THE GROUND) (@SpyderMonkey0_0) August 21, 2024
We are aware of reports of several journalists arrested in Chicago last night and we are currently investigating them.#DNC2024CHICAGO #DNC2024 https://t.co/4CKilINg16
— U.S. Press Freedom Tracker (@uspresstracker) August 21, 2024
At one point last night, the crowd chanted “Why are you arresting press?” bc I yelled it so much.
No major outlets have yet reported that CPD arrested 4 credentialed media last night, despite all of them being there.
We yell because if we didn’t, no one would know. pic.twitter.com/yzkXVJfx4Z
— Talia Jane (Reporter @ DNC) (@taliaotg) August 21, 2024