“Mostly peaceful”.
Paging the DOJ: Here’s your fucking domestic terrorism threat.
Saturday night brought rioting by Antifa people attacking police targets in Atlanta.
Now, the night started with a protest against the police, in the memory of one of their comrades, Manuel Teran. Teran had been shot and killed by the police after he allegedly shot a cop, when police came to clear protesters out of an area they had been occupying where the city is constructing a police training center. The radicals have had several people, in multiple incidents, arrested for domestic terrorism at the site, including for throwing Molotov cocktails at the police.
Notice how everyone is dressed in black and masked up — this isn’t a protest that accidentally devolved into a riot. It’s like most Antifa actions; it’s a ‘protest’ in anticipation of the riot, as people break away and then attack things.
It soon went violent, with Antifa attacking the Atlanta Police Foundation building, as well as police vehicles and other businesses. They set at least one police car on fire.
But what was incredible was that even as the local news was covering it, we had something of a throwback to the “mostly peaceful protest” comments of CNN and MSNBC in 2020. Listen as the local reporter talks about the “largely peaceful protest,” even with the violence and the flames in the background.
Local Atlanta reporter calls the protest in Atlanta "largely peaceful protest" as a police cruiser is on fire in the background.
You can't make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/tYJpJulxdH
— Largely peaceful protest 3sidedstory 🇺🇲 (@3sidedstory) January 22, 2023
Yeah, not so much. Their declared purpose had been retaliation and violence. They made that clear with their announcements. Yet, the reporter doesn’t note that. Not only does he butcher the name of the radical who was killed, whose nickname was “Tortuguita,” but the reporter leaves out the rather important fact that “Tortuguita” (who went by they/it pronouns) allegedly shot a cop and critically injured a police officer before he was shot in self-defense.
But it looks like Antifa in their “mostly peaceful” endeavors may have interfered in that report of them attacking the Atlanta Police Foundation building, as the report suddenly cuts off as you see explosive fireworks going off around them.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens wasn’t going along with any of these “mostly peaceful” characterizations. He pointed out that most of these folks were outside agitators who didn’t even live in Atlanta or hail from the state of Georgia. As we’ve said, they’re from all over the country. “They don’t represent the voices of Atlanta,” Mayor Andre Dickens said. He said some of them were found with explosives.
In December of 2022, the GBI arrested five Antifa terrorists at the so-called autonomous zone at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Since June 2021, Antifa and other far-left extremists from across the US have descended on the location to prevent the construction of what they call a “cop city.” Responding law enforcement were assaulted with rocks and bottles by militants occupying makeshift treehouses. The GBI says it found explosive devices and gasoline after the rioters were cleared from the area.
The little unwashed punks should have been hauled off to jail as soon as they showed up in June of 2021.
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