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ABQ witches protest 'witch hunt'; Police union sues for deficient planning
A coalition of groups involved in last month’s anti-Donald Trump protest said Monday that the actions of a few people -- those who threw rocks or punches -- shouldn’t discredit the peaceful message of the rest of the crowd.Ah, the "mostly peaceful" protest rally argument... "Most of us went home and we sobbed," Samia Assed, a protester who said she tried to keep the peace that night. "We sobbed at what we saw -- the pain in the community, the outrage in the community, the way the narrative was changed." And that they had to pack their hands in ice for the rest of the evening... Protesters had gathered, she and others said, to denounce Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric toward im Javier Benavidez of the SouthWest Organizing Project, which sent volunteer peacekeepers to the event, added Monday that it was wrong for community leaders to engage in a "witch hunt" in the days after the protest. Mayor Richard Berry and business leaders announced last week that they had raised at least $20,000 in reward money for tips leading to the arrest of people who threw rocks, flaming projectiles and other debris at coppers or engaged in other violence. Police have placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a handful of people since then -- two adults and a 14-year-old boy who turned himself. Gilbert Montaño, the mayor’s chief of staff, said authorities aren’t going after peaceful protesters, only those who engaged in violence. It's called, "rule of law", as opposed to the progressive "rule of the jungle"... Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-06-07 |
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