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2020-05-14 Home Front: Culture Wars

Fresno city council president is cited for battery after getting into a scuffle with anti-lockdown protesters who tried to force their way into his HOME

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 They tried to push into his home, and he's cited?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-14 02:25|| 2020-05-14 02:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Didn't expect him to be home? Then what was the point of the "protest"?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-05-14 05:52|| 2020-05-14 05:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I read this before. Somewhere around 1775.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-14 06:26|| 2020-05-14 06:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Common areas (including exterior stairs) are not "into his home" as unfair as it sounds

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-14 06:28|| 2020-05-14 06:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Not what I read yesterday. I heard that the councilor was outside his apartment and tried to push the protester away, and it's on film.

Posted by AlanC 2020-05-14 07:05|| 2020-05-14 07:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Stupid shit like this will get someone killed. I don't care what cause you're protesting, stay away from homes.

And an apartment building? What about the other tennants?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-05-14 08:30|| 2020-05-14 08:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Video here

It's ambiguous. Shove occurred in common area but then the shove-ee pursues the councilman right up to his doorstep... his hand "breaks the plane," in football-speak, of the councilman's threshold. Seems pretty threatening to me.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-14 08:36|| 2020-05-14 08:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Looks like shove came to push.
I'll be here all week.. try the veal

Posted by Lex 2020-05-14 08:39|| 2020-05-14 08:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Its california; do you really think there are any rational brain cells in operation in the government?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2020-05-14 09:38|| 2020-05-14 09:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Sounds like England. No right to self defense, they have police for that. Who do nothing.

Posted by KBK 2020-05-14 09:44|| 2020-05-14 09:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Of all the points here which don't make sense, I find that the police cited the councilman instead of rounding the protestors up for Hotel Gavin Newsom intriguing.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-14 10:49|| 2020-05-14 10:49|| Front Page Top

#12 They harass us on our property and in our homes, so why not his. All is fair. Had I known about the party, I'd would have brought the Tar and Feathers. Or the matches. Until these would-be tyrants feel the pain and feel threatened, their behaviors won't change. These people are drunk with power. You don't win the civil war by turning the other cheek or being the gentleman.

Posted by mossomo 2020-05-14 14:16|| 2020-05-14 14:16|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ True

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-14 14:51|| 2020-05-14 14:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Looks like one of the guys he shoved was a person of color. Wonder if the cops pulled out the Victim priority list before citing the Councilman. Does Latino + Politician beat Black? Seems not.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-05-14 15:03|| 2020-05-14 15:03|| Front Page Top

#15 Especially if the black is gay too. Double plus ungood

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-14 15:51|| 2020-05-14 15:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Make them live their own Allinsky rules. Burn, baby burn.

Posted by Regular joe 2020-05-14 16:33|| 2020-05-14 16:33|| Front Page Top

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