Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Georgia, used his position at the head of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church to attack police officers and claim “spiritual wickedness” allowed one officer to escape charges in the 2014 death of Michael Brown.
In a series of 2015 sermons first <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanBrandWA/status/1308212219449147392">reported</a> by Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday night, Warnock used the pulpit to spread fear among black churchgoers that the police represent a “danger” to their children. The recently unearthed sermons come as racially-charged protests have swept the United States, and subsequent riots have cost <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riots-looting-that-followed-george-floyds-death-could-cost-2-billion-most-expensive-incident-in-insurance-history/">billions of dollars</a> in estimated damage.
Warnock is the leading competitor to challenge GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who has largely been distracted by a challenge to her seat from the right from GOP Georgia Rep. Doug Collins. In an apparent bid to force other Democrats out of the race, Warnock’s campaign <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/warnock-rises-in-polls-as-allies-urge-other-democrats-to-quit-senate-race/V7Z5ACWICRCR7KSZVE26RUZ74E/">released</a> internal polling numbers on Monday showing Warnock in second place, trailing Loeffler 25% to 29%. Collins came in third at 19%.
When asked if Warnock stood by his 2015 comments, a Warnock campaign spokesman directed The Daily Wire to a <a href="https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/loeffler-takes-aim-warnock-over-defund-police/O7SwGftNNpFcm3rr9e9SPK/">June 29 article</a> in which Warnock came out in favor of “responsibly fund[ing] law enforcement” rather than defunding the police as many in the Black Lives Matter movement have called for.
“We need to reimagine policing and reimagine the relationships between law enforcement and communities,” Warnock said. “We certainly need to demilitarize the police so we can rebuild the trust between the police and the community.”
During a March 8, 2015, sermon, Warnock addressed a report released by then-Attorney General Eric Holder four days prior to the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, by Darren Wilson, then a police officer with the Ferguson, Missouri, police department. Holder had <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-holder-delivers-update-investigations-ferguson-missouri">announced</a> on March 4 “that the facts do not support the filing of criminal charges against Officer Darren Wilson in this case. Michael Brown’s death, though a tragedy, did not involve prosecutable conduct on the part of Officer Wilson.”
Warnock compared unrest that broke out in Ferguson over Brown’s death to Rev. Martin Luther King’s 1965 civil rights march through Selma, Alabama. “The road to Ferguson goes through Selma,” Warnock said. He continued:
<blockquote>Can I tell you what spiritual wickedness looks like in high places? I know you read the Bible, but if you want to know what spiritual wickedness in high places looks like, you need to read the attorney general’s report this week on Ferguson because that is spiritual wickedness in high places. It is a report that talks about the use of police force and police violence to crush the poor, to crush the most vulnerable citizens of a small town, all of these little municipalities all within the county of St. Louis because America has not yet beaten the demon of racism.</blockquote>
He went on to say that the police officers in Ferguson that cracked down on riots that scarred the city in the wake of Brown’s death acted with “a kind of gangster and thug mentality.”
“So in Ferguson, police power showing up in a kind of gangster and thug mentality. You know, you can wear all kinds of colors and be a thug. You can sometimes wear the colors of the state and behave like a thug,” Warnock said.
The full sermon can be found <a href="https://livestream.com/historicebenezerbaptistchurch/events/3870165/videos/79514763">here</a>. (relevant portion begins around 1:28:00)
Later that year in a June 14 sermon, Warnock suggested that cases of police brutality are widespread and suggest a deeper, systemic problem with U.S. law enforcement. Warnock also suggested that racism in the United States is a significant obstacle faced by black people. “The problem is black bodies in the public space. That’s the problem,” he said, citing it as a reason for police brutality.
Warnock said that law enforcement represented a “danger” to black children, apparently referencing a June 2015 <a href="https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2015-06-09/mckinney-officer-resigns-after-pointing-gun-at-teens-at-pool-party">incident</a> where a Texas police officer wrestled to the ground a black teen girl in a bikini at a pool party. He said:
<blockquote>We are seeing the mean and ugly clutches of America’s prison industrial complex, and we are witnessing each week the ways in which its pernicious tentacles make their way into our neighborhoods and it doesn’t matter what kind of hood you live in. There is somebody always trying to steal our joy. Doesn’t matter whether you live in Ferguson or New York, Baltimore or McKinney, Texas. It’s children&#8217;s day and we got to lift up our children because our children are in trouble, and it’s often those who are sworn to protect who cause more trouble. Not everybody, but did it not break your heart, it broke mine, to see an officer of the law manhandle a 14-year-old child in a bikini? It hearkened back to the ugliest days down south and up south. And if you&#8217;re not careful it can steal your joy when you think about the fact that our children are in danger, and it doesn’t matter whether they are male or female, whether they live in the Bronx or a gated community, whether they are wearing a hood or a bikini.</blockquote>
The full sermon can be found <a href="https://livestream.com/historicebenezerbaptistchurch/events/4127076/videos/90267290">here</a>. (relevant portion begins around 1:12:00)
In a Nov. 29 sermon, Warnock said that the United States has a relatively high prison population compared to the rest of the world and that the high number of prisoners is a direct result of harsh police tactics. He said:
<blockquote>Don’t ever talk about police brutality without talking about America’s prison industrial complex. The land of the free is the incarceration capital of the world. When you think about the fact that America still warehouses 25% of the world’s prisoners, we shouldn’t be surprised when we see police officers act like bullies on the street. You don’t get to be the incarceration capital of the world by playing nice on the streets. You have to work for that distinction.</blockquote>
The full sermon can be found <a href="https://livestream.com/historicebenezerbaptistchurch/events/4546143/videos/105815185">here</a>. (relevant portion begins around 36:00)
National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Nathan Brand slammed Warnock’s past comments in a statement, saying, “Democrat Raphael Warnock&#8217;s radical views about the men and women keeping Georgia communities safe are completely out-of-touch with the principles and priorities of Georgia families. To refer to police officers as ‘thugs,’ ‘bullies,’ and ‘gangsters’ shows that Warnock is in line with the most extreme elements of the Democratic Party that are funding his campaign.”
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Over the weekend, leftist activists blocked a pick-up truck in Portland near the central police precinct, demanding that the passenger next to the driver give the black power salute and chant “Black Lives Matter”; the truck was later smashed and a window shattered.
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The truck was smashed up later. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandRiots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PortlandRiots</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BLM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BLM</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/antifa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#antifa</a> <a href="https://t.co/NZk8nzoLdE">pic.twitter.com/NZk8nzoLdE</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1307651658709573632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-has-overwhelming-intel-that-portland-violence-organized-by-violent-antifa-anarchists-leaked-email-says">reported last week</a> that a leaked email from a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that the department had &#8220;overwhelming intelligence&#8221; that the extremist violence in Portland was &#8220;organized&#8221; by individuals with an ideology categorized as &#8220;Violent Antifa Anarchist Inspired&#8221; (VAAI).
The Daily Wire noted:
<blockquote>CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge tweeted out a letter that she obtained that was written by Brian Murphy, former Acting Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at DHS, that said in July that the violence in Portland had reached a level that officials could no longer state that the violence was &#8220;opportunistic&#8221; but that it was &#8220;organized.&#8221;
Murphy stated in the email that the individuals who were attacking the federal facilities in the city did so &#8220;based on those ideologies.&#8221;
&#8220;We have overwhelming intelligence regarding the ideologies driving individuals towards violence and why the violence has continued,&#8221; Murphy continued. &#8220;A core set of threat actors are organized, show up night after night, share common TTPs [tactics, techniques and procedures] and drawing on like minded individuals to their cause.&#8221;</blockquote>
A poll <a href="https://www.dhmresearch.com/oregon-voters-disapprove-of-the-ongoing-protests/">conducted</a> by DHM Research between September 3 to 8, 2020, of Oregon residents found that 42% of respondents felt the police should use more force; another 18% felt the force currently used was fine with them. Additionally, 66% of Oregonians disapproved of the protests. “Voters ages 18-29 are the only group to approve of the protests, with 62% saying that they approve compared to 33% who disapprove,” DHM Research pointed out.
Only 10% of respondents approved of Oregon Democratic Governor Kate Brown’s response to the protests, and even that was better than the 8% of respondents who approved of leftist Democrat Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s response. 46% of Oregon voters approved of the Portland police response to the ongoing protests and 45% disapproved.
DHM Research stated, “At the end of the survey, we asked voters what word is a more accurate description of the events in Portland: 55% said riot and 37% said protest.”
On September 9, the city of Portland — decimated by rioters the prior three months — banned the use of facial-recognition technology by local police.
“Its decision to prevent both local government and businesses from employing the technology appears to be the most sweeping ban yet by an individual city,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/0">CNN reported</a>, adding:
<blockquote>The <a href="https://www.portlandoregon.gov/auditor/article/765749">new rule</a> prevents <a href="https://www.portlandoregon.gov/auditor/article/765749">&#8220;private entities in places of public accommodation&#8221;</a> in Portland from using it, too, referring to businesses that serve the general public — a grocery store or a pizza place, for instance. It does not prevent individuals from setting up facial-recognition technology at home, such as a Google Nest camera that can spot familiar faces, or gadgets that use facial-recognition software for authenticating users, like Apple&#8217;s Face ID feature for unlocking an iPhone.</blockquote>
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Violent rioters, identified by journalists as allegedly being far-left Antifa, attacked a car with a dog inside on Saturday in what was just one of a number of violent acts carried out by the fringe activists.
Journalist Andy Ngo, who recently testified in front of the U.S. Senate on Antifa, wrote that the attack happened in Philadelphia: &#8220;Antifa black bloc militants smash up a car that has a dog in the back. Far-left rioters gathered today to oppose a right-wing event at Clark Park.&#8221;
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Philadelphia: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antifa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Antifa</a> black bloc militants smash up a car that has a dog in the back. Far-left rioters gathered today to oppose a right-wing event at Clark Park. Video by <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElijahSchaffer</a>: <a href="https://t.co/glB4RNNTBk">pic.twitter.com/glB4RNNTBk</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1307397954655776769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Journalist Elijah Schaffer, who appeared to be the one who recorded the video, added the following context: &#8220;Antifa mistakingly attacks an Anti-Trump protester calling him a Nazi. Destroys his car while he tried to escape after he tried to assault content creator @realJamesKlug w/ a bar. A dog is in the back, clearly terrified, &amp; barks as black bloc smashes his windows.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Antifa mistakingly attacks an Anti-Trump protester calling him a Nazi
Destroys his car while he tried to escape after he tried to assault content creator <a href="https://twitter.com/realJamesKlug?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realJamesKlug</a> w/ a bar
A dog is in the back, clearly terrified, &amp; barks as black bloc smashes his windows <a href="https://t.co/P2eXbS1Ru9">pic.twitter.com/P2eXbS1Ru9</a>
&mdash; ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1307387847339630599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Journalist Drew Hernandez, who was reporting from Washington, D.C., highlighted a different incident that unfolded.
&#8220;A DC BLM activist physically assaults a gay man by hitting him in the face with her megaphone,&#8221; Hernandez wrote. &#8220;Antifa militants then trespass the front yard of his friend they are having a get together on and begin to lay hands on him.&#8221;
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BREAKING: A DC BLM activist physically assaults a gay man by hitting him in the face with her megaphone 
Antifa militants then trespass the front yard of his friend they are having a get together on and begin to lay hands on him <a href="https://t.co/jRsIq6E2pv">pic.twitter.com/jRsIq6E2pv</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1307484906910613507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;DC BLM and Antifa descended upon a gay neighborhood tonight and began to intimidate and harass multiple gay people,&#8221; Hernandez continued, &#8220;Including a man with his puppy accusing him of &#8216;physically assaulting&#8217; them and for not wearing a mask.&#8221;
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BREAKING: DC BLM and Antifa descended upon a gay neighborhood tonight and began to intimidate and harass multiple gay people
Including a man with his puppy accusing him of “physically assaulting” them and for not wearing a mask <a href="https://t.co/R2AIDsEneb">pic.twitter.com/R2AIDsEneb</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1307486783987384326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hernandez documented another alleged incident, writing: &#8220;A BLM activist can be seen getting extremely aggressive with the gay man to the point of threatening him by saying: &#8216;You are mother f*cking lucky&#8217; because the gay man’s accomplice escorted him away.&#8221;
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BREAKING: DC BLM and Antifa descended upon a gay neighborhood tonight
A BLM activist can be seen getting extremely aggressive with the gay man to the point of threatening him by saying: 
“You are mother f*cking lucky” because the gay man’s accomplice escorted him away <a href="https://t.co/cu43u5XOkw">pic.twitter.com/cu43u5XOkw</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1307489408476684289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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There were a number of reported instances of the far-left rioters intimidating journalists and forcing them into leaving the scene.
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DC: Tonight BLM and Antifa mobilized to remove a Hispanic photographer who they were randomly claiming was “harassing women” at their protest 
The photographer was <a href="https://twitter.com/slestevez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@slestevez</a> <a href="https://t.co/js6A7YuOfa">pic.twitter.com/js6A7YuOfa</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1307502514154209280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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BLM rioters follow, harass and threaten videographer <a href="https://twitter.com/VenturaReport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VenturaReport</a> earlier today in Washington DC: <a href="https://t.co/WK4wMpQRBp">pic.twitter.com/WK4wMpQRBp</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1307567121208020994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The extremists attacked businesses in Portland, causing damage to buildings, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
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Press Release: March in Downtown Streets, No Arrests Made (Photo) Link: <a href="https://t.co/8nZQ6WFoIM">https://t.co/8nZQ6WFoIM</a> <a href="https://t.co/ID2WybRJLT">pic.twitter.com/ID2WybRJLT</a>
&mdash; Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) <a href="https://twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/1307630126029565952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Attorney General William Barr reportedly told U.S. federal prosecutors during a conference call last week that they needed to be aggressive in charging the violent rioters terrorizing American cities, adding that prosecutors should consider going after them for plotting to overthrow the U.S. government,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ag-barr-orders-feds-to-crackdown-on-violent-rioters-including-pursuing-sedition-charges-report">reported</a>. &#8220;The conference call comes as the U.S. is just weeks away from the upcoming November elections, which Barr warned could spark even more violent riots than the ones that have already caused billions of dollars in damage.&#8221;
A recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-has-overwhelming-intel-that-portland-violence-organized-by-violent-antifa-anarchists-leaked-email-says">leaked email</a> from a top DHS official said that the department had  “overwhelming intelligence” that the extremist violence in Portland was “organized” by individuals with an ideology categorized as “Violent Antifa Anarchist Inspired” (VAAI).
The Daily Wire added: &#8220;One step that the feds have taken to get around local leftist prosecutors who are dropping many of the charges against those charged during the violent riots was deputizing police in Oregon so that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-state-police-now-federally-deputized-giving-us-attorney-power-to-prosecute-portland-rioters-even-if-da-wont">federal charges</a> could be sought against those who might escape local charges.&#8221;
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The thing about the commies currently rioting in our streets is that everything they believe is the opposite of the truth. No, really: that’s actually the case. At the heart of their General Misunderstanding of Everything is a dictum from Chapter 2 of Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s Communist Manifesto: “the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
When all property is held in common, Marx and Engels argued, property “loses its class character,” meaning essentially that the use of wealth to oppress certain underprivileged groups will cease and an age of universal brotherhood will begin. Just give everything to the state, and true equality will break forth like the dawn!
This is the theory currently motivating so many people to tear American cities apart. Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the New York Times’s 1619 Project, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/ny-times-reporter-says-destroying-property-is-not-violence/">argued</a> on CBS that the destruction of private property is “not violence” but rather a means for BLM rioters to achieve justice. When a group of insurrectionists seized an “autonomous” portion of Seattle’s Capitol Hill and named it the CHAZ/CHOP, VOX breathlessly <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/ny-times-reporter-says-destroying-property-is-not-violence/">advertised</a> the program as one of “free political speech, co-ops, and community gardens.”
The people burning our cities down are all, however vaguely or subconsciously, seduced by the impossible Communist dream of a future in which everything belongs to everyone.
In fact, as has become readily apparent, the abolition of private property is not a precondition for the Age of Aquarius but a recipe for misery, resentment, and wanton violence. The reasons for this would already have been perfectly clear to our revolutionary knuckleheads if they had read their Aristotle.
When the ancient Greek philosopher Plato argued in his Republic that a perfectly just society should be one in which all things are owned in common, his student Aristotle took issue. He <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0058%3Abook%3D2">wrote</a> in Book 2 of his Politics that
<blockquote>Property that is common to the greatest number of owners receives the least attention; men care most for their private possessions, and for what they own in common less, or only so far as it falls to their own individual share for in addition to the other reasons, they think less of it on the ground that someone else is thinking about it&#8230; [This] results in each citizen&#8217;s having a thousand sons, and these do not belong to them as individuals but any child is equally the son of anyone, so that all alike will regard them with indifference. </blockquote>
In this one paragraph, Aristotle destroyed Marx 2000 years before he was even born.
What the Greeks came to understand through their philosophical tradition is this: property isn’t just stuff. It’s part of who we are and how we express ourselves in the world. Making something our own — caring for it as our own responsibility and no one else’s — is an act of love. Give everything to everyone, and that love is stretched thin, diluted like a drop of wine in a vast ocean of water.
This observation was carried forward in the Western tradition and became a core part of the American founding. James Madison, in his essay on “<a href="https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s23.html">Property</a>,” would observe that only societies which allow individuals to keep what they own — their own land, their own wealth, their own opinions, their own relationships — can be truly just. Much later, in 1833, the economist William Forster Lloyd would observe what became known as the “tragedy of the commons”: all property held in common is doomed to mismanagement unless someone regulates it.
This of course is always the tortured punch line of the joke which is Communism: once we all own everything, we must submit in everything to the judgment of state overseers, or face lawlessness and disaster.
The BLM and Antifa mobs currently tearing down buildings and statues think they’ve come up with some new idea. In fact all they’ve come up with is an ancient and profound misunderstanding about how human life, labor, and affection work. This would be hilarious if it weren’t currently threatening to unmake everything that America is, and everything that the West holds dear.
Spencer Klavan is host of the <a href="http://youngheretics.com/">Young Heretics</a> podcast and assistant editor of the <a href="https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/">Claremont Review of</a> Booksand <a href="https://americanmind.org/">The American Mind</a>. He can be reached on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/spencerklavan">@SpencerKlavan</a>.
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Left-wing media figures rushed to threaten violent riots on Friday evening if President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attempt to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away earlier in the day.
Reza Aslan, who used to have a show on CNN, responded by writing: &#8220;If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire f***ing thing down.&#8221;
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You all have been threatening, and attempting that for 4 years now. This is a terrorist threat. Thanks to all the traitors to America for poking their heads out today. You make this all too easy for us. <a href="https://t.co/D917dCddj9">https://t.co/D917dCddj9</a> <a href="https://t.co/2GBCzlRxhY">https://t.co/2GBCzlRxhY</a> <a href="https://t.co/yYfIuHCGin">pic.twitter.com/yYfIuHCGin</a>
&mdash; Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) <a href="https://twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307127650360623104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Political writer Laura Bassett echoed a similar sentiment, but stopped short of making a threat, writing: &#8220;If McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots. &#8230; *more, bigger riots.&#8221;
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Thanks, Laura, for letting us know who has been behind the riots. <a href="https://t.co/32chOHcsmU">https://t.co/32chOHcsmU</a> <a href="https://t.co/ErSvDSd6dl">pic.twitter.com/ErSvDSd6dl</a>
&mdash; Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) <a href="https://twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307128905703329793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Australian astrophysicist Dr. Jessie Christiansen tweeted: &#8220;IF THEY RAM THROUGH AN APPOINTMENT IN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS I WILL RIOT. This is an actual nightmare.&#8221;
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THE DEMOCRATS HAVE ALREADY BEEN RIOTING SINCE MAY<a href="https://t.co/00ps6QE8gj">https://t.co/00ps6QE8gj</a> <a href="https://t.co/ynMS9yDJzz">https://t.co/ynMS9yDJzz</a> <a href="https://t.co/sbbpWryxd3">pic.twitter.com/sbbpWryxd3</a>
&mdash; Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) <a href="https://twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307137798848249856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Writer Beau Willimon wrote: “We’re shutting this country down if Trump and McConnell try to ram through an appointment before the election.”
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&quot;If we don&#39;t get it&#8230;shut it down!&quot; &#8211; Democrats 2020<a href="https://t.co/sB6NdwDmsI">https://t.co/sB6NdwDmsI</a> <a href="https://t.co/FDkUmuctpb">https://t.co/FDkUmuctpb</a> <a href="https://t.co/IibpbiSy3Z">pic.twitter.com/IibpbiSy3Z</a>
&mdash; Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) <a href="https://twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307134179696668673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Political commentator Katie Herzog wrote: &#8220;All we can hope for in times like these is that Mitch McConnell has a stroke from laughing too hard. To clarify: I don’t want him to die. I just want him to be brain dead. I’m not a monster.&#8221;
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&quot;I hope Mitch McConnell would die or go brain dead. I mean from laughter, of course&#8230;&quot; &#8211; Katie Herzog, not a monster. <a href="https://t.co/jONiNtUewi">https://t.co/jONiNtUewi</a> <a href="https://t.co/t628VG3H7B">https://t.co/t628VG3H7B</a> <a href="https://t.co/O7sMRqL17Y">pic.twitter.com/O7sMRqL17Y</a>
&mdash; Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) <a href="https://twitter.com/KittyLists/status/1307136680567222275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Another leftist wrote: &#8220;tell me when we’re meeting outside mitch mcconnell’s house.&#8221;
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In August of 2019, protesters appeared outside of Senator McConnell’s home and said someone should “stab the motherfu*cker in the heart.” <a href="https://t.co/317nYnNaUd">https://t.co/317nYnNaUd</a> <a href="https://t.co/JZbxHnHya2">pic.twitter.com/JZbxHnHya2</a>
&mdash; Ben Goldey (@BenGoldey) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenGoldey/status/1307142221758713857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Professor Emmett Macfarlane wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Burn Congress down before letting Trump try to appoint anyone to SCOTUS.&#8221;
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Bruh. <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EmmMacfarlane</a> really letting it all out there, huh.<a href="https://t.co/1wL0NxhGwf">https://t.co/1wL0NxhGwf</a> <a href="https://t.co/sm0xipzVtD">pic.twitter.com/sm0xipzVtD</a>
&mdash; L 🤺 (@SomeBitchIKnow) <a href="https://twitter.com/SomeBitchIKnow/status/1307134048515567617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8216;I Can&#8217;t Breathe&#8217; Protest Held After Man Dies In Police Custody In Minneapolis

Media Figures Threaten Riots If GOP Tries To Fill SCOTUS Seat: Burn It All Down

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Left-wing media figures rushed to threaten violent riots on Friday evening if President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

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Attorney General William Barr reportedly told U.S. federal prosecutors during a conference call last week that they needed to be aggressive in charging the violent rioters terrorizing American cities, adding that prosecutors should consider going after them for plotting to overthrow the U.S. government.
The conference call comes as the U.S. is just weeks away from the upcoming November elections, which Barr warned could spark even more violent riots than the ones that have already <a href="https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html">caused</a> billions of dollars in damage. Barr reportedly encouraged prosecutors to consider charging the far-left extremists behind the violence with a rarely used sedition law.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/barr-tells-prosecutors-to-consider-charging-violent-protesters-with-sedition-11600276683">reported</a>:
<blockquote>In more recent months, police officials say they are alarmed by the presence of armed fringe groups from both sides of the political spectrum. Mr. Barr has blamed much of the violence on leftist extremists including antifa, a loose network of groups and people that describe themselves as opposing fascism and which Mr. Barr has described as a movement advocating revolution.
In the call last week, Mr. Barr urged prosecutors to seek federal charges whenever possible, two of the people said. He listed a number of additional statutes they could potentially use, including one addressing conspiracies or plots to overthrow the government.</blockquote>
Earlier this week, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-has-overwhelming-intel-that-portland-violence-organized-by-violent-antifa-anarchists-leaked-email-says">leaked email</a> from a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed that the department has “overwhelming intelligence” that the extremist violence in Portland was “organized” by individuals with an ideology categorized as “Violent Antifa Anarchist Inspired” (VAAI).
One step that the feds have taken to get around local leftist prosecutors who are <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/08/hundreds-of-portland-protesters-will-see-their-criminal-cases-dropped-as-da-announces-plan-to-recognize-the-right-to-speak.html">dropping</a> many of the charges against those charged during the violent riots was deputizing police in Oregon so that federal charges could be sought against those who might escape local charges.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-state-police-now-federally-deputized-giving-us-attorney-power-to-prosecute-portland-rioters-even-if-da-wont">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Oregon State Police who are now charged with keeping the peace in Portland and its surrounding suburbs have been “cross-deputized” by the federal government, a local news organization revealed Wednesday, meaning that those arrested by Oregon state police officers can be prosecuted by the United States attorney for crimes stemming from the ongoing unrest even if the local prosecutor refuses to.
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Federal officials would not reveal the full list of crimes they may prosecute even if the Multnomah County DA refuses, but federal officers did make a number of arrests while they were assigned to protect federal property in downtown Portland, including “trespassing on federal property, arson, assaulting federal officers, failing to comply with a lawful order and creating a disturbance.”
It is also possible that the federal deputization will allow the U.S. Attorney’s office to investigate those individuals arrested for ties to larger, national organizations. Attorney General William Barr announced, back in June, that the federal government is treating “Antifa” — or “anti-fascists” — as a domestic terror organization and is seeking information on how the group organizes and moves money and supplies across state lines.</blockquote>
During a Fox News interview late last month, DHS Secretary Chad Wolf said that the feds were “targeting and reviewing” the heads of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and those who fund them in response to the violent riots and looting that have plagued America&#8217;s inner cities for most of the summer.
“Department of Justice is also targeting and investigating the head of these organizations, the individuals that are paying for these individuals to move across the country,” Wolf <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-chief-feds-targeting-and-investigating-heads-of-blm-antifa-and-those-who-fund-them">said</a>. “What we know…is that we have seen groups and individuals move from Portland to other parts of the country. We had about about 175 arrests in Kenosha, almost 100 of them were from out of state. So, we know they are moving around. We have seen them in D.C., in Sacramento, and elsewhere. They are organized. We have seen similar tactics being used from Portland and other cities across the country as well. So, we know that there is organization. I know the Department of Justice is also looking at that as well.”
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Daily Protests In Portland Continue Into Third Month

AG Barr Orders Feds To Crack Down On Violent Rioters, Including Pursuing Sedition Charges: Report

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Attorney General William Barr reportedly told U.S. federal prosecutors during a conference call last week that they needed to be aggressive in charging

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After months of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riots-looting-that-followed-george-floyds-death-could-cost-2-billion-most-expensive-incident-in-insurance-history">destructive and costly riots</a> popping up in mostly Democrat-controlled cities across the nation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has finally condemned the violence — though she did not mention Black Lives Matter or Antifa by name.
&#8220;We support peaceful demonstrations. We participate in them. They are part of the essence of our democracy. That does not include looting, starting fires, or rioting,&#8221; Pelosi said Thursday, rebuking accusations that Democrats have not denounced the violence. &#8220;They should be prosecuted. That is lawlessness.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/13/fact-check-democrats-have-condemned-violence-linked-protests/3317862001/">According</a> to a USA Today &#8220;fact check&#8221; last month, Pelosi did not condemn violent acts by Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters for the recent destruction, though the outlet did note that Pelosi once condemned violent acts from &#8220;people calling themselves Antifa,&#8221; way back in 2017.
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Speaker Pelosi: &quot;We support peaceful demonstrations. We participate in them. They are part of the essence of our democracy. That does not include looting, starting fires, or rioting. They should be prosecuted. That is lawlessness.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Xq89RLR70f">pic.twitter.com/Xq89RLR70f</a>
&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1306642824469725185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The change in tune was noticed online. Conservative writer Stephen L. Miller, for example, quipped, &#8220;Someone&#8217;s office got some polling data.&#8221;
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Someone&#39;s office got some polling data. <a href="https://t.co/t6kuEiwC5e">https://t.co/t6kuEiwC5e</a>
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Indeed, recent polling in so-called &#8220;riot zones&#8221; shows President Donald Trump being favored significantly against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-riot-zone-voters-favor-donald-trump-by-2-to-1-margin">The Daily Wire</a> reported Wednesday:
<blockquote>A new poll from Rassmussen Reports suggests that “Riot Zone” voters — those who live in and around areas affected by recent looting and destruction — favor President Donald Trump’s approach to handling unrest by a 2-to-1 margin.
The Washington Examiner reports that the poll, which, as The Daily Wire pointed out Wednesday, also has Trump leading for the first time, shows that “63% of voters who have seen violent protests in their community ‘strongly approve’ of the president — just 35% don’t.”</blockquote>
“The survey is the latest showing Trump winning the ‘law and order vote’ as the country sees violence from the protests expand from big cities to smaller communities, such as Lancaster, Pennsylvania,” The Washington Examiner noted, adding: “Trump’s position is not only winning fans but may also be helping his overall approval rating. Rasmussen, for example, also said that Trump’s approval rating is 51% for a second day. At this stage of his presidency and reelection campaign, former President Barack Obama had a 49% approval rating.”
President Trump and his surrogates are clearly aware of the winning &#8220;law and order&#8221; message, in stark contrast with elected Democrats. A viral video compiled last month highlights the destructive riots and top Democrats&#8217; heated remarks, including from Speaker Pelosi.
Featured at both the beginning and end of the video compilation, Pelosi refers to Republicans and the White House as “domestic enemies” and “enemies of the state” and boosts “uprisings all over the country.”
“We take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” the speaker said in August. “And sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting system and our honoring our Constitution are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with their allies in the Congress of the United States.”
“They’re doing everything they can—suppress the vote with your actions, scare people, intimidate by saying law enforcement will be there, diminish the role of the postal system in all of this,” Pelosi said, adding, “It’s really actually shameful. Enemies of the state.”
Additionally, in June of 2018 <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/14/pelosi_i_dont_even_know_why_there_arent_uprisings_all_over_the_country_over_migrant_child_separation.html">Pelosi</a> said while speaking about humanitarian issues at the border, “I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country—and maybe there will be, when [people] realize that this is a policy that they defend.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/viral-video-shows-leading-democrats-promoting-uprisings-unrest-harassment">Viral Video Shows Leading Democrats Promoting ‘Uprisings,’ ‘Unrest,’ Harassment</a>
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‘Someone’s Office Got Some Polling Data’: Pelosi FINALLY Condemns Violent Rioting, Doesn’t Name BLM, Antifa

After months of destructive and costly riots popping up in mostly Democrat-controlled cities across the nation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has

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In a phone call with federal prosecutors last week, Attorney General William Barr suggested that individuals arrested during &#8220;violent protests&#8221; like those in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, could be charged with &#8220;sedition.&#8221;
&#8220;Attorney General William Barr told federal prosecutors in a call last week that they should consider charging rioters and others who committed violent crimes at protests in recent months with sedition, according to two people familiar with the call,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-barr-sedition-charges-protest-violence-20200917-gjqq26mpdzd65pcf3jwie4ojba-story.html">Chicago Tribune reports</a>.
The suggestion &#8220;alarmed&#8221; some attorneys, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/politics/barr-sedition/index.html">CNN adds</a>, noting that the charges would suggest that violent protesters are conspiring together to overthrow or undermine the authority of the federal government.
Individuals are rarely charged with sedition. When it happens, those same individuals are rarely convicted. In 2010, CNN notes, the federal government charged &#8220;a right-wing militia called the Hutarees with seditious conspiracy. They were acquitted for lack of evidence. Federal prosecutors were successful in using the law against Puerto Rican separatists in the 1930s.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-state-police-now-federally-deputized-giving-us-attorney-power-to-prosecute-portland-rioters-even-if-da-wont">The Daily Wire previously reported</a>, Barr and other Department of Justice officials are concerned that district attorneys in places like Portland are simply charging and releasing protesters who go on to engage in further destruction and violence.
When the Department of Homeland Security agreed, back in August, to pull elite Customs and Border Protection agents from their posts protecting a downtown Portland courthouse from nightly unrest, DHS &#8220;federal deputized&#8221; members of the Oregon State Police so that Oregon&#8217;s United States Attorney&#8217;s office could prosecute rioters if the Portland district attorney refused.
Federal officials have charged at least 74 people in Portland with federal crimes, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-27/protesters-federal-charges-portland-george-floyd-protests">the Los Angeles Times</a> reported in late August. &#8220;The misdemeanor and felony charges include assaults on federal officers, arson and damaging federal property,&#8221; the outlet notes.
<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/09/oregon-pursues-first-federal-charges-of-civil-disorder-for-alleged-violence-at-portland-protests.html">Oregon Live adds</a> that several Portland protesters were also charged with &#8220;rare&#8221; federal &#8220;civil disorder&#8221; for their roles in &#8220;alleged violence during this summer’s turbulent protests.&#8221; In Rochester, New York, the federal government intervened to charge two individuals accused of &#8220;civil disorder,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/nyregion/rochester-protests-federal-prosecution.html">per The New York Times</a>.
&#8220;The men who were charged on Wednesday, Dallas Williams-Smothers and Adam Green, were part of a crowd of protesters that grew to around 1,500 people on Saturday night, the authorities said,&#8221; per the NY Times. &#8220;Williams-Smothers, 20, threw a mortar-style firework at a line of officers and then ran off,&#8221; the outlet adds. Green swung a &#8220;wooden shield&#8221; at a cop trying to clear the streets after the Rochester police department declared the incident a riot.
&#8220;Civil disorder,&#8221; Oregon Live says, &#8220;is defined as &#8216;public disturbance involving acts of violence&#8217; by three or more people &#8216;which causes an immediate danger of or results in&#8217; injury to people or their property.&#8221;
<a href="https://apnews.com/cbca8672a70f9f170a086a7a252a751e">The Associated Press reports</a> that at least 300 people have been arrested on federal charges for their respective roles in ongoing unrest. Most of those individuals were charged with arson to federal property (which includes arson to police vehicles) or the illegal possession of a firearm. None of those 300 were charged with conspiracy to undermine the federal government.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-state-police-now-federally-deputized-giving-us-attorney-power-to-prosecute-portland-rioters-even-if-da-wont">RELATED: Oregon State Police Now ‘Federally Deputized,’ Giving US Attorney Power To Prosecute Rioters Even If DA Won’t</a>
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REPORT: AG William Barr Suggested Charging Violent Protesters With Sedition

In a phone call with federal prosecutors last week, Attorney General William Barr suggested that individuals arrested during &quot;violent protests&quot; like those

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A Kappa Delta sorority sister at Pennsylvania&#8217;s Franklin &amp; Marshall College found herself behind bars with bail set at $1 million after engaging in alleged criminal protesting.
Kathryn Patterson, 20, joined demonstrations in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, over the fatal police shooting of 27-year-old Ricardo Munoz, who, according to body-cam footage, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/violent-riots-looting-hit-pennsylvania-after-cop-shoots-black-man-suspect-charged-at-cop-with-knife-video-shows">charged an officer</a> while wielding a knife.
The undergrad was charged with arson, among other felony charges.
In total, 12 other alleged criminal rioters were also charged, with nine of them slapped with a $1 million bail, including Patterson.
Speaking to The Associated Press, Patterson&#8217;s father Chip Patterson <a href="https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-lancaster-police-shooting-protest-1-million-bail-20200915-prprb2ohb5ht5oscjebr4x4qpq-story.html">called</a> the $1 million bail &#8220;obscene.&#8221;
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“Everything that I know so far, which is not a lot, indicates that Kat is not guilty of those charges,&#8221; he told the news outlet. &#8220;But then again, we’ll have to wait and see.&#8221;
“I cannot tell you how long this night has been,” Mr. Patterson added. “I think regardless of what these people did or didn’t do, the bail amount is just outrageous and clearly against the Eighth Amendment.&#8221;
The college student has been dubbed an &#8220;ally&#8221; of the Black Student Union at Franklin &amp; Marshall College, where tuition is just under $60,000 a year.
The young woman&#8217;s sorority, too, is boosting Patterson.
&#8220;Last Wednesday, Franklin &amp; Marshall&#8217;s Kappa Delta sorority features one its sisters in a recruitment post on how [Kappa Delta] helped her &#8216;grow exponentially as a person.&#8217; Yesterday, it posted that it needed to raise $10k to help bail her out of jail for arson,&#8221; reported Brent Scher, on Tuesday.
&#8220;Every day, the women in [Kappa Delta] inspire me to pursue my dreams and change the world, and I love them for that,&#8221; Patterson gushed over the sorority, according to the Instagram post.
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Last Wednesday, Franklin &amp; Marshall&#39;s Kappa Delta sorority features one its sisters in a recruitment post on how KD helped her &quot;grow exponentially as a person.&quot; 
Yesterday, it posted that it needed to raise $10k to help bail her out of jail for arson. <a href="https://t.co/K05Eb38i5P">https://t.co/K05Eb38i5P</a> <a href="https://t.co/HMJzci7PqH">pic.twitter.com/HMJzci7PqH</a>
&mdash; Brent Scher (@BrentScher) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1306273371848613894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As noted by Fox News, the 20-year-old&#8217;s social media pages indicate she&#8217;s been at Black Lives Matter protests before.
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Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/katie.patterson.98096">Kat Patterson</a> on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2602490433333254&amp;set=a.1378075735774736&amp;type=3">Saturday, August 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A GoFundMe set up for Patterson reads:
<blockquote>On Sunday 09/13/2020 Lancaster PD shot and killed Ricardo Munoz. During the protest that evening Lancaster PD detained Kathryn Patterson. Kat is a student at Franklin and Marshall College where she is an ally of BSU, and  a member of Kappa Delta Sorority.
Kat was providing medical attention to injured demonstrators and has now been wrongfully accused of crimes she could not possibly commit.
We as members of the Black Student Union and Kappa Delta Sorority, have created this fund to raise money to support Kat and her family. 
~ In Unity Lies Strength</blockquote>
In response to the fatal shooting of Munoz, the Lancaster Bureau of Police outlined the incident in a public <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/violent-riots-looting-hit-pennsylvania-after-cop-shoots-black-man-suspect-charged-at-cop-with-knife-video-shows">statement</a>:
<blockquote>“The first officer on the scene walked to the front of the residence and made contact with a woman, who was identified as a family member. A male subject then exited the front door of the residence and began chasing the officer. Preliminary information and body worn camera footage indicates that the male subject had a knife in his right hand as he was chasing the officer. The officer fired several shots from his firearm, striking the subject. The subject, identified as 27 year old Lancaster man, did not survive his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. The officer was the only police officer on the scene at the time of the shooting and his body worn camera was activated and recorded the encounter.”</blockquote>
UPDATE:
District Court Judge Bruce Roth reduced charged protesters&#8217; bail on Thursday, following backlash from Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and other protester and civil rights groups.
&#8220;Five protesters petitioned for a lower bail, and other protesters had their bail reduced by Judge Roth after he reviewed the bail on Thursday in courthouse A at the Lancaster County Courthouse,&#8221; Lancaster Online <a href="https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/bail-modified-for-9-protesters-arrested-following-lancaster-protests-after-fatal-police-shooting-update/article_35fd855c-f8dd-11ea-b323-8b48a91413cb.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=user-share">reported</a>. &#8220;The defense attorneys and the Lancaster County District Attorney&#8217;s office helped the judge come to a conclusion for the new bail amounts, Judge Roth said.&#8221;
Patterson&#8217;s bail has been reduced to $50,000.
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A Kappa Delta sorority sister at Pennsylvania&#039;s Franklin &amp; Marshall College found herself behind bars with bail set at $1 million after engaging in

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A new poll from Rassmussen Reports suggests that &#8220;Riot Zone&#8221; voters — those who live in and around areas affected by recent looting and destruction — favor President Donald Trump&#8217;s approach to handling unrest by a 2-to-1 margin.
The Washington Examiner reports that the poll, which, as The Daily Wire pointed out Wednesday, also has Trump leading for the first time, shows that “63% of voters who have seen violent protests in their community ‘strongly approve’ of the president — just 35% don’t.”
&#8220;The survey is the latest showing Trump winning the &#8216;law and order vote&#8217; as the country sees violence from the protests expand from big cities to smaller communities, such as Lancaster, Pennsylvania,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/riot-zone-voters-back-trump-2-1-and-most-say-violence-impacts-vote">per the Examiner</a>.
&#8220;Trump’s position is not only winning fans but may also be helping his overall approval rating,&#8221; the outlet notes. &#8220;Rasmussen, for example, also said that Trump’s approval rating is 51% for a second day. At this stage of his presidency and reelection campaign, former President Barack Obama had a 49% approval rating.&#8221;
More concerning, perhaps, for Biden, is the number of voters who see protest-related violence in their communities as a top issue in the upcoming election.
&#8220;The law and order vote is a big one. Rasmussen said that 42% of likely voters said that their communities have hosted the anti-police protests in their communities. And nearly half said those protests turned violent, making them a big issue, even to those who haven’t witnessed the violence,&#8221; the Examiner noted.
The number of voters who say violence is a &#8220;very important&#8221; issue for them ranges from 65% to 76%, with the higher number being voters who live in districts that have actually seen protest-related violence.
The poll numbers may not be surprising to either Trump&#8217;s re-election team or Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign; Biden, of course, shifted his tone on ongoing unrest dramatically after riots broke out in Kenosha, Wisconsin—a more residential city in a swing state. They may, however, be surprising to the Black Lives Matter movement overall, which is seeing its popularity decline as Trump&#8217;s rises.
A second poll, this one <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/16/support-for-black-lives-matter-has-decreased-since-june-but-remains-strong-among-black-americans/?utm_source=AdaptiveMailer&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20-9-16%20BLM%20Support%20&amp;%20News%20Coverage%20FT%20-%20heads%20up&amp;org=982&amp;lvl=100&amp;ite=7132&amp;lea=1568705&amp;ctr=0&amp;par=1&amp;trk=">from Pew Research</a>, shows a marked decline in overall support for Black Lives Matter, from 67% at the height of national anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests, to 55% now. &#8220;The share who say they strongly support the movement stands at 29%, down from 38% three months ago,&#8221; Pew adds.
&#8220;The recent decline in support for the Black Lives Matter movement is particularly notable among White and Hispanic adults,&#8221; the outlet notes. &#8220;In June, a majority of White adults (60%) said they supported the movement at least somewhat; now, fewer than half (45%) express at least some support. The share of Hispanic adults who support the movement has decreased 11 percentage points, from 77% in June to 66% today.&#8221;
The problem, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/13/more-voters-classify-blm-unrest-as-riots-rather-than-protests-poll/">New York Post adds</a>, is that many white voters are conflating the Black Lives Matter movement with ongoing, often violent unrest, even though much of the rioting and violence in places like Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, is separate—and often at odds—with the anti-racism protest movement.
Voters are still largely torn on who they believe will be better at leading the country through this crisis. Recent polling from both <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/13/more-voters-classify-blm-unrest-as-riots-rather-than-protests-poll/">Monmouth and Fox News both note</a> that, while voters generally approve of Trump&#8217;s job as president, they do believe Joe Biden is better equipped to handle a national crisis on race.
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POLL: ‘Riot Zone’ Voters Favor Donald Trump By 2-To-1 Margin

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A new poll from Rassmussen Reports suggests that &quot;Riot Zone&quot; voters — those who live in and around areas affected by recent looting and destruction —

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Riots and looting that took place following George Floyd&#8217;s death while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department will cost insurance companies up to $2 billion, making them the most expensive incident in insurance history.
Floyd&#8217;s death on Memorial Day weekend sparked nationwide anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests, which agitators, bent on violence, used as cover to wreak havoc in many of America&#8217;s major cities. The resulting damage is already costing cities like Minneapolis in the hundreds of millions of dollars, <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2020/07/13/federal-government-rejects-minnesota-aid-riots.html#:~:text=The%20federal%20government%20has%20turned,the%20local%20and%20state%20governments.%22">per Minneapolis Business Journal</a>, and now insurance companies report they could be on the hook for billions more.
Axios reports Wednesday that insurance companies could pay up to $2 billion to cover damages, rendering the Floyd riots the single largest insurance event in history, utterly dwarfing the next highest payout event, the Rodney King riots, which cost about $1.4 billion in today&#8217;s dollars, and mid-century race riots in Los Angeles, California, and Detroit, Michigan, which cost around $350 million each.
&#8220;The protests that took place in 140 U.S. cities this spring were mostly peaceful, but the arson, vandalism and looting that did occur will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims — eclipsing the record set in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who brutalized Rodney King,&#8221; Axios noted Wednesday. &#8220;A company called Property Claim Services (PCS) has tracked insurance claims related to civil disorder since 1950. It classifies anything over $25 million in insured losses as a &#8220;catastrophe,&#8221; and reports that the unrest this year (from May 26 to June 8) will cost the insurance industry far more than any prior one.&#8221;
The Floyd riots are also notable because the destruction is ongoing in places like Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, and new riots and incidents of looting crop up in cities weekly, as new police-involved shooting incidents come to light. The $2 billion likely does not include damage in Rochester, New York, or Lancaster, Pennsylvania, both of which played host, last weekend, to demonstrations that eventually turned violent. And it definitely does not include anticipated unrest following the November presidential election.
&#8220;There could be riots [after the election] that lead to significant losses that would meet our reporting thresholds,&#8221; one expert told Axios.
The number also does not cover municipal losses, loss <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/minneapolis-protests-business-looting.html">related to uninsured property</a>, or the cost of quelling protests and repairing city property. Looting incidents in Chicago, Illinois, are expected to cost that city upwards of $60 million. Los Angeles <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/george-floyd-protests-expensive-civil-disturbance-us-history">told Fox News</a> that it expects to pay out nearly $40 million in overtime to police officers and another $25 million to the National Guard.
&#8220;In Seattle, taxpayers spent $6.3 million in overtime, $67,478 on riot gear and $31,172 on pepper spray, flash bangs and other less than lethal weapons, according to SPD.  Police overtime in Portland, Oregon totaled $6.2 million,&#8221; the outlet reported back in August.
In smaller cities, the damage may be less but the cost is still astronomical: &#8220;In Tucson, police overtime for one night May 30 cost taxpayers more than $100,000 for 239 employees, about the annual salaries of two rookie officers. On that same Saturday night, Cleveland police racked up $3 million in overtime. Even small towns incurred costs: Fargo, N.D., spent $840,000 and Harrisburg, Pa., $50,000 in overtime.&#8221;
PCS also noted, in earlier interviews, that insurance costs, at this point, are just an estimate designed to help insurers anticipate how much cash to have on hand for eventual claims.
&#8220;It’s essentially a heads up to carriers, telling them to get ready for an influx of claims and payouts. It will take around three weeks for the company to make an estimate on the insurance bill,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-insurance-bill-for-damage-and-looting-during-protests-over-george-floyds-death-will-be-at-least-25-million-and-thats-just-in-minnesota-2020-06-04">organization told MarketWatch</a> back in June.
The estimate does, at least, fly in the face of claims made by some who defend the riots and looting as &#8220;reparations&#8221; or as legitimate forms of protest. In Chicago, the official Black Lives Matter contingent even went so far as to suggest that &#8220;anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-kenosha-city-owned-property-sustained-2m-in-damages-mayor-asks-for-30m-riot-relief">RELATED: REPORT: Kenosha City-Owned Property Sustained $2M In Damages, Mayor Asks For $30M Riot Relief</a>
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Riots, Looting That Followed George Floyd’s Death Could Cost $2 Billion, Most Expensive Incident In Insurance History

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Riots and looting that took place following George Floyd&#039;s death while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department will cost insurance companies

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Westmoreland County Sheriff James Albert announced this week that he has changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican following months of violent riots and attacks on law enforcement by leftists.
“It was a really difficult decision and I’ve thought long and hard about it, but I feel I stand for the ideals of the Republican Party platform more than the Democrats today,” Albert said. “I’ve been a lifelong Democrat, but a conservative Democrat at that. I’m pro-life, a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, a lifetime member of the NRA and, today, I feel my ideals are closer to the Republican Party than Democrats.”
Albert, 77, has worked for more than four decades in both law enforcement and as a judge.
TribLIVE.com <a href="https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/westmoreland-sheriff-albert-explains-switch-to-gop-i-have-not-left-the-democratic-party-the-democratic-party-has-left-me/">said</a> that Albert&#8217;s decision came after he watched months of news coverage showing “arson, mob rule and attacks against law enforcement.”
“I was saddened and enraged by the murder of David Dorn, a 77-year-old African American retired police captain, who was shot by a pawn shop looter during a protest in St. Louis,” Albert said. “These outrageous, lawless acts have been met with silence, acquiescence and, in some instances, outright support from the local, state and national leadership of the Democratic Party.”
A recent report found that there have been approximately 570 violent riots in nearly 220 locations spread across the U.S.
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Princeton University group studies 3 months of Black Lives Matter protests. Intent is to show they are &#39;overwhelmingly peaceful.&#39; But report reveals nearly 570 violent demonstrations&#8211;riots&#8211;in nearly 220 locations spread all across country. <a href="https://t.co/it60GBbTZT">https://t.co/it60GBbTZT</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ph8iECyHIf">pic.twitter.com/Ph8iECyHIf</a>
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Albert&#8217;s switch comes after six mayors in Minnesota formerly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/six-democrat-mn-mayors-endorse-trump-democrats-left-us-moved-so-far-left-we-dont-recognize-the-party">endorsed</a> President Donald Trump for re-election late last month.
“Today, we write to formally endorse President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for four more years,” the letter said. It was signed by Virginia Mayor Larry Cuffe, Chisholm Mayor John Champa, Ely Mayor Chuck Novak, Two Harbors Mayor Chris Swanson, Eveleth Mayor Robert Vlaisavljevich, and Babbitt Mayor Andrea Zupancich.
“Like many in our region, we have voted for Democrats over many decades,” the letter said. “We have watched as our constituents’ jobs left not only the Iron Range, but our country. By putting tariffs on our products and supporting bad trade deals, politicians like Joe Biden did nothing to help the working class. We lost thousands of jobs, and generations of young people have left the Iron Range in order to provide for their families with good paying jobs elsewhere. Today, we don’t recognize the Democratic Party. It has been moved so far to the left it can no longer claim to be advocates of the working class. The hard-working Minnesotans that built their lives and supported their families here on the Range have been abandoned by radical Democrats. We didn’t choose to leave the Democratic Party, the party left us.”
“Yet, four years ago, something wonderful happened. Donald J. Trump was elected President of the United States, and he stood up to China, implemented tax cuts and fought for the working class,” the letter continued. “Now, four years later, the Iron Range is roaring back to life and for the first time in a very long time, locals are hopeful because of this President’s policies and willingness to fight for us.”
“Lifelong politicians like Joe Biden are out of touch with the working class, out of touch with what the country needs, and out of touch with those of us here on the Iron Range and in small towns like ours across our nation,” the letter concluded. “In this election, there is a lot at stake, but the biggest risk is our jobs, our economy, and our way of life. President Trump delivered the best economy in our nation’s history, and President Trump will deliver for us again. He will continue to fight for every American regardless of party affiliation and continue to stand up for the working class.”
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Philadelphians Kneel In Protest To Systemic Police Violence

Pennsylvania Sheriff Changes To Republican After Violent Riots: ‘Democratic Party Has Left Me’

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Westmoreland County Sheriff James Albert announced this week that he has changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican following months of

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A recent <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/democrats-may-not-be-able-concede/616321/">op-ed in The Atlantic</a> from Shadi Hamid argued that the current spate of rioting across America is likely to worsen in the event that Trump wins the November election, boldly claiming that &#8220;law-and-order Republicans&#8221; have a vested interest in seeing Joe Biden win.
According to Hamid, Democrats may not be able to concede this coming election if Trump wins, forever undermining their faith in democracy and the American electoral system. Numerous factors would contribute to that belief, such as Russian interference, winning the popular vote while losing the Electoral College, and other things. In the event of this loss of faith, Hamid feared that unrest in the streets might increase.
&#8220;I find myself truly worried about only one scenario: that Trump will win reelection and Democrats and others on the left will be unwilling, even unable, to accept the result,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;A loss by Joe Biden under these circumstances is the worst case not because Trump will destroy America (he can’t), but because it is the outcome most likely to undermine faith in democracy, resulting in more of the social unrest and street battles that cities including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/portland-shooting-explained.html" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'2',r'None'">Portland, Oregon,</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/2/21310109/chop-chaz-cleared-violence-explained" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'3',r'None'">Seattle</a> have seen in recent months.&#8221;
In what can only be described as a veiled threat, Hamid then says Republicans have an &#8220;interest&#8221; in seeing Joe Biden pull out a victory this coming November.
&#8220;For this reason, strictly law-and-order Republicans who have responded in dismay to scenes of rioting and looting have an interest in Biden winning—even if they could never bring themselves to vote for him,&#8221; he writes.
Though Hamid doesn&#8217;t explicitly admit this, in many ways, the Democrats&#8217; unwillingness to concede another election loss to Donald Trump may stem from the fact that the media has been pushing the narrative that Joe Biden has already won.
&#8220;A loss for Biden, after having been the clear favorite all summer, would provoke mass disillusion with electoral politics as a means of change—at a time when disillusion is already dangerously high,&#8221; he writes.&#8221;Because Biden’s poll numbers this year have mostly been higher than Clinton’s were in 2016, a Trump victory will be even harder for the left to absorb,&#8221; he continued later.  &#8220;Until Democrats (and commentators like myself) started panicking recently, overconfidence had set in. The polls offered good reason to think that a Trump victory was drifting out of reach—and they still show the former vice president with a significant, if diminished, advantage. No matter how the polls shift, a Trump win means a squandered lead and shattered expectations.&#8221;
Though Trump&#8217;s brash demeanor has certainly contributed to this unrest, Hamid argues that another loss in the Electoral College while winning the popular vote will be too much for the Democrats to handle, since it would be the third time within 20 years that such has happened. Beyond that, argues Hamid, &#8220;liberals have convinced themselves that Republicans are, in one way or another, cheating.&#8221;
Republicans, conversely, will not have the same reaction if they were to lose, argues Hamid. Though a Biden victory would certainly spark anger among the GOP, they would at least have the benefit of being better prepared for it. Those mentally unprepared for such a loss, as in Democrats, may fall subject to &#8220;revolutionary sentiment.&#8221;
&#8220;For anyone who had been following the polls, a Biden victory will prompt little surprise. It is easier to accept the things you had already come to expect,&#8221; he writes.  &#8220;Accepting the things that never should have happened is far more difficult. A certain kind of cognitive dissonance—the gap between what is and what should be—can fuel revolutionary sentiment, and not just in a fluffy, <a href="https://www.thechestore.com/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'17',r'None'">radical-chic</a> kind of way. In such situations, acting outside the political process, including through nonpeaceful means, becomes more attractive, not necessarily out of hope but out of despair.&#8221;
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The Atlantic Op-Ed: Republicans Have ‘An Interest In Biden Winning’ Because Riots Will Likely Increase If He Loses

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A recent op-ed in The Atlantic from Shadi Hamid argued that the current spate of rioting across America is likely to worsen in the event that Trump wins

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Rioters, whom some journalists identified as Antifa and Black Lives Matter supporters, attacked a police station in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Sunday night and threw bricks at police officers.
The attack happened after a Lancaster police officer shot a man, identified by police as Ricardo Munoz, 27, who charged at him with a knife earlier in the day.
The Lancaster Police Department said that a group of more than 100 individuals refused to leave the area after an unlawful assembly had been declared.
&#8220;The group failed to follow the instructions and chemical agents were used to disperse the crowd,&#8221; the department said in a statement. &#8220;Members of the crowd damaged a county vehicle parked in the front of the police station. Bricks were thrown through the front of the police station and into the post office window.&#8221;
&#8220;People on the ramp, W. Chestnut St. and the park adjacent to the station threw water bottles, glass bottles, rocks, bricks, gallon jugs of liquids and parts of plastic road barricades at Officers,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;OC spray was also deployed at protestors that refused to move from the ramp and were physically challenging Officers that were moving to clear people from the ramp. As of time of this release, protestors are still gathered outside the station and have thrown traffic barricades, large planters and trash receptacles across the ramp. Protestors have also damaged a County of Lancaster vehicle parked on W. Chestnut St.&#8221;
Journalists Drew Hernandez and Elijah Schaffer posted videos to social media that showed the rioters attacking the police station and the police officers.
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PENNSYLVANIA: black bloc Antifa destroy the windows and body of a Lancaster detective’s car using a bricks 
Black lives matter protesters join in and call to light the car on fire <a href="https://t.co/3tdCL5zaYi">pic.twitter.com/3tdCL5zaYi</a>
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PENNSYLVANIA: you can see how many projectiles, including water bottles, rocks and brick fragments were thrown at Lancaster police who were clearing the precinct ramp <a href="https://t.co/8zLBG3CUcV">pic.twitter.com/8zLBG3CUcV</a>
&mdash; ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1305370640153706497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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PENNSYLVANIA: After rioters began throwing bricks and breaking windows of the police station 
Police deploy tear gas and rubber bullets again to clear the street and intersection in front of the police station <a href="https://t.co/0xRDMz6o4w">pic.twitter.com/0xRDMz6o4w</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1305381850479767552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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PENNSYLVANIA: Rioters have begun to throw bricks breaking windows of the police station <a href="https://t.co/8zS0aoWn39">pic.twitter.com/8zS0aoWn39</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1305379235465437184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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PENNSYLVANIA: Police have made quick work of the rioters barricade and completely run it over then deploy more tear gas to clear the intersection <a href="https://t.co/srvrqAZEU4">pic.twitter.com/srvrqAZEU4</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1305395509746716672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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PENNSYLVANIA: Last night the BLM rioters seemed to be a bit in experienced with tear gas and continued to result to throwing bricks <a href="https://t.co/W6ObWpTaxO">pic.twitter.com/W6ObWpTaxO</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1305463473204322306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The violent riots and looting broke out after Munoz died in an officer-involved shooting. “Local authorities quickly released footage from the incident that showed the man running out of house and charging at the police officer with a knife,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/violent-riots-looting-hit-pennsylvania-after-cop-shoots-black-man-suspect-charged-at-cop-with-knife-video-shows">reported</a>. &#8220;Police responded to the home after a woman called them to report that her brother was allegedly becoming aggressive with their mother and trying to break into the home.”
“The first officer on the scene walked to the front of the residence and made contact with a woman, who was identified as a family member,” The Lancaster Bureau of Police said in a statement. “A male subject then exited the front door of the residence and began chasing the officer. Preliminary information and body worn camera footage indicates that the male subject had a knife in his right hand as he was chasing the officer. The officer fired several shots from his firearm, striking the subject. The subject, identified as 27 year old Lancaster man, did not survive his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. The officer was the only police officer on the scene at the time of the shooting and his body worn camera was activated and recorded the encounter.”
“The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office was contacted immediately and is now conducting an investigation into the officer-involved shooting,” the statement later added. “While the investigation is still in the early stages and is on-going, the Lancaster City Bureau of Police is releasing this video footage after providing it to the investigators.”
A previous version of this article inaccurately described Munoz as a black man. 
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WATCH: Rioters Throw Bricks At Police In Pennsylvania After Minority Man Shot For Charging Cop With Knife

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Rioters, whom some journalists identified as Antifa and Black Lives Matter supporters, attacked a police station in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Sunday

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Violent riots and looting broke out in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Sunday night after a man, identified by police as Ricardo Munoz, 27, died in an officer-involved shooting. Local authorities quickly released footage from the incident that showed the man running out of house and charging at the police officer with a knife.
Police responded to the home after a woman called them to report that her brother was allegedly becoming aggressive with their mother and trying to break into the home.
&#8220;The first officer on the scene walked to the front of the residence and made contact with a woman, who was identified as a family member,&#8221; The Lancaster Bureau of Police <a href="https://twitter.com/LancasterPolice/status/1305333891042082817">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;A male subject then exited the front door of the residence and began chasing the officer. Preliminary information and body worn camera footage indicates that the male subject had a knife in his right hand as he was chasing the officer. The officer fired several shots from his firearm, striking the subject. The subject, identified as 27 year old Lancaster man, did not survive his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. The officer was the only police officer on the scene at the time of the shooting and his body worn camera was activated and recorded the encounter.&#8221;
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This is the bodycam footage of the officer-involved shooting in Lancaster, PA that Black Lives Matter is rioting over. The perpetrator charged at the police officer with a knife over his head with clear intent to strike. <a href="https://t.co/xD72TweQK4">pic.twitter.com/xD72TweQK4</a>
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&#8220;The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office was contacted immediately and is now conducting an investigation into the officer-involved shooting,&#8221; the statement later added. &#8220;While the investigation is still in the early stages and is on-going, the Lancaster City Bureau of Police is releasing this video footage after providing it to the investigators.&#8221;
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This is a screenshot from the officer’s body cam footage just released by the <a href="https://twitter.com/LancasterPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lancasterpolice</a>. It shows 27-year-old Ricardo Munoz holding a knife and running after the officer.
Just seconds after this the officer shot and killed him.
More —-&gt; <a href="https://t.co/1D6P9qahkA">https://t.co/1D6P9qahkA</a> <a href="https://t.co/gYRIOkm2uY">pic.twitter.com/gYRIOkm2uY</a>
&mdash; Hannah Brandt (@HannahABC27) <a href="https://twitter.com/HannahABC27/status/1305338245488750592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday night, Lancaster police were forced to use tear gas to <a href="https://lancaster.crimewatchpa.com/lbop/19659/post/use-chemical-agents-lancaster-bureau-police-station-9142020">disperse</a> violent rioters that gathered in front of the Lancaster Bureau of Police Station and attacked the building.
The Blaze Media journalist and videographer Elijah Schaffer posted video of the alleged looting that broke out in the city following the incident.
&#8220;Looting has started in Lancaster at Villa athletic store approximately 1 hour 50 minutes ago according to the shop owner,&#8221; Schaffer wrote. &#8220;Groups of rioters are roaming the city breaking windows and stealing merchandise. It was too dangerous to follow them since there are no police.&#8221;
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BREAKING: looting has started in Lancaster at Villa athletic store approximately 1 hour 50 minutes ago according to the shop owner
Groups of rioters are roaming the city breaking windows and stealing merchandise
It was too dangerous to follow them since there are no police <a href="https://t.co/FQIH57hccy">pic.twitter.com/FQIH57hccy</a>
&mdash; ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1305399075676844032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;BLM and Antifa are destroying shop windows and destroying planters,&#8221; Schaffer added. &#8220;They keep asking each other out loud when they are going to start breaking stuff and looting stores in Pennsylvania.&#8221;
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LANCASTER: BLM and Antifa are destroying shop windows and destroying planters
They keep asking each other out loud when they are going to start breaking stuff and looting stores in Pennsylvania <a href="https://t.co/1yreEJg0Em">pic.twitter.com/1yreEJg0Em</a>
&mdash; ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1305397106060992512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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More broken windows <a href="https://t.co/jMc28RbeLg">pic.twitter.com/jMc28RbeLg</a>
&mdash; ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1305399722916687873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A previous version of this article inaccurately described Munoz as a black man.
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Riots, Looting Hit Pennsylvania After Cop Shoots Minority Man. Suspect Charged At Cop With Knife, Video Shows.

Violent riots and looting broke out in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on Sunday night after a man, identified by police as Ricardo Munoz, 27, died in an

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After months of burning down American cities, beating innocent business owners half to death, and terrorizing private citizens in their suburban homes, the Marxist Left is shocked to find that such behavior might generate a violent response from some people. Kyle Rittenhouse, who traveled into Kenosha from his neighboring home city when riots threatened to level the Wisconsin town, is charged with killing two rioters after one pretty clearly <a href="https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1299106029830107138?s=20">pulled</a> a gun on him. No one of good will wants to see our cities devolve into mob rule and vigilante justice. But there are consequences for physical violence, and if the state won’t enforce those consequences then it’s a pretty sure bet that private citizens will start to do so.
If you brutalize people, things are going to get ugly. This should be “conflict 101” — heck, it should be “real life 101” — which tells you something about the wannabe mobsters currently parading our streets. They don’t actually have any idea what it is they’re asking for — they don’t live in the real world, where war, once it starts, has no rules.
Americans have lived so happily, so freely, so safely, for so long, that they have forgotten a few basic facts about reality. One of those basic facts is war, which is a human constant and not (as the present generation was implicitly raised to believe) a fairytale thing that happens in other less fortunate countries. In the last analysis, if you insist on breaking the social contract and threatening destruction, there aren’t actually any “authorities” to whom you can appeal to keep things neat and orderly. You can’t go crying to the police when you’re already crying to defund them.
We build societies to minimize the kind of disordered chaos that takes place in war — to resolve as many conflicts as possible without opening the lid of that Pandora’s box. That is the context which gives peace and civilization their value: we recognize them as gifts because we know that their alternatives are lawlessness, deprivation, and pain. In that sense, people who don’t understand war don’t understand any life at all.
This is actually the subject of the ancient Greece’s oldest epic poem, Homer’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trailer-culture-without-the-culture-wars/id1513602173?i=1000474723200">Iliad</a> from the 8th century BC. It’s a song of rage and war — the story of how Achilles, hero of the Greeks (or, as they’re called in the poem, the Achaeans), refused to fight against Troy and so “cost the Achaeans countless lives.” The whole thing is pervaded with a sense of life’s fragility, with a melancholy awareness that men pass away as quickly and as inevitably as they are born.
“Like the generation of leaves, the lives of mortal men,” says the Trojan warrior Glaucus in Book 6, “Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away” (translated by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/0140275363">Robert Fagles</a>).
What’s profound about the poem is that though its subject is the carnage of war, it demonstrates a perfect understanding of how rich and good life at peace can be. In Book 18, when Achilles at last returns to the fight, he carries a shield carved with depictions not only of battle but also of weddings, courtroom dramas, and “girls and boys, their hearts leaping in innocence, bearing away the sweet ripe fruit” from the harvest. In some sense Achilles himself, who must choose whether to live in peace or die in war, is the embodiment of this understanding: his life, like all human life, derives its meaning from the costs of war and the longing for peace.
The mewling thugs currently tearing our streets apart have no idea how any of this works. They’re just LARPing at war, acting like they can rampage through American cities without consequence because they don’t realize what real fighting, or real life, actually is. The lamentable thing — and it is indeed lamentable — is that if they persist in their present course of action long enough, they will find out.
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Feds Attempt To Intervene After Weeks Of Violent Protests In Portland

KLAVAN: Leftist Rioters Don’t Understand Real Life

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Bill de Blasio&#8217;s New York City has become such an inhospitable place due to the COVID-19 lockdowns and the ongoing civil unrest stemming from Black Lives Matter protests that apartment vacancies in Manhattan have surged to record numbers.
According to <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/manhattan-apartment-vacancies-record-coronavirus-exodus">Fox Business</a>, the real estate and consulting firm Miller Samuel found that rental listings in the Big Apple have risen 14.5% since August of last year—to a record 15,025. Simultaneously, the vacancy rate has climbed a record 5.1%.
“With a nominal uptick in month over month new lease signings, activity appeared to bottom last month,” said Miller Samuel CEO Jonathan Miller.
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<blockquote>Landlords enticed new tenants by offering the largest share of concessions on record. Slightly more than 54% of new lease signings received concessions, like a month of free rent or payment of brokers’ fees.
Rental prices were down 7.7% from a year ago, including concessions, with the biggest declines occurring in the lower-priced segment of the market.
The average monthly rent for a studio fell 3.5% month-over-month to $2,574. The rate was down 8.6% from last year.
One-bedroom listings, meanwhile, saw prices slide 5.3% versus last year to an average of $3,445 per month.
Prices on Manhattan’s East Side have seen the largest average decline, down 10.6% from a year ago. Average monthly rents have dipped 3.8% year-over-year Downtown, while prices on the West Side and Northern Manhattan have dropped 2.9% and 3.1% on a year-over-year basis, respectively.</blockquote>
The trouble in New York City and whether or not it will once again reclaim its iconic status has been a source of debate for the past month.
In August, hedge fund manager and comedy club owner James Altucher penned a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nyc-dead-forever-heres-why-james-altucher/?src=aff-lilpar&amp;veh=aff_src.aff-lilpar_c.partners_pkw.10078_plc.Skimbit%20Ltd._pcrid.449670_learning&amp;trk=aff_src.aff-lilpar_c.partners_pkw.10078_plc.Skimbit%20Ltd._pcrid.449670_learning&amp;clickid=TBmVrsXEZxyOTphwUx0Mo3YmUkiQMRXoKQvT3Q0&amp;irgwc=1">viral blog post</a> declaring that &#8220;New York City Is Dead Forever.&#8221; His biggest argument for this doomsaying hinged on the prevalence of competent and steady bandwidth that allows people to work remotely from anywhere in the country that they choose.
“In 2008, average bandwidth speeds were 3 megabits per second. That’s not enough for a Zoom meeting with reliable video quality. Now, it’s over 20 megabits per second. That’s more than enough for high-quality video,” argued Altucher. “There’s a before and after. BEFORE: no remote work. AFTER: everyone can remote work.”
“The difference: bandwidth got faster. And that’s basically it,” he continued. “People have left New York City and have moved completely into virtual worlds. The Time Life building doesn’t need to fill up again. Wall Street can now stretch across every street instead of just being one building in Manhattan.”
Altucher&#8217;s essay prompted stark emotions from different corners of the internet. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld, a long-time New Yorker, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jerry-seinfeld-new-york-is-not-dead">penned an op-ed</a> in The New York Times telling him to &#8220;shut up.&#8221;
“Oh, shut up. Imagine being in a real war with this guy by your side,” he continued. “Listening to him go, ‘I used to play chess all day. I could meet people. I could start any type of business.’ Wipe your tears, wipe your butt and pull it together. He says he knows people who have left New York for Maine, Vermont, Tennessee, Indiana. I have been to all of these places many, many, many times over many decades. And with all due respect and affection, Are .. You .. Kidding .. Me?!”
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NY faces mass exodus leaving the city during COVID-19 pandemic

Manhattan Apartment Vacancies Surge To Record Numbers

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Left-leaning activism powerhouse MoveOn.org, along with some of the nation&#8217;s largest teachers&#8217; unions, are warning Democrats of &#8220;mass unrest&#8221; and possible &#8220;right-wing violence&#8221; if President Donald Trump loses the presidential election to former Vice President Joe Biden in November, even going so far as to issue a memo to Democrat groups with suggestions on how to counter or protect themselves from violence.
The memo comes just days after <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/09/03/trump-stay-in-office/?arc404=true">The Washington Post warned</a>, in a fever-dream op-ed, that left-leaning and progressive activists could engage in large scale rioting and destruction following a Biden loss, even going so far as to envision a scenario that ends in a civil-war-like battle between &#8220;anti-fascists&#8221; — or, &#8220;Antifa&#8221; — and right-wing protesters, cheered on by President Donald Trump himself.
&#8220;With the exception of the &#8216;big Biden win&#8217; scenario, each of our exercises reached the brink of catastrophe, with massive disinformation campaigns, violence in the streets, and a constitutional impasse,&#8221; the founder of the &#8220;Transition Integrity Project&#8221; panicked on the op-ed page. Only a &#8220;landslide for Joe Biden&#8221; would result in &#8220;a relatively orderly transfer of power.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-left-secretly-preps-for-violence-after-election-day?ref=scroll">The Daily Beast</a> reports that MoveOn, Color of Change, and the American Federation of Teachers — a group that refers to itself as the &#8220;Fight Back Table&#8221; — are warning the same, and to help counter what they believe could be a nationwide effort to keep Trump in power — up to and including threats of secession by key states — they&#8217;ve founded a Democracy Defense Nerve Center to keep Biden&#8217;s and other Democrat campaign teams appraised.
The Transition Integrity Project, of course, is heavily involved.
&#8220;It is very obvious that Trump is laying the groundwork for claiming victory no matter what,” MoveOn&#8217;s director told the Daily Beast. &#8220;Progressive groups at the end of the day believe in our democracy and, while it is not perfect, believe in building upon it and strengthening it. And we will fight to protect it from what we truly see as a president who has gone off the rails and taking this country down an authoritarian fascist path.”
&#8220;One person familiar with the discussions told the Beast that they are worried about right-wing extremists taking action on Election Day, going so far as to warn that armed groups or individuals inspired by Kyle Rittenhouse could show up to intimidate voters,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/moveon-left-wing-groups-election-day-unrest">Fox News noted</a>. Documents, drafted by the Transition Integrity Project and available through the MoveOn group, mention everything from &#8220;chaos&#8221; to &#8220;violence&#8221; to &#8220;crisis.&#8221;
That most of the current unrest has been perpetrated by demonstrators who identify with the far-left and allegedly facilitated by &#8220;anti-Fascist&#8221; groups that boast far-left agendas seems lost on the  &#8220;Fight Back Table.&#8221;
The &#8220;resistance&#8221; plan, the Daily Beast notes, does not seem particularly detailed and, so far, involves efforts to &#8220;occupy s&#8211;t, hold space and shut things down, not just on Election Day but for weeks.&#8221;
The response, the Transition Integrity Project says, could be more drastic depending on how violent &#8220;right-wing&#8221; activists get. In the event of a complete meltdown, it suggests Team Biden recruit influencers, including &#8220;moderate Republicans,&#8221; to help calm more reasonable conservatives, while also speaking with Democrat governors and mayors to deploy the National Guard, and with labor leaders to plan a national general strike.
The Transition Integrity Project also suggests bringing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in to help talk the nation through its woes.
President Donald Trump has, in fact, warned that Democrats are trying to upend the November elections by encouraging mass mail-in voting — a scenario which could delay election results for several days as state offices race to count millions of mail-in ballots. The president has not, however, said he will refuse to leave office if he does not win the presidential race, and the Secret Service is charged with ensuring a smooth transition of power regardless.
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REPORT: Left-Leaning Groups Preparing For ‘Mass Unrest,’ ‘Right-Wing Violence’ If Biden Wins Election

Left-leaning activism powerhouse MoveOn.org, along with some of the nation&#039;s largest teachers&#039; unions, are warning Democrats of &quot;mass unrest&quot; and possible

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Central to his opponent’s strategy is the narrative that President Donald Trump’s entire political platform is one of fear. Joe Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1301162966255980545">claims</a> that “Donald Trump is determined to instill fear and divide us,” Kamala Harris fundraised with the <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1298461415964053505">call</a> to “elect a president who will lead with hope &#8211; not fear,” and New York Times columnist Charles Blow recently penned a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/opinion/trump-white-fear-2020.html">piece</a> titled “Trump, Vicar of Feat and Violence” which described Trump’s supposed use of “white fear and white victimhood as potent political weapons.”
While such shallow accusations fit into the Democrats’ habit of presenting their enemies as something entirely negative in order to present themselves as the perfect antidote — “compassion over cruelty, empathy over ego, facts over fear, and hope over hate” — there is a deeper failing beneath this strategy of simple insults.
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By electing Democrats up and down the ballot, we have a chance to choose compassion over cruelty, empathy over ego, facts over fear, and hope over hate.
Not just in the White House, but in the halls of Congress, in state legislatures, and in local offices across the country.
&mdash; Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1300830146446884865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This pattern involves taking their worst traits, flaws, and failures of logic, and projecting it upon their enemies in an intellectual version of “I know you are, but what am I?” They claim to reject cruelty in favor of compassion while actively celebrating the destruction of unborn life. They claim to reject ego in favor of empathy while building their entire platform upon a cult of celebrity. They claim to reject fear in favor of facts while peddling the odd lie or two…
The most relevant subject of projection in our current climate of widespread riots across the country is the topic of “fear.” While the American Left have repeatedly attempted to label Trump as someone uniquely fueling this emotion for political gain, they have attempted to hide the fact that fear is one of the fundamental pillars which supports their entire ideology.
In its most obvious form, fear is leveraged by the Left by presenting any alternative to their rule as one of terror and doom. Hyperbole or deceit is carefully woven together to demonize all other choices until the Democrats remain as the only “safe” option. Such fear is stoked through ominous climate change predictions, the threat of COVID-19, or the claim that we are on the brink of a racial civil war. These vague and often unsubstantiated threats are used interchangeably with one goal in mind — to terrify people into voting blue.
In a more subtle form, the Democrats are also beholden to a devil of their own making. They have spent decades diligently nurturing the false narrative that the United States is irredeemably bigoted, that minorities should live in constant fear of the “majority” who seek their demise, and that victimhood systems such as intersectionality are principles on which all progress must be built. The problem for the Left is that, after making this bed, they are occasionally forced to lie in it. This results in a new fear — a fear of the truth.
Many have — justifiably — criticized the inconsistent attitudes demonstrated by Democrats regarding public events and COVID-19 measures. Republican rallies and anti-lockdown protests are condemned as dangerous, while Black Lives Matter rallies and pride parades are encouraged. Often, the assumption is that this inconsistency is rooted in the stereotypical hypocrisy possessed by the average politician. In cases like Nancy Pelosi’s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-san-francisco-hair-salon-owner-calls-it-slap-in-the-face">shameless</a> flouting of lockdown guidelines, hypocrisy is indeed the answer. However, sometimes the reason is fear.
Fear is the reason why Democrats behave differently based on the predominant identity group of those involved. Fear is why they cannot adequately criticize the violent riots gripping our country. Fear is why they label every police shooting of a black person as evidence of unwarranted police brutality. Fear is why they cannot condemn the blatant bigotry of figures like Al Sharpton, Ilhan Omar, or Louis Farrakhan.
By admitting the truth, they risk everything. You cannot criticize the riots without criticizing those responsible for the riots, including Antifa and Black Lives Matter. You cannot label anyone shot by the police as anything other than a victim without admitting that some police shootings are justified. You cannot condemn the bigotry of anyone who isn’t white without rejecting the principles of identity politics and intersectionality which claim that such conclusions are impossible.
The Democrats may state that they wish to choose facts over fear. This is hard to believe when fear is at the heart of their approach to what is true and what is false.
More from Ian Haworth: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/if-trump-acted-like-obama-the-left-would-explode-5-comparisons">If Trump Acted Like Obama, The Left Would Explode: 5 Examples</a>
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Protesters in Portland, who have now spent more than 100 nights demonstrating, ostensibly, against racism and police brutality, with burning mattresses, fireworks, and heavy hand-held projectiles, have debuted another tactic in their arsenal: rap music.
Sunday night, protesters gathered in a residential area of north Portland for what quickly became a riot, as demonstrators, intent on burning a police-affiliated building, dragged a mattress into the street and set it on fire, building a bonfire just outside their intended target.
As police showed up to try to contain the incident, Portland&#8217;s protesters challenged law enforcement to a &#8220;rap battle&#8221; &#8212; an incident captured on video by guerilla social media reporter Brenden Gutenschwager (also known as @BGOnTheScene) and amplified by reporter Andy Ngo, who has been covering Antifa-aligned riots across the country.
“If you was a man,&#8221; one protester says to a cop, who appears non-plussed, &#8220;you would grab the microphone &amp; you would f***ing rap.”
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“If you was a man, you would grab the microphone &amp; you would f—ing rap.” 
Some person at the BLM-antifa Portland protest is rapping his confrontation with police. <a href="https://t.co/4Vz3kvtvPb">pic.twitter.com/4Vz3kvtvPb</a>
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The cop does not, in fact, want to engage in the rap battle.
Expanding their musical offerings, as the mattress bonfire burned, Portland protesters debuted their latest rap single, &#8220;F*** Ted Wheeler&#8221; &#8212; a direct reference to Portland&#8217;s mayor who, at one point, not only noted his support for the peaceful demonstrations but even took part in one.
Independent journalist Tayler Hansen captured footage of the performance.
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Far-left protesters march to the <a href="https://twitter.com/PortlandPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PortlandPolice</a> north precinct, start a street fire &amp; begin dancing. They’re playing their new “F— Ted Wheeler” rap song. Video by <a href="https://twitter.com/TaylerUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TaylerUSA</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandRiots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PortlandRiots</a> <a href="https://t.co/yZjNvWflaJ">pic.twitter.com/yZjNvWflaJ</a>
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&#8220;F*** Ted Wheeler, Ted Wheeler, I&#8217;m in the streets like a f***ing drug dealer,&#8221; blasts over the loudspeaker as the shirtless demonstrator dances around the mattress.
Oddly enough, this latest hit single is not the first &#8220;protest rap&#8221; to emerge from the Portland demonstrations. According to <a href="https://www.wweek.com/music/2020/08/10/watch-five-portland-rappers-call-out-the-portland-police-department-in-the-music-video-for-dear-portland-police/">Willamette Week</a>, which covers the alternative scene in the Pacific Northwest, a &#8220;quintet&#8221; of amateur Portland rappers, inspired by the unrest, penned a protest song called &#8220;Dear Portland Police.&#8221;
&#8220;The song and its music video were released by Swiggle Mandela, who supplies the hook: &#8216;Dear Portland Police, I just want my peace,&#8217; he raps. &#8216;We don&#8217;t f*** with pork/You don&#8217;t want the beef,'&#8221; Willamette Week reports. &#8220;The song also includes verses by veteran Portland rapper Cool Nutz, Mandela&#8217;s older brother Jasey Cordeta, and Kool Chief Rocker, aka Micah Fletcher.&#8221;
The music video was filmed in front of a boarded-up Apple store, apparently for effect.
The most notable observation of the night came from a motorist &#8212; a black woman &#8212; who ordered the largely white group of protesters to get out of her way as she was driving through north Portland.
&#8216;You’re setting fires in the streets?” she asks, as protesters order her to turn around and avoid the demonstration. “Get out of my way!”
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“You’re setting fires in the streets?” asks a black female driver tonight who is stopped by antifa rioters in north Portland. “Get out of my way!” She refuses to follow their orders. Video by <a href="https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BGOnTheScene</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandRiots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PortlandRiots</a> <a href="https://t.co/pd3cSN0Ikx">pic.twitter.com/pd3cSN0Ikx</a>
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Portland Police note that they made 15 arrests Sunday night, mostly for &#8220;interfering with a peace officer&#8221; and &#8220;reckless burning,&#8221; both of which appear to be depicted in videos above. At least one person was taken into custody for possessing a &#8220;flammable liquid&#8221; and at least two protesters were armed, though with crude weapons.
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