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solarbirdThese are all short today. I've been swamped doing other things, and honestly, that's better for my health, but this is necessary. Here's what I've managed to wedge in.
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Gun-toting Trump supporters attack George Floyd protesters in rural Ohio town
June 15, 2020
By Travis Gettys
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/gun-toting-trump-supporters-attack-george-floyd-protesters-in-rural-ohio-town/
A small-town solidarity rally with Black Lives Matter ended in chaos after some of President Donald Trump’s supporters showed up with guns to berate demonstrators.
Alicia Gee, a 36-year-old substitute teacher, was inspired by demonstrations in Hazard, Kentucky, to hold a protest in her hometown of Bethel, Ohio, to show support for equal rights, reported the Cincinnati Enquirer.
“I guess in my mind, we only think about protests happening in the city,” Gee told the newspaper. “I’ve always gone to cities to protest, and then to see that something was happening in Hazard — I was like, if Hazard, Kentucky, can have a protest, Bethel can have something.”
Gee, a former children’s minister and a member of the village’s arts collective, set up a Facebook page for the event Tuesday, hoping to draw about 50 supporters, and she drew chalk marks on the sidewalk Saturday night to allow demonstrators to remain socially distant from one another.
But her plans were upended when a group of armed motorcyclists and others showed up wearing Confederate flag, Punisher and Trump-themed hats and clothing, some of them apparently drawn by online warnings that the demonstration was organized by Antifa activists.
“Around 3:30, the… counterprotesters?, started walking down on the other side of the street from up town, yelling obscenities and threatening us,” wrote demonstrator Abbi Remers, whose brother was punched and knocked to the ground.”A few started coming over and ripping signs out of our hands, ripping the hats and masks off of our faces, ripping things out of our pockets. Then they started surrounding us.”
The counter protesters assaulted some of the demonstrators and screamed at the group to go back to Cincinnati, which is about 30 miles west of the rural Clermont County village.
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Vehicles striking protesters — 19 times recently — raise echoes of 2017 Charlottesville attack
By DALTON BENNETT, Neena Satija and Emily Davies
June 15, 2020
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/amid-massive-demonstrations-vehicles-striking-protesters-raise-disturbing-echoes-of-2017-charlottesville-attack/
Emily Bloom said she barely had time to dive to safety before a gray Kia with its engine revving was driven through the intersection where she had stood moments earlier in downtown Gainesville, Fla., protesting police brutality.
While marching with fellow protesters in the Richmond, Va., suburb of Lakeside, Rachel Kurtz said she, her husband and her 11-year-old son had to leap to the sidewalk and out of the path of a blue pickup truck.
In the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Dan Gregory fell to the ground, shot in the shoulder, after he said he attempted to stop a black Honda Civic headed toward a group of protesters. And in front of the Bakersfield Police Department in California, Lexi Colebrook said she watched in horror as an SUV hit her friend, who managed to stumble toward the sidewalk and escape serious injury.
The incidents are among at least 19 cases in the past few weeks in which witnesses or police say civilian vehicles were driven through massive demonstrations after the May 25 death of George Floyd, who was handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis police officer for nearly nine minutes.
In at least eight of the events, a driver faces charges for what prosecutors described as a deliberate act, according to arrest and court filings.
That includes the event in Richmond, where prosecutors say the driver sought to intimidate protesters with his truck and hit one demonstrator’s bicycle, running over the cyclist’s foot. According to court documents, the driver told police he is a high-ranking official of the Ku Klux Klan.
In Illinois, a motorcyclist was charged with hate crimes and aggravated battery after police said he plowed into a demonstration in Bloomington.
The accusations echo the 2017 vehicle attack at a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that killed Heather Heyer, a counterprotester. And they occur amid a resurgence of internet memes featuring messages such as “All lives splatter” and “Run them over” and pictures of bloodied trucks.
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‘New Mexico Civil Guard’ militia members arrested after shooting at Albuquerque protest: report
Published 1 min ago
on June 15, 2020
By Bob Brigham
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/new-mexico-civil-guard-militia-members-arrested-after-shooting-a-albuquerque-protest-report/
Dramatic video posted to social media on Monday evening documents the aftermath of a shooting at a protest in Albuquerque.
“A man was shot during a protest at Tiguex Park Monday evening. The protest was for the removal of a Juan de Oñate statue, ‘La Jornada’, outside the Albuquerque Museum,” KOB-4 reports. “Moments before protesters were about to remove the statue with a chain, shots were fired into the crowd.”
[SEE ALSO:
Video of statue being pulled on ending in sound of four shots fired:
https://twitter.com/meganrabundis/status/1272718348686471168
KOB Television reporting:
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/one-man-injured-at-protest-near-old-town-albuquerque/5760821/
Shaun Griswold, Urban Indigenous coverage for twitter.com/NMInDepth saying six NMCG detained:
https://twitter.com/shaun505/status/1272716095724466176
CALL TO FORM NEW MEXICO CIVIL GUARD MILITIA:
https://armandsrancho.blogspot.com/2020/02/militia-forming-new-mexico-civil-guard.html
Archived at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20200305210601/https://armandsrancho.blogspot.com/2020/02/militia-forming-new-mexico-civil-guard.html
]
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Bethel implements curfew as protesters, counter-protesters again clash
WLWT Updated: 10:58 PM EDT
Jun 15, 2020
BETHEL, Ohio —
The village of Bethel is implementing a curfew as protesters and counter-protesters clash again.
The curfew will be in effect from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m., continuing day-to-day, until the order is rescinded.
The new curfew comes as hundreds of people line the streets of the small village in Clermont County for the second day in a row.
"The need for this order arises from the threat of continued escalating violence, the need for security and enforcement support for the Village of Bethel Police Department, and the need to protect the Village's first responders from the spread of COVID-19," the Mayoral Order from Jay Noble reads.
Individuals are prohibited from traveling public streets or from appearing in public spaces during the curfew.
"This curfew applies regardless of the method of travel on public streets or public places, whether by automobile, motorcycle, bicycle, scooter, foot or other means involving moving from place to place," the order reads.
As of 8 p.m., Bethel Police Chief Steve Teague said three people were arrested in connection to Monday's protests. Teague said things have been mostly peaceful, and both protesters and counter-protesters were very vocal.
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Florida protester Oluwatoyin Salau, 19, found dead in Tallahassee after going missing
Nada Hassanein
Tallahassee Democrat
15 June 2020 | updated 16 June 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/15/oluwatoyin-salau-found-dead-tallahassee-black-lives-matter-protest-missing/3190606001/
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Oluwatoyin Salau, a 19-year-old protester who begged for justice in the wake of Black lives lost, has died.
Police and her family confirmed the death Monday morning.
Salau was found dead Saturday night after she went missing more than a week ago, on June 6, family members told the Tallahassee Democrat, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Salau was one of two homicide victims discovered Saturday night in southeast Tallahassee, a couple miles from where she was last seen at a library.
Victoria "Vicki" Sims, 75, who also had been reported missing, was the second victim. She was a retired state worker and grandmother well-known for her volunteerism and work in local Democratic politics.
Police identified the suspect as Aaron Glee Jr, 49, who had been arrested twice recently for violent offenses.
However, investigators have not released a motive or any other details about what led to the double homicide.
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Airman charged with murder of federal officer at courthouse
By Stefanie Dazio
16 June 2020
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/airman-charged-in-killing-of-federal-officer-in-california/
[EDITOR: Please note that the right has been using this shooting to smear anti-racism protesters since it happened. They won't retract, but do be ready to say "NOPE WAS ONE OF YOU FUCKS, LIKE ALWAYS."]
An Air Force sergeant already jailed in the ambush killing of a California sheriff’s deputy was charged Tuesday with murdering a federal security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in Oakland the night of a sometimes violent protest last month.
In announcing murder and attempted murder charges, federal authorities alleged Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo had ties to the right-wing anti-government “boogaloo” movement and that the plot to target law enforcement officers was hatched during an online chat among the group members.
Federal security officer David Patrick Underwood, 53, was killed the night of May 29 and his partner was wounded as they guarded the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland while a large and raucous demonstration over the police killing of George Floyd was under way nearby.
Carrillo and an accomplice parked a white van near the courthouse and Carrillo fired an AR-15-style rifle at the guard station where Underwood and his partner were located. Officials said Carrillo used the protest as cover for the crime and for his escape.
“Pat Underwood was murdered because he wore a uniform,” David Anderson, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, said at a news conference at the Dellums building.
Carrillo’s attorney, Jeffrey Strotter, did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking comment.
Officials also charged the alleged getaway driver, Robert Alvin Justus, Jr., with aiding and abetting the murder and attempted murder. Justus turned himself into the FBI on Thursday while they had him under surveillance.
- Gun-toting Trump supporters attack George Floyd protesters in rural Ohio town
- Vehicles striking protesters — 19 times recently — raise echoes of 2017 Charlottesville attack
- ‘New Mexico Civil Guard’ militia members arrested after shooting at Albuquerque protest: report
- Bethel implements curfew as protesters, counter-protesters again clash
- Florida protester Oluwatoyin Salau, 19, found dead in Tallahassee after going missing
- Airman charged with murder of federal officer at courthouse
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Gun-toting Trump supporters attack George Floyd protesters in rural Ohio town
June 15, 2020
By Travis Gettys
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/gun-toting-trump-supporters-attack-george-floyd-protesters-in-rural-ohio-town/
A small-town solidarity rally with Black Lives Matter ended in chaos after some of President Donald Trump’s supporters showed up with guns to berate demonstrators.
Alicia Gee, a 36-year-old substitute teacher, was inspired by demonstrations in Hazard, Kentucky, to hold a protest in her hometown of Bethel, Ohio, to show support for equal rights, reported the Cincinnati Enquirer.
“I guess in my mind, we only think about protests happening in the city,” Gee told the newspaper. “I’ve always gone to cities to protest, and then to see that something was happening in Hazard — I was like, if Hazard, Kentucky, can have a protest, Bethel can have something.”
Gee, a former children’s minister and a member of the village’s arts collective, set up a Facebook page for the event Tuesday, hoping to draw about 50 supporters, and she drew chalk marks on the sidewalk Saturday night to allow demonstrators to remain socially distant from one another.
But her plans were upended when a group of armed motorcyclists and others showed up wearing Confederate flag, Punisher and Trump-themed hats and clothing, some of them apparently drawn by online warnings that the demonstration was organized by Antifa activists.
“Around 3:30, the… counterprotesters?, started walking down on the other side of the street from up town, yelling obscenities and threatening us,” wrote demonstrator Abbi Remers, whose brother was punched and knocked to the ground.”A few started coming over and ripping signs out of our hands, ripping the hats and masks off of our faces, ripping things out of our pockets. Then they started surrounding us.”
The counter protesters assaulted some of the demonstrators and screamed at the group to go back to Cincinnati, which is about 30 miles west of the rural Clermont County village.
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Vehicles striking protesters — 19 times recently — raise echoes of 2017 Charlottesville attack
By DALTON BENNETT, Neena Satija and Emily Davies
June 15, 2020
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/amid-massive-demonstrations-vehicles-striking-protesters-raise-disturbing-echoes-of-2017-charlottesville-attack/
Emily Bloom said she barely had time to dive to safety before a gray Kia with its engine revving was driven through the intersection where she had stood moments earlier in downtown Gainesville, Fla., protesting police brutality.
While marching with fellow protesters in the Richmond, Va., suburb of Lakeside, Rachel Kurtz said she, her husband and her 11-year-old son had to leap to the sidewalk and out of the path of a blue pickup truck.
In the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Dan Gregory fell to the ground, shot in the shoulder, after he said he attempted to stop a black Honda Civic headed toward a group of protesters. And in front of the Bakersfield Police Department in California, Lexi Colebrook said she watched in horror as an SUV hit her friend, who managed to stumble toward the sidewalk and escape serious injury.
The incidents are among at least 19 cases in the past few weeks in which witnesses or police say civilian vehicles were driven through massive demonstrations after the May 25 death of George Floyd, who was handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis police officer for nearly nine minutes.
In at least eight of the events, a driver faces charges for what prosecutors described as a deliberate act, according to arrest and court filings.
That includes the event in Richmond, where prosecutors say the driver sought to intimidate protesters with his truck and hit one demonstrator’s bicycle, running over the cyclist’s foot. According to court documents, the driver told police he is a high-ranking official of the Ku Klux Klan.
In Illinois, a motorcyclist was charged with hate crimes and aggravated battery after police said he plowed into a demonstration in Bloomington.
The accusations echo the 2017 vehicle attack at a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that killed Heather Heyer, a counterprotester. And they occur amid a resurgence of internet memes featuring messages such as “All lives splatter” and “Run them over” and pictures of bloodied trucks.
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‘New Mexico Civil Guard’ militia members arrested after shooting at Albuquerque protest: report
Published 1 min ago
on June 15, 2020
By Bob Brigham
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/new-mexico-civil-guard-militia-members-arrested-after-shooting-a-albuquerque-protest-report/
Dramatic video posted to social media on Monday evening documents the aftermath of a shooting at a protest in Albuquerque.
“A man was shot during a protest at Tiguex Park Monday evening. The protest was for the removal of a Juan de Oñate statue, ‘La Jornada’, outside the Albuquerque Museum,” KOB-4 reports. “Moments before protesters were about to remove the statue with a chain, shots were fired into the crowd.”
[SEE ALSO:
Video of statue being pulled on ending in sound of four shots fired:
https://twitter.com/meganrabundis/status/1272718348686471168
KOB Television reporting:
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/one-man-injured-at-protest-near-old-town-albuquerque/5760821/
Shaun Griswold, Urban Indigenous coverage for twitter.com/NMInDepth saying six NMCG detained:
https://twitter.com/shaun505/status/1272716095724466176
CALL TO FORM NEW MEXICO CIVIL GUARD MILITIA:
https://armandsrancho.blogspot.com/2020/02/militia-forming-new-mexico-civil-guard.html
Archived at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20200305210601/https://armandsrancho.blogspot.com/2020/02/militia-forming-new-mexico-civil-guard.html
]
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Bethel implements curfew as protesters, counter-protesters again clash
WLWT Updated: 10:58 PM EDT
Jun 15, 2020
BETHEL, Ohio —
The village of Bethel is implementing a curfew as protesters and counter-protesters clash again.
The curfew will be in effect from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m., continuing day-to-day, until the order is rescinded.
The new curfew comes as hundreds of people line the streets of the small village in Clermont County for the second day in a row.
"The need for this order arises from the threat of continued escalating violence, the need for security and enforcement support for the Village of Bethel Police Department, and the need to protect the Village's first responders from the spread of COVID-19," the Mayoral Order from Jay Noble reads.
Individuals are prohibited from traveling public streets or from appearing in public spaces during the curfew.
"This curfew applies regardless of the method of travel on public streets or public places, whether by automobile, motorcycle, bicycle, scooter, foot or other means involving moving from place to place," the order reads.
As of 8 p.m., Bethel Police Chief Steve Teague said three people were arrested in connection to Monday's protests. Teague said things have been mostly peaceful, and both protesters and counter-protesters were very vocal.
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Florida protester Oluwatoyin Salau, 19, found dead in Tallahassee after going missing
Nada Hassanein
Tallahassee Democrat
15 June 2020 | updated 16 June 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/15/oluwatoyin-salau-found-dead-tallahassee-black-lives-matter-protest-missing/3190606001/
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Oluwatoyin Salau, a 19-year-old protester who begged for justice in the wake of Black lives lost, has died.
Police and her family confirmed the death Monday morning.
Salau was found dead Saturday night after she went missing more than a week ago, on June 6, family members told the Tallahassee Democrat, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Salau was one of two homicide victims discovered Saturday night in southeast Tallahassee, a couple miles from where she was last seen at a library.
Victoria "Vicki" Sims, 75, who also had been reported missing, was the second victim. She was a retired state worker and grandmother well-known for her volunteerism and work in local Democratic politics.
Police identified the suspect as Aaron Glee Jr, 49, who had been arrested twice recently for violent offenses.
However, investigators have not released a motive or any other details about what led to the double homicide.
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Airman charged with murder of federal officer at courthouse
By Stefanie Dazio
16 June 2020
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/airman-charged-in-killing-of-federal-officer-in-california/
[EDITOR: Please note that the right has been using this shooting to smear anti-racism protesters since it happened. They won't retract, but do be ready to say "NOPE WAS ONE OF YOU FUCKS, LIKE ALWAYS."]
An Air Force sergeant already jailed in the ambush killing of a California sheriff’s deputy was charged Tuesday with murdering a federal security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in Oakland the night of a sometimes violent protest last month.
In announcing murder and attempted murder charges, federal authorities alleged Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo had ties to the right-wing anti-government “boogaloo” movement and that the plot to target law enforcement officers was hatched during an online chat among the group members.
Federal security officer David Patrick Underwood, 53, was killed the night of May 29 and his partner was wounded as they guarded the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland while a large and raucous demonstration over the police killing of George Floyd was under way nearby.
Carrillo and an accomplice parked a white van near the courthouse and Carrillo fired an AR-15-style rifle at the guard station where Underwood and his partner were located. Officials said Carrillo used the protest as cover for the crime and for his escape.
“Pat Underwood was murdered because he wore a uniform,” David Anderson, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, said at a news conference at the Dellums building.
Carrillo’s attorney, Jeffrey Strotter, did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking comment.
Officials also charged the alleged getaway driver, Robert Alvin Justus, Jr., with aiding and abetting the murder and attempted murder. Justus turned himself into the FBI on Thursday while they had him under surveillance.
