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Urban criminal gangs in the upcoming civil war.



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Bill Barr wants rioters charged with sedition "whenever possible."



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Report: AG Barr Asked Federal Prosecutors to Explore Criminal Charges Against Seattle Mayor over Autonomous Zone

SEATTLE, WA - AUGUST 11: Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan speaks at a press conference after Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best announced her resignation at Seattle City Hall on August 11, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. Her departure comes after months of protests against police brutality and votes by the City Council …

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Attorney General William Barr reportedly asked federal prosecutors to explore whether Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) should face criminal charges over the “autonomous zone,” otherwise known as Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), which she eventually shut down via executive order after weeks of escalated violence, robbery, assault, and increased gang activity over the summer.

According to a Wednesday report from the New York Times, the attorney general floated sedition as a possible charge against violent rioters. The outlet added that Barr “has also asked prosecutors in the Justice Department’s civil rights division to explore whether they could bring criminal charges against Mayor Jenny Durkan of Seattle for allowing some residents to establish a police-free protest zone near the city’s downtown for weeks this summer, according to two people briefed on those discussions. ”

However, a department spokesperson denied that Barr issued such a directive. Brian T. Moran, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, also threw cold water on the claim in a statement on Wednesday. No one in the department, he said, communicated with him that Durkan should be subject to a federal crime in relation to her handling of CHOP:

Throughout this lengthy period of civil unrest, I have had multiple conversations with Department of Justice leadership. They have asked for information about protest activity devolving into violence, about federal interests implicated by the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, and about the cases filed in this District regarding federal crimes. At no time has anyone at the Department communicated to me that Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is, was, or should be the subject of a criminal investigation or should be charged with any federal crime related to the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). As U.S. Attorney I would be aware of such an investigation.

Durkan responded to the report late Wednesday, calling it “chilling and the latest abuse of power from the Trump administration”:

Durkan famously allowed the autonomous zone to stand for weeks as crime festered in and around it.

“It’s very unfortunate that we have yet another murder in this area identified as the CHOP. Two African American men dead at a place where they claim to be working for Black Lives Matter, but they’re gone. They’re dead now,” Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, who announced her retirement in August, said at the time, emphasizing “multiple other incidents — assaults, rape, robbery, and shootings.”

Durkan’s executive order cited those same incidents, including “numerous reports of narcotics use and violent crime including rape, robbery, assault, and increased gang activity.”

“An increase of 525%, 22 additional incidents, in person-related crime in the area, to include two additional homicides, 6 additional robberies, and 16 additional aggravated assaults (to include 2 additional non-fatal shootings) between June 2nd and June 30th 2020, compared to the same period of time in 2019,” the order added.

Barr has since heavily criticized Democrat leaders for failing to condemn mob violence.

“What makes me concerned for the country is [that] this is the first time in my memory that the leaders of one of our great two political parties, the Democratic Party, are not coming out and condemning mob violence and the attack on federal courts,” the attorney general told lawmakers during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in July.

“Why can’t we just say: ‘Violence against federal courts has to stop?’” he asked. “Could we hear something like that?”

I saw that earlier, and I'm still trying to make up my mind about it. Our federalist system gives quite a bit of latitude to state and local governments, but a case can be made that the mayor violated the civil rights of people who lived and worked in the "autonomous zone." I think if any charges can be brought, that would be the way to go. But then, if I were the grand poobah of the DOJ, I'd be doing a whole lot of things differently from the way Barr is doing them.

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A cop was reportedly "ambushed" and shot in the leg in a neighboring town near me last night. They haven't released a suspected motive yet.

https://www.kalb.com/2020/09/21/pineville-police-officer-ambushed-sunday-night/

An update on this situation. The asshat somehow managed to shoot himself in the leg.

He then fabricated the ambush story.

https://www.kalb.com/2020/09/21/pineville-police-officer-ambushed-sunday-night/

Video: BLM/Antifa Militant Shoots, Kills Patriot Prayer Member In Denver


By Infowars.com Saturday, October 10, 2020

A BLM/Antifa supporter shot and killed a conservative counter protester in Denver during a competing rallies on Saturday, multiple videos show.

The shooting occurred shortly after the “Patriot Prayer” rally and the “Antifa-BLM Soup Drive” kicked off near the Civic Center.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1315052743128563712

According to someone on Reddit reporting to be an eyewitness, the shooting erupted after an argument between a Patriot protester and a BLM/Antifa militant.

“One person was telling the other, ‘Go ahead, mace me bro. Mace me! What are you gonna do? Why don’t you mace me?!’ More pushing. A burst of orange mace erupts and the BANG one single shot,” he wrote. “The larger man fell backwards and the shooter held his hands and gun (still in hands) up in the air. Police rush in, arrest the shooter and surround the body on the ground. They then clear everyone out and that’s when I left.”

Antifa/BLM was seen harassing police just following the shooting.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1315053301734338560

Local media reported a similar chain of events, and that the shooting of the Patriot Prayer member has resulted in a homicide investigation.

From The Denver Post:

A man participating in what was billed as a “Patriot Rally” that also included a presence of self-described BLM-Antifa protesters, sprayed mace at another man and that man shot him with a handgun. Ambulances responded to the scene. Police said Saturday afternoon they were working on a homicide investigation.

Less than a month before the presidential election, left- and right-wing groups on Saturday faced off during rallies around Civic Center. An hour in, police had fired what appeared to be pepper balls after people from the leftist group started rattling a barrier headed into the amphitheater.

Other video shows the moments leading up to the shooting, where the far-left agitators are seen throwing soup cans at police.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1315059881674641409

Two people are reportedly in custody.

Portland protesters topple statues of Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln in ‘Day of Rage’; police declare riot


By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | The Oregonian/OregonLive

A group of protesters toppled statues of former presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln and shattered the entrance to the Oregon Historical Society in Portland’s South Park Blocks late Sunday before moving into other areas of downtown, smashing storefronts and engaging in other acts of destruction.

Police declared the event a riot and ordered people rampaging through the city’s streets to disperse but did not directly intervene until nearly an hour after the first statue fell. The crowd scattered when police cruisers flooded the area, and officers in tactical gear appeared to make several arrests.

Protest organizers had promoted the event on social media as an “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage.” Monday is the federally observed holiday of Columbus Day, but many states and cities now recognize the day instead as Indigenous Peoples Day over concerns that Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas helped launch centuries of violence against indigenous populations.

The organizers had signaled their aggressive stance for the night, calling for “direct action” and demanding that the video live-streamers and photographers who had become staples of such events stay away.

People in the crowd were repeatedly admonished not to film. Passersby who happened upon the group were ordered by demonstrators to stop filming or delete photographs, including an apartment resident who had lasers shined at his eyes and a liquid thrown in his face as he appeared to shoot video of the scene from his terrace.

The group, about 200 strong, marched through downtown Portland, at one point occupying all four lanes of West Burnside Street. Most dressed head-to-toe in black. Many wore body armor, carried shields or wielded night sticks and other weapons.

As the crowd reached the South Park Blocks, some threw chains or ropes on the Roosevelt statue, a bronze sculpture officially titled “Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider,” as others took a blowtorch to its base and splattered it with red paint.

They began to pull until the statue rocked from side to side before falling down at 8:51 p.m. The crowd erupted in cheers as dance music played on a large portable speaker.
Theodore Roosevelt statue

A group of protesters tore down the "Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider" statue in Portland's South Park Blocks on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020.The Oregonian

Over the course of his life, Roosevelt expressed hostility toward Native Americans, as Indian Country Today wrote in an accounting of his attitudes and policies. He pushed policies that promoted assimilation into white culture including the allotment system, by which Native American land was allotted to those who became U.S. citizens and the remainder was made available to white settlers. The policy also weakened tribal governments, an effect reportedly cheered by Roosevelt.

The group then turned to the nearby Abraham Lincoln statue, pulling it to the ground at 8:59 p.m. Spray-painted on the base of the statue was “Dakota 38,” a reference to 38 Dakota men executed after the Dakota-U.S. War of 1862 in the largest mass execution in a single day in American history. (Lincoln commuted the same sentence, handed down by a military tribunal, for 265 others.)

After toppling the statues, some protesters began smashing windows at the Oregon Historical Society, unfurling a banner that read, “Stop honoring racist colonizer murderers.” A mural on the attached Sovereign Hotel building depicting the Lewis & Clark expedition was splattered with red paint.

Kerry Tymchuk, the historical society’s executive director, told a KOIN News reporter that no exhibits had been damaged.

Members of the crowd then broke windows and destroyed a sign at the Portland State University Campus Public Safety office. Afterward the protesters continued north along Southwest Fifth Avenue, smashing the windows of several storefronts and office towers along a seven-block stretch.

Throughout the racial justice protests that began in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, protesters nationwide have targeted statues as symbols of longstanding oppression — most notably the statues of Confederate leaders that still stood across the South. Some were torn down, while others were removed by the leaders of the cities in which they stood.

In Portland, several statues that appeared possible targets were preemptively removed as the protests wore on.

The Roosevelt and Lincoln statues were dedicated in the 1920s as gifts to the city from Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, who operated the Morningside psychiatric hospital in East Portland near what is now Mall 205.

In June, a group of protesters pulled down a statue of Thomas Jefferson statue in front of his namesake Portland high school. The third president of the United States also enslaved more than 600 people during his lifetime. Days later, another group tore down a Northeast Portland statue of George Washington, also an owner of enslaved people.

In recent weeks, police have moved in early on “direct action” protest events to made arrests, including more than 26 arrests made Saturday as police said protesters blocked a street and failed to disperse when ordered.

Earlier Sunday, demonstrators rallied in downtown Portland in show of support for police and President Donald Trump. Some appeared to carry firearms; others carried pepper spray canisters and paintball-style compressed air guns.

Videos from the scene showed violent confrontations with counter-protesters, with objects thrown from both sides and the right-wing demonstrators firing paintballs toward their antagonists.

Police intervened a short while later, blocking people from approaching the departing right-wing group. A police spokesman said no crimes were reported and no arrests were made.

Trump announced last night at his Florida ralley he was ordering the FBI into Portland to investigate and PROSECUTE the persons responsible under the FEDERAL Statute with a 10 year sentence.

Any bets they were mostly out of staters and have already been hustled out of state?

Natural News: New report shows platforms run by Big Tech companies enable Antifa violence


A report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) shows that technology companies enable violence from Antifa and other far-left organizations on their platforms. Memes expressing hateful rhetoric against law enforcement emerged alongside non-violent political slogans during the course of real-world protests, the report’s authors wrote.

The report also found a correlation between increased real-world violence and the proliferation of hate speech on social media posted by far-left groups, such as “anti-police memes” and “code words.” It mentioned that “while these data are only preliminary, they nevertheless suggest that traditionally anarchist, anti-police memes, slogans and code words fluctuated in sync with the recent political protests and unrest.”

The paper elaborated on far-left groups’ use of social media platforms to plan out real-world strategies against law enforcement. In the network-enabled mob, group members are assigned different tasks: “Range soldiers” attack police officers with projectiles, “fire mages” commit arson and burn nearby vehicles, “light mages” use laser pointers to blind law enforcement and “barricaders” create roadblocks to stop police vehicles from following rioters.
Network-enabled mob difficult to track down

According to the NCRI report, “one important feature of the network-enabled mob is its capacity to frustrate the ability of law enforcement to detect directed ideological attacks,” adding that a core group of actors controlling the network is “able to mobilize lawlessness and violence.” It warned that the widespread use of the network-enabled mob “enables a structure capable of adaptation and evolution, especially if it reappears over consecutive days of unrest.”’

The report’s authors cited one example of the network-enabled mob’s ability to simultaneously mobilize civil unrest over the internet, despite geographical distance. Left-leaning anarchist networks prepared, executed and promoted simultaneous riots July 25 using the Twitter hashtag #J25. The unrest on that date happened in four cities: Portland and Eugene in Oregon, Richmond in Virginia, and Seattle in Washington.

A Twitter analysis by the authors showed the #J25 hashtag progressively being used on Twitter in the days preceding the riots. Use of the hashtag spiked on the day itself and the next day, July 26, before dropping to sparse mentions. The authors also noted that rioters in the four cities used a uniform strategy—attacking courthouses and police precincts and using laser pointers and improvised fireworks against law enforcement officers.

Authorities looking at novel methods to track Antifa

As members of Antifa continue to destroy cities and attack law enforcement, Big Tech platforms turn a blind eye to the violent anti-government content they post. Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) downplays the organization’s propensity for violence, if outright not dismissing calls to prosecute it. FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers during a House hearing last month that Antifa was an ideological movement, different from President Donald Trump’s designation of it as a full-blown terrorist organization.

Because of the FBI’s unwillingness to examine the actual roots of Antifa, other government agencies have bypassed the bureau to conduct investigations of their own. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now conducting its own surveillance of Antifa using sophisticated mobile phone cloning technology to catch protesters’ communications and “get an inside view” of the hierarchy inside the organization.

In a report by The Nation, a DHS official familiar with the matter said a colleague with expertise in electronic surveillance was deployed to Portland. According to the official, the colleague’s mission involved “extracting information from protesters.” Two former intelligence officers seconded the official, saying that an interagency task force involving the DHS and the Department of Justice used a sophisticated cell phone cloning attack during the Portland riots to get hold of messages from protesters.

Find out more about riots organized by Antifa over the internet at AntifaWatch.news.

Cities and police are ready for election violence. Because if Jo Jorgensen loses, us Libertarians are going to light it up.



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“Plan for the worst”: Law enforcement authorities all over America are bracing for massive election riots

By Michael Snyder | Economic Collapse Wednesday, October 21, 2020

The fact that law enforcement officials across the nation are expecting widespread violence following the election should chill every American to the core.

As I keep repeating over and over, violence is not going to solve anything, but much of the population is not listening to voices such as mine anymore.

As you will see below, authorities have decided to “plan for the worst” because everyone can see what is potentially coming.

But if we can’t hold a presidential election without violence at this point, how much longer can our system possibly last?

No matter who ends up winning, I think that the election of 2020 will tell us a lot about how far America has already fallen.

Leo Zagami joins the show to discuss the recent Hunter Biden news, as well as the growth in support for Trump, all while the feds desperately attempt to silence the truth to curry favor to the democrats.

Thankfully, officials in most major cities do not have their heads stuck in the sand and have been preparing for massive riots following the election. In New York, the NYPD is literally “training every day” to deal with the riots and protests that they are anticipating…
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The NYPD is training every day and deploying hundreds of extra cops as it braces for Election Day and its aftermath, amid fears riots and protests could break out after the results are announced.

In Los Angeles, officers are being told that “they may need to reschedule” their vacations so that they will be available for whatever may happen…

LAPD sent an internal memo to its officers last week that said they may need to reschedule any vacations around election day as the agency prepares for possible protests or other unrest, according to the Los Angeles Times.

In so many instances, law enforcement agencies are pointing to the riots that erupted in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd as the type of scenario that they want to be prepared for this time around.

Even down in Texas, authorities in multiple cities are admitting that “they are planning for potential unrest around the Nov. 3 election”…

Agencies in at least four major cities — Austin, El Paso, San Antonio and Fort Worth — confirmed they are planning for potential unrest around the Nov. 3 election. Officials in other Texas cities declined to say whether they’re doing the same.

The intent of such preparations, said Tara Long, an Austin Police Department spokesperson, “is to ensure the safety of the community while protecting the rights of people to peacefully exercise their First Amendment rights.”

Of course in some cities the violent protests never seem to end.

Four years ago, chaos erupted in Portland when Donald Trump won the election, and the city has been wracked by civil unrest ever since then…

Portland Police say they are preparing for possible unrest on election night after they saw saw riots after the 2016 presidential election.

It was just the beginning of what would be four years of unrest, protests and riots. Now, the 2020 election is just three weeks away and local police is preparing for the possibility of continued unrest.

Over in Minneapolis, shell-shocked officials continue to deal with an unprecedented wave of crime and violence, and the spokesman for the police told the press that their approach for this upcoming election is to “plan for the worst”…

In Minneapolis, where the protests after George Floyd’s murder raged for weeks, similar preparations are being made. “We are aware that this may be a flashpoint and have made appropriate plans,” Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder. “Remember: Plan for the worst and hope for the best.”

I think that is a good word for all of us.

We can continue to hope that peace will prevail, but if you aren’t planning for the worst you are definitely making a big mistake.

At this point, even the Justice Department is “bracing for possible civil unrest”. The following comes from the Washington Post…

Bracing for possible civil unrest on Election Day, the Justice Department is planning to station officials in a command center at FBI headquarters to coordinate the federal response to any disturbances or other problems with voting that may arise across the country, officials familiar with the matter said.

Though the Justice Department monitors elections every year to ensure voters can cast their ballots, officials’ concerns are more acute this year that toxic politics, combined with the potential uncertainty surrounding vote tallies, could lead to violent demonstrations or clashes between opposing factions, those familiar with the matter said.

Personally, I sincerely hope that authorities will be successful in minimizing unrest as much as possible.

Any sort of political violence should break all of our hearts, because that should never happen in this country.

Unfortunately, an increasing number of Americans are convinced that things in this nation will soon take a very chaotic turn. In fact, one recent poll found that 61 percent of Americans believe that we are heading toward another civil war…

The poll, which included results from the “Back-to-Normal Barometer” survey, was conducted by three firms: Engagious, Sports and Leisure Research Group and ROKK Solutions.

The poll results showed that over 61 percent of survey takers believe America is nearing a second civil war, with 41 percent who “strongly agree” with that assessment.

Those numbers are truly shocking, and they are consistent with other surveys that I have seen.

Anger and hatred have been building up in our country for years, and it appears that we are about to reach a crescendo.

I will continue to speak out against rioting, looting and all forms of political violence, and many other influential voices are doing so as well.

But there are also so many voices throughout our society that are just stirring up more anger and more hatred with each passing day.

So I would encourage all of you to “plan for the worst” for the months ahead. It looks like it is going to be a very pivotal time in our history, and the more bitterly the election results are contested the worse the chaos is likely to be.

And when a winner is finally declared, many on the losing side will inevitably feel like the election was stolen from them.

There is still time to avoid a worst case scenario, but right now it is difficult to imagine how all of this is going to end well.

Nothing says "antifascist" like throwing rocks and pepper spraying Jews. Antifa mob throws rocks, pepper sprays, and assaults Jews in New York.



I suspect we'll be waiting a while for that to happen.

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Stores in Democrat-run cities are boarding up their stores, anticipating election-night violence and looting.

News Flash: They're not boarding them up expecting rioting from Trump or Jorgensen supporters. They're boarding them up because they think Biden is going to lose.

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With the election a day away, people in big cities are freaking out.



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Reguardless of the vote count, unless Biden is declared the winner, the left WILL riot. I hate to tell those stores but Antifa will just run a stolen truck thru all that plywood they are putting up.

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Kevin McCarthy Presses Nancy Pelosi to Take Action Against Maxine Waters for ‘Inciting Violence’ in Minnesota

By Breitbart Monday, April 19, 2021

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday night pressed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to take action against Rep. Maxine Waters (R-CA) for “inciting violence” in remarks she made in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, this weekend.

McCarthy said that if Pelosi does not act, he intends to take action of his own against Waters for her remarks encouraging violence in Minnesota if a jury does not find former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty in his trial in the death of George Floyd.

Waters, in her remarks to reporters at a protest in Brooklyn Center where thousands have been protesting the death of Daunte Wright, encouraged people to “take to the streets” if Chauvin is not found guilty of murder — one of the several charges he faces in his trial in Floyd’s death, which is expected to conclude this coming week.

“We’re looking for a guilty verdict,” Waters said. “And we’re looking to see if all of the talk that took place and has been taking place after they saw what happened to George Floyd, if nothing does not happen, then we know that we’ve got to not only stay in the street, but we’ve got to fight for justice. But I am very hopeful, and I hope we are going to get a verdict that says ‘guilty, guilty, guilty.’ If we don’t, we cannot go away.”




Derek Chauvin’s Trial Judge Slams Rep. Maxine Waters for Being ‘Disrespectful to the Rule of Law’
“I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function," he says

By Infowars.com Monday, April 19, 2021

The judge presiding over the murder trial of fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin blasted Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) for making “abhorrent” comments that were “disrespectful to the rule of law.”

Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill told Chauvin’s defense lawyer Eric Nelson on Monday that Waters’ telling protesters to get “more confrontational” may have given the defense a potential appeal if Chauvin is convicted, but denied his motion for a mistrial.

“I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result on this whole trial being overturned,” Cahill said.

“This goes back to what I’ve been saying from the beginning. I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function. I think if they want to give their opinions, they should do so in a respectful and in a manner that is consistent with their oath to the Constitution.”

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“To respect a co-equal branch of government. Their failure to do so I think is abhorrent, but I don’t think it has prejudiced us with additional material that would prejudice this jury. They have been told not to watch the news. I trust they are following those instructions, and that there is not in any way a prejudice to the defendant.”

“A congresswoman’s opinion really doesn’t matter a whole lot,” he added.

This comes as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced he would introduce a resolution to censure Waters after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended Waters’ behavior.

The jury in the trial have been sequestered and deliberations have begun. Chauvin faces charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.

The U.S. Capitol Police department, along with the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt, will be sued for at least $10 million.



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