Riots
Antifa Sues Seattle Claiming Police Response Has Forced Them To Invest In Better Riot Gear
“Individual protesters subjected to SPD’s unabated and indiscriminate violence now must purchase cost-prohibitive gear to withstand munitions.”
Published
3 years agoon
Steve Watson

Antifa agitators have filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle, claiming that a heavy handed police response to “protests” has forced the group to invest in more expensive riot gear.
KIRO 7 News reports that Antifa is complaining that police use of blast balls, sponge rounds, pepper spray, and other crowd control methods has meant the rioters have had to buy “expensive” protective gear.
“Because the Seattle Police Department has acted above and outside the law in dispensing its unbridled force, and the City has failed to prevent same, the government effect is to establish a de facto protest tax,” the lawsuit claims.
“Individual protesters subjected to SPD’s unabated and indiscriminate violence now must purchase cost-prohibitive gear to withstand munitions – even when peacefully protesting – as a condition to exercising their right to free speech and peaceable assembly,” lawyers also suggest.
“The continued misuse of war munitions by SPD against civilians turns the streets – a public forum and site of protest – into a pay-to-protest racket where only a privileged few who are wealthy enough or popular enough to crowdsource funds to purchase gear akin to that used by the police department they fund can truly be in the streets,” the lawsuit continues.
Police declared a previous “protest” on July 25th by the Antifa members as a riot.
Close to fifty people were arrested, with more than 55 police officers sustaining injuries. Antifa rioters set trailers set on fire, smashed windows, damaged cars, and threw explosive devices, bottles, and rocks at police officers.
Protesters through incendiary devices into construction trailers at the new construction site of the juvenile justice facility. It was spray-painted before it was torched pic.twitter.com/qJxETMeXC5
— Gary Horcher (@GaryKIRO7) July 25, 2020
Large crowd remains at Broadway and Pine Street. Multiple arrests made. Officers continue to work to disperse crowd. Safe exit is to the west.
— Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) July 25, 2020
Crowd throwing explosives at officer line at 11th and Pine.
— Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) July 26, 2020
Crowd continuing to throw large rocks, bottles, fireworks and other explosives at officers. pic.twitter.com/3gTGJUonUt
— Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) July 26, 2020
Following this and several previous incidents, the city council has put an ordinance into place preventing police from using ‘less lethal tools’.
Seattle police chief Carmen Best has warned that if the city appeases the rioters, her force will have no way of protecting residents.
“Simply put, the legislation gives officers NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd.” Best wrote.
The Seattle police chief informs business owners that they are on their own against rioters. The city council has tied her hands. The police do not have the tools to combat mob violence. pic.twitter.com/iLV0ne9Z2i
— Mike (@Doranimated) July 25, 2020
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Riots
French Workers Vow “Mother Of All Battles” As Macron Govt To Raise Retirement Age To 64
Get ready for the riots.

Published
3 months agoon
11 January, 2023Zero Hedge

Get ready for the riots to break out… France’s government has just proposed raising the legal retirement age as it embarks on significant reforms to the pension system, and not for the first time.
The Macron government going years back was already met with fierce pushback and anger upon earlier similar proposals and major overhaul attempts. The plan was unveiled Tuesday by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, and proposes raising legal retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030.
The plan stopped short of Macron’s previously proposed 65, and an outline of the proposal seeks to require that workers pay into the system for two more years, raising this from the current 41 to 43 years paying in.
The Macron government has argued a major overhaul is urgently necessary to stave off a coming huge deficit in the system. Macron has been pushing for such reforms since his first election in 2017.
According to the details of the plan as summarized in BBC:
- A full pension from 2027 will require working for 43 years (instead of 42 years currently)
- Guaranteed minimum pension income of not less than 85% of the net minimum wage, roughly €1,200 (£1,060) per month at current levels, for new retirees
- Police officers, prison guards, air traffic controllers and other public workers in jobs deemed physically or mentally arduous will keep the right to retire early
- Their retirement age will be increased by the same number of years as the wider labor force
- End to so-called “special regimes” with different retirement ages and benefits for rail workers, electricity and gas workers, among others.
Some of the above listed ‘sweeteners’ such as the increase in minimum pension to around €1,200 over and above the current €900 is an attempt to win the public’s support ahead of it being presented to parliament in the next weeks.
Widely cited recent polls point to around 70-80% of the population opposing Macron’s desired retirement age of 64. Already labor unions are planning large protests to begin next week, including some strikes set to begin Jan.19, with the FT citing the following union leaders touting they are ready for the “mother of all battles”:
Frédéric Souillot, head of the Force Ouvrière union, put the government on notice earlier this week that unions were willing to shut down the economy to stop the pensions law. “If for Emmanuel Macron this is the mother of all reforms, then for us it is the mother of all battles,” he said.
Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon called the proposal a “grave social regression”, while Le Pen called it “unjust” and said the French could count on her far-right party’s “total determination” to block it.
Protests have already been growing in some locales, with larger demonstrations expected next week…
It comes at a moment of rising cost of living across Europe and the West broadly, and amid deep uncertainty over near-future term energy and food prices related to the Ukraine war and fast-moving geopolitical events.
PM Borne is setting out to convince the population that the system must “evolve to ensure its future” – given especially that other European countries have already adjusted. “I know French people are worried about the changes, and we want to explain it and convince them,” she sought to assure.
crime
Rand Paul: “There’s Going To Come A Day Of Reckoning”; People Will “Rise Up”
“There’s going to be a day that people are going to wake up and say, ‘We’ve had enough.'”
Published
8 months agoon
25 July, 2022Steve Watson

Senator Rand Paul vowed this past weekend that a “day of reckoning” is coming for Democrats because Americans are sick and tried of spiralling crime and violence dominating their cities.
Appearing on Hannity, Paul spoke of the Democrats’ double standards on political violence in the wake of an attack on GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin last week during a campaign speech.
“The left wing is egging this on,” Paul urged, adding “and if we want to end this we have to start locking people up.”
Paul compared the media coverage of the attack on Zeldin to how the media covered Paul being violently attacked a few years ago, noting that the a Louisville Courier reported said “violence against me was justified.”
Paul went on to decry the rise of crime and violence, noting “There’s going to come a day of reckoning where the people who live in New York City – crime disproportionately affects those in poor neighborhoods and those who are minorities. One day they’re going to rise up and say, ‘We’ve had enough. The Democrats are not protecting our children.'”
Paul continued, “Kids are dying at the bus stop. Kids are dying on the subway. The Democrats don’t care about your kids. And it continues to happen decade after decade.”
“There’s going to be a day that people are going to wake up and say, ‘We’ve had enough. We’re going to vote for law and order.’ And Lee Zeldin is the law and order candidate,” Paul asserted.
“So I think there is a chance that people will say, ‘I don’t care, Black, White, whatever. I’m not associated with any party. I want a stop to the crime and we have to put people in jail.’ I think that’s coming,” Paul added.
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Videos: Violent Attacks On Pregnancy Clinics Continue
Antifa thugs are even attacking pro-abortion pregnancy centres
Published
9 months agoon
28 June, 2022Steve Watson

As Democrats are pledging to ignore the Supreme Court ruling to hand back abortion laws to States, and to erect macabre illegal abortion tents in national parks, pregnancy centres throughout America, even pro-choice ones, continue to be violently attacked.
The ‘night of rage’ appears to be turning into an entire Summer, again. Democrats still refuse to condemn the violence.
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Nobody believes the left is ‘tolerant’ or ‘inclusive’ or ‘empathetic’ anymore.
— Wendell Husebø (@WendellHusebo) June 27, 2022
Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center, in Virginia, was vandalized last night by pro-abortion domestic terrorists.
— Rev. Dean Nelson (@RevDeanNelson) June 25, 2022
This type of destruction does nothing to scare the #prolife movement. It only strengthens our resolve to love & serve. #LifeIsAHumanRight https://t.co/hmOOxlMIFM pic.twitter.com/ahBMeUygsm
A North Carolina pregnancy center director describes the “chilling” new level of violence by pro-abortion radicals.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 27, 2022
The center provides free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, parenting classes, and grief counseling for women. pic.twitter.com/9ZZKNDyUAx
Summer of 2020 all over again.
— Hector (@AngelusHector) June 27, 2022
An Antifa mob in Portland even attacked a clinic that isn’t anti-abortion. The Mother and Child Education Center executive director Maura White told Fox News “They lumped us in with them,” adding “We’re not anti-abortion.”
Portland: The @MomChildPDX Center was vandalized & smashed up by #Antifa at the riot overnight. The center provides free services to expecting & single parents facing housing & refugee issues, domestic violence & poverty. Antifa view them as an enemy. pic.twitter.com/k6A1bgFeK2
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) June 26, 2022
Anything with the words ‘mother and child’ or ‘pregnancy’ on its sign seems to be a viable target for these morons.
"The violence was horrible.”
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) June 27, 2022
A pregnancy resource charity in Portland, Ore. that was smashed up by #Antifa at their riot on Saturday night is actually not anti-abortion. The executive director of @MomChildPDX is a pro-choice liberal. https://t.co/zbXcOMUV4I
When the Antifa thugs learned they had attacked a pro-choice centre, they stood by the action, reasoning that the executive director is a “liberal catholic democrat.”
#Antifa accounts on Twitter are standing by the attack on the pro-choice pregnancy center because the executive director is a "liberal catholic democrat." (Antifa oppose all forms of Christianity & all US institutions & government.) https://t.co/oaj3BKWvNO pic.twitter.com/ZNZwSqBJIs
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) June 27, 2022
They also smashed up a Starbucks for the hell of it, even though the company has pledged to financially aid abortion travel:
The NE Portland @Starbucks smashed up by #Antifa was quickly cleaned & boarded up. The violent extremists who attacked businesses, cars & a family charity left their group's name in graffiti: "AFA BLM." AFA = Anti-Fascist Action, the name of original Antifa German paramilitary pic.twitter.com/98zboARgM8
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) June 26, 2022
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