Atlanta police arrested at least six people after a mostly peaceful protest [sarcasm] Saturday erupted into a night of chaos and violence that included protesters smashing windows and setting a police vehicle on fire, the mayor said.
Far-left extremists came equipped with explosives to overthrow the city’s police.
Police arrested six people and were continuing to investigate whether any others were involved in illegal activity, the chief said. Three businesses sustained damage to their windows, he added.
Social media footage showed a police cruiser on fire in the downtown area, and video from CNN affiliate WANF showed broken windows at a Wells Fargo bank.
The protests come in response to a planned $90 million, 85-acre law enforcement training facility – dubbed “Cop City” by its opponents – and just days after the police killing of 26-year-old activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán near the site of the training center. Terán shot at the police.
The Antifa-tied movement is called “Defend the Atlanta Forest.”
THE GRIEVING MOTHER BLAMES THE POLICE
The mother of the activist fatally shot by law enforcement in Atlanta earlier this week said she feels angry and powerless as protests over the shooting erupted Saturday.
Officers spotted someone in a tent in the woods and gave verbal commands. Still, the person did not comply and shot a Georgia State Patrol Trooper, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release.
Officers returned fire and fatally wounded the person, identified as Manuel Esteban Paez Terán. The GBI said a handgun recovered from the individual’s possession matched the projectile from the trooper’s wound.
His mother and his Antifa buddies said he was a pacifist “forest defender” who wouldn’t hurt even an animal. She thinks he probably had the gun to protect himself against the animals.
He identifies as a non-binary who fights environmental racism. That’s a new invented reason to gripe.
We don’t know if he’s here legally.
Speaking from Panamá City, Panamá, his mother, Belkis Terán, expressed her disbelief in law enforcement’s recounting of the incident, saying, “I know they said he shot first, but I don’t believe it.”
“He was attacked,” she added, without any evidence.
“I want to stand up. I want to raise his voice. I’d like to help the conservationists to find a way to stop Cop City. I don’t know if I can do that,” she said.
Only they’re not conservationists; they’re Antifa.
“Atlanta is safe, and our police officers have resolved the disruptions downtown from earlier in the evening,” City of Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said Saturday evening.
“The City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Department will continue to protect the right to peaceful protest. We will not tolerate violence or property destruction,” the mayor added.
These terrorists have:
- Fire-bombed a youth facility;
- Fire-bombed corporate offices;
- Vandalized private citizens’ homes;
- Disrupted church services and vandalized churches;
- Shot a police officer;
- Burned businesses and police vehicles.
Now listen to this left-wing journalist try to downplay it. It’s so ridiculous:
Democrats have turned our cities into criminal wastelands.
Respond by calling out a SWAT team…
“Wouldn’t even hurt an animal. But he probably had a gun to protect himself from animals.” Brilliant!
Glad that jerk will NOT get a day in court to waste taxpayer’s money.
Funny how the insurrection lasted less than 1 night when the police enforced the law and locked these commies up!
Kinda exposes the liberal “Give’m space” exercise for the BS it really is.
How can “he” also be “non-binary” (as if there were such a thing)?
They should be put down like rabid dogs.
Wide Stupidity trumps “white” supremacy every time
rest in peace shitstain.
He shot a cop. He got shot and dead. Played a stupid game won a stupid prize…death. End of story.
Each time this kind of scenario plays out, its the perp who was at fault and got what he asked for. But the left ginned it up to look different, even when all the evidence showed the guilty party was the deceased criminal.
The role of Police is to keep Public Law & Order. It is the Courts who enforce the Law, not Police and we seem to have forgotten that distinction. America is not a 3rd World Country where a cop can pull you over for a traffic violation and force you to pay a fine on the spot; at least in most States. The cop writes a ticket which is a summons to a Court.
Somehow we live in a Country with a 4th Amendment where police can now kick down doors and shoot people defending their home and the Government can’t understand why there are people who see the police as the enemy. That is because Government is broken in America and it starts with police who have never read, much less studied the Constitution. A policeman’s oath is to the Constitution and not the Government Politicians. When people see the “police” creating a 85-acre law enforcement training facility, a facility as large as a major military installation, they don’t see Law Enforcement, they see a Military Organization to control them. Unfortunately, that is exactly what it is.
Why are we here? Well, on one hand the Government got lazy and on the other the Government has decide that the people who agree with Government have more rights than those who question Government. When I was a boy, cops didn’t kick down doors, they knocked on the door and presented warrants. Only if you resisted did they come back in force. You had a Choice to be Civilized, people aren’t given that choice today. The “System” is now designed to escalate things to ensure that people will resist arrest. Justice is now forcing people into compliance. There was a time when you were given time to contact your attorney so that you could have proper representation from the moment you were arrested. Now we create “process” crimes. There was a time when if you resisted for a dastardly crime there would be wanted Dead or Alive Warrant which made a really good argument to get a lawyer and turn yourself in. Now the “System” hunts you down like a dog. Today the Government isn’t interested in Justice, it wants submission and that’s Tyranny! Government should be scared of the People, but today the People are scared of Government. The problem comes when The People realize that they grossly outnumber the Government Tyrants.
We have seen how easy it is for a handful of AntiFa types to make Government look foolish, but extremist in Government are in bed with AntiFa. AntiFa was basically created by Hillary Clinton when she embraced them. If The People resist in mass, the Police will be that cannon fodder caught in the Middle. Police, especially elected Sheriffs, need to realize that they work for the People and not the Politicians.
Why do we even have police? It’s simple really. Prior to the Mid 1800s businessman had to hire private security. By transferring the Cost to “Taxpayers” they increased Profits. But today business still has to pay private security because Government now uses the Police as means to control The People. This is why in Corrupt Cities people are inclined to defund the Police. A police force Must be totally separate from the City Government and the Sheriff and Police Chief must be elected or we will have a problem. We see this in Atlanta because the Government in Atlanta is corrupt and the Police Chief is appointed. It’s just that simple; People in cities don’t trust their police. In my county, my Sheriff is Elected. He a great sheriff, but won’t be running for re-election; he turned 70 and it’s time to retire! The nice thing about a small county police force is criminals know there aren’t enough deputies to protect them for the homeowners.
One final thing. If you shoot a cop who forced himself into your home, that is your right. If you shoot a cop anywhere else, it should be the Death Penalty. The biggest problem in America is people don’t feel safe in their homes anymore and that is because Government keeps trying to strip people of their God given right to be safe in their homes; even from Government. Cops aren’t here to protect you, you need to do that yourself because police can’t be everywhere. The police are just to provide a structure for PUBLIC Law & Order. Law & Order should allow you the absolute right to protect you and your family on your property and in your home as you see fit. NO ONE has a right to second guess a home invasion, even when done at Government Direction. When we reestablish this God Given Right as absolute, people will start to stop seeing police as the enemy. It’s interesting that today this is only seen as a God Given Right in Rural, Religious parts of America when 200 years ago it was universal.
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I respectfully disagree. We trust our police. We don’t shoot at them, and they don’t shoot at us. If you trespass, are confrontational, and brandish firearms or destroy property, you are “militant” and no lengthy, righteous word salad will change that.
Who the fuck is “we”? Speak for yourself.
That was the 1960s. They’d bust YOU for protecting yourself from Antifa, but allow Antifa to riot! LOL!
yeah right,,, we need more cops and more jails
You need to get out of your ghetto , the majority of the country feels quite safe in their homes. Police reflect the communities they come from, a corrupt community has corrupt politicians and police.
Verbal diarrhea much?
We got “here” via the “class” of ’68. Their list of “accomplishments” would get me flagged…(EXTREMELY PROUD of JFK/RFK/MLK/MX….and a Nixon on the side)
Ahhh! The terrible police persecute pacifists. All this one did was shoot a police officer without provocation. Why did they have to kill such an innocent person?
Do people like those of Antifa ever the the truth? Do they even know the meaning of the word?
Well, they are democrats so that means they don’t ever tell the truth.
“environmental racism.”
The only hazardous waste is Antifa.
Shooting these terrorists is a good start.
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