10 stabbed, beaten at protest outside California

10 stabbed, beaten at protest outside California Capitol

Olga r. Rodriguez, Associated Press
June 26, 2016

10 stabbed, beaten at protest outside California CapitolView photos
Sacramento police mounted officers prepare for crowd control after a scuffle broke out at a protest near the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on Sunday, June 26, 2016. Officials said several were stabbed when members of right-wing extremists groups holding a rally clashed with counter-protesters. (Jerry H. Yamashita via AP)

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Ten people were wounded — two of them with life-threatening injuries — on Sunday when counter-protesters clashed with members of a white nationalist group that planned to rally outside the California state Capitol building in Sacramento, authorities said.

California Highway Patrol Officer George Granada said about 30 members of the Traditionalist Worker Party were gathering for a rally around noon Sunday when they were met by about 400 counter-protesters and a fight broke out.

As people tried to leave the area, smaller fights broke out, Granada said.

Authorities were investigating what happened, but no arrests have been made.

The Capitol was on lockdown until protesters cleared the area.

Videos from the melee posted on social media showed mounted police officers dispersing a group of mostly young people, some with their faces covered, while some throw stones toward a man holding a stick and being shielded by police officers in riot gear.

Sacramento Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey said nine men and one woman, ranging from 19 to 58 years old, were treated for stab wounds, cuts, scrapes and bruises. Of the injured, two were taken to the hospital with life-threatening stab wounds, Harvey said.

"There was a large number of people carrying sticks and rushing to either get into the melee or see what was going on," he said.

The victims were all present while a protest took place, said Sacramento Police spokesman Matt McPhail but he said it was still unclear whether and how they were involved.

The Traditionalist Workers Party had scheduled and received a permit to protest at noon Sunday in front of the Capitol. McPhail said a group showed up to demonstrate against them.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has described TWP as a group formed in 2015 as the political wing of the Traditionalist Youth Network, which aims to "indoctrinate high school and college students into white nationalism."

Matthew Heimbach, chairman of the Traditionalist Worker Party, told the Los Angeles Times that his group and the Golden State Skinheads organized the Sunday rally. Heimbach said that in the clash, one of their marchers had been stabbed in an artery and six of the counter-protesters had also been stabbed.

Vice chairman Matt Parrott, who was not present at the Sacramento rally, blamed "leftist radicals" for instigating the violence.

A message left at a phone number for the Traditionalist Worker Party was not immediately returned to The Associated Press.

A post recently uploaded to site of the Traditionalist Youth Network said TWP members planned to march in Sacramento to protest against globalization and in defense of their right to free expression. They said they expected to be outnumbered 10-to-1 by counter-protesters.

"We concluded that it was time to use this rally to make a statement about the precarious situation our race is in," the Traditionalist Youth Network statement said. "With our folk on the brink of becoming a disarmed, disengaged, and disenfranchised minority, the time to do something was yesterday!"

The clash Sunday follows a confrontation in March between Ku Klux Klan members and counter-protesters in Anaheim, California in which three people were stabbed.

 

http://www.mediaite.com/online/violence-breaks-out-at-white-supremacist-rally-in-sacramento-multiple-people-stabbed/

 

They are saying it's unclear as to who did the stabbing. My son's friends were there next to it all going on and they said it was clearly the white supremacists who did the stabbing. The other group did have some bats and sticks (they were there to prevent the march) and they did beat up some of those who were attacking/stabbing.

 

Don't feel bad for them cowardly so called "counter protestors" one bit.

 

Glad someone posted it. I don't feel bad about this so call "traditionalist party" getting a beat down. such careful wording of their site to make it seem like they are not racist and/or antisemits . Even when Obama ran the first time, it was not this bad. Trump has embolden these people.

 

You do dumb stuff...dumb stuff will happen.
They could've had a counter protest later that day or before.

They just played into the Nazis hands

This kid had nothing to do with anything but be born and caught hell


http://m.aol.com/article/2016/05/02...-after-news-of-her-going-to-harvard/21369137/

Racist commenters attack Malia Obama after news of her going to Harvard

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Commenters allegedly on the conservative Fox News site used the "n-word" to describe 17-year-old Malia Obama. No racial epithet seemed to be spared and one commenter even wished that she'd get cancer or AIDS "or one of those colored diseases." The more civil comments — if you can refer to it as that — called her attendance an example of "black privilege" and "affirmative action." Fox News did work to remove many of the posts and disabled commenting on the page but not before the examples of their users' hate reached the rest of the internet.

 

Interesting.

Some of what's missing in it all was that they supposedly cancelled the rally once they heard people would be there to block them. There was a rally set some time back, that was cancelled and didn't happen.

I don't have the answers. But I certainly don't think just watching them march around the state capital is the way to go. People need to wake the fuck up and realize it's going on everywhere - even in "liberal California" and that's part of this guys whole thing.....if he can do this shit in CA, he can do it anywhere.

So tell us, what do you think would be the way to handle these people?

 

All the wording really is something.

 

Yeah I feel you on every point. Its a great question. My thing is not to give them any more new recruits. The problem is evil will exist. You can't just let it grow.

When you have these right wing radio talk show host around then you will surely have a problem. The neo Nazis get all their ammo from them. So to me is always get all the info and be ready. I listen or try to listen to the conservative radio (cr) all the time to have a counter point.

When you have well articulated and thoughtful counterpoints they go unhinged (the host) but the listener is seeing it for what they want to see.

Hopefully your counterpoints will win the listener.

You can march but don't get into a fight with the Nazis....they will win

I'll give a great example later.

 

Yup! I think Obama angered lots of people being a (half) black man, and it brought out lots of racists. However, Trump and his BS has really brought them out in droves. It makes sense... They finally have someone speaking the same horrible hate that they already had in them. Of course many fit into one of those groups that Trump "loves".... "I love the poorly educated".

 

They have someone speaking their language in Trump, and they're thrilled.

 

Yep and the CR

 

I recall a book my late older brother had. It was a part of the Time/Life book collection on WW2. I saw many photos of the Nazis and their rise to power. There was even a a poster celebrating Adolph Hitler. Underneath Hitler's face were the words,

"Ein Volk. Win fuhrer." It translates to ,"One people. One leader."

It seems history has repeated itself. And the irony is that it is repeating itself in the USA.