By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 5:36:00 P.M. EDT
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — A far-right group and counter-protesters clashed in Kalamazoo Saturday afternoon.
The confrontation started just before 2 p.m. on E. Water and N. Edwards streets.
Members of the Proud Boys, an organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, were there for a planned rally. In response to publicity about the event, counter-protesters staged their own event in the area. When the Proud Boys arrived a confrontation ensued in the streets.
Some engaged in fist fighting before police arrived in the area and ordered the crowds gathered to disperse.
“Once we establish that civil unrest that’s when there’s that police line,” said Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Capt. Vernon Coakley.
Coakley said a few people were arrested, but didn’t know exactly how many.
MLive says one of its reporters, Samuel Robinson, was arrested. The company is working on releasing him from the county jail, which it expects to happen soon. An MLive editor told News 8 they believe Robinson was “wrongfully detained.”
Protesters are still at the scene, but it appears they have mostly cleared out. News 8 has a crew monitoring the situation.
--GRA
N.S.: Dead giveaway phrases from fake news reporters (rendered anonymous as "staff" by wood.tv):
“A far-right group and counter-protesters clashed in Kalamazoo Saturday afternoon.”
"Members of the Proud Boys, an organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center..."
They shouldn't be calling any group "far-right," since it tells you nothing but that the media outlet in question hates it, and you should never identify one side of a violent incident, without identifying the other side, unless one side attacked, and the other side was victimized. However, the msm does the opposite. They identify and defame the vics, while hiding the name and political identity of the perps.
That the fake news reporters would grant the treason/racist/hate group the splc authority means that wood.tv is itself a treason/racist/hate group.
The "thing" claims that fake news "reporter" Samuel Robinson (of MLive) was wrongfully arrested, but when a fake news reporter is arrested, we should assume that the arrest was justified, until proven otherwise.
Less obvious giveaways the story is fake news:
The story quotes a black cop as saying that people were "fighting," and his department only broke things up after they got violent.
Anyone who has followed antifa since at least the August 11, 2017 Unite the Right demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, knows that antifa always violently attacks anyone they hate who is trying to hold a peaceful demonstration, and that the police always use the antifa violence as a pretext to shut down the non-violent, anti-communist demonstration. If the police had acted professionally and lawfully, they would have kept both groups separated.
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Exactly correct N.S.
For once,I didn't break down and analyze the WOOD view of the story,but N.S. observed the obvious slant and commented to perfection.Spot on,while WOOD shamelessly goes anti-White again.
--GRA
USA will be lucky if there is not a civil war. Lots of people want it.Pushing hard for it.
Update at 10pm:
Both groups of philosophically opposed protesters were back at it tonight-or never really left the area.WOOD is showing live pictures of downtown Kazoo--an empty street,the main thoroughfare--but on either side of the "quiet zone" are the combatants--Proud Boys lined up to the left.Maybe two to three blocks away to the right,blm and antifa are lined up there.Police are in between them as of now.
--GRA
Even in a place like Kalamazoo. Lots of blacks there. Came norf to work in the auto industry.
KALAMAZOO(BLACK)MAYOR DOES NOT SUPPORT WHITE PROTESTERS,BUT BACKS BLM;WRAPUP OF PROUD BOYS/BLM/ANTIFA ENCOUNTER
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The day after a clash between a far-right group and counter-protesters in Kalamazoo Saturday afternoon, city officials held a press conference in response to the events that took place.
(GRA:No,in the scheme of how events are occurring,the "Proud Boys" are counterprotesting BLM,if reporting is to be accurate).
The conference began around 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety headquarters. It lasted for about an hour and 45 minutes.
The confrontation started just before 2 p.m. on Saturday on East Water and North Edwards streets.
Members of the Proud Boys, an organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, were there for a planned rally. In response to publicity about the event, counter-protesters, including the People’s Defense League of Michigan, staged their own event in the area, police say.
When the Proud Boys arrived at the peaceful counter-protest already underway, fights broke out in the streets. News 8 crews saw people punching, kicking and even pepper-spraying one another.
Mayor Dave Anderson began Sunday’s conference, saying he wanted to make it clear that the city of Kalamazoo does not condone the hate-mongering or ideals of the Proud Boys. Anderson also said the city supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
(GRA:Of course--he's BLACK[with a white wife]).
KDPS Chief Karianne Thomas, laid out a timeline of events that happened Saturday. She confirmed that the Proud Boys arrived in Kalamazoo the night before the planned rally. She also said officers had information about the Proud Boys visiting the area about a month before the demonstrations.
Participants on both sides of the protest were armed, police say. They were deployed after the confrontation on Water and Edwards streets.
Black leaders questioned city officials and police about Saturday’s violence. Several officers were in unmarked cars and out of sight, but counter-protesters say police should have been more proactive.
Police said after receiving feedback from previous protests earlier this summer, they decided to watch the scene from a distance to avoid agitating protesters. KDPS says about 100 officers were on standby, including a sniper.
“We learned that when we were visible that we became the target. We had our cars surrounded. Police cars were surrounded or people physically going after some of those officers,” Thomas said. “We wanted to be available but not become the show. It wasn’t just for yesterday’s it was for all the protests we’ve had between. And was yesterday’s different? Yes, but we respond to the actions that occur.”
Thomas apologized for the arrest of an MLive reporter who has since been released from custody. She says he was clearly credentialed and should not have been arrested.
In total, KDPS said nine people were arrested during demonstrations, including one was a juvenile who was later released to parents.
GRA:All White groups are labeled,"hate",from this point forward,while black groups are hereby called,"counterprotesters" and constantly "peaceful."
What a joke.
--GRA
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