Sacramento goes post-apocalyptic. No police protection in
Sacramento. Enter at your own risk, bring your own gun and don’t count on the
police to protect you. Liberal thug gangs from the outside will be brought in
to attack you.
No arrests:
Violent rioters run amok in front of officers, Law enforcement agencies say review of activities still under
way, by Bob Unruh, 7/2/16, WND
Videos of a full-scale
riot at the Capitol in Sacramento, California, on June 26 show members of the two
sides, some with bloody stab wounds, attacking and bludgeoning each other.
An estimated 10 people
were injured in the violent confrontation between members of the Traditionalist
Worker Party, who had obtained permission for an assembly, and left-leaning
parties who protested the Worker Party shouldn’t be allowed to demonstrate
because its views are unacceptable.
The riot was big enough
that it captured worldwide attention, with Russia Today devoting more than 10
minutes to the fisticuffs and slashing.
The local police
department even posted a statement online that it had deployed more than 100
officers to respond to the violence. The California Highway Patrol joined the
Sacramento police in responding since the violence partly was on state grounds.
However, not quite a
week later, there have been no arrests. Observers are wondering why, with both
victims and suspects on video, a squadron of officers at the scene and
testimony from witnesses.
Officials both with the
California Highway Patrol and the city police department assured WND that their
investigations were ongoing. One reported a lack of cooperation from stabbing
victims and said perpetrators still had to be identified.
“We’re starting to get
the community calling and assisting with trying to sort out a ton of video,”
one officer told WND.
A spokesman for the city
said there apparently were injuries on both sides of the fight. “But we have
not made an arrest up until this point,” the city spokesman said.
On the day of the riot,
Sacramento police issued a statement that its officers were deployed to the
event by the Traditionalist Worker Party, which was permitted by the California
Highway Patrol.
“The Sacramento Police
Department and its state partners had been made aware of a counter-protest effort
organized by a local anti-fascist group. Recently, other events across the
country that have been attended by similarly affiliated groups have been
punctuated by violence.”
The report said 100
officers were dispatched, and the protest “quickly escalated and turned
violent.” So officers physically intervened. The city reported someone also
found a loaded handgun on the Capitol grounds.
However, a Daily
Activity Log for that day, Sunday, June 26, had only scanty information. It
noted a suspicious package at a church, a glass bottle thrown at a car, a
family disturbance, a street fight where one man had to be subdued through a
“conductive energy device” and an injury accident.
Then it said: “Officers
responding to the location regarding a victim who had been stabbed at a rally
held at the State Capitol. He was transported by a friend to this location. The
victim was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The victim could not provide any information as to who had stabbed him.
As officers were on
scene with the victim, a carload of subjects showed up who had been pepper
sprayed and red paint thrown on them. The subjects relayed that they had been
assaulted with bats, sticks and skateboards at the Capitol. These subjects refused
to take photos of their injuries and did not want to report the incident. The
subjects stated at the opposing group was responsible for pepper spraying them,
not law enforcement.”
The Sacramento Bee reported that clashes broke out even before the rally
was to begin. The neo-Nazi demonstrators clashed with protesters and “at least
10 people” were injured, the report said.
“We had some pretty
dynamic and chaotic situations,” Sacramento Fire Department spokesman Chris
Harvey, who arrived as a public information officer and quickly found himself
working as a paramedic, told the newspapers.
“We had a number of
times where we had a patient on the ground and crews were trying to do triage
and take care of them and the chaos was enveloping them. They were surrounded
by the CHP and police officers just trying to keep the general surge of people
away.”
The newspaper said that
in one of the earliest clashes, the “anti-fascists” confronted KCRA reporter
Mike Luery and his camera men, ordering them to leave. “We’re not causing the
problem; your belligerent people are causing the problem,” he told the crowd.
Then someone reached in
and knocked the microphone from his hand and others tried to grab the camera. Highway
Patrol officials also told WND they were continuing to investigate. The agency
is responsible for activity on the Capitol grounds.
Sacramento Police Chief
Sam Somers told the paper the conflict was between sides he called “anarchists”
and “skinheads.”
“Regardless of the
message, it’s the skinheads’ First Amendment right to free speech,” he said of
the group that originally held the permit.
Police noted that many
on both sides were dressed in black, wearing face masks and hoodies, and “it
was difficult to tell at times who was on which side.”
Yvette Felarco,
described by the newspaper as a member of the By Any Means Necessary group who
had come from Oakland, called her efforts a success. “The Nazis did not recruit
anyone new today, and our side did.”
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