And as always, the police are protecting the white nationalists’ event. Three counterprotesters were just arrested.https://twitter.com/steveahlquist/status/1167809023640518656?s=21 …
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Vermin's using his megaphone to yell "Douchebag pride!"
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After coming in to brutalize some medics and arrest them, the cops are just letting the two sides mingle with each other.https://twitter.com/sebishop99/status/1167844038516584448 …
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Meanwhile, a Parade attendee attacked a female-presenting counterprotester. The cops were nowhere to be found, the attacker was chased away by a crowd chanting "Nazis out!"https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1167844617309556736 …
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LIBERALS: "abolish police"? but don't we need police ME: good point, what am i gonna do when i need someone to attack our medics and then do nothing while fascists attack female-presenting people
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@broderick notes that the Parade has dissolved, and now the march is just a gang of far-right losers looking for fights on the street. This is Kenny Lizardo, the Proud Boy who showed up at@VicBergerIV's house to threaten him for making fun of Gavin McInnes.pic.twitter.com/cmI9StbtSj
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You can read more about that here.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/far-right-proud-boys-menaced-twitter-user-on-his-doorstep_n_5b06de68e4b07c4ea1060e92 …
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The Proud Boys have been part of numerous violent incidents lately. Proud Boys Maxwell Hare and John Kinsman were convicted last week on Gang Assault and Riot charges for attacking counterprotesters in Manhattan.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/nyregion/proud-boys-verdict-trial.html …
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And just yesterday, Thomas Christensen, the President of the Chicago Proud Boys, was found guilty of stabbing a man at a Dropkick Murphys show.https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-northerly-island-stabbing-verdict-20190830-cjkbkhtpnvfhbarja4cc4ck5ka-story.html …
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Reports on the ground indicate that police are now kettling counterprotesters. Why? To make sure that an event sponsored by a violent hate group goes smoothly.https://twitter.com/jrmartinson_/status/1167849147468341248 …
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The event is basically over now. How'd it go? I'll let
@socialistdogmom tell you.https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1167836427146661895 …Show this thread -
Here's video of police charging into a crowd of nonviolent counterprotesters and macing them.https://twitter.com/deluxian54/status/1167855283252674560 …
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And here's a firsthand account of someone who witnessed cops hopping a barricade to charge a street medic, while other cops threatened people with OC spray.https://twitter.com/lkngrrr/status/1167852120105611264 …
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@steveahlquist just posted video of the first arrest he witnessed. Police knelt on the counterprotester's neck to make the arrest, even though they had him surrounded.https://twitter.com/steveahlquist/status/1167859790392856576 …
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Meanwhile, the Straight Pride Parade is hawking $25 t-shirts to make some cash. The city of Boston paid for the grifters' security and brutalized its own citizens so these jabronis could come out and grift their fellow patriots out of $25 a pop.https://twitter.com/sebishop99/status/1167861220717686791 …
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The cops behaved abominably, even for cops. They attacked medics for no reason and arrested nonviolent counterprotesters in an effort to intimidate activists.
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But on the plus side, we got to hear this chat, which has never been truer than today. https://twitter.com/thebigdumbidiot/status/1167066475456188416 …
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Solidarity to everyone who came out to defend their city from fascists today. You did a wonderful job in the face of state repression. If anyone you know got arrested, call the National Lawyers Guild at 617-431-6626 and get them some legal representation.
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@Bos_Solidarity has a bail fund for anyone needing assistance bailing themselves out of jail. It's not huge, but if we need to open it back up, I'll share that link tonight.
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It looks like there were a few more arrests than we'd prepared for, so
@Bos_Solidarity reopened the bail fundraiser. If you've got a few dollars, please consider them kicking them toward freeing our comrades who were arrested today defending their city.https://fundrazr.com/61YIs8?ref=ab_38OSc3_ab_4w3u9B63cu44w3u9B63cu4 …Show this thread -
And if you can't donate, you can still help! Please consider retweeting this tweet, or sharing this link on Facebook to raise some money for folks who were arrested today, defending Boston from out-of-town fascists.https://fundrazr.com/61YIs8?ref=ab_38OSc3_ab_4w3u9B63cu44w3u9B63cu4 …
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And just in case you were wondering, the Parade itself is over, but the jabronis are *still* listening to speeches. I didn't know that anyone could talk for three hours about the missionary position, but it's happening, right now, in Boston.
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And oh, look-- a friendly Parade attendee who is definitely not homophobic just happens to scream "I AM ANTI-GAY" and then call people "f*ggots" while wearing one of Steven Crowder's "Socialism is for f*gs" shirts.https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1167873740719345665 …
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For more on the context of that shirt, and how it fits into the far-right's harassment campaigns against LGBTQIA folks, see
@gaywonk.https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1135994135998029831?lang=en …
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More anti-gay rhetoric from the Straight Pride Parade.https://twitter.com/sebishop99/status/1167869571690201094 …
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Boston cops just assaulted
@socialistdogmom for no reason.https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1167896587638456320 …Show this thread -
Despite not declaring an unlawful assembly, cops are just attacking protesters now.https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1167902883536232449 …
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