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Fishtown btw
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huge congregation of agitated white people with bats, golf clubs and billy clubs. n-words flying. overheard: “I’m ready to fuck shit up. you know ive been looking for a fight for the past 6 months.”pic.twitter.com/UHOTWMSWDT
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They just announced they are all heading to Frankford and Girard. One dude yells “there are no rules tonight!”
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One guy tells a cop: “im not here to make your job harder. I want to protect you.” A guy in a trump hat raised his fist and greeted his friend by saying “white man!”
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Confrontation mounting w protestors who have “I can’t breathe sign”
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Cop talking to white guy with a bat: “what are [the I can’t breathe] protestors doing? They’ve been trying to start shit all fucking day. They must be drunk”
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The group was in disarray walking up and down Girard. There looked like there were going to be confrontations, but the police stepped in. Since this is a pro-cop demonstration I think there’s some cognitive dissonance going on. It’s thinned and now on Montgomery off Girard.
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Ok they just mobilized toward Girard again.
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cops arrived ready to disperse the crowd. they turned around and headed toward the counter protest (the “I can’t breathe” side)pic.twitter.com/NGKh5ppo5e
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a lot of talk on the bat-brandishing side about “this is our neighborhood.” what I’m overhearing now is more anti-hipster/gentrification.
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cops seem to be successfully dispersing the crowd at the moment
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this guy was alleged to have had a hatchet and booked it after being spottedpic.twitter.com/tH7CVhgUsg
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he was arrested saying a bat was thrown at him. a relative or friend was nearby crying for him.pic.twitter.com/cfypGy1bSw
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situation back on Girard is calm. The bat-wielders have mostly gone home. the “i can’t breathe people” are still there but mostly standing around looking at their phones ... like Im doing rn
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moved down a block and there are more bats here. Still calm. One guy has a bat and a Dave Chapelle shirt.
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this lady from the “I can’t breathe side” started yelling “fuck you” to a group of about 20 bat-wielders and they erupted into applausepic.twitter.com/hPxeLOxPEn
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Situation getting tense again
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dude with a sledgehammer just showed up
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confusion as the seeming leader proclaims “we did our job!” and trying to get people to move.pic.twitter.com/9dz3bXM7i2
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I got called out for recording them and they beat the shit out of me and pushed my girlfriendpic.twitter.com/JMeR4SJ7y9
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Im fine. On my way to the hospital but I’m ok. Thanks for the concerns.
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