Posted on 02/19/2017 12:49:02 PM PST by markomalley
The movement first made its presence felt in California more than two decades ago, then built its forces amid the protests against the Iraq war.
Out of the sea of largely peaceful antiwar demonstrators marching in San Francisco’s Financial District in 2003, a more militant subgroup emerged. Its members wore black masks, black jackets, black hoods and helmets. They smashed windows and looted military recruitment offices.
Since then, the so-called black bloc protesters have become a force in the Bay Area and beyond. They have been blamed for violence during protests in Oakland over corporate power and police abuse, notably the case of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man who was killed by BART police in 2009.
Scorned by critics on both the left and right and hunted by police, the black bloc is bringing its radical tactics to the massive protest movement sparked by the presidency of Donald Trump.
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Obama is going to be more dangerous now than he ever was.
CALexit 2018
Leave them to their own devices
Yes he is.
Follow the money back to where it came from.
They won’t last before the beg for re-admission.
open season ?
black clad running targets
Just when they were attempting to ban black targets at gun ranges we now have live ones
Find out who is paying them. Prosecute to the full extent of the law both the paymasters and protestors.
Next?
Felony riot charges as has happened in DC will do the trick.
I thought it is against the law in America to cover your face while protesting/rioting.
Arrest them for breaking the law; who is funding them? Are they infiltrated with ISIS or any other militant or subversive group? Are town-halls/meetings for the citizens being disrupted more often? This group needs to be eradicated now
Domestic terrorists.
Exactly what are they afraid of when it comes to Trump?
By now there darn well better be at least one or two feebye guyz in their ranks.
The LA times making heroes out of terrorists. Trump’s right the press is the enemy of the people.
Wearing the ISIS uniform.
Should be dealt with the same.
“Obama is going to be more dangerous now than he ever was.”
No, not at all. Until last month he had 3 MILLION PEOPLE that he could use against us...now it’s 30,000 - and we have, or will soon have those 3 Million people (other than some traitors) to use against his goons.
They lose.
Terrorists, yes! Domestic enemies....prosecute for sedition...
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