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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:04 PM May 2020

Anti-Lockdown Protesters Are Now Facing Down Cops Outside of Bars

https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-lockdown-protesters-are-now-facing-down-cops-over-covid-safety-measures-outside-of-bars?ref=home

“If the police are calling in reinforcements, then I’m calling in reinforcements,” C.J. Grisham, the president of Open Carry Texas and a strident Texas gun right activist, said in a video urging his followers to “outnumber the police” at the bar. Grisham himself didn’t attend the protest.


David Amad, the vice-president of Open Carry Texas, went further in another video, comparing the county sheriff to a villain from “Robin Hood.”

“We need all the firepower we can get, because apparently we have a sheriff down there who thinks he’s the sheriff of Nottingham,” Amad said.

Much more at link. 😳🤬
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Anti-Lockdown Protesters Are Now Facing Down Cops Outside of Bars (Original Post) SheltieLover May 2020 OP
I don't know why I torture myself. Jamastiene May 2020 #1
It seems to be escalating SheltieLover May 2020 #4
They are being ALLOWED to do all of this. Jamastiene May 2020 #6
Bring it, assholes. Alex4Martinez May 2020 #2
Gee, what could go wrong with this picture? BigmanPigman May 2020 #3
IKR? SheltieLover May 2020 #5
All I want is to identify all of them and then for healthcare workers to refuse question everything May 2020 #7
I watched a movie last night where the people overthrew the police in an emergency. kimbutgar May 2020 #8
Terrorists. nt Ferrets are Cool May 2020 #9
These fuckers are so desperate to have their "Fort Sumter" moment. bullwinkle428 May 2020 #10
Yeah, they need to be stood up against hard. GulfCoast66 May 2020 #11
I feel like we have just entered The Twilight Zone. smirkymonkey May 2020 #12
Twilight Zone sfstaxprep May 2020 #13

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
1. I don't know why I torture myself.
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:10 PM
May 2020

I was hoping that headline meant they were in jail for threatening cops and were facing down cops outside of the bars of their jail cells.

But, OF COURSE, it is this kind of out of control, armed insurgence STILL happening instead.

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
4. It seems to be escalating
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:13 PM
May 2020

Sorry to have disappointed you.

I knew they would become more brazen when protesters blocking ambulance entrance road to hospital in MI were not arrested.

Coddling these people is enabling, and only serves to embolden them. 🤬

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
6. They are being ALLOWED to do all of this.
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:17 PM
May 2020

Can you imagine if any liberal even so much as had nailclippers near a courthouse or state capitol building? It would be The Patriot Act invocation as an excuse to come after us with everything they got, including loads of riot gear, tanks, and all of the post 9/11 military gear they have.

kimbutgar

(21,137 posts)
8. I watched a movie last night where the people overthrew the police in an emergency.
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:22 PM
May 2020

People were hungry not wanting a drink!

Sounds like it will fizzle.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
11. Yeah, they need to be stood up against hard.
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:42 PM
May 2020

If you watched the attached video those guys could not drop their guns and put their hands up the second the sheriff’s deputies showed up with their own AR-15s.

Internet warriors. Meal Team Six members.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. I feel like we have just entered The Twilight Zone.
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:49 PM
May 2020

This country has finally gone off the deep end. There is nothing holding these people back anymore. They have lost their capacity for reason. They are pure rage and emotion. It is going to be a very interesting six months until the election. And god knows what will happen after that.

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