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soothsayer

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Fri Mar 19, 2021, 08:51 PM Mar 2021

New Proud Boys Busted for Capitol Riot Have Wild Police Ties


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elly Weill
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Mar 19, 2021
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I checked in with that officer, who asked me why Donohoe had been arrested. "Wow," he said. "Wow. Wow. I do not want to be associated with that."

New Proud Boys Busted for Capitol Riot Have Wild Police Ties
thedailybeast.com

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Kelly Weill
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The cover image on this story was Donohoe's profile picture on Telegram in 2019 when he posted about avoiding police surveillance so Proud Boys could beat up leftists in bars. "We need to stomp them. We need to ruin their lives physically," he wrote.

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Last summer, the Proud Boys attended a party at the Philadelphia Police union’s headquarters, carrying a large Proud Boys flag. The union later disavowed the group, but other connections also came to light. In June, the Philadelphia Proud Boys tweeted pictures of themselves in uniform posing with a police officer inside a police station, where the group said it was delivering snacks. (It’s unclear whether Rehl was in the pictures.) As The Daily Beast first reported, after a rally in September, the Philadelphia Proud Boys were accompanied back to their cars by a police caravan. A Philadelphia Police officer was filmed talking to and shaking hands with the group in what the city’s district attorney described to The Daily Beast as an “extra-friendly” interaction.

Philadelphia Police detective Jennifer Gugger is reportedly under investigation by her department for allegedly attending a rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol, where a Capitol Police officer would be killed in the melee. When then-Vice President Mike Pence tweeted his condolences about the Capitol Police officer’s death, Gugger reportedly replied with a reference to the QAnon conspiracy theory. “You’re a traitor and cabal operative and pedophile!” she tweeted at Pence, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “You preach of god and that god will judge you!”

Seven members of the police force for the Philadelphia-based Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority also attended the rally, with two members receiving three-day suspensions this week.

The sometimes-alliances between police and Proud Boys have led to cops actually joining the far-right group, with a Fresno police officer suspended this week after allegedly appearing alongside Proud Boys at an anti-LGBTQ event in that city. Meanwhile, another cop, Brian Sicknick, died after a scuffle with rioters at the Capitol.
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New Proud Boys Busted for Capitol Riot Have Wild Police Ties (Original Post) soothsayer Mar 2021 OP
OMG demtenjeep Mar 2021 #1
No surprise. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2021 #2

OAITW r.2.0

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2. No surprise.
Fri Mar 19, 2021, 09:01 PM
Mar 2021

Another reason to let communities hire/fire law enforcement. Elected police boards that oversee the hiring process and have the power to terminate contracts would go a long way in getting rid of white supremacist's / Nazis / RW anti-socialists who perpetrate most of these policing crimes.

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