Meanwhile in Shasta county, California the local militia leader

[PufPuf23]

hits a speed bump and Redding PD does not look so hot.

Shasta county has good stuff like the Cottonwood militia; the Red White and Blueprint (to make the USA a red nut job paradise community by community), and Bethel Church.

Here is a link to a local internet news site that leans left in deep red Shasta county.

https://anewscafe.com/

Note that link is down at the moment and says. "Note from Doni: sorry for the confusion; fixing the site. Read the latest story here: https://tinyurl.com/zapata-videos

https://tinyurl.com/zapata-videos

There were times during the last 59 days when Nathan Pinkney nearly lost hope. He wondered if his memory of the May 4 assault upon him at his former workplace, the Market Street Blade & Barrel restaurant, was accurate.

During those nearly two months of wondering and waiting for the Redding Police Department to finally release the surveillance video that he knew would surely exonerate him, he endured accusations that he — a 32-year-old African American comic, cook and Black Lives Matter activist — was a liar.

It was his word against his three alleged assailants. Alleged assailant No. 1 was 42-year-old Carlos Zapata, militia member and co-founder of the ultra-conservative Red White and Blueprint movement that’s documenting an attempted recall of three Republican Shasta County supervisors. Alleged assailant No. 2 was 40-year-old Elizabeth Bailey, a Zapata employee who works at his Palomino Room restaurant in Red Bluff (also the daughter of Nadine Bailey, a prominent fixture in North State Republican politics and rural issues). Finally, alleged assailant No. 3 was 45-year-old Chris Meagher, Bailey’s boyfriend, also known on social media as Red Red, someone with a history of criminal activity and violent encounters. (By the way, Meagher’s name is pronounced Meyer, like the lemon, not meager, as in deficient in quantity or quality.)

For 59 days, Pinkney wondered if the surveillance videos would ever become public.

Today is that day.

Yesterday A News Cafe received the surveillance videos, not from RPD, but from an anonymous source who leaked the videos to ANC for exclusive review. The most salient moments have been broken into separate videos.


long article with videos and photos. Redding PD lies.

[David__77]

1. I'm thankful for people like Nathan Pinkney.

It is courageous of him to act against fascists in that environment in particular. They must be opposed everywhere. Solidarity!

[PufPuf23]

2. There is a deep dive at the news cafe link

about Shasta county. The woman who runs the site does a very good job. Some of the local politics are way over the top.

I once lived in Redding. Redding is about a 3 hours drive where I am in Humboldt county (a native of Humboldt now old).

One idea that the evil doers have is to break off parts of northern California and Oregon to make part of a "Greater Idaho".

Troubling how many folks eat this shit up.

[David__77]

3. I suspect that town will move left someday.

Chico has. Here’s a parody video by the one who was attacked.

[PufPuf23]

5. Nathan did some pretty clever videos.

Difference between Redding and Chico is Chico State is in Chico and Simpson College is a Christian college and only local 4 year college. Plus Shasta county has Bethel Church trying to take over the county politics, sometimes on a shared path with militia types.

[kimbutgar]

6. Loved going to Chico State

But outside the town it was red neck haven. Driving there from the SF Bay Area was like traveling back in time as to how the towns were so backward.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. My only sister lives there in Cottonwood.

You look out her picture window, you can see Mt. Shasta in the distance.

Her area is very rural. Some of her "Church" friends I have met over the years are prime candidates for this sort of distorted patriotism against Liberalism. They forget to realize that the Jesus they profess to follow was the LIBERAL thinker and boat rocker of his time when preaching that the Rich had a duty to uplifting of the poor and improve their communities.