Just got thrown to the ground by right-wing anti-pedophile protesters as a crowd coverged on me...

[demmiblue]

As a female journalist trying to interview women at a right-wing protest over trans rights at a Los Angeles spa, I was just chased, pushed, and thrown to the ground.

Just got thrown to the ground by right-wing anti-pedophile protesters as a crowd coverged on me and chased me. They threw water at me and screamed about Jesus and said to grab my phone. Police would not let me through the police line but after I got thrown on the ground they did.

I’m doing okay — if I had been left alone to run from the right-wing crowd in the street, rather than let through the police line, not sure that would be the case.

Thanks for all the messages of concern — I am okay and frustrated that I could not do my job today and simply interview people about why they are demonstrating in the middle of downtown Los Angeles without being violently targeted and chased away.

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* She is a senior reporter from The Guardian.

[Blue Owl]

1. Anti-pedophile protestors should be in front of Matt Gaetz's residence

[joetheman]

15. So true!!

[JHB]

2. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that nobody there was protesting actual pedophiles...

...so much as they were foaming about the imaginary pedophiles of QAnon and and countless "Satanic Panic" purveyors before them.

[wryter2000]

3. Because Jesus said

Throw thy neighbor's phone to the ground.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Yet they cannot find Josh Duggar's house?

Yet they cannot find Josh Duggar's house?

IOKIYAAR.

[stillcool]

5. at least the cops didn't do their

pepper spray, taser-gun, arrest thing.

[luckone]

12. They were busy hitting medics

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[stillcool]

14. damn...don't know what crime

was committed by the medic, so hard to say who the criminal is. 7 people lost an eye in the summer protests last year, due to rubber bullets, I think two were journalists. They aimed for the face. Coast to coast the cops are choosing a side.

[Grokenstein]

8. Countdown to the usual

"Thet wuzn't us, thet wuz Auntie Fa and Bee-El-Em. Obbiusly, DUH."

[tishaLA]

9. My understanding is that the whole thing is predicated on a lie

at least that's what the police believe.

Apparently, some woman went batshit on an employee at Wi Spa a queer friendly Korean spa between MacArthur and Lafayette Parks. The woman posted a long video of her berating an employee because someone "with a penis" was in the women's locker room and she promised to make the whole thing go global. The oddity was that the transwoman who was allegedly in the locker room is never seen in the video....and the cops believe this is all a big hoax designed to garner attention.

[BradAllison]

10. I also understand Andy Ngo or Charlie Kirk has some involvement

They made something "go viral" exposing all this which is their usual bullshit.

[whistler162]

11. Over a possible staged event

https://www.losangelesblade.com/2021/07/07/alleged-trans-incident-at-upscale-la-spa-may-have-been-staged/

"By Robert Lansing | LOS ANGELES – On June 24th, Instagram user “cubaangel” posted a video of herself angrily confronting a staff member at the Wi Spa in Koreatown, accusing them of letting a disrobed transgender person into the women’s section of the business.

There is increasing doubt among law enforcement and staff at the Wi Spa whether there was ever was a transgender person there to begin with. Anonymous sources within the LAPD tell the Blade they have been unable to find any corroborating evidence that there was a transgender person present on that day.

Similarly, a source at the Spa told the Blade there’s no record of any of its usual transgender clients on its appointments guest list on the day in question. Treatment at the Spa is by appointment only, and most of its transgender clients are well known to the staff."

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. A reply points out the woman who threw a water bottle at her is wearing a "Free Commie Rides"

T shirt over a picture of people being thrown out of a helicopter, a la Pinochet. Not just 'right wing', but fascist. You can see her again, with clearer writing, in this video before she attacked the journalist:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RobertMackey/status/1416466041568325633