No matter how much authority tries, idiots will always find a way to demonstrate in violent behavior. Yell, Scream, Cry, steal a megaphone from a cheerleader, do whatever to be heard or drown out the opposition. Violence is not the answer, people should turn their collective backs to you and you shall become mute – PB/TK
Hundreds of black-clad antifa activists confronted Trump supporters at a violent Berkeley rally – By AFP(businessinsider.com)/ Aug 28 2017
LOS ANGELES — Thousands of counterprotesters clashed with supporters of President Donald Trump in California on Sunday, leading to more than a dozen arrests, police officers and witnesses said.
A peaceful protest in Berkeley, outside San Francisco, began turning violent at about noon local time as fights broke out in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, which was closed to the public.
Hundreds of black-clad leftist antifa, or anti-fascist, activists jumped police barricades to confront the small number of Trump supporters who had showed up despite their “No to Marxism in America” rally having been canceled over fears of violence.
The counterdemonstrators surrounded their outnumbered rivals, chanting “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” and “Go home Nazi.”
Numerous demonstrators with their faces covered were escorted out of the park by the police, who reported 14 arrests, mostly for violating a ban on masks, sticks, and other potential weapons.
Police officers in riot gear fired a rubber bullet at a demonstrator who attempted to cross a barricade into the park, according to the Los Angeles Times, while protesters set off smoke bombs.
Joey Gibson, the leader of the right-wing Patriot Prayer group, was pepper-sprayed by leftist counterprotesters, an AFP photographer saw.
Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer tweeted that he had been pepper-sprayed and posted a video he said showed antifa protesters stomping on and beating an “alt-right” supporter as he lay in the road.
It was one of numerous videos posted on social media purportedly showing black-clad antifa activists physically attacking both pro-Trump demonstrators and journalists.
City officials had denied at least three requests for permits from demonstrations on both sides at the park, they said.
Amber Cummings, a Trump supporter, had organized the “No to Marxism in America” rally but later asked supporters not to show up out of fears of violence.
The police said a crowd that had reached 4,000 at its peak had largely dispersed by 3:30 p.m.
The clashes followed racially charged violence earlier this month in Charlottesville, Virginia, at a demonstration called by neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
That rally saw a woman killed after a man rammed his car into a group of anti-racism counterprotesters.
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