Conservative protesters in San Francisco accuse Antifa activists of violently attacking their rally. Cops have been injured on the occasion as properly.
A “free speech rally” was held on the United Nations Plaza on Saturday. Some demonstrators wore crimson ‘Make America Nice Once more’ Trump marketing campaign hats and carried pro-police ‘Skinny Blue Line’ flags, in addition to US flags. The activists got here to decry what they name censorship of conservative views and tales by social media giants, like San Francisco-based Twitter.
Counter-protesters rushed to the scene as properly, shortly outnumbering their rivals. Carrying makeshift shields and ‘Smash fascism’ banners, they threw plastic and glass bottles, and heckled the conservative rally organizer, Philip Anderson, as he was attempting to make a speech.
Philip Anderson says his “free speech rally” is canceled, he claims he was attacked earlier than the occasion. Audio system have been shouted down by a big group of counter-protesters. https://t.co/O49E8GRH2x pic.twitter.com/hcuQgZ2e02
— Cornell Barnard (@CornellBarnard) October 17, 2020
Movies posted on social media present loud activists trailing Anderson, chanting “Get the f**ok out!” and “You’re not welcome right here!” as the person was going to the stage. At one level, a black-clad man out of the blue jumped on Anderson, delivering two highly effective punches to his face.
Antifa shaped a mob to assault a black man. You couldn’t make this up. pic.twitter.com/Zowc3LcuX7
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 17, 2020
Anderson, who was protecting his mouth after the assault, was then compelled to climb over a barricade to flee the gang.
Antifa low-cost shot in San Francisco on a black man. Simply an thought says @JoeBiden pic.twitter.com/pD1Db7W4RM
— CIA-Simulation Warlord 🇺🇸🎃🇺🇸 (@zerosum24) October 17, 2020
Shortly after the assault, Anderson posted images of his bloody mouth with a entrance tooth lacking and one other hanging loosely. He wrote that Antifa assaulted him “for no purpose.”
In a video apparently filmed from a hospital mattress, Anderson addressed Trump’s rival within the presidential race, former Vice President Joe Biden. “I wanna ask you, do you continue to suppose, after seeing this, that they’re simply an thought? Okay, I would like you to reply that query, Joe Biden,” he stated, referring to an announcement Biden made throughout a televised debate with Trump final month. When requested by Trump to sentence the violence by Antifa members, Biden claimed that Antifa was “an thought, not a company.”
A scuffle erupted on the nook of Market and Polk between two males, one sporting a MAGA hat, who walked right into a crowd of counter protesters. Punches and water from bottles have been thrown as the gang chased him down Market St. towards 11th st. and a police officer line. pic.twitter.com/NfKeuTR2Vw
— Mallory Moench (@mallorymoench) October 17, 2020
Different scuffles broke out on the United Nations Plaza as properly, with one video exhibiting an alleged Antifa member hitting an individual with one thing resembling a baseball bat. In response to native media, no less than one Trump supporter was taken away in an ambulance.
San Francisco Police stated a number of folks, together with three officers, have been injured through the occasion. Officers suffered from pepper spray and “caustic chemical compounds,” in accordance with an announcement.
On the similar time in Washington DC, a younger Trump supporter claimed she was assaulted by Black Lives Matter activists for bringing a ‘Trump 2020’ flag to the Ladies’s March. Isabella DeLuca posted a photograph of herself in a cervical collar with a bruised face and lip
.@bellamaria1776 was hospitalized for supporting our President at present on the Ladies’s March in D.C.
Assaulting a girl, in attendance at a march for ladies, is the epitome of hypocrisy. Finish violence NOW. pic.twitter.com/0Gh5zVPtiL
— Mike Yoder (@Yoder_Esqq) October 17, 2020
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