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"Get
The F*ck Out": Watch Trump Supporters Kick White Supremacists
Out Of "Occupy ICE" Counterprotest
7
July, 2018
A
group of KKK members led by a Jefferson County "Imperial Wizard"
known only as Derek were ejected from a Saturday "Occupy ICE"
counterprotest by members of conservative groups the "Three
Percenters" and "Proud Boys," who had organized the
response.
"Get your ass out of here... go, go... get the fu*k out. You're racist."
Occupy
ICE has been physically blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) buildings across the country to protest the Trump
administration's "zero tolerance" policy of enforcing
existing laws. The group has been camped out in front of the local
Louisville ICE building at 7th and Broadway since early this week,
calling for the agency to be abolished
.
All of @occupyicelou now walking to buffer zone. Chanting "no justice, no peace. "@LMPD and, according to @dctello, a few @ThreePercenters on other end of buffer gates.
In
advance of the event, Louisville police Chief Steve Conrad warned
residents of the potential for violence.
"I
believe a number of people coming to this event will be armed,"
Conrad said at a press conference on Friday.
Gary Foreman, a spokesman for the Kentucky chapter of the Three Percenters, said on Friday the group would be coming to "ensure everyone expresses their thoughts in a peaceful environment." He said about 100 people are expected to attend, including members of state chapters in Tennessee and Indiana.
Conrad said people have the right to carry firearms in Kentucky, but the police department won't accept violence or property damage in any form. He said mixing firearms with the intensity of the immigration debate was the reason he canceled planned days off for police officers in order to have more resources on Saturday. -Courier Journal
"The fact (that)
emotions are so high on this issue and people's opinions are so
varied, I
think it’s important that we provide a place where people can share
their opinions and hopefully we can keep them safe in the process,"
Conrad said.
The Proud Boys and Three
Percenters regularly attend rallies and other events in support, or
counterprotest, of public policy or liberal activism. In 2017, the
Three Percenters were involved in the "Unite the
Right" demonstration against the removal of a
Confederate monument in Charlottesville, VA organized by white
nationalist provocateur Jason Kessler - who was an active Obama
supporter just
eight months prior to the event. Kessler's motives were called into
question when he was discovered to have written and performed
African revenge-porn poetry about "white
devils"
raping Africa, while his Jewish
ex-girlfriend said
he showed "no signs of being anti-Semitic" following the
"Unite the Right" rally. From Kessler's "running
thoughts"
blog in December, 2015:
The
Three Percenters distanced themselves from the neo-Nazi element at
Charlottesville after dozens of people were wounded and a woman,
Heather Heyer, died after a white supremacist drove his car into a
crowd of protesters.
“While we support and defend everyone’s right to free speech, we will not align ourselves with any type of racist group.” -Three Percenters
Meanwhile, violence
between left and right has been escalating. Last weekend at a
conservative rally in Portland, a large skirmish broke out which led
to a viral video of a Proud Boy known as "Rufio" knocking
out an Antifa member. (Knockout
at 7:35)
This is the #ProudBoy we call Rufio.
And
on the 4th of July, 16-year-old Trump supporter Hunter Richard was
assaulted at 2:35 a.m. at a San Antonio Whataburger restaurant while
dining with two friends, when 30-year-old Kino Jimenez threw soda on
the trio and stole Richards's red MAGA hat. Jimenez was arrested on
Friday
The
recent confrontations over Trump's immigration policy come on
the heels of several members of the Trump administration
suffering harassment in public and at their homes - most notably
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was ejected
from the Red Hen restaurant
in Lexington, VA after the owner's gay employees became uncomfortable
in Sanders's presence.
In
response to the spate of public harassment last month, Democratic
Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) called for Democrats to form into mobs
and physically confront members of the Trump administration if they
see them out in public.
"If you see anybody from that
Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline
station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on
them, and you
tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,"
said Waters.
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