Category: Violence

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California senator removed from room after interrupting news conference by Kristi Noem

Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country.

Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing Padilla, who represents California, by his jacket and shoving him from the room as he tried to interrupt Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles.

“I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he shouted in a halting voice.

The stunning scene of a U.S. senator being aggressively removed from a Cabinet secretary’s news conference prompted immediate outrage from his Democratic colleagues in the chamber. It comes as the Trump administration has aggressively targeted protesters in California who are demonstrating against immigration raids, including by sending in National Guard troops and Marines. (snip-MORE)

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Missouri Gov. Kehoe activates National Guard ahead of planned protests across the state

KANSAS CITY, MO —

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has activated the Missouri National Guard in anticipation of protests planned across the state.

Kehoe signed an executive order on Thursday, declaring a state of emergency and authorizing the Guard to support local law enforcement if necessary.

“We respect, and will defend, the right to peacefully protest, but we will not tolerate violence or lawlessness in our state,” Governor Kehoe said. “While other states may wait for chaos to ensue, the State of Missouri is taking a proactive approach in the event that assistance is needed to support local law enforcement in protecting our citizens and communities.”

The executive order comes two days following hundreds of Kansas Citians marching downtown in protest of ICE. There were protests in St. Louis as well.

This weekend, a large crowd is expected at Mill Creek Park on the Country Club Plaza.

They will take part in the “No Kings” rally, set the same day as a Flag Day military parade that is also President Donald Trump’s birthday.

Kansas City mayor responds on National Guard’s activation

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas’ office said the mayor is “concerned with enhanced enforcement for one set of protestors,” referencing the Patriot Front’s march on Memorial Day Weekend.

His office’s statement in full:

“Mayor Lucas is concerned with enhanced state enforcement for one set of protestors, but no action or aid to local law enforcement when Neo-Nazis march through Missouri’s urban streets. The Mayor has confidence in responsible protestors to use their First Amendment rights peacefully and in compliance with the law. More than one thousand Kansas Citians protested peacefully and responsibly just days ago. For those who do not act responsibly, the Mayor stands by the women and men of local law enforcement at KCPD and other agencies to handle any necessary enforcement actions. Unnecessary escalation from our nation’s capital and state capitals undermines local law enforcement and makes all less safe.”

House Minority Leader Ashley Aune said it was a “preemptive” declaration of emergency.

Her statement:

“Governor Kehoe’s preemptive declaration of a state of emergency as Missourians prepare to protest an increasingly authoritarian presidential administration is a blatant attempt to intimidate and suppress First Amendment rights. The protests planned this weekend across Missouri and throughout the nation were sparked by the president’s unwarranted and heavy-handed military response to opposition to his policies. By doing the same, the governor will only heighten tensions and increase the possibility of conflict. Governor Kehoe should staunchly defend the rights of Missourians, not mimic the authoritarianism of the president.” (snip-MORE)

Sodom & Gomorrah redux

The system failed her so she handled that shit herself

If you can see what’s happening & still be glad you voted for this you are un American

Jimmy Kimmel Tells the Truth About What’s REALLY Happening in LA

police acting like brown shirt thugs. Sniping at peaceful protestors

They are firing into the crowd now. The freedom to protest in the constitution is no longer allowed in the tRump dictatorship.

The Port Huron Statement & More in Peace & Justice History for 6/11

June 11, 1962

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held its founding convention in Michigan and issued The Port Huron Statement, laying out its principles and program.
“In social change or interchange, we find violence to be abhorrent because it requires generally the transformation of the target, be it a human being or a community of people, into a depersonalized object of hate. It is imperative that the means of violence be abolished and the institutions—local, national, international—that encourage non-violence as a condition of conflict be developed.”
Complete text of the Port Huron Statement  (it’s a .pdf, in case you’re on a phone)
Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History: Paul Buhle, Editor 
June 11, 1963
Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from the Linh-Mu Pagoda in Hue, Vietnam, burned himself to death (self-immolation) in front of the U.S. embassy in downtown Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City) to protest the the South Vietnamese regime the U.S. supported, and the war the Americans were waging.

A painting of the scene on the street as Thich Quang Duc self-immolates in protest of the government and war in Vietnam
June 11, 1963

Vivian Malone (later Jones) preparing to enroll at Alabama with Deputy Attorney Gen, Nicholas Katzenbach (L) at her side.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama in order to prevent the admission of two negro students in a failed attempt to maintain segregation in educational opportunities.
He was forced to step aside later in the day when Vivian Malone and James Hood were registered as students.
June 11, 1968
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, known as Danny the Red, arrived in Britain, stirring up fears of campus unrest. The 23-year-old Paris law student had been given permission to remain in the U.K. just 24 hours, but immediately threatened to defy the authorities and out-stay his official welcome [his visit was later legally extended to 14 days]. Cohn-Bendit, a German citizen, had been expelled from France in May for being an organizer of the French student and worker demonstrations which almost brought that country to a standstill the previous month.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit and a Paris policeman in 1968.
“I don’t know how long I will stay. I think it’s a free country” -Daniel Cohn-Bendit
He currently sits as a Green Party deputy in the European Parliament.
The news at the time 
Daniel Cohn-Bendit today 
June 11, 1970
Representative Martha Griffiths (D-Michigan) filed a discharge petition signed by a majority of all members of the U.S. House of Representatives, a seldom used parliamentary move, to bring the Equal Rights amendment to the House floor for consideration.
She saw this as the only way to get the constitutional amendment out of the Judiciary Committee where it had been held by its chairman, Emmanuel Cellar (D-New York), who had refused to even hold hearings on the matter. Representative Griffiths had introduced the amendment every year since 1948.

Representative Martha Griffiths from Detroit’s west side
June 11, 1988
100,000 marched from United Nations headquarters in New York City to Central Park during the 3rd U.N. Special Session on Disarmament. Though there had been progress in recent years on disarmament, the U.N. meeting yielded nothing but stalemate.
Read more 
June 11, 2010
Scientists studying the scale of the then-ongoing BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico doubled the previous estimate of the scale of the flow of oil into the Gulf. Initially, BP and the government had said that no more than 1000 barrels (42 U.S. gallons per barrel) per day were leaking, later raised to 5000.
The fine for oil spills was $4300 per barrel.

The new estimate was between 20,000 and 40,000 barrels per day.
If the spill had been stopped that day (the well was not capped until early August), it would have exceeded the Exxon Valdez spill by a factor of eight.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjune.htm#june11

Inciteful

Macho Macho Protest by Clay Jones

Deployed by the village idiot Read on Substack

And now Trump is deploying the Marines. There is no need for this, and it’s illegal.

The situation in Los Angeles doesn’t require military assistance. There are already 2,100 guard troops in the area with another 2,000 on the way, and now 700 Marines will join the party at a cost of around $134 million to taxpayers, which is five Trump golf trips, or three Trump birthday parades.

The military is deploying 9,000 troops for the parade.

Back to LA, these are protests, not riots. But Trump’s trying to create a riot.

Trump posted on Monday, “IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT, and I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before. Such disrespect will not be tolerated!” Remember, this is the guy who pardoned White nationalists MAGAt terrorists who attacked cops on January 6, 2021. They did a lot more than spitting.

Trump is also praising himself, saying that Los Angeles would have “burned to the ground” if he hadn’t called in the National Guard. The protests are in a small area in the city of 4 million people. There were only around 400 protesters when Trump decided he should call in the military.

Trump wants a riot because it’ll give him more excuses to expand his power and extend his authoritarianism. Calling in more soldiers and Marines creates a much more hostile atmosphere, and creates more protests in other cities, which Trump will use to deploy more of the military to fight civilians. Trump is fanning the flames. In another post, he said we will “Liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion, and put an end to these Migrant riots. Order will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free.”

That post is designed to create riots. (snip-MORE, and it’s on point)

The Majority report is really showing what tRump / ICE / police are doing including shooting reporters. Thug behavior