31 White Nationalists arrested..No names no mugshots

[choc_cardigan]

Okay, so after reading a short article, I'm still kind of surprised that they were actually arrested

I feel like I've seen these clowns pull up and demonstrate at events before and nothing has happened to them. If anything, actual civilians are the ones that chase and scare them away - not law enforcement. Don't counter-protests happen all the time? And these guys didn't have like guns, rocks, bricks, molotov cocktails etc so it's just weird how they were arrested this time is all.

Am I missing something here? Or is it indeed out of the ordinary for a group like this to get arrested - even before getting out of a van to counter-protest? @Rhakim @choc_cardigan

I think what you are missing is you could have saved time and energy and not read anything and then not post in this thread. But for some reason you did anyway.

 

[Agent Mulder]

I think what you are missing is you could have saved time and energy and not read anything and then not post in this thread. But for some reason you did anyway.

If you aren't able to answer my question, why bother responding?

 

[88m3]

Did you get arrested @Agent Mulder ?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Okay, so after reading a short article, I'm still kind of surprised that they were actually arrested

I feel like I've seen these clowns pull up and demonstrate at events before and nothing has happened to them. If anything, actual civilians are the ones that chase and scare them away - not law enforcement. Don't counter-protests happen all the time? And these guys didn't have like guns, rocks, bricks, molotov cocktails etc so it's just weird how they were arrested this time is all.

Am I missing something here? Or is it indeed out of the ordinary for a group like this to get arrested - even before getting out of a van to counter-protest? @Rhakim @choc_cardigan

There's a fine line and they stepped across it. Often these type of groups step over the line and nothing is done, but in this case they just happened to get caught in the act at the perfect time.

You can protest, and you can defend yourself if someone starts a fight with you at a protest, but if you go to a protest with the intention of starting a fight then you can be in trouble. If you go the protest in a group and you all agreed together to start fights, then it's conspiracy to riot. The trick is just proving that you had intended to start fights and didn't just bring arms "in self-defense".

That's why antifa always hides their faces and hides their planning/organization - they don't wanna be hemmed up on conspiracy charges.

In this case, you have 30 guys hiding in the U-Haul. So it's not like a public protest, they're obviously plotting. They had shins, shield guards, riot gear, which is not believable attire for a Gay Pride Parade, it's not like this is an already-violent protest situation they're stepping into like when these groups start shyt in Portland where shyt is already going down. In this case they're clearly the ones who are going to create the violence. But the main shyt that really got them in trouble is the smoke grenade and the written down operational plans showing what they were plotting. If they hadn't had the grenade, and hadn't gotten caught with the written plans, maybe they would have been let off with a warning. But I think the plans and grenade is what put in over the edge.

Of course, just cause they could get the charges doesn't mean they always will.