Albuquerque anti-Trump protesters waved Mexican flags and pelted the police and their horses with rocks and bottles
BarkGrowlBite | May 27, 2016
Donald Trump held arally Tuesday evening inside the Albuquerque Convention center. Before he arrived, a crowd of more than 100 protesters had gathered with signs reading that Trump does not belong in New Mexico and other anti-Trump slogans. A number of the protesters were waving Mexican flags.
As the evening wore on the crowd swelled to over a thousand and became unruly. A full-blown riot broke out during which the police and their horses were pelted with rocks and bottles. The rioteers damaged police cars, set fires and broke the windows in the convention center. Many in the crowd chanted “Fuck the police!”
Several cops were injured by the rocks and bottles. Although the police were out in force, they made only one arrest. Only one arrest?
Albuquerque City Councilor Dan Lewis reacted to the rioting by expressing his disgust on Facebook:
The violence that we’re seeing this evening is absolutely unacceptable and is not the fault of Donald Trump, his campaign, or the attendees at the rally this evening. It is directly the result of so called public interest groups, such as ProgressNM and the Southwest Organizing Project, fomenting hate.
These organizations this evening devolved from community action groups to hate groups by every usual measure. This was not a protest – it was a riot that was the result of a mob trying to cause damage and injury to public property and innocent citizens exercising their constitutional right to peaceably assemble.
Today represents a dark day for the First Amendment in the city of Albuquerque.
Very well said Councilor Lewis!
I did a little checking on ProgressNM and the Southwest Organizing Project. ProgressNM is funded largely by none other than far-left billionaire George Soros and proclaims, “We’re here for just one reason: to speak up for New Mexico’s progressive majority.”
The Southwest Organizing Project is an equally-far-left group. “The SouthWest Organizing Project was founded in 1980 by young activists of color to empower communities in the SouthWest to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice.” That sure sounds like SWOP was thought up by some Marxist university professors.
I’ve watched several videos of the protesters and noticed that a number of them waved Mexican flags. I did not observe any American flags.
I strongly support the right of aggrieved people to protest peaceably. If they’re going to wave flags, it should be the American flag, not the flags of a foreign nation.
To those Albuquerque demonstrators who were waving those Mexican flags, I say take those flags to Mexico and stay there!
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