Berkeley Police Department firing stun grenades against political opposition?

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Searched the Berkeley PD site and nothing so did a global search of the site and found this http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentPrint.aspx?id=113110

Symbolic arrest is a real thing for them. Wow. I knew Berkeley was a far-left city but I didn't know the cops would accommodate this kind of thing. No words.

no no...it's just a dumb alt-right conspiracy.  Didn't ya hear about it right after that whoosh of all the knees jerking?

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The people initiating the violence are always in the wrong, no matter what stupid uniform they wear or stupid thing they believe in.  And everybody should be allowed to defend themselves if attacked, I don't care whose uniform they wear either.

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Anyways, I see that people are deflecting from my chief point, which is that these are not free speech rallies.

I don't know wtf a "free speech rally"is.  From the selected pictures you've showed us it seems to be a neo-Nazi rally (but even that is in question).  Neo-Nazis have free speech, but they don't throw "free speech rallies".  


I suppose perhaps that every rally that offends someone is a "free speech rally".

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They (the authorities) will end up caving to the antifa antibrains and just not letting anybody speak on campus that any individual on the left has a problem with.

Anyways, I see that people are deflecting from my chief point, which is that these are not free speech rallies.

I don't know wtf a "free speech rally"is.  From the selected pictures you've showed us it seems to be a neo-Nazi rally (but even that is in question).  Neo-Nazis have free speech, but they don't throw "free speech rallies". 

I wasn't a nazi rally. There were, I think, two dudes there throwing up nazi salutes and claiming to be national socialists. that was it.

It was a rally in favour of free speech because antifa thugs has successfully used violence to shut down a pro Trump rally a month and a half earlier in Berkeley, with the complicity of the Berkeley authorities. It was a rally for the principle that antifa activists should have absolutely no veto or say in who is and isn't allowed to speak and hold rallies publically, in Berkeley or anywhere else. That is why it was a free speech rally.

aye, I should have known that.  Hadn't really looked into this one yet.

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I have no idea what the point you are trying to make is.

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he should have been arrested for that weaksauce mustache and the "I can almost grow a soul patch" soul patch.

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the anti-free speech protesters here sure didn't do themselves any favors did they?  From what I could tell, they rolled a dumpster 3/4s of the way around a park.  Threw a few firecrackers and water bottles.  Held up their middle finger a lot (so rebellious!).  Tried to block traffic, but that didn't work because some freedom lovers stopped them.  So, being the "progressives" that they are, tried to use women only to block traffic, but that didn't work either.  Helpful hint, next time use women that actually look like women and not male members of ISIS with purple hair, you might get the sympathy you were clearly farming for.  Had a little standoff in the street, then a convenient smoke bomb from the cops to give them cover for a retreat just turned it into a rout as the weird mix of racists, "'murica lovers" and free speech advocates smelled blood in the air.  Thank Og most people on both sides had some restraint and it didn't look like that many on either side wanted real violence.  It looked like it could have gotten real ugly there a couple of times.  There were very very few cops around, or at least they had a very low presence.    One of these in the future is going to get ugly.  What the hell are we going to do if/when something like this turns into 15 dead, hundreds in the hospital?

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Berkeley Campus On Lockdown After Loose Pages From ‘Wall Street Journal’ Found On Park Bench

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"hmmmmm, those Nazis aren't doing enough Nazi stuff, I KNOW WHAT TO DO!"