Tazewell wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 4:46 pm
RPlant wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 5:56 am
Again that's funny because you are one trying to move them. I asked for a comparison of comments between Ali and Ardis, at the same point in time in their tenure. @Tazewell just admitted he didn't comment on Ardis back then. Well, there you go. The young white college grad has no problem with, or even pays attention to, the new white, male mayor, but the world is ending before the new black, female mayor even takes office.
See:
viewtopic.php?p=19522#p19522
If I was at all interested in politics in 2005, which I was not, where should I have submitted my comments?
RPlant wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:15 am
Wait, Mayor Ali has been charged with crony capitalism!?!
Instead of posting more nonsense, why don't you answer my question? How bad was crime during Ardis' first year? Was it at all comparable?
RPlant wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:15 am
In case you hadn't noticed Peoria is not alone, crime is up across the US. Started during the summer of unrest in 2020, something to do with the murder of George Floyd.
Yep, thanks Leftists!
1) The editorial page of the newspaper has worked for at least a century.
2) Unfortunately, CoP's detailed crime stats only go back to 2014, see
http://www.peoriagov.org/peoria-police- ... map-stats/. We can assume the trend line mirrors national, but that likely won't settle your curiosity. Local mayors buckle up, you are going along for a national ride.
3) You love that narrative; too bad it isn't true.
Leaked Proud Boys Chats Show Members Plotting Violence At Rallies
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/proud-bo ... 035b928683
The Proud Boys want the public to believe that they’re a “drinking club” who only resort to violence to defend themselves from anti-fascist protesters during political rallies.
But in private, these extremists have discussed injuring and even killing their adversaries, plotting tactics and optics for months in order to assert a claim of self-defense should they face charges.
According to private chat logs obtained exclusively by HuffPost, the punch-happy, pro-Trump street gang was particularly excited for its “Resist Marxism” rally, scheduled for April 6 in Providence, Rhode Island. With the right plan of attack, members said, this one could put them back on the map.
“This mother f**ker needs to meet a 7mm [Magnum rifle] from about 500 yards.”
- Proud Boy Shaun Hufton in private chats.
The group had been floundering ever since 10 of its members were arrested for assaulting protesters outside a GOP event in New York City last year. Their leader, Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, reportedly arranged for his followers’ surrender.
In the chats, covering a time period between February and March of this year, members claimed they needed a conclusive “win” this time around, which they defined as a bloody battle against “antifa” in Providence. If this brawl were bigger and more violent than previous iterations, they might regain some of the street cred and followers they’d lost.
“We’ll grow this group of patriots and we’ll never back down,” wrote the event’s organizer, Proud Boys member Alan Swinney, in the private chat messages. “If we win, it will make more patriots come to the next rally. We just need to go there and we’ll beat them. We’ll have enough to crush them at some point.”
A source with direct knowledge of the exchanges confirmed to HuffPost that the logs were authentic. Swinney also responded to several screenshots. When asked about discussions of violence in the chat logs, he told HuffPost, “They’re warriors. ... Choir boys don’t go up against people like that [anti-fascists]. It takes a person with a certain type of mindset.”
The logs contained a revolving door of up to 30 Proud Boys and their allies, including militia members and other “patriots,” as Swinney called them. Those named in this story either publicly identify as members of the Proud Boys or affiliated groups, or have been identified as such in national news stories or by the groups’ leaders.
LEAKED DOCUMENTS SHOW POLICE KNEW FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS WERE THE REAL THREAT AT PROTESTS, NOT “ANTIFA”
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/geo ... ht-antifa/
AS PROTESTS AGAINST police violence spread to every state in the U.S. and dramatic images flooded in from cities across the country, President Donald Trump and his attorney general spun an ominous story of opportunistic leftists exploiting a national trauma to sow chaos and disorder. They were the anti-fascists known as “antifa”, and according to the administration they were domestic terrorists who would be policed accordingly.
But while the White House beat the drum for a crackdown on a leaderless movement on the left, law enforcement offices across the country were sharing detailed reports of far-right extremists seeking to attack the protesters and police during the country’s historic demonstrations, a trove of newly leaked documents reveals.
Among the steady stream of threats from the far-right were repeated encounters between law enforcement and heavily armed adherents of the so-called boogaloo movement, which welcomes armed confrontation with cops as means to trigger civil war. With much of the U.S. policing apparatus on the hunt for antifa instigators, those violent aspirations appear to have materialized in a string of targeted attacks in California that left a federal protective services officer and a sheriff’s deputy dead and several other law enforcement officials wounded.
The cache of law enforcement materials was recently hacked and posted online under the title “BlueLeaks,” providing an unprecedented look at the communications between state, local, and federal law enforcement in the face of the nationwide protests. In an analysis of nearly 300 documents that reference “antifa,” The Intercept found repeated instances of antifa and left-wing protesting activities cast in cartoonishly grim terms alongside more substantive reports of lethal right-wing violence and threats that have received scant mention from top Trump administration officials.
“Throughout the documents you see counterterrorism agencies using extremism so broadly as to mean virtually anything that encompasses dissent,” Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, told The Intercept. “There are instances in which people engaging in white supremacist violence get the benefit of the doubt as potential lone offenders, while people of color and those who dissent against government injustice are smeared as threats with guilt by association.”
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