http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-armed-counter-protesters-confront-141959906.html
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Were you there, micro? I mean these gents were armed, mydear. he he he!
Hundreds of armed counter-protesters confront Black Lives Matter rally in Ohio
A small and peaceful demonstration in an Ohio town to support the Black Lives Matter movement at the weekend was overwhelmed when hundreds of counter-protesters – some armed with rifles or baseball bats – harassed the group.
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Alicia Gee, a 36-year-old substitute school teacher, expected about 50 people to attend a demonstration – the first protest she had ever organized, she told the Cincinnati Enquirer – but almost twice as many turned out.
The rally was intended to show solidarity with the minority black community in Bethel, a mostly white town of about 2,800 people 30 miles east of Cincinnati, she added.
But the small group of protesters were overwhelmed when roughly 700 counter-protesters turned up to show their opposition to the kind of rallies and marches against racism and police brutality sweeping the nation since the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis in May.
Gee’s gathering demonstrated the renewed reach of the Black Lives Matter movement to small, majority white towns in the midwest that haven’t seen protests in years, spurred by recent, high-profile examples of killings of black people by white police officers or armed individuals acting as vigilantes.
Some small towns holding rallies now did not see such events after the killing of Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
Gee referenced violent tragedies such as the alleged murder of Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the shooting death of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police, and the killing of Ahmaud Arbery by two armed white men in Georgia.
She said in a Facebook post before the rally that such brutality made it “perfectly clear to me it’s time for my comfort to be put by the wayside. It is time for me to use my body, my voice, and my privilege,
She said in a Facebook post that such brutality made it “perfectly clear to me it’s time for my comfort to be put by the wayside, it is time for me to use my body, my voice, and my privilege to show my town that it is not ‘fine,’ that it’s not just ‘city folks’ that have the right to peacefully assemble, and that Black Lives Matter even if there are just a few in our town.”
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Alicia Gee, a 36-year-old substitute school teacher
Alicia, you're an idiot. You're gonna use your body, your voice and your privilege to show your town that it is not fine, blah blah blah - and that Black Lives Matter.
If they are throwing bricks at our police, burning our once-beautiful cities down AND looting every store that they can, then NO, Alicia, those people can kiss my ass.
Substitute teachers need 60 credits for that job.
You sound like you're a third grader.
Just my opinion, Alicia.
STICK IT, YA DOPE!
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