Mayor of La Mesa Dr. Mark Arapostathis, says that the Black Lives Matters "protest" in La Mesa was "hijacked" and turned into a attack, a concerted effort to burn down the City.
The mayor is being too kind, though. The protest d…
Mayor of La Mesa Dr. Mark Arapostathis, says that the Black Lives Matters "protest" in La Mesa was "hijacked" and turned into a attack, a concerted effort to burn down the City.
The mayor is being too kind, though. The protest does not seem to have been "hijacked". Form the beginning the large group of protesters violated the law and put innocent people in dangers. This is not considered to be a "peaceful event" when people wantonly break the law and put people in danger.
They ignored police orders, which is a crime, overwhelmed them and marched right by them onto a busy freeway, in order to stop traffic in both direction. This puts many people at risk of having a collision and being injured or killed. It shouldn't be allowed.
The next thing they did was swarm the La Mesa police station ignoring the police attempts to keep them at a distance and they begin spraying graffiti on the police station throwing rocks at the police and the building. It appears they were trying to swarm into the police station to ransack it and probably would have burned it down as they did other buildings that night. The police after some time declared the event an illegal assembly.
One 59-year-old woman was struck between the eyes by a stray bean-bag and seriously injured. The BLM prpagandists blame the La Mesa police, but she was part of the rock-throwing mob, about three hours after the event had been declared and unlawful assembly and should not have even been there. Bean-bags fired from shotguns are not very accurate at a distance and it seems unlikely the policemen was attempting to shot her in the head.
Later the BLM mob ransacked many stores, burned many cars, sprayed graffiti everywhere and burned down three major buildings downtown, two banks and a building occupied by an architectural firm. Incredibly, residents have put up many pro-BLM signs around downtown La Mesa, even after BLM torched their city.
The composition of the crowd may have changed somewhat over the course of the night as the more passive participants left and more aggressively violent people arrived. However, right from the beginning the protesters had a large contingent of bad-actors. Probably the main organizer, Tasha Williamson, has said repeatedly in public that property damage is acceptable, as long as the authorities are not acceding to their demands. She threatened two years ago to burn down National City in a similar situation.
Even the slogan regularly chanted by Black Lives Matter marchers, "No Justice, No Peace" is a threat of mob violence unless their demands are accepted. The slogan came into use after the Los Angeles riots of 1992. Black Lives Matter is a movement that approves of violence as a tactic and everyone should know that by now, except those who have their head buried in the sand.
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