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Englewood NJ, Englewood’s PBA issues a scathing letter blasting Englewood Mayor Michael Wildes for playing politics and grandstanding with law enforcement . In a statement the city’s police union calls the use of force by officers “appropriate and completely necessary.” in a clash at a Black Lives Matter rally last weekend . The PBA statement claims the organizers “chose to interfere with an active investigation and interject themselves into the situation,”
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Paterson NJ, The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) in collaboration with the Paterson Division of Health and the Passaic County Department of Health have conducted a rapid testing pilot program, Point of Care for the Homeless. The Point of Care test provides test results within 15 minutes and was conducted at Eva’s Village on Wednesday, July 22.
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“We’ve imbibed so much fear-mongering propaganda, and done so in such a docile, unquestioning manner, that we have suffered psychological damage. Six months of psyops has produced a great deal of mental and emotional scar tissue. We’ve impaired our ability to think, not only as individuals, but also collectively at every level–local, county, state, as a country, and as a species (globally). Groupthink is putting us in a deeper and deeper rut of stupid every day now. The bad decisions we are making now will have untoward ramifications for years or even decades unless sanity somehow re-emerges and is allowed to prevail. The problem is, intelligence will be mistakenly perceived by the deranged mob as intransigence, and the people who express it attacked and “canceled”.
The dynamic of Groupthink is now kicking into higher gear. Demented minds are collectively producing poorer and poorer decisions. If we don’t soon get a hold of ourselves as a society, the edifice of reasoned self-government we’ve been building for the past few centuries here on this side of the Atlantic will continue to weaken. It might even collapse.”
“I witnessed the RPD arrest of the young woman. They had already gently warned the kids against breaking any laws, such as obstructing a highway. The arrestee was using a megaphone to berate the PD and any law abiding citizen who would dare to come anywhere in the protester’s path.
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April 13,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, Actress & Singer from Destiny’s Child, Kelly Rowland, had a book signing at Bookends in Ridgewood for her new book: Whoa, Baby last night .
The event was crashed by protesters posing as fans, asking for a photo with the Destiny’s Child singer . During the book signing it all unraveled with anti-fur posters, launching into tirades . The singer didn’t engage the protesters and the store ushered them out without calling the Ridgewood police.
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By Elliot Smilowitz
Anti-Donald Trump protesters briefly tussled with police officers outside the Republican presidential front-runner’s rally in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday night.
Videos showed protesters tearing down a security tent and chanting “shut it down” outside the rally, according to Fox 13 in Salt Lake City.
The network also reported rocks were being thrown at Trump supporters as they left the rally, and protesters were pushing up against a line of officers.
March 12, 2016, 08:54 pm
By Evelyn Rupert
Trump has changed his strategy on dealing with protesters, promising to press charges against people who interrupt his events from now on.
“I’m going to start pressing charges against all these people,” he said at a rally in Kansas City, Mo. “And then we won’t have a problem.”
“I hope these guys get thrown into jail. They’ll never do it again.”
https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/272803-trump-vows-to-press-charges-against-protesters
After night of tear gas, Hong Kong protesters dig in
By Jethro Mullen, CNN
updated 10:33 AM EDT, Mon September 29, 2014
Hong Kong (CNN) — Thousands of pro-democracy protesters remained camped out on major highways in the heart of Hong Kong on Monday, defying government attempts to both coerce and cajole them into giving up their extraordinary demonstration.
The protests have brought widespread disruption to the heart of one of Asia’s biggest financial centers, blocking traffic on multilane roads and prompting the suspension of school classes.
CNN’s Ivan Watson, at the scene, described it as a “sea of humanity,” the biggest crowd he had witnessed since protests began last week.
“The young people — predominantly 21, 22 years old — have been chanting out here, repeating the word ‘hah toih,’ meaning ‘resign,'” Watson said, against a backdrop of chanting and waving cellphones.
A police crackdown on demonstrators on Sunday — involving tear gas, batons and pepper spray — resulted in clashes that injured more than 40 people but failed to eject the protesters from their positions among the city’s glittering skyscrapers.
The government adopted a more conciliatory approach Monday, saying it had withdrawn riot police from the protest areas. It urged people to disperse and allow traffic to return to the roads.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/29/world/asia/china-hong-kong-protests/
STAND YOUR GROUND: PROTESTERS DIVERT 3RD ROUND OF B– USES FROM MURRIETA
by MICHELLE MOONS 7 Jul 2014
For a third time, the buses were rerouted to the San Ysidro, California Border Patrol station, near the U.S.-Mexico border, for processing. The demonstrators gathered in areas to the north and south of the Murrieta station after law enforcement blocked off the road near the station itself. Many told Breitbart News they considered their stand a success, since buses scheduled for Murrieta are avoiding it as long as demonstrators remain.
The anti-illegal immigration protests Monday brought out new, first-time demonstrators and onlookers from many different backgrounds–from young enlisted Marines to legal immigrants from Germany, Mexico, and Central America. Karen Siegemund of Rage Against the Media, comedian and author Evan Sayet, and radio host Kender Macgowan made it out as well.
Despite the news of buses being re-routed for the second time since a standoff with three buses in Murrieta July 1, anti-illegal immigration demonstrators plan to continue to monitor and be at the ready should any transfers of illegal aliens to the Murrieta station resume.
