I am here at the unholy hour of 11:51, nine minutes early for the right wing Back The Blue Save The Children Trump 2020 whatever rally.

So far it is just yelling.
Two folks open carrying AR-15s. About 50 people in attendance total, by my count. Just a tremendous number of flags.
Notice the fellow on the right, carrying a baseball bat and OC spray instead of a rifle.
A pro BLM bicycle protest arrives in the middle of Blue Lives Matter speeches, which I cannot hear.
A line of several dozen bikers and truck owners, waving Trump and back the blue flags, drives down the road next.
We just had a big dumb street fight. It appears to have started when someone on a wheelchair pulled up in front of a biker. This video has a chud with a paintball gun shouting 'move' like a cop and threatening me with his stupid weapon for no reason. I don't listen.
Here we see the start of it.
Here we see a dude who thinks his paintball gun makes him a cop. I do not think that he is.
People start whipping out tasers and other weapons. A general melee ensues. Paintball guy immediately runs behind the shields of his allies because he is a big ol wuss who just wanted to shout at unarmed people while holding a toy gun.
And here the situation stands. Antifascist reinforcements have arrived. Both lines of humans have stopped fighting for the moment. Now everyone is just shouting while the police LRAD distantly tells everyone to please stay nice.
Demetria is here! She leads the antifascist crowd in chants of "Whose lives matter? Black lives matter."
Raeona Coleman has arrived. She is framing herself as a mediator. The reality is that she is a right wing activist as you can see from videos like this () She is trusting that the optics of her standing there will be all big media folks see.
Here is Reona bullhorning folks.
Here is the antifascist side of things from behind.
And here is a video from the right wing side of the line.
It takes me a minute to figure out what they are saying here. "Hey hey, ho ho, these violent rioters have got to go."
Here we see the right wing dressing its line.
Love 2 see punisher patches on guys standing up to defend the police.
Here is a Trump shield and a Qanon shield.
The Healthy Discourse has arrived. Finally, Americans with differing beliefs are having A Conversation.
The right wing shieldwall confronts a man in a wheelchair. As I film it they try to advance into where I am standing. Noted fascist Alan Swinney yells at me to move. I do not move. He threatens me with mace and then eventually leaves because mace don't scare me.
Demetria and Drum Bloc keep a steady beat going as the standoff continues.
Flag wisdom for us all on this blessed day.
Another fight. It starts with folks on the right wing side throwing things (a jug of apparent OJ right before i started filming, and then whatever they throw at the start of this video.
A violent right wing crowd beats and maces an unarmed man, hitting him with sticks and hanging up at leasy 4 to 1.
A right wing activist throws smoke. Someone on the left throws it back.
While I am filming a right wing activist charges out and assaults me, breaking my finger with an asp baton. Sergio has more footage of the confrontation that follows
The rest of my video is upside down but here is me coming face to face with the fellow who assaulted me.
The right wingers assault and damage private property, the BLM snack van. They are maced off.
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