8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protests turned violent tonight as black bloc clad protesters vandalized buildings, smashed windows and set fires, including at the District Attorney's office. Black bloc protesters also threatened a local reporter on camera. https://twitter.com/SacPolice/status/1299205692272701441?s=20
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protests turned violent tonight as black bloc clad protesters vandalized buildings, smashed windows and set fires.

Damage at the DA's office. https://twitter.com/StephanieLinTV/status/1299224575067041793?s=20
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protests turned violent tonight as black bloc clad protesters vandalized buildings, smashed windows and set fires.

Watch black bloc clad protesters threatening a local reporter. https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/status/1299220278887682049?s=20
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protests turned violent tonight as black bloc clad protesters vandalized buildings, smashed windows and set fires.

Protesters harassed reporters all night to prevent them from reporting on what the protesters were doing. https://twitter.com/StephanieLinTV/status/1299203926177144840?s=20
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protests turned violent tonight as black bloc clad protesters vandalized buildings, smashed windows and set fires.

Protesters harassed reporters all night including assigning monitors to control what reporters did. https://twitter.com/StephanieLinTV/status/1299203657657847809?s=20
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protests turned violent tonight as black bloc clad protesters vandalized buildings, smashed windows and set fires. https://twitter.com/StephanieLinTV/status/1299199062961393665?s=20
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protests turned violent tonight as black bloc clad protesters vandalized buildings, smashed windows and set fires. https://twitter.com/StephanieLinTV/status/1299198647414878208?s=20
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protests turned violent tonight as black bloc clad protesters vandalized buildings, smashed windows and set fires. https://twitter.com/Van_Tieu/status/1299202099570327552?s=20
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Police in riot gear stand guard outside City Hall as protester wreck havoc down the street. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protesters surround a biker and biker takes off. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Reporter describes “legal observers” are present with the protesters but reporters are forced to stay a distance behind the crowd because protesters are preventing them from reporting on the protest. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protesters sprayed graffiti on boarded up storefronts. Notice the scrum of local TV reporters who are all staying back behind the protest march because of threats from protesters. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protesters head toward the Capital. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Watch how protesters block local TV reporter to prevent protesters from being filmed by using open umbrellas and flashing lights pointed at the camera. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protesters banging a street sign with a metal flagpole. Reporter described a confrontation between protesters and people who were parked in a white truck. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Watch this intrepid reporter persist in trying to report on the protests by speaking to protesters through their umbrellas. One protesters asks her to speak to a person of color instead. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA |

Graffiti by protesters:

Justice or Riots

Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | More umbrellas pop open and protesters covering their faces as reporter @Van_Tieu persists in trying to report. Protesters scurry away and the sounds of bats hitting something can be heard, but not seen. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Jubilant protesters gathered in the intersection as large number of cops stand-by. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protesters gathered in the intersection awaiting their next move. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Watch the umbrellas pop open again as protesters try to block reporter @Van_Tieu from showing the smashed windows and doors of the Legislative building. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Look at what this protester in black bloc to the right brought to a protest - a metal rod or baton. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Umbrellas are back again as protesters continue to follow reporter @Van_Tieu and prevent her from reporting, but she keeps trying anyway. Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | 2 men defend Mexican-American Veterans Memorial after protesters spray painted “F*ck colonizers.” Man was “pissed off” at criminal conduct of protesters for defacing this memorial and memorial for peace officers. “This needs to stop!” Credit: ABC10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protesters spray painted a message for Sacramento’s mayor on a building: “F*ck Mayor Steinberg”

Notice the green hat legal observers stroll by.

Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | As protest leaders tell the crowd, “Let’s f*ck sh*t up!” reporter @Van_Tieu was surrounded by protesters with umbrellas again.

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8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | Protest leaders yell, “Umbrellas!” as protesters surround Reporter @Van_Tieu. She and her cameraman were then threatened by White man dressed in black bloc who said, “I’m gonna break your f*cking camera!”

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Credit: ABC 10
8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | A gang of protesters continued to surround Reporter @Van_Tieu and her cameraman to block them from moving and intimidate and harass them.

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8/27/20 Sacramento, CA | As a gang of protesters continued to surround Reporter @Van_Tieu and her cameraman Miguel and follow them with their umbrellas they still managed to do their jobs.

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8/28/20 Sacramento, CA | This video appears to have been the same day as the protest in this thread or the day after this protest? It's not clear. 1/2 https://twitter.com/Bring_Back_Phil/status/1299600175799779328?s=20
8/28/20 Sacramento, CA | This video appears to have been the same day as the protest in this thread or the day after this protest? It's not clear. 2/2 https://twitter.com/Bring_Back_Phil/status/1299603504210698241?s=20
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