{"id":15648,"date":"2020-06-02T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T15:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=15648"},"modified":"2020-06-02T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T15:22:47","slug":"even-democrat-mayors-are-admitting-that-terrorists-have-taken-over-the-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=15648","title":{"rendered":"Even Democrat Mayors Are Admitting that Terrorists Have Taken Over the Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rochester Mayor Warren: ‘These people set a trap, and our community fell in it.’<\/h1>\n

Justin Murphy, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle<\/p>\n

Rochester leaders were unanimous and unequivocal Saturday night and again on Sunday morning as cleanup began, as they responded to the vandalism overnight that had followed an hours-long peaceful protest.<\/p>\n

“Outsiders \u2013 and I do mean outsiders \u2013 not from our city, not from our community, decided to set police cars on fire,” Mayor Lovely Warren\u00a0said Saturday.<\/p>\n

Warren doubled down on her remarks Sunday morning. \u201cThese people set a trap, and our community fell in it,\u201d said Warren \u201cAnd last night it was our community that destroyed our neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rochester police chief La’Ron Singletary was even more blunt: “What happened today was sparked by anarchists.” On Sunday he also described them as “law enforcement professional protestors.”<\/p>\n

Warren clarified her remarks Sunday about the identity of outsiders. “I want to make clear what I meant. I meant outsiders of the Black Lives Matter movement …\u00a0The Black Lives Matter people had a peaceful protest in Martin Luther King Park, yesterday,” she\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Democrat and Chronicle<\/em>\u00a0has no independent confirmation of the identities of anyone who may have instigated the unrest, and officials did not provide any proof but on Sunday Warren\u00a0held photos up at the podium to emphasize individuals she said were instigators of the widespread violence.\u00a0\u201cIt was very organized, and our people jumped on board and fell for the bait,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Warren personalized her remarks by talking about the destruction of the “Family Dollar that my cousin works at,” and that her cousin no longer knows whether she will still have a job there.<\/p>\n

Warren’s explanation picked up an observation widely noted by organizers and attendees of the earlier protest: most of those inflicting the most significant property damage later in the day were white. Some bore the insignia of various anarchist groups or of the radical anti-fascism group Antifa.<\/p>\n

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what I will not allow is to have this VERY specific narrative be skewed against what black & brown people are doing today. . . my friends have seen this with their own eyes today, that some of the more heinous of the "graffiti" & "property damage" came from folks like these #ROC<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/1n5iCZHOal<\/a><\/p>\n

— Taurus Savant (@taurussavant) May 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n