{"id":27466,"date":"2020-09-05T14:06:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T18:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=27466"},"modified":"2020-09-05T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T00:04:24","slug":"blm-rioters-tear-up-rochester-new-york-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=27466","title":{"rendered":"BLM Rioters Tear Up Rochester, New York&#8212;Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;BLM&#8221; Rioters &#8220;Shut Down&#8221; Restaurants In Rochester, Smash Bank Windows In Manhattan, During Latest Night Of Mayhem<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>While mainstream media outlets like the New York Times largely neglected to cover the goings-on in Rochester, New York, last night, independent and local reporters were on the scene to document the chaos as agitator-fueled unrest engulfed yet another small post-industrial American city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/1-549.jpg?itok=n_To7ES1\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/1-549.jpg?itok=n_To7ES1\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/1-549.jpg?itok=7l5lSKzb 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/1-549.jpg?itok=7l5lSKzb 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/1-549.jpg?itok=7l5lSKzb 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/1-549.jpg?itok=7l5lSKzb 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/1-549.jpg?itok=7l5lSKzb 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/1-549.jpg?itok=n_To7ES1 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/1-549.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"293\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4a3e1ce8-f454-4ac0-87d9-096428c97024\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One reporter who was on-hand to document the scene tweeted video of a gang of &#8220;peaceful Black Lives Matter activists&#8221; barging into a restaurant, terrifying diners, flipping chairs and screaming at people. Apparently, they did this to multiple establishments across town.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1302060108898357257&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fblm-rioters-shut-down-restaurants-rochester-smash-bank-windows-manhattan-night-mayhem&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1302060108898357257\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>Independent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/09\/rochester-black-lives-matter-rioters-storming-restaurants-breaking-glass-flipping-tables-screaming-frightened-diners-video\/\">journalist Cassandra Fairbanks<\/a>\u00a0also reported on the mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with what&#8217;s become an established pattern, the &#8220;protest&#8221; started hours before as a mostly peaceful daytime demonstration, with the real hard-core anarchists and criminals congregating in the evening to create chaos while vandalizing businesses and terrorizing people in what&#8217;s become a transparent attempt to sow even more of the &#8220;divisiveness&#8221; that Democrats routinely attribute to President Trump and his &#8220;comrades&#8221; in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>One of the gang&#8217;s leaders shouted at guests, claiming it was &#8220;time to leave&#8221; and that they were &#8220;shutting the party down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There\u2019s no need to run, nobody is hurting y\u2019all. We\u2019re just shutting the party down,\u201d the obnoxious \u201cprotester\u201d shouted as people flipped tables and threw chairs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, in NYC, eight people were arrested Friday night when a group of 150 &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; protesters smashed windows and sprayed graffiti on storefronts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>Windows were smashed at two Starbucks, five banks and a Duane Reade in Lower Manhattan, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage.<\/p>\n<p>At the scene, police recovered two stun guns, smoke grenades, and tools to aid in &#8220;burglary and graffiti&#8221;, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/05\/black-lives-matter-protesters-riot-in-manhattan-cause-100000-damage\/\">the New York Post.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>All those arrested were charged with rioting, while some were hit with weapons charges over the &#8220;tools&#8221; mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p>The latest wave of unrest is being attributed to the March killing in police custody of Daniel Prude by police in Rochester. The man&#8217;s brother called the police after he began behaving erratically, running around in the street naked. He died due to suffocation, which the coroner ruled a homicide, with PCP intoxication listed as an aggravating factor.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/04\/nyregion\/rochester-police-daniel-prude.html\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0late Friday published a lengthy story accusing Rochester PD of a &#8220;cover up&#8221; in the death of Prude, who died back in March, although his family just went public with the claims on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/blm-rioters-shut-down-restaurants-rochester-smash-bank-windows-manhattan-night-mayhem\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/blm-rioters-shut-down-restaurants-rochester-smash-bank-windows-manhattan-night-mayhem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;BLM&#8221; Rioters &#8220;Shut Down&#8221; Restaurants In Rochester, Smash Bank Windows In Manhattan, During Latest Night Of Mayhem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}