Philadelphia protests turning violent; what's happening in your AOR?

[Pacific5th]

Spokane, WA had a protest that turned at some point to looting, and breaking windows downtown. The Mayor of Spokane believes that many of the people are not from here, and are just here to stir up trouble.

Allegedly tear gas, and rubber bullets were shot at local news channels, as well as protesters. Hard to sift through the weeds.

My neighbor got called in last night to deal with it. Haven’t talked to him since I went to work this morning. When we rolled through downtown this morning (I’m a railroader) everything was quite but all the streets were wet like they had been washed. There was police at the Amtrak depot but I think they were using it for staging. Another rail posted a video from the Amtrak depot last night and there was cops and fire all over the bus parking area.

[Grand58742]

Spokane, WA had a protest that turned at some point to looting, and breaking windows downtown. The Mayor of Spokane believes that many of the people are not from here, and are just here to stir up trouble.

Allegedly tear gas, and rubber bullets were shot at local news channels, as well as protesters. Hard to sift through the weeds.

Okay, I have one question to ask about a lot of these "people aren't from here" comments. I'm not doubting it in the least that certain ones have been dropped off to cause trouble. But how in the blue eff are they finding these people for such widespread mayhem? There has to be some chatter about it out there somewhere.

[Artos]

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The Rio Grande Valley hasn't skipped a beat in regards to the protest & basically ssdd...wife showed me this & gotta cheap chuckle. Border life here is unaffected & feel for you guys dealing with this nonsense.

Heck, covid is settling down as well...Took the boy out for a college graduation dinner on Friday & the place was packed w/ no hint of distancing. It was awesome to be with a crowd of people who are done with this crap.

[Diamondback]

Okay, I have one question to ask about a lot of these "people aren't from here" comments. I'm not doubting it in the least that certain ones have been dropped off to cause trouble. But how in the blue eff are they finding these people for such widespread mayhem? There has to be some chatter about it out there somewhere.

https://crowdsondemand.com/

In all seriousness, I've long suspected it's less "finding" than a certain permanent "core cadre" that travel from riot to riot, who then recruit individuals personally known to them to have the desired political and violent leanings.

[HardToHandle]

Okay, I have one question to ask about a lot of these "people aren't from here" comments. I'm not doubting it in the least that certain ones have been dropped off to cause trouble. But how in the blue eff are they finding these people for such widespread mayhem? There has to be some chatter about it out there somewhere.

We are getting very detailed intel from the ground in varied smaller cities where the riots are kicking off - starting “peaceful” then going to looting in record time (Examples Reno, Omaha, etc.). They are LOCALS. Occasionally the arrest record or other details point to links somewhere else, but the 90% answer is effectively LOCAL.

I am not buying into the narrative of these being wide-scale outside agitators in those locales, it is organic population. Places like Ferguson MO or the Dakota Access war in North Dakota were predominantly outside agitators supported by various funding streams. That is not the situation we are seeing now across the country, but potentially a metastatic leaderless capacity developed under Occupy, Black Lives Matter and environmental protests.

That said, the limited good data I have seen/heard from MSP and DC may indicate that organized protest groups are playing a part. Those places may have lightning rod status.

[Diamondback]

We are getting very detailed intel from the ground in varied smaller cities where the riots are kicking off - starting “peaceful” then going to looting in record time (Examples Reno, Omaha, etc.). They are LOCALS. Occasionally the arrest record or other details point to links somewhere else, but the 90% answer is effectively LOCAL.

I am not buying into the narrative of these being wide-scale outside agitators in those locales, it is organic population. Places like Ferguson MO or the Dakota Access war in North Dakota were predominantly outside agitators supported by various funding streams. That is not the situation we are seeing now across the country, but potentially a metastatic leaderless capacity developed under Occupy, Black Lives Matter and environmental protests.

That said, the limited good data I have seen/heard from MSP and DC may indicate that organized protest groups are playing a part. Those places may have lightning rod status.

Doesn't take many, only a handful to hijack the crowd. As a friend over at RedState put it:
"This is classic Marxist urban guerilla strategy right outta the 70's. The objective is for a radicalized, conspiratorial vanguard of the revolution to join legitimate protests and radicalize the protestors. Once sufficiently indoctrinated the duty of the revolutionary is to lead the proletariat in aktions designed to discredit the authorities and stimulate an over-reaction by the security organs. Senseless and indiscriminate violence which will drive more of the proletariat to follow the leadership of the vanguard of the revolution.

It matches the script so perfectly that I almost hafta laugh. These people don't think...they rigidly follow the script. They are as predictable as the sun rising in the east. They never do anything off the script. We know how they will act...all that remains is the will to thwart them without overdoing it."
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[Coal Dragger]

Black Hills, Rapid City area nothing shaking that I know of. Typical late spring early summer.

Went to the lake yesterday and it was packed with people recreating.

[Crow Hunter]

Protests are supposed to be kicking off at the local mall here shortly. My wife had been notified and she is going to take a different route home. Hopefully they will remain peaceful. Not really much left to loot in that mall but there is a Verizon, AT&T store, Wal-Mart, Kroger, and a Walgreens within a very short walk. I don't know if the local furniture or quilting store is on the "List".

Luckily my favorite gun store has moved from that area, so no reason to worry.

It does mean that my wife will not be getting the bread and milk that she was going to stop by and get on her way home from work.

As an aside, while we are a fairly significant distance from the starting point, I will be carrying my G19 with 2 mags when we walk the dogs this afternoon rather than my normal G42 in the pocket. You never know.

[flenna]

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The Rio Grande Valley hasn't skipped a beat in regards to the protest & basically ssdd...wife showed me this & gotta cheap chuckle. Border life here is unaffected & feel for you guys dealing with this nonsense.

Heck, covid is settling down as well...Took the boy out for a college graduation dinner on Friday & the place was packed w/ no hint of distancing. It was awesome to be with a crowd of people who are done with this crap.

Haha. I’ve eaten at that Church’s several times.

[Straight Shooter]

Very little I know of here in the Huntsville/Decatur AL area. A lot of lip flappin on social media...but not much more that Ive heard. We've been working 6-7 days a week now for about 2 months, so Im not as up to date as others may be.
I too, am up-arming....carrying the G19 or G17 now with 2 reloads and leaving the Shield behind. Dang Ive gotta get an Galco ankle holster for that thing one day.
Ive got news for these schmucks wanting to loot/riot down here- THIS AINT "UP NORTH".
Our laws on SD are different, our police attitudes are different, our gun laws are different, and our attitudes on the level of shit we will take is different.
IF there is gonna be a place where these Godless wretches get mowed down..itll be here in the South somewhere.
They can burn the hood all day- hell, Ill help. They wanna "come to the suburbs"..itll be their last mistake. I know MANY who are ready for it.