And Out Come the Hugs... 'Fight Breaks Out At Bernie Sanders Rally In Colorado'

[Scurrilous]

Link to tweet

Fight Breaks Out At Bernie Sanders Rally In Colorado

'A fight broke out in the middle of the Bernie Sanders rally on Sunday evening at the Colorado Convention Center. The Democratic presidential candidate rallied thousands of supporters in Denver in a campaign stop before the March 3 Colorado primary.'

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/02/17/video-fight-bernie-sanders-rally-denver/




Takes me back to when our party was just beginning. *sniff*

[dewsgirl]

1. 😳

[Zeus69]

3. Getting in some practice

before the revolution...

[ehrnst]

20. I'm guessing that little birdie isn't going to show up this time.

[CousinIT]

4. Why? Seriously. Why? What the freakin frak...

...first Iowa and then this.

It makes Democrats look like idiots.

Jeeze.

[sheshe2]

32. No.

Democrats do not look like idiots...

[NurseJackie]

48. Thank you. NOT Democrats.

Democrats do not look like idiots...

Thank you. NOT Democrats.

[Initech]

6. Just burn it all down at this point.

[MH1]

9. Burn WHAT down?

The Sanders campaign?

or

The Democratic Party?

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. Second that question.

I'm not a member of an organized political party, I'm a Democrat.

[sheshe2]

34. I am with you girl.

I am a Democrat and never sit out the vote.

[greatauntoftriplets]

37. Me either.

[Initech]

16. I don't know but I don't think we will be controlling the chaos anytime soon.

And I say this as a Sanders supporter.

[Cha]

7. From your link..

“He had a problem with the shirt I was wearing,” this man said. “I was recording the event, he walks up and calls me a racist. But I thought, ‘What’s he know about black lives, about discrimination, or, for that matter, the representation of the shirt.'”

Throughout American history, the man continued, “Black people and their ability to own firearms has historically been very restricted. The shirt I got from a conceal-carry class.”
He said he agrees with Sanders on a number of policies but definitely not on gun ownership.

“I think it’s really a sad thing at a Bernie rally, when someone has a difference of opinion, that someone would be treated like that. I thought it really would be a lot more inclusive than that. It’s not a safe place to express differences. I would expect that sort of thing at a Trump rally.”

[UniteFightBack]

8. What's a little fight between bros? nt

[Cha]

23. lol

[jmg257]

10. What a couple ass holes.

[ehrnst]

12. I wonder if Sanders will "float" the idea that they "really weren't his supporters..."

about this as well.

Link to tweet

[R B Garr]

14. Yes! This is being trotted out on this site, too.

It’s all a rigged setup against Bernie, you see.

[NurseJackie]

49. It floats like a biscuit...

... and it smells like one too.

[R B Garr]

13. Wow.

What an embarrassing spectacle.

[cwydro]

15. Oh boy.

[BlueIdaho]

17. One big happy family... nt.

[Scurrilous]

21. Not me. Us you @#$%.

[floppyboo]

18. Did anyone read the whole article?

Guys booing with pro-gun shirts. Other guy tries to video it on his phone. Guy with phone gets shoved and then shoves back.

At least they weren't throwing chairs! LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ehrnst]

19. Yet.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

22. Yep. And it looks like the kid with lip piercing knocked the gun douchebag aggressor on his ass.

[krissey]

52. And that is a good thing? Sanders stance on guns, both belong at the rally but not the point.

You sound like you feel it is a good thing the non gun person knocked someone on their ass.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

54. The gun nut was the aggressor. And he got handled.

[George II]

56. Hmmm, anti-gun but not anti-violence. Interesting.

[Voltaire2]

24. They don't care.

Just like other reality bubbles, contradictory facts just reinforce the beliefs.

[lapucelle]

30. I read the whole article.

It wasn’t immediately clear to CBS4’s crew what the two men were fighting about, but someone contacted CBS4 on Monday by phone and said he is a Sanders supporter and one of the people involved. He said his name is Tyler and that a person with a T-shirt on that read “Black Guns Matter” was with two other men and they were booing during the speech. When Tyler tried to capture video of the booing on his phone’s camera, the man shoved him through the barrier. Tyler then retaliated. It was that action which was captured by CBS4’s camera.

Another video provided to CBS4 by an anonymous viewer shows the moments leading up to the brawl. It allegedly shows Tyler, in a jeans jackets, and another man arguing about the man’s shirt. That man with the “Black Guns Matter” shirt also contacted CBS4, although anonymously. He called Tyler the aggressor and said he is African American.

“He had a problem with the shirt I was wearing,” this man said. “I was recording the event, he walks up and calls me a racist. But I thought, ‘What’s he know about black lives, about discrimination, or, for that matter, the representation of the shirt.'”

Throughout American history, the man continued, “Black people and their ability to own firearms has historically been very restricted. The shirt I got from a conceal-carry class.”

[Sapient Donkey]

38. The guy shouldn't have engaged him the way he did, but you can hear the guys booing

in one of the videos. They claim to be Bernie supporters, but people generally don't boo people they support even if they hit a specific point they may disagree with. It's also not totally clear who got physical first. Both sides claim the other one did, I think. Whoever got physical first deserves most of the blame.

Either way, it's probably best to ignore hecklers, because an aggressive response may be what they are hoping for.

[Moderateguy]

25. Wow

Hopefully it did not ruin any attendees enjoyment of the rally

[still_one]

26. There better not be any of this nonesense at the Convention

[floppyboo]

28. you might have to change the age of majority, or move it to a cigar smoked room

I am uplifted by the energy going into this conference. It's never going to be perfect. Has it ever been controversy free?

[still_one]

31. Controversy is fine, physicial fights are NOT a good thing, and should NOT be tolerated by anyone,

inside or outside the Convention

I cannot believe you are saying fist fights are ok?

I certainly hope you are not hoping for a 1968 Convention?

Those involved in violent encounters need to be thrown out. They are hurting it for the majority of the attendees

[floppyboo]

33. No, fist fights are generally not a good idea.

Where the heck did you get that idea from?
I do believe they may not be unavoidable - at least some shoving and shouting as in this case.
I'm a realist. I'm old. I've seen so many ways to solve disagreements.

are you saying disagreements should not exist? Like, when did you stop beating your wife? Same deal. Use logic.

[still_one]

35. I never said disagreements or controversy should not exist. I said violence should NOT be tolerated

It hurts it for the majority of those attending because of a couple of disrupters

[Laelth]

36. LOL. I suspect you need to be EXPECTING it.

A brokered convention seems likely at this point. Like it or not, 25% of Democrats are deep and strong Bernie supporters. There is a lot of pent-up liberal energy in the party right now, and most of that energy is concentrated in Bernie’s camp. These folks should not be either dissed or dismissed, and they will not be ignored.

You will see more of this behavior before it’s all over.

-Laelth

[still_one]

40. Then the odds increase for trump in the next four years

[Laelth]

50. Slightly, perhaps.

On the other hand, it might be good for the party. Hillary was deemed “inevitable,” and that didn’t work out the way we wanted. It’s hard to say.

-Laelth

[radius777]

46. That sounds like a threat. /nt

[Laelth]

51. Just a prediction. n/t

-Laelth

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. Nihilist Ratfucking.

Should be a mental thing to contemplate.

[floppyboo]

29. Here's a plan - just hand out some oxy at the door

those nihilists will just creep back into their existentially bereft rat holes.
That'll fix it up good, eh?
Boo!

[rockfordfile]

41. It seems they(trump supporters) were trying to disrupt the event.

[dustyscamp]

42. A few cons are probably going to these rallies to start a fight

Link to tweet

[Baclava]

43. Who won?

[George II]

44. That looks like a trump rally.

[cwydro]

47. One thing I noticed is how the audience seems mostly male.

Interesting.

[Gothmog]

45. Who is surprised by this?

[BusyBeingBest]

53. Some of that might be a Denver thing, more than a Bernie thing...

just sayin'...

[Cha]

55. oh really