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DallasNE

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12. The Spreading Violence Must Stop
Sun Jun 15, 2025, 08:45 PM
Jun 15

Here I am talking about people like Gov. DeSantis, who urged people to drive into the protestors if they felt threatened.
First, why would people be driving into the area occupied by protestors? That is just looking for trouble.

The scorecard I have heard is cars drove into protestors in Virginia, Atlanta, and California (2). This is something new at this level, so it means that DeSantis has blood on his hands for encouraging such behaviour. There was also a fatal shooting in Utah. I likely missed some violent incidents as well. This doesn't even include the fatal shooting in Minnesota the previous day.

Nearly all, if not all, of this violence came from the right.

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