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PROTESTERS IN CALIFORNIA set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified last night, police in Oakland have said.
Demonstrators broke windows, spray-painted graffiti, set off fireworks and pointed lasers at officers, the Oakland department said on Twitter.
Several tweets called for peace and asked organisers to “help us provide safe spaces and safe places for demonstrators”.
The protest began earlier yesterday evening with groups such as the Wall Of Moms, similar to a group that formed in Portland, Oregon, as protesters faced off with US agents deployed to that city to guard a federal courthouse.
US President Donald Trump had sent the federal agents to clamp down on protests that have occurred nightly since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May.
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The protest in Oakland began peacefully, but turned violent later into the night.
An “unlawful assembly” was declared by police at around 11.30pm local time and officers asked the crowd to disperse.
Police chase after protesters who refused to disperse at a protest in Oakland yesterday Christian Monterrosa
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The fire broke out at the Alameda County Superior Courthouse and was contained a short time later, news outlets reported.
Police said protesters at one point were “breaking windows and chanting racial slurs at residents”.
Photos tweeted by the department showed broken glass and paint splattered at a police building.
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@Lefty Tears:
How many accounts do you have? You must get bored at some stage. Is there nothing else gioing on in your life. You should join tinder or something.
@Paul O Connor: He has about 7 or 8, it’s amazing how much effort they put into all the emails, logging in and incessant unfunny nonsense they post etc. imagine they put all that effort into losing their virginity? and forming relationships outside the palm of their hand.
@Lefty Tears: Boo-hoo, any media I don’t agree with must be left. And any media I don’t agree with is MSM.
I cannot remember reading much positive article about Trump in the media across Europe.
So, they’re all lefties or propaganda mouth pieces?
You sound like someone who believes “X” and Telegram are the real news.
@Wolfgang Bonow: Sky news, CNN, MSNBC, The BBC, The Times, NY Times, Atlantic etc. are all ran by the same group of people. A very small nepotistic group that make a tiny fraction of the world population. That coincidentally also are grossly over represented in Wall Street, Hollywood, NGO ownership, Top 1%, US politics, US presidential donors etc. I.e hand in literally everything. I mean if you look at Joe Bidens White House staff, 564 members, over 40% are from a this same group that make up just 1.5% of the US population.
@Lefty Tears: Maybe something more simple like ‘The leader is good, the leader is great’ or ‘Na na na na leader’ would suit Lefty Tears. The Irony on how much of American legislation is built on left-wing policies.
@Stiles: That’s trump lad is some clown but it would be funny seeing him for another 4 years. It will make no difference to Ireland because we were better off in his term of 2016-2020 than Biden – Harris term of 2020-2024.
@Cole Palmer: Amazing that considering the Pandemic and Ukraine war , Trump inherited a strong Biden economy, but still managed to rack up the biggest national debt in history over the next 4 years of his presidency. Look it up
@Freda Peeple: What do you mean Trump inherited a strong Biden economy? Biden was not president from 2012-2016. It was Obama. Maybe brush up on your facts before commenting.
@MN: It’s scary how the Irish media believes it can be one sided in current affairs. Loosing their integrity and credibility does not strike them as a serious matter.
@John Hally: If they are based in Dublin then they automatically believe that they are major not just in Ireland but on the world stage, not surprisingly though no one believes it but only themselves.
I love watching Republicans crying and wondering what happened when they lose elections. Now they’ve added outright denial to their list of reactions, the entertainment is superb. That’s why I always watch them on Fox.
@Louis Jacob: I’m not one for gloating usually but I will sit in front of fox myself to watch the melt down in real time, I didn’t savour it enough when Biden beat him the previous election.
@Freda Peeple:
Watched a short clip of him tonight.
He was literally feral.Growling and snarling.
The Republican party are in real trouble if that is the best they could choose as their candidate.
@Mary.E.: Isn’t the whole point that he isn’t their candidate? It works like this.The parties go to their donors and ask what they want . They usually say “ let us eat away and keep our money “ Inve your candidate fits that bill, they can do whatever they want with the rest. It’s one of the reasons abortion was never codified. How else can the dems distinguish themselves from the reps?
Can’t wait until it’s all over. Couldn’t care less about American politics. Gas thing is most people on here are more worried about an election thousands miles away doesn’t effect their day to day live than they are about our own up coming election which does effect them
@Ger Whelan: Yea but what happens in America will affect the world, they at least have genuine opposition. We don’t have anything, even outside a 3 party coalition we don’t have any credible opposition. We are voting for the craic really
@Ger Whelan: You think the outcome of the US elections doesn’t affect us here in Ireland?? You cannot be that ignorant? Ps. Being interested in US elections doesn’t mean people here at home don’t care about our own elections. We’re capable of doing many things all at once.
The Republican Party of now is not conservative. They are just the democrats of 15 years ago. The whole block is slowly shifting left inevitably. In 15 years, the republicans will be what the democrats are right now, and so on towards inevitable collapse. The democrats of 20 years ago would be considered right wing by todays standards. They were very tight on border control, they had taxes lower than the ultra capitalist republicans want now. Obama, Biden and Clinton all opposed gay marriage in 2008 when Obama got elected. Nowadays they would be cancelled.
Its ok everyone… ‘lefty tears’ has assured me trump will win “bigly”… so we don’t have to bother with any media to find out the progress of it all. Lefty tears also says, the media is pushing too much Lefty rhetoric and that it’s really a masquerade of their fear of losing to the juggernaut of pi$$. So glad, lefty tears is here to steer us all clear. Lefty tears works so hard to inform us all. Thank you Lefty tears… dont go changing. thank all.of your John Doe mates too… BIGLY!! coming atcha!
The thing about America demanding the American companies pay their taxes in America was not just a Trump thing, Biden also demanded it, the same with the econonic war on China. Such things the Republicans and the Democrats are on the exact same page about and it ain’t good for Ireland, either way
There could be an article here about the NBA playoffs, and around here the comments would still develop into Trump/Harris supporters throwing childish insults at each other.
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