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Anarchist rampage in Berkeley renews free speech debate
BERKELEY,
Calif.
(AP) — Hundreds of
masked, black-clad anar-
chists who overwhelmed a
peaceful California protest
and assaulted at least five
perceived political enemies
have reignited the debate
over ensuring free speech
while protecting public
safety in the city where the
U.S. free speech movement
was born in the 1960s.
After planned weekend
rallies
were
violently
disrupted
or
canceled,
supporters of President
Donald Trump and other
politically
conservative
activists complained their
free speech rights were
blocked by liberal politicians
who they say incited left-
wing extremists.
When Patriot Prayer
founder
Joey
Gibson
canceled his San Francisco
rally Saturday, he blamed San
Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and
Democratic U.S. Rep. Nancy
Pelosi for falsely labeling the
organization as a hate group
and inciting extremism to
vow violent disruption.
Others said that the
violence on Sunday in
nearby Berkeley, known
as the U.S. heart of the free
speech movement, tarnished
their peaceful opposition to
Trump’s policies.
“It played into the false
narrative that some conser-
vatives have spun,” about
violent left-wing stifling of
free speech, Berkeley Mayor
Jesse Arreguin said Monday,
a day after the anarchists
assaulted people they thought
were right-wing extremists
and pepper sprayed Gibson.
Gibson’s supporters said
the Berkeley police failed to
protect the handful of right-
wing supporters who showed
up at the park Sunday after-
noon by allowing the black-
clad demonstrators to take
over the city park without
opposition. The right-wing
group was outnumbered
by thousands of opponents,
but the rally was tense but
peaceful until the anarchists
arrived.
Several
demonstrators
tried to stop the violence and
helped the assault victims
escape while others screamed
for the beating to stop.
The attack on the conser-
vatives at the a Berkeley
park “definitely sends the
wrong message,” said Ed
Tisher, who came to oppose
them but ended up helping a
Trump supporter knocked to
the ground and shielding him
from more possible violence
until police arrived.
Yvonne Felarca, a spokes-
woman for the militant left-
wing organization By Any
Means Necessary, defended
Sunday’s violence, calling it
self-defense — even though
there were no indications
anyone tried to harm the
anarchists at the park.
She said right-wing
extremists are often armed
and want to fight left-wing
opponents,
concluding
that Sunday’s violence
was a “success” and sent
a message that speech her
group considers fascist will
not be allowed in ultraliberal
Berkeley
Felarca was charged last
year with assault and helping
incite a riot in Sacramento.
The June 2016 melee
between about 30 members
of a neo-Nazi group and 300
counter-protesters
ended
with 14 people suffering stab
wounds, cuts and bruises.
Berkeley Police Chief
Andrew Greenwood said he
ordered officers to abandon
the park when the black-clad
activists arrived. Confronting
them would have risked
escalating the violence and
jeopardizing the safety of the
peaceful protesters, Green-
wood said.
The mayor said the police
acted appropriately, saying
the anarchists “were trying to
provoke the police.”
Sid Heal, president of
California Association of
Tactical Officers representing
police trained in riot control,
said it’s “always a tough call”
officers to determine how to
react when they respond to a
crowd on the verge of a riot.
He said he usually advises
officers to aggressively arrest
people obviously intent on
violence like those carrying
gas masks or sticks. Police
initially used both strategies,
quickly arresting people who
covered their faces.
BRIEFLY
North Korea fires
missile over Japan
in aggressive test
SEOUL, South Korea
(AP) — North Korea fired
a ballistic missile from its
capital Pyongyang that
flew over Japan before
plunging into the northern
Pacific Ocean, officials said
Tuesday, an aggressive test-
flight over the territory of a
close U.S. ally that sends a
clear message of defiance
as Washington and Seoul
conduct war games nearby.
Seoul’s Joint Chiefs
of Staff said the missile
traveled around 1,677 miles
and reached a maximum
height of 341 miles as it flew
over the northern Japanese
island of Hokkaido. The
launch, which appears to be
the first to cross over Japan
since 2009, will rattle a
region worried that each new
missile test puts the North
a step closer toward its goal
of an arsenal of nuclear
missiles that can reliably
target the United States.
North Korean missile
launches have been
happening at an unusually
fast pace this year, and
some analysts believe that
the North could have such
an arsenal before the end
of U.S. President Donald
Trump’s first term in early
2021.
Judge sends Indian
guru to jail for 20
years in rapes
ROHTAK, India (AP)
— A judge on Monday
sentenced a popular and
flamboyant Indian spiritual
guru to a total of 20 years in
prison on charges of raping
two female followers.
The sentences were
pronounced amid intense
security at a prison where
the guru, who calls himself
Dr. Saint Gurmeet Singh
Ram Rahim Insan, has been
held since his conviction.
The conviction sparked
violent protests by the guru’s
followers that left at least 38
people dead and hundreds
injured. Train and bus
services were suspended to
prevent the guru’s supporters
from gathering in the town.
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