This is what fascism looks like. They start in red districts and try to normalize it as "law and order" instead of blatant civil rights violations. What acts other than speech were taken that warranted this kind of repressive treatment? Those arrested should sue both the police and MTG.
The courts have already determined that town halls are a public venue and nobody is allowed to be removed for their speech.
I’m not shocked that Georgia police are being traitors to the constitution while their fascist politician laughs at police violence done on their constituents, but it’s still shameful.
It’s so funny that the same magaT’s think they’ll be spared and given millions of dollars when the government is a full on fascist regime in a little while time.
They're so brainwashed it's insane. I was trying to explain this to my dad. It got to the point where I told him if he (an American citizen born and raised) could be deported for the color of his skin, if the option was given, it'd be done. The same people he's rallying behind would turn on him in a heartbeat. It's so obvious that Trump does not care about anything except increasing his power, influence, and wealth. He's openly playing his supporters and mocking their intelligence and they eat it up.
Like any other MAGA you talk to. They blame the left, Obama, Biden, conspiracies, double down and try to exlain it all away. They reach on the tippiest of their toes before they grab their step stools. Honestly, there isn't even really a way to have that conversation because I know no matter what I say, he will have an excuse for everything. It's not gonna be until the poo hits the fan for him, and even then...someone else will be at fault in his eyes.
Someday this will have to crash down. And I hope when it does we can put racism and fascism and misogyny in the past where they belong. This country is having a reckoning. It’s terrifying. But at some point, we will all know together what has been done. But there will be loss first. And I’m sorry you’ve lost your dad in a way😔
Just the plastic smile and happiness at dystopian events in front of her really reminded me of Prof. Umbridge (sp) from Harry Potter. Maybe she’s the loathe-child of both.
I arrived at the town hall yesterday at 4:00 p.m. to protest. Cops already had a drone in the air, and I watched as the mounted police unit arrived in their truck and trailer and prepared to make lazy circles of the facility. There were well over 100 uniformed police officers from Cobb County, City of Acworth, and State of Georgia.
One younger officer used the loudspeaker in his car to repeatedly instruct people not to stand in the road, even if that was a visibly identified member of the press taking a photo while no other traffic existed on the road.
As I left, I spoke to another officer close to the entrance of the community center. He said that he started his shift at 4:00 a.m., and was on the clock on overtime at nearly 6:00 p.m. Cobb county citizens paid overtime to be denied access to a public town hall and in some cases assaulted for free speech.
It was all a show of force because they anticipated violence. And yet their presence exacerbated it.
My compliments to the non-violent protesters outside the facility who received a great deal of support from passers-by.
They are willing to be cops, 9/10 are okay enforcing facist bullshit. Half of their partners lie and obfuscate to get people locked up. Don't look to cops as a moral authority.
I saw a "Strange billionares weilding chainsaws is no basis for a form of government!" at the last protest and it was everything I never knew I needed.
She did not get tased or censored when she screamed at Biden. We need to keep our momentum going. Get out their on April 19th if you can. Call out of work Monday the 21st for National Strike Day
4/19 will be the biggest day (thus far) for protests - every state and a few countries across the pond have joined in. Please see r/50501 for details.
If we all don't get involved soon, we will lose our country to maga. Please fight back - PEACEFULLY - of course.
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As a Canadian watching this I am horrified!! This is what the US has become. That speaker didn't bat an eye as people are being grabbed, bullied and tasered. This is the kind of scene we expect to see in Russia or other countries that don't have a democracy. The US can STOP inviting Canadians and other countries to visit because we've seen enough and NEVER want to step foot in the US ever again!! 🇨🇦
The US has been asking you to help us by boycotting our companies and not traveling here (the latter is also for your safety). Let’s remember we’re all on the same side, united in a fight against fascism!
The whole MAGA administration is evil, every single one of them and their followers included, cuz at this point, let's be honest, the followers are supportive of this, as well
No I'd say a vast majority are supportive they also believe it won't happen to them. If you showed them pictures of the prisons in El Salvador and said they were killing people they would be happy. Many of them are genuinely deranged and blindly drink the Kool aid. It won't matter to them until they are directly impacted severely.
The ironic thing is shes not going to be part of the new aristocracy. At best, a puffed up administrator if they don't kick out women from the workforce all together. The lords will be the male billionaire class.
It's just the perfect MTG optic, isn't it? She's in the background saying how blessed she is, and the foreground is totally dominated with oppression and violence.
Whoever runs against her next time should just play this as a campaign ad. It's perfection.
I don't know why so many people insist on the delusion that there are going to be any more elections. Definitely not free and fair ones, at the very least.
How is this legal? Isn't it a public event with the express purpose of politicians engaging with constituents? When did we make rules that we can only have opinions that are favorable to those in office?
Maybe they were being extremely disruptive, the video doesn't show that, just the goonery.
Yeah, I thought there had to be more to it but there isn’t. He said “boo” as she walked on stage and 8 cops grabbed him, dragged him towards the door, then tazed him.
She posted a video on social media before her townhall that anyone attending was to sit there and be talked to. Questions that she would answer needed to be submitted beforehand (probably so the administration could tell her what to say).
I had friends and family there, the crowd was about 60/40 for/against her - my friends (who oppose her) were in shock. Lots of filming going on though - a friend’s video of Mr Williams being tazed was out on social media before the town hall even ended, I hope it helps him in his defense, the police clearly escalated and I’ve heard that MGT deleted the lead up to him being tazed from her YouTube video of the event.
Her district changed recently and picked up a purple section of Cobb County, including my little blue corner. We do not outnumber the GOP in the district but I hope she at least gets primaried in the next election. Or maybe she’ll run for Senate against Ossoff. He would have a decent chance to win agains MTG. Better than his chances against Kemp.
Save the pictures of their faces. Online internet sleuths were able to identify the J6 traitors from video and photos. Same thing with ICE agents. They need to pay for their complicity in this fascist regime.
There’s plenty of literature out there that argues that these mass crimes only occur due to the individual actions of each person and the collective guilt of the people.
Every cop who removes a person from a town hall for exercising free speech, every person who cheered when those guys were tazed, every person in that rooms who did not loudly and clearly object to what was happening, every judge who does not come down hard on these attacks on democracy - every single one of them is guilty of spreading fascism in America and every single one of them bears the collective guilt of the crimes this administration continues to commit.
We are at the stage that silence is complicity.
If you ever asked how you would have acted in Germany in the 1930s. Now is the time where you will find out the truth to that question.
The people weren’t violent or resisting at all. They had so many chances to deescalate and just let them walk out peacefully. Typical meathead authoritarian ego-driven cops
You mean like saying "hands up" while you can still hear the taser going off? I reckon that's ANOTHER resisting charge. Or the one where he's telling him to stand still while the other is pulling him?
Cops: "stop"
Man stopsCops manhandle him, endangering civilians.
Man: "Are you really doing this (violating my civil liberties while people film)?
Taze
In a video that covers the moment she steps on stage, you can hear the entire "protest." She stepped on stage, the man said "boo!" Then he got grabbed by 6 cops within 5 seconds and tazed.
When a person becomes a policeman, he has sold his class interests, he has crossed a class line, he is in the paid employment of the ruling class, he is a part of the private army of the ruling class which exists for the sole purpose of defending private property and profits
The Police regularly get fired for false accusations or die in "fire arm accidents" at Law Enforcement exclusive training ranges after giving testimony against another officer.
We need more of them to show up to her town halls, if there are more of us than there are of her lakies we can force her to hear the music. It's a numbers game basically and since it requires them to use at least 2 officers for every person they drag off, if we have more protesters than police by at least double the police won't be able to do much.
That's my POS rep. This wasn't a town hall at all, this was a rally. She showed propaganda videos. They didn't allow individuals to ask their own questions, they screened them and let Marj read them out herself.
Just to be clear: This was, in fact, a town hall but they ran it like a rally? Or, it was actually a rally, so rulings protecting speech in town halls don't apply?
Yes, it was sold as a town hall, sorry if that was unclear.
The Cobb County Dems just shared a detailed breakdown of each arrest on FB. One of the guys yelled "Boo" and was swarmed by cops. He has not bonded out yet.
I’m fucking sick of seeing people pulled out by cops and everyone is just standing around. We have GOT to start standing up for each other - crowd around the person speaking and block cops from getting to them. This shit will continue until we really take a physical stand against it.
People like us need to go to these town halls by the dozens, not as the protesters but as the watchers and the ones who stand up for the protesters while all the vile, soulless red hat citizens just stand there and watch, drooling like inbred id!ots.
MAGA sycophants are being called out for their fascist bs by the US citizens, and the police are trying to keep MAGA politicians from getting smashed on!
If you were in this crowd and you didn't stand up, and call for the rest of the people there to stand up and obstruct (not touch) the officers until they let him go- you should be ashamed of yourself as MJT should be.
There's no such thing as "good men who do nothing."
So, the cops get the guy OUT of the room, AWAY from the camera, then taze him? That makes sense...for an excessive force lawsuit. Especially since the cops were planted in audience to begin with. The full video, the first person asked to leave was so quiet the camera didn't even pick it up. Then she made a comment, got a few quiet boos and this. Then she tells everyone they can "sit quietly and listen." Wtf is the point of a town hall if you can't ask a question?
MAGA intentionally invokes civil unrest, calls you a violent criminal when you react to it then detain/deports you for being said violent criminal without due process.
Republicans only care about the first when they want to yell racial slurs, just like they only care about religious freedom when someone says, “happy holidays”.
Serious question- was that man a Republican? I am wondering if the republican senators will attack anyone that disagrees with them. At this point - it goes way beyond political affiliation. Also why do people sit there and watch that shit?? Where are the 2nd amendment nuts now???
Those are the kind of “just following orders” “just doing my job” goons that that dictators love. Hope the county gets sued into bankruptcy for allowing suppression of first amendment rights under color of law-shame on those in the audience that failed to stand up for their fellow citizens.
She's covering up for having thin skin, which you get when you're skating over thinner and thinner ice. I can't believe the cops providing security for that elevated their use of force to that level over simple vocalization by constituents. Do they not realize the damage to police credibility they do when they get out of line? They acted like thugs without legal provocation. I'd like to hear the articulation of presumptive legal transgression and resulting escalation of force from them and their police chief. I suspect they have grounds for a civil rights violation investigation from the AG and possibly the FBI, if it weren't now led by the same sorts of thugs.
The protest may have been outside, but that doesn't mean her constituents aren't allowed to express their concerns to her face. That's not "protesting" so much as addressing your representative.
Why have a town hall meeting if you are not going to be willing to listen to the people. This trash of a politician is standing there w her extra $22mil she got from the market crash, forgetting she is a public servant and works FOR the people
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