Humboldt County, a Week Ago: (Part 1) Last Saturday in Photos and Videos
On Memorial Day, May 25, George Floyd died under the knee of a white police officer on the dark asphalt of a city street across the country from rural Humboldt County. Ripples from his death pushed crowds sheltering in place from their homes here last Saturday and still continue to move people to march in protest as this next week opens.
Even as rain fell at noon on Saturday, May 30, the first protesters gathered in the small town of Garberville determined to show their solidarity with those angry at Floyd’s killing. About twenty people chanted and cheered together at the event that lasted a little over an hour.
A popup tent provided some shelter for the undaunted attendees at last Saturday’s protest in Garberville. [All photos and video by Talia Rose]
As rain falls, a man beating a drum leads a
crowd protesting police brutality against traffic in Eureka on Saturday. [Crop of a photo by Mark McKenna]
By 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, reports of protesters setting off firecrackers and punching out the windows of at least one passing car punctured the initially peaceful though passionate protest.
![The owners of the car reported to EPD that protesters had repeatedly punched it. [Image from the owners taken after the window had been taped up.]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Vehicle-with-broken-out-window-225x300.png)
The owners of the car reported to EPD that protesters had repeatedly punched it. [Image from the owners taken after the window had been taped up. The license plate has been covered.]
@fierceaction##blacklivesmatter ##BLM ##georgefloyed ##protest ##Humboldt ##Eureka ##privilegecheck ##101♬ This Is America – The Girl Next Door
Rage at law enforcement boiling over in other areas. In the video below, one protester called police “pigs” and another pounded on an occupied police cruiser until glass shattered as EPD officers appeared calm and restrained.
A pickup, holding counter protesters, sped through the one part of the crowd with a passenger flipping an obscene gesture to the demonstrators. Participants in the march demanded police arrest the occupants for reckless driving but it fled the scene.
A large white pickup held a small counter protest while flying a Trump 2020 flag. Photos on social media showed the same truck flying a Confederate flag at a different time. [Photo provided by a witness]
[The below video is embedded from Joel McClure’s Facebook and not everyone can see it. Try going here instead if you can’t: https://www.facebook.com/joel.mcclure.90/videos/10157506776532123/ ]
Eureka Police are investigating both incidences.
The EPD later reported that several officers were assaulted.
The small city seemed to tremble on the edge of something dangerous. Officers wearing full SWAT gear began assembling.
Police staging about 7:15 p.m. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Sunset over Saturday’s protest. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Earlier Chapters on the Protests over George Floyd’s Death in Humboldt County:
- Protesters Blocking Traffic in Eureka
- Protesters and Police: Saturday Evening in Eureka
- A Tale of Two Protests…
- Police and Some Protesters Gearing Up for Possible Clashes at Tonight’s Protest in Eureka Even as Speaker Calls for Calm
- Protest Heating Up as Night Grows Darker
- When Some Protesters Attempted to Take a Man Being Arrested for Vandalism From Police, Pepper Balls Were Deployed
- Eureka Police Give Updates on Weekend Protests
- A Peaceful Protest in Arcata Drew an Estimated 400 Demonstrators Against Police Brutality and Racism
- After the Protest, a Local Painting Company Donates Time to Clean Up
- Relatively Large March in Sunny SoHum to Protest Violence by Police
- Protest in Eureka Blocks 101/5th Street in Eureka
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How poetic.
You leave out the fact Mr. Floyd had multiple drugs in his system, prior issues with the law ( including attacking a pregnant woman), major health problems contributing to his ultimate panic/heart attack, and was attempting to pass a phony bill in the market ( a federal offense and the reason the police were called in the first place).
Now we have riots, looting, burning down buildings scores of injuries and the murders of at least a dozen shop keepers and others during the “peaceful protests.”
Kneeling and hugging poseurs in blue will not save the republic. Neither will touchy feely odes to Antifa and their enablers.
I wonder how long before protesters complain that I didn’t mention the fact that former police officer Dereek Chauvin had 18 complaints of excessive force against him and is accused of voting fraud.
Amazing that in your eyes the man accused of passing a fake bill is more responsible for his own death than the police officer who knelt on his neck until he died as people plead with the officer to stop.
In the bible’s book of Luke 3:14, where the soldiers approached Jesus and demanded to know what they should do to get right with God. God in human form replied;
“DO VIOLENCE TO NO MAN, NEITHER ACCUSE ANY FALSELY; AND BE CONTENT WITH YOUR WAGES.”
Did you ever stop to think about all the people in those protests who may have Covid-19 but didn’t get tested because they weren’t that sick and but went anyway. How many sickos do you think showed up with covid-19 and thought well people are rioting and looting and I’m going to riot and loot and get whats mine and fuck al these people here doing this dumb shit. If they didn’t want to catch my covid they should’ve stayed home and worn a mask. Don’t tell me that those people weren’t there. There are people who purposely spread HIV and other diseases, why not COVID? There have been people arrested for threatening to spread COVID, and you think some of the people looting and rioting weren’t of that same mindset? Let that sink in.
If you think being kneeled on by a full grown man for nine minutes had nothing to do with his death, I would like to invite you to participate in a reenactment.
In 1963, a poll showed that sixty percent of white Americans disapproved of MLK Jr’s March on Washington, where he gave his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. They thought it would encourage violence and not accomplish anything. The Civil Rights Act, which most Americans now agree was a great thing, barely had 50% support in 1964.
To all the people who are out there protesting for justice and equality, thank you for working to make this county and this country a better place. Don’t ever let the trolls and naysayers stop you.
I bet you can’t name the party who blocked the civil rights movement, and a major supporter of the KKK, and had a prior high level KKK leader in the Senate for many years.
I know you don’t mean this but the Republican Party had David Duke, a clan leader as a Representative in Washington, had multiple people against the Civil Rights bill.
“Democrats who helped usher the bill through the House, Senate, and ultimately a Democratic president who signed it into law. The bill wouldn’t have passed without the support of Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, a Democrat. Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey, who basically split the Democratic party in two with his 1948 Democratic National Convention speech calling for equal rights for all, kept tabs on individual members to ensure the bill had the numbers to overcome the filibuster.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republicans-party-of-civil-rights
And, of course, at that time the Republican party wasn’t the party of Donald Trump.
Is that the same democratic president who said” I’ll have the N!!!!!ers voting for democrats for the next 100 years? LBJ quote filmed on TV.
Might try fact checking if you’re claiming something is history. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-voting-democratic/ That’s a roughly equivalent claim to those on the left saying Donald Trump called Republicans “the dumbest group of voters in the country
Huffington post OK with you or are they too conservative?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-democratic-partys-two_b_933995
HuffPost tends liberal but fact checking is spotty. The person who wrote the story calls themself “The Relentless Conservative”–a neutral source if I’ve ever heard one.
Nonetheless, if what you are generally saying is there are racist democratic leaders…you won’t get an argument from me.
But if what you are saying is that LBJ was filmed on tv saying, ” I’ll have the N!!!!!ers voting for democrats for the next 100 years,” then no…you’ve got your history wrong.
Most democratic house and senate members in the 50’s and 60’s were anti civil rights. Look it up, even the woke Wikileaks indicates that. The confederate flag represented most of the democratic party in the south during that time. The smart democrats evolved their stance by understanding that in order to stay in power, they had to concede to the civil rights movement, thus I’ll keep the N!!!!!!ers voting democrat for…… fits the mentality of your wonderful Democrat’s of that time. It hasn’t changed to this date, the minorities serve only to provide votes to keep people in power, not to help them in any real way, as the republicans actually did.
How are Republicans helping black people better than Democrats are?
Republicans haven’t had much a chance. Since the 60’s poor areas have been dominated by Democrats tasked with administering public funds from the “war on poverty”… after $22 trillion has been spent on this the better question is why have Democrats failed so miserably in helping their communities?
Robert Woodson, a former civil rights leader, has a poignant take on that question:
https://youtu.be/Vo5XcrFCYUo
Black employment reach a record high before he pandemic.
What ever happened with “ask not what the country can do for you, but what you …..
Seems the parties have two different meanings to “helping those who want to help themselves”, liberals seem to think it’s related to looting.
The fifth party system ended in the 70’s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Party_System
Kind of matters to your point.
The democratic party.
Yes ty for congregating in millions shoulder to shoulder in the spread of covid 19. Imagine, just for a moment , if this was a bunch of white people protesting tyranny, taxes and bullshit lockdown measures. It would be completely unacceptable. Has everyone forgot about covid 19? Will the death of another 100,000 people be accepted due to protesting? Meanwhile my kid can’t even go to a graduation party.My community still has shelter in place orders in effect. I still have to wear a mask. These videos I watch look like a recipe for mass contamination IF the virus is what THEY say it is. I think we should all go against the grain on this than.protest all this bullshit. Take off your mask and fuck ALL these rules and orders. Herd immunity bitches! Let the strong survive.
What about Breonna Taylor, just a week or so prior? An EMT. She was shot in her bed as police raided her home without announcing themselves, While the suspect they were after was already in their custody.
Look, this soldier honored her memory.
Introducing Todd Winn, a repeated hero among us.
https://www.insider.com/photos-marine-veteran-protests-for-black-lives-matter-2020-6
Well since it was appropriate force, and necessary because Floyd had broken the law, and not that big a deal anyway, because he had other underlying health issues, Dereck Chauvin should be able to handle the same punishment! Maybe another policeman can kneel on Chauvins neck for 8 min. and 47 seconds. No big deal right?
How does him having drugs in his system in any way, make it ok to kill him? He was in handcuffs, he didn’t resist one he was in handcuffs. Maybe we should put term limits on cops so that they won’t become so jaded by their job that they end up killing someone for a fake 20. He was in handcuffs and there where 4 of them. There where 4 of them with radios. One of him, in handcuffs, and your gonna use multiple drugs in his system as an excuse? Nope. Doesn’t pass the bullshit test.
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It is not up to police to be the judge, jury, and hangman when detaining. The death sentence is a high price to pay for taking meth, or selling a few cigarettes on a street corner, or jogging, or sleeping in your own bed.
It’s not up to protesters to be the judge jury and executioner of the business owners and/or businesses they kill, burn, loot – or cops. It’s not up to protesters to force others to listen to them by blocking sidewalks and roads. So don’t preach your crap about the not so peaceful protests being one bit different. They were and are full of major criminal activity. Don’t preach that it’s ok for protesters to protest crime with equal and/or greater crimes.
Those that hold signs, yell, chant, and peacefully make a statement are using first amendment rights. Those that block roads and sidewalks, and all the other crimes are not exercising first ammendment rights. They are just committing crimes.
It is ok if the protesters didn’t know this. Apparently the Sheriff and Police Chief either don’t know or don’t care either.
What part of civil disobedience don’t you understand. Take your ship back up to your own planet. Please
Apparently in your mind blocking of a sidewalk by private citizens is an “equal and/or greater crime” than a police officer sworn to protect, wearing a firearm, murdering a man as he pleads for air?
…ignoring the rioting and looting of businesses and national monuments being vandalized and low income housing being burnt to the ground , a black 77 year old retired police captain named David dorn was shot in the head over a tv.
This isn’t just about people blocking traffic
There are riots and looters… There are vastly, vastly more peaceful protesters.
The so called “peaceful” protests seemed to come after the days of looting And burning and rioting though.
Rage at state sanctioned murder occurring yet again…I was 30 and pregnant with my first child when I marched in Berkeley’s protest over the Rodney King beating. I lived through some I can never forget 12-year-old Tamir Rice, 22-year-old Oscar Grant, and others whose names I’ve forgotten. I’m tired of protesting the same evil. And I imagine folks who are more personally affected are furious.
I don’t think riots and looting are helpful but I also don’t think they are as heavy on the soul as yet another murder of a black person by police.
I Agree with almost everything you said. I am all for freedom of speech and peaceful protests, but looting and rioting and burning are all felony crimes that need to be enforced. Just as the cop needs to be held accountable for the murder of Mr Floyd, these people that are out being destructive of personal property need to be held accountable.
As long as the sentence for burning property is way way way less than killing a human being as the representative of the state…then I agree with you.
Of course it should be a way less sentence. I am in agreement with what the protesters want. I just feel like the focus should be on police brutality instead of it becoming such a racial issue. I understand that minorities are much more likely to be arrested convicted and sometimes murdered at the hands of police, but if we all want equality then let’s prosecute the same people destroying and looting the cities just as they are prosecuting the cop who killed Mr. Floyd. Everyone is wanting justice and equality and all that stuff, but yet they think they are above the law when it comes to looting and riots. Maybe it’s my “white privilege” showing lol but I just don’t understand the hypocrisy. A crime is a crime.
You can’t lump all protesters together. In Eureka, there were ones tipping over trash cans and ones cleaning it up. It’s a futile exercise to think all protesters are for burning down all stores.
Arson is a serious felony with a long prison sentence. If it kills someone, it is also murder
I agree that the arsonist should face punishment. Not as long as that of a police officer who executes someone for a counterfeit $20 bill but arson is wrong.
So if 1000 KKK members march and some buildings get vandalized and looted by 10 of them its ok because the protest was mostly peaceful?
Hmm. Would you switch sides and defend it? What if you had more than 4 out for your pandemic protest?
Huh? Switch what side? 4 out of my pandemic protest? You need to type a coherent thought so I can respond to whatever it is you are trying to say. These George Floyd protests are doing more for collapsing the covid-19 rhetoric than anything else. They have rendered enforcing mask policy and social distancing completely defunct. If a cop tried to enforce mask policy I would take them to court and show a picture of good old Honsal shaking hands with protestors sans mask or distancing. They no longer have a legal foot to stand on. I thank the protestors for that. If there isn’t a massive explosion of Covid-19 cases in the next 14 days then that means the whole thing was a hoax after all.
The protest is okay. The looters are not. 1000 gun owners. One shoots up a school. I’m willing to bet you think the 999 gun owners are some very fine people and the school shooter is the bad guy. Why? They both bought guns.
Same with the protest 1000 went to the protest. One broke a window. Why are they all to blame?
Except it isn’t one person breaking windows; it’s dozens. And, on top of that, dozens more take advantage of the broken windows and take everything that they can, bolted down or not.
Except it isn’t one cop and one gun owner either, is it?
In the context you’re using it, yes it is.
In the context you are using it Kym, it would mean that 1000 gun owners took to the streets and then 100 of them started shooting people. That has never before happened. And in this instance, yes Kym, it was one cop.
Apparently you need to read my comment. The other crimes are looting, burning, killing, etc. These crimes were against innocent civilians. George Floyd was a meth addict, convicted robber, etc, not an innocent civilian who was unfortunately killed by police during an arrest. So yes, the crimes of the “protesters” were far worse.
Does the site host have an agenda, or was it simply a misread of my comment? And I had been contemplating a donation…
Well she is definitely more left than you or me, but she certainly tolerates other opinions unlike lost coast outpost. It’s too bad there are some bad cops out there. But on the whole they are much better than they used to be. I can’t say that about American demographics however. They are in a regressive state. Riots cannot be tolerated anymore than lynch mobs. One thing I want to point out is that George Floyd walked away from the scene and was put in a squad car. But there appears to be no good explanation for keeping him on the ground so long. Civilly the law imposes liability for the exacerbation of a preexisting condition the defendant was unaware of. Criminally, murder requires a specific intent to kill or a wanton act. There are statutory variations such as murder two or statutory manslaughter which require a lesser showing. The officer is entitled to a trial. There is too much social prejudging in this country. That’s a systemic problem that is arguably worse than racial discrimination at the present time.
If Meth use disqualifies ones position, then we can ignore the plight of those urban cowboys in the Ford.
Alf, I waited overnight but yep, I still feel the same way. If I knew you sent me a donation, I’d send it back. Because nobody tries to control how I act based on sending me donations.
And yes, I’m pissed off that you would make such a gross statement.
Ya, no. Kinda like “there’s good people on both sides.” Ya. No. I don’t vote with facists.
Did you not forget about covid 19 kym? If the stats were true, these protests are killing 10s of thousands in a weekly basis. This is the third week. I’m guessing a couple of months is acceptable? All seems pretty hypocritical….why do some have to follow these bullshit orders when millions don’t? Talk about overflowing hospitals and dead bodies spilling out of refrigerator trucks. Let’s see……..
I already said that medically I think the protests are a bad idea–that said they are outside and moving and many are wearing masks–all likely to reduce infection rates.
Black lives matter more than any other life. This is apparent. We must shudder the entire economy, lock everyone up, forgo the civil rights of all, in the name of saving people from a virus that doesn’t care about borders, boundaries, race, age, color, creed, or religion. It will destroy millions if we don’t hide. One black person gets killed and all that caring about everyone else goes out the window in the name of black lives matter. In that context, in the middle of this pandemic, it seems black lives matter more than all the others. Have I missed something?
Personally, I’m for not gathering to protest during the pandemic BUT someone said something I thought expressed this situation well.
When you get in the bus, you should wear a seatbelt but if the bus driver starts shooting at you, maybe you should unbuckle. Which I believe would express groups like Open Humboldt’s feelings also. If you feel like the system is harming you, you have a right and some might say a duty to protest.
I hear what you are saying, but in the face of this pandemic, when we have forgone so many of our rights, why is that more important? All of this is about saving lives and now we are potentially sacrificing all those lives we were trying to save by the SIP ordinance to protest the death of a tweeker. Which lives matter Kym? Do all lives matter? Like the narrative that was being pushed by you and our public health officials? So we should continue honoring the shelter in place? Or do black lives matter more, which is why it is absolutely pertinent to protest the death of that tweeker, just because of the color of his skin, to the potential detriment and mass casualties of everyone else that(if yours and Dr. Frankenwitch’s models and beliefs are true)is absolutely going to happen now that we have shunned the SIP orders?
So perhaps Chauvins excessive force has wider consequences.
Even if you don’t care about Humans, American Citizens and our rights, at least acknowledge how expensive and ineffective going overboard is for those cities and Police depts. All your terrible protests wouldn’t have happened if Floyd was just cuffed, and set in the back of the police car.
It seems we can now not only break the lockdown but also break whatever we want. So long as we do it in the cause of ‘anti-racism’.
Example.
Are you more on the side of protesters or more on the side of the guy with the big growdozer and the confederate flag/trump banner? We’ll see where more Americans are at in November, but the polls aren’t looking good for the confederate flag group. I don’t think history will look kindly at them either.
https://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17505/police_and_poor_people
A perspective.
Yep. I see a free pass for criminal activity. If a cop intervenes just say “I can’t breathe!“. The whole Minneapolis police force is now disbanded and not funded. Police literally can’t do there job with out being labeled racist. People than will complain when the military is used as enforcement. There is no winning. There is too much division. We need to protest every aspect of the government, from trump to the mayors, from the senate to the house. Cops are not to blame. White people are not to blame. It lays much deeper than even our own government. We need to raise against “the wizard of Oz.”we need to stop following the yellow brick road, just like the movie, it only leads to lies and from a dream that all of us won’t wake up from. We are no longer citizens, We are the enemy. Black or white. Homeless or middle class. It’s not salvation and prosperity, it’s control.
Yeah this won’t turn out well
“Veto-proof majority of Minneapolis City Council announces support for dismantling MPD”
https://www.fox9.com/news/veto-proof-majority-of-minneapolis-city-council-announces-support-for-dismantling-mpd
“The group also announced its intention to engage every willing community member to ask what safety means to them and ceate a “new transformative model for cultivating safety.””
“Councilmember Ellison said frankly, “This council is going to dismantle this police department.” “
Bring in the UN?
Yep. Blue helmets already hate Americans. UN Troops will do the job that no American law enforcement will. They don’t care what color you are
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🕯🌳The violent protests are wrong, the peaceful ones that are out in the streets blocking traffic of people trying to go back and forth to work or take care of family business at this time of need aren’t right peaceful or otherwise.🌍🖖🕊🐸
The native american suffered far worse, genocide, starvation, theft of their lands. Asians weren’t doing too well either, slave labor, no rights, viewed less than human, lawful to murder and recent history, internment camps and they are still universally discriminated against at most colleges, too smart and successful to treat fairly I guess. Seems we go through cycles between who gets top billings for discrimination between hispanic and black people. Despite how woke you are, most people hate one group or another weather it be trump supporters, antifa ,BLM ,right to life, liberals, conservatives, planned parenthood etc… We all need to stop the hate, stop with the pity parties and vote for those leaders who can promote real change.
Did you forget about the Jews ?
They’ve been kicked out of countless countries and survived the holocaust. Rampant anti semitism still exists. They are some of the most successful people in the world.
History and facts: “According to a study from 2015, Christians hold the largest amount of wealth (55% of the total world wealth), followed by Muslims (5.8%), Hindus (3.3%), and Jews (1.1%). According to the same study it was found that adherents under the classification Irreligion or other religions hold about 34.8% of the total global wealth.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_and_religion
In addition, it seems to me that Jewish respect of education and networking because of the diaspora, contributed to more wealth accumulation than the average person.
I was watching a documentary last night on the plight of American citizens and soldiers that died in world war 2 to win freedom and prosperity for this country. There “excepted” mortality rate for soldiers AND workers was 50%!!!! Yep 50%. 100,000 workers died along with 100s of thousands of soldiers. Now we complain if .001% of our population Perishes. We are not Americans anymore. We are a divided population with no real cause anymore except to just be angry and loathe in blame and lack of self responsibility.we are not fighting for our country, we are fighting for our own causes, which in turn will only keep us divided. American lives matter, only than will we unite in strength and power. White fist, black fist, red fist,brown fist.
I don’t know what the actual mortality rate is, I’m running late, but I’m willing to bet $100 that you’ve made a mistake. We did not lose 50% of our soldiers in WWII.
Seeing the death of even one person as a great loss seems to me a strength not a weakness.
Sorry. D Day was a 50% lose alone. You are correct, not as a whole.(soldiers)
Seems no one talks about this.
Deputy killed, 2 officers injured after being ambushed in Santa Cruz County on Sunday.
https://abc30.com/santa-cruz-shooting-ben-lomond-officer-shot-whats-going-on-in/6235547/
So when a cop makes a stop how does he/she know in advance what type of person they are stopping? How much time do they have to consider race? They
shot this guy does that make them racists?
What would you have done?
Certainly under-reported:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-investigate-possible-link-between-recent-killings-law-enforcement-norcal
As much as can be told from pictures it looks like one cop in the Floyd murder is Asian and one possibly a person of color?
Does that mean Asians are racist and maybe POC?
The point is the violence by law enforcement, not the perceived sins of victims or their skin color. In the bible’s book of Luke 3:14, where the soldiers approached Jesus and demanded to know what they should do to get right with God. He replied;
“DO VIOLENCE TO NO MAN, NEITHER ACCUSE ANY FALSELY; AND BE CONTENT WITH YOUR WAGES.” The words of God in a nutshell, right? And so basic.