[UPDATE 6:33 p.m.: Video of the Jeep Hitting Pedestrians] Protesters Blocking Traffic in Eureka
Starting not long after 3 p.m., multiple protesters shouting, “What’s his name? George Floyd!” in reference to a black man killed by Minneapolis police on Monday have blocked traffic on 4th and 5th Streets and some side streets in downtown Eureka. Other protesters line the main street.
I Street is closed at 6th.
Southbound 101 is shutdown according to a Eureka Police Officer speaking over the scanner. “There’s tons of people in the roadway. Right in front of Target, there are people in both lanes.”
Screenshot showing slowed traffic in downtown Eureka. [Image from QuickMap]
A drummer pulses out a beat. [Both videos by Mark McKenna]
UPDATE 4:25 p.m.: Some in the crowd are getting wilder. There’s a large group at H and 6th lighting fire crackers and a car with windows broken out at 5th and G.
However, the Slough bridges appear to be clear on QuickMap.
UPDATE 4:30 p.m.: Reports of the crowd heading south on 7th Street at this point and unconfirmed reports of vehicles getting vandalized at 7th and J over the scanner.
UPDATE 4:54 p.m.: A woman told us that two protesters were hit by a red jeep but they appear to be okay.
UPDATE 5 p.m.: There are at least two large groups. Several hundred are marching south on Broadway. And another large group is southbound on fifth or Sixth Street near I Street, according to reports over the scanner.
UPDATE 5:03 p.m.: Some protesters are tagging buildings with slogans like FTP (Fuck the Police) and George Floyd.
George Floyd spray-painted on a window. [Photo provided by a reader]
FTP Fuck the police [Photo from a reader]
UPDATE 5:18 p.m.: Some businesses are closing as a precaution.
UPDATE 6:17 p.m.: We’ve received permission from a witness to the earlier hit and run to post his video. Joel McClure said he was walking with his daughter on his back with his wife and other daughter in front when he saw a red Jeep push through the crowd. “I saw the man being driven on the hood until he fell off,” he said. “I thought the wheel went over him.” He said that soon after he found out that the man was not badly injured nor was anyone else. [This video is embedded from Facebook and not everyone can see it. Try going here instead if you can’t:
https://www.facebook.com/joel.mcclure.90/videos/10157506776532123/ ]
“What was bad is the side roads were fully open,” he told us. “They could have gone around…Some people just don’t care…which is why we march.”
UPDATE 6:33 p.m.: Some protesters are damaging police vehicles:
Eureka Police car vandalized with spray paint. [Photo from Lloyd Snyder]
UPDATE: Protesters and Police: Saturday Evening in Eureka
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Blocking freeways is so 2 days ago. These wannabees think they are woke AF. 🤣🤣🤣
I was there and I love all the posts you people are saying. Is so true. These people are either bored. Or high. Most of these black protesters are more racist than your average person. It’s stupid funny how they act like an old time white person. Yet they’re was more white people at this protest for the majority of the time.
Isn’t it odd that as soon as something happens to one of these “fuck the cops-death to pigs” people, they get the drivers plate number and who do they right too~~~~
We need to open a few big stadiums as detention centers and then sort out just who’s who’s. That’s how it’s done in Chile LOL
Stupid is as stupid does! Take the firetruck down there and give them all a good bath!
Bull Connor, is that you?
I’m all for protesting. But destroying others people property is not ok. Not cool. I’m sure there are a few people in this group who could care less about George Floyd. They just want an excuse to be assholes.
They wanna yell FTP but when they get hit they asking for the police help!
Do y’all even realize how ignorant that is? FTP and don’t call them for help!!
FTP or sit down and chill!
March peacefully and out the way!
That’s a natural consequence for walking in the road screaming FTP I bet the police was laughing at them! I kno I was!!
Stop destroying our community and our local community!
Get the point across another way!
You do realize that there were all different kinds of people there yesterday? How were the vast majority of the people there yesterday “destroying the community”? And saying “get the point across another way” is BS. I’m sure you don’t approve of any way of protest. What do you think about Colin Kaepernick?
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YESSS!!! HOSE THEM DOWN!!!
This has nothing to do with Bull Conner. This has to do with freaks coming into our area and destroying private and public property, and disrespecting us. Then they leave, and no consequences. How fucked up is that? The Antifa freaks do not allow anyone with a different view point. They beat you down if you voted for whoever you want. To them, we are not allowed to have any thoughts except those they approve. What’s next? Burning books? Like the Nazis and commies? Antifa are Nazis are commies are facists. They all suppress free speech, religion, they hate freedom. We are forming an Anti Antifa group, who are moving to protect our town from these assholes. We will be at the next one, but there shouldn’t be one, and doxx the fuck out of them. And why doesn’t the city of Eureka demand a 10k deposit before the march. They don’t pay, they don’t march. They carry assault rifles, knives, sticks, and other devices, hammers etc. They have radio repeaters on their cars. Break them. Those of us who may have had our property or car fucked up by them need to go and get some money from the county. And demand the county doxx these people right in the paper, pictures, names, addresses. And where are the code enforcement and environmental police? Hiding till their next bust? The Antifa pigs caused environmental damage, and they were protesting without a permit. Bust these people, bust them hard. How about a fine for 10k a day, for protesting without a permit. Antifa wants to hurt us. They want to destroy our way of life. Why aren’t we fighting back? Some of us are going to.
Dee, my vote goes to the Swat Team. Give them a bath of rubber bullets, tazers, tear gas, etc., or maybe just a giant can of Raid Protest Killer formula. This crap needs to be stopped in our country!!!
These were the same people that were upset at the protest 2 weeks ago because of covid. At least the ones 2 weeks ago were respectful and did t shut down 101
Get it?
Eh ? Protesting over nothing.
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“No physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation,” says the official autopsy. “Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary heart disease. The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.”
The Floyd family have reportedly ordered their own independent autopsy from Dr. Michael Baden. Attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing Floyd’s family, said that any talk of a heart condition or asthma was irrelevant because Floyd was walking and breathing before his contact with police.
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Oddly…. my uncle was walking, talking and breathing just before his fatal heart attack.
Wow….so kneeing the man on the neck for nearly nine minutes, nearly three of which he was no longer responding, including a pulse….you are trying to say that a man saying I can’t breather wasn’t in crisis?
JFK died from the effects of Addisons Disease, chronic back problems…the bullet to his head had nothing to do with it, am I right?
Truth.
The cop was fired. Hell be exonerated if there’s a fair jury ( not likely). The counterfeit bill passer likely had a heart attack. He was saying “I cant breathe” before the cops touched him.
But rioting is okay, right?
“Touched” ….you mean touched by four cops one at least with his knees on Mr. Floyd’s neck and chest for 8 minutes no matter he was flat on his stomach and cuffed? And I guess you call rape sex?
Dear Cowboy, O with sincere respect, you are missing the Point, not thinking deep enough ! ! !
Kind regards
The counterfeit bill that George Floyd had makes George Floyd the victim of a crime, not the perpetrator. He didn’t leave the scene, he stayed outside the store. Chances are he didn’t know the bill was counterfeit. Did he have some big counterfeit operation going? If so, that would be exposed in a heartbeat, which it hasn’t. That would bring in the Secret Service. And even if he did, which he didn’t, he stayed, he cooperated, he didn’t resist. If the cops were concerned about counterfeiting, they should have arrested him and called in the Secret Service to find out where he got the bill. Killing him on the spot was murder. But I detect a whiff of, you know, bigotry. I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t have something in their life you can’t put under a microscope and then magnify to say that is who they are in total. For example, if you were killed by the cops, how would you feel if they called you Cowboy, the bigot or Cowboy, the Liar. That’s what you just did to George Floyd. What you said about Floyd was untrue–that he deliberately passed a fake bill and that he died of a heart attack. Floyd was a security guard and interestingly, worked one of the same venues the cop moonlighted at.
He was also on fentanyl and methamphetamines. So to recap, the autopsy that the family provided did indeed show that he died from strangulation. It also showed he was on two of the heaviest drugs out there that are known to cause anything from health issues to major behavioral issues. I hate to sound crass, but the nation is rioting over a tweeker who paid with counterfeit money.
No, the nation is rioting over a policeman kneeling on a dying man’s neck as people pleaded with him to stop. Remember George Floyd had not been convicted of a crime related to this situation. Do you really want a police state where law enforcement makes a decision that so obviously will cost a man’s life. You said you’d been stopped by law enforcement before. Don’t you want them to have to minimize the chances of killing you when they do?
Victim’s don’t have to be perfect to deserve justice.
All the racist hate comments on here….it’s like you all don’t understand YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. The value of a life should not have to be split over words. George Floyd deserved life and respect as much as you or I. He is dead, and his death is murder no matter what you or the other ignorant fools believe or write on your blogs. Wake up or get out of the way.
Truth.
It is not acceptable police practice to hold someone down by placing your knee in their neck. Period. On their shoulder yes. Not the neck. [edit]I have nothing more to say to you.
Police do what it takes to get their job done. Don’t cross them. Ya know the ol song, I fought the law and the law won. I have been on the wrong side of the law a few times. Always bail. Caught me a few times too. 100% of the time if you have ran from them, they tackle you, taze you, pepper spray you, rough ya up a bit, and two of them kneel on you, one on your back, one on your neck, every single time. Is it right? No. Is that how it goes? In my experience, yes. Just don’t get caught or don’t do it.
Well, I feel a little safer knowing all the protesters are white…..
Why? White Antifa types have assaulted a lot of people. Do you fear black people?
Dear Bozo, With genuine respect, let’s not be dense — almost 9 minutes of 200 lbs on your throat is NOT to be taken lightly ! ! !
Kind regards
If these protestors where practicing social distancing you would have a valid counter point, as it is, you do not.
Yeah, their concern for social distancing went right out the window.
That’s about all you can say for them.
Which is volumes more than what can be said for YOU, & the rest of the RWNJs that lurk here!!!
We barely got past them on 101, they were crossing over to block the northbound traffic at the Target bridge. They are going to be lucky to not cause an accident and get someone killed.
We send young people into battle on foreign territories all the time and you’re whining over slow traffic and potential danger when there are so many witnesses and hyper aware folk participating? Hit and runs not solved by local EPD and you’re worried about this?
Yeah, those are valuable comparisons you’re drawing…… Hey dipshit, this isn’t a 3rd world country!
Please describe to us what a third world country is. A country without access to healthcare for all citizens? A country without access to good education for all citizens? A country that does not allow easy access to voting for all citizens?
You think this country isn’t a third world country? It just hasn’t penetrated your dim brain yet.
Fucking preach it!
You got it in a nutshell using your words the keyword here is “CITIZEN” humm so we are not a third world country..
Just are commander in chief spreading his disease and hatred. Wants reaction! Unfortunate that so many are following.
Very well said!!!
Since when?
The arrogant ignorance to assume we did not have the potential to be like any and every other country was the first and most dangerous misstep.
Your reasoning is not logical sound. This protest is not an anti-war protest.
If by “hit and run” you mean the red Jeep, the “hit” was by somebody on the car (you can hear it loudly) and the “run” was the driver accelerating to get away. If somebody got on my car in that situation they would be in for a quick ride like the guy on the hood of the Jeep. Let’s hope that doofus learned something.
You know I would have been there with them but when it turned in anarchy, looting, and destruction of American cities they lost me! I feel very sorry for George Floyd but I will never forgive these people! Ruthless thugs have more police problems! Mobilize the military and gas(tear) these people of the streets. You’re free to leave
I watched the Portland, Oregon riot last night, live. Including the looting. It wasn’t black people protesting who were doing the looting, it was “clean cut” white kids walking out of the Apple store with tech stuff and purses out of the Louis Vuitton store.
source? cause you say so? hundreds of people and you could assess the percentage of ethnicities and exactly how many were just along for some looting?
also so what? other protests were not enough…kneeling at sports events etc. have not been enough so this is what happens.
also, people are tired of homelessness, poverty and particularly extreme disparity of access to healthy food and health care.
Source was the hours and hours of live streaming footage plastered all over the internet…
Did you miss it?
Gtfo your keyboard and look up from time to time, real life data is amazingly more conclusive than your delusional thought processes!
NEWS FLASH! THIS JUST IN!!! your viewing live video footage is not an accurate assessment of much of anything other than there are people angry and risking their lives to be out in the streets with some looters thrown in..their are looters in every neighborhood all the time, just not filmed.
Primary sources are real life data.
Enjoy your canned spiel.
Well that was to be expected clean cut white alt left liberals kids. ANTIFA members
Kneeling at sports events is much less effective if you want a free tech gadget or designer purse.
Being white and breaking a window works so much better.
Totally. When I watched the unedited stream of that Target in Minneapolis, all I saw was white people, above and beyond anyone else. It was a bunch of white people who ran in there for shit. The way the news edits the footage, though, they only show the people of color.
Well y’all need to get some more cable channels then. ANTIFA wasn’t alone.
All the cable channels in the world can’t change facts.
They can lie ’til the cows come home, but they can’t change facts.
Liveleak.com
I’m from Oregon, Portland is a dirty sh!t hole.
The courageous will make change without your pity and in spite of it.
Did you object to 400 years of systemic oppression that black people have been experiencing here? Do you realize that is simply slow motion violence?
If George Floyd had not DIED you would not know about this tactic, kneeling on a person’s neck used by police the world over, taught by the Israelis to cops everywhere
“Did you object to 400 years of systemic oppression that black people have been experiencing here?”
Well I have and do, but there is almost no vestige of systemic oppression left at all. Still a bit of red lining here and there.
“Do you realize that is simply slow motion violence?”
No, it isn’t. Violence has a definition.
“If George Floyd had not DIED you would not know about this tactic, kneeling on a person’s neck used by police the world over, taught by the Israelis to cops everywhere”
I thought most people know about it. All you have to do is watch a bit of COPS. It has been used for decades, maybe millennia (not that it is acceptable) and no it was not promulgated by Israelis (that is stupid and i suspect a claim motivated by racism).
My wife and I considered joining the protest but when we saw them blocking the roads, vandalizing cars and businesses of innocent people, they totally lost us.
Thank you for being a responsible citizen.
You’ve got to really screw up to get killed by a cop in liberal Humboldt.
Do some research! There have been many unjustified deaths by cops in Humboldt!
Can you name one?
Tommy McClain
so many tortured and suffering due to police conduct in Eureka. i did not understand for much of my life the extent of systemic oppression and torture in US until I witness things directly here last few years that shocked me and there was not credible place to file and follow complaints.
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I wonder how many of them even live in Humboldt???
Or even Humboldt, wouldn’t be surprised if most were vagrant trimmers without work!
Colette,
I concur, was winding that.
That said, a peaceful protest to honor Floyd is good,
but hassling local cops and painting their squad car is not ok.
I’m not condoning blocking traffic at all but I have to give them credit for posting up near Target. I had already been thinking don’t try to drive past the courthouse but these clever folks were a step ahead of me.
Also, breaking windows on someone else’s car is absolutely unacceptable and detracts from the message.
we all have had window broken for far less cause though. collateral damage happens when people do not do the right thing. Germany was miserable after losing the war and innocent bystanders suffered…or were they actually innocent?
[edit] The chance that broken window was someone who is really struggling right now is pretty high. So if it is the window of a single mother at the end of her rope she is as guilty as the cop and deserves it? Get a life.
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Never said anyone deserves having their car window broken. And they are marching also for single mothers at the end of their rope …..many out there are exactly that and are children and grandchildren of such mothers not enough people cared about actively .
Multiple cars and businesses were damaged. Owned by people that had done nothing wrong. You act like this is just? Bullshit. Its oppressing people. Same as the cops back east. Not to the same degree, but are YOU going to stop the crowd when they decide to start hitting humans with those bats? I’ll bet not…
But you did strongly imply that when you made the analogy with innocent bystanders in Germany that might not have been “actually innocent.” I suppose you’ll tell yourself that the people whose car windows were broken were probably closet racists. Now that you’ve raised the issue of bystanders when wrongdoing happens, how about the demonstrators who do not intervene when someone starts smashing windows. Are those bystanders innocent or not?
Well no I have never had my car window broken out for any cause. . . but let’s say I had. So what? How is that relevant at all? Innocent bystanders are by definition innocent.
Memy,
you would break somebody’s window? What if they turned out to be black? What if they turned out to be really poor?
Why don’t you break your own car window, as a demonstration instead, and leave the poor eureka people alone?
Is your group local to Humboldt, or do they come from somewhere else?
I’m glad that people are standing up to all the racial injustice in this country. I can’t because i have young children and I hope to raise them to love all people but I respect the protestors so much. The only way we are going to have change in this country is if we continue to fight for it and raise awareness. All these people who were killed were someone’s daughter or son imagine if that was your child. it needs to stop. We need an end to the systemic racism and inequality in this country. Black lives matter 💔
All lives matter. Black, blue, brown, red, yellow, white, Democrat, Republican, independent, LGBTQ, strait, Atheist, Christian, Muslim, Jewish just to name a few. However, never is a riot by any group against another acceptable.
I bet the British thought the same thing in the mid to late 1700s.
Alf,
thanks,
all lives matter.
But black lives matter TOO.
That’s better.
I can’t be out there either and like you am so very grateful to those who are.
Aren’t 1000 times more black men killed by other black men? Why isn’t this riot about that? Why isn’t the message that black lives mater directed to the black community?
Systemically oppressed people of any and all ethnicities ultimately absorb the fear and shame and exhaustion of their circumstances and can’t afford to take a uber to a different neighborhood and be angry and in pain there. Poor people generally tend to only have the means of robbing other poor people, wealthier people have means generally to go elsewhere to rob and kill. The Founding Fathers had means to travel here and rape and pillage and did not break the cycle of abuse they had the means to escape or even cause elsewhere; but then there wasn’t social media. World is woke now.
Other than a bit of red lining here and there there really is no systematic oppression left. If they cant afford an uber then they can take a bus (silly response for a silly claim). Im not talking about anger or pain, I’m talking about a culture that supports criminality.
Your argument that they have no choice but to rob and murder one another (at a rate FAR greater than police) due to the pain and anger of systemic racism is not supported by evidence or even reasonable.
Again, why isn’t the message directed to the black community? If they behaved like modern day immigrants from Africa, everything would be different. You cant claim that modern day immigrants do not face discrimination, yet they are FAR more successful than native born black Americans.
Many of the problems with modern black culture in the US are repercussions of historic discrimination (not so much current) but no one can repair your culture for you from the outside.
I guess minorities just can’t help themselves any more than you can help the ignorance that you’ve so eloquently outlined in your post… Admitted redlining is the tip of the iceberg. Keep lumping folks into boxes. Walk a mile in someone elses shoes before you pretend to know their American experience. I’ve witnessed police brutality in Humboldt. It is a problem here and everywhere, but i dont agree with violent protests or destruction of property. The viewpoint you just outlined IS the problem and keeps this sad cycle continuing in our society.
Property is more important than black lives, dontchaknow?
In fact, I’d wager all *lives* are less important than property in this country.
Our religion of money$$$
Oh, so poor people robbing and killing other poor people must be ok then.
All the rioters were just criminals. They didn’t give a damn about George Floyd. The family of George Floyd wanted a peaceful protest to honor their relative. Instead they got criminals robbing, destroying, and beating innocent people in his name. They should have been stopped the first time they committed a crime.
They give a damn about inequity and not being able to have time with family or stable homes or health care or healthy food. You didn’t see this coming then you have been in a bubble that is bursting never to return.
Well then they need to stop compromising morally and voting for neoliberals out of fear that a republican might be elected. That will only ensure that nothing really improves. IF Biden wins, we will simply get the next trump after him.
I care about all those issues you mentioned as well, but I wont harm or harass the innocent because that will not effect change. Instead vote for third party candidates only.
If black lives matter.. Why are most of the protesters white?
Because it is the job of white people to fix this problem.
Linda Feagan 4an over a cop and hit another pedisetrian , driving without a license, criminal! Fact check!!!!!! Criminal and blue lives don’t matter, but hate mongering needs an excuse!!!!!
I own a business on the 101 and protestors acted respectfully and orderly while inconveniencing people momentarily disrupting traffic to protest institutional racism. It was powerful to witness and I stand with the protestors. The murder of George Floyd was terrible and it should be avenged. We cannot allow racists to hide behind a badge.
J, thank you for giving your perspective!
Falicien Kabuga captured in France…responsible for genocide of Rwanda, millions died. I hope these lost souls counted to someone…
It is good to hear that he reports of vandalism, and threats to those attempting to pass by are false. I dont personally believe that any of those police officers are racist, simply negligent and poorly trained.
Well….your belief is a very privileged belief, one I once held and no longer..beliefs can be easily held without experience. It isn’t just racism, there is police brutality locally against all vulnerable people and income and housing inequities that are atrocious and that is fueling these protests as well.
Actually your opinion is a privileged one. What greater privilege is there than to be the single handed arbiter of who is or is not truly racist or for that matter privileged. I happen to be Sheikh, and born with a disability to immigrant parents. You’ve exposed yourself [edit] by assuming my “privilege”.
I agree that police brutality is a problem, for all races. I have yet to hear a single voice protesting the other issues you are attempting to shoehorn in here, but I do think that they play a subconscious factor in motivating people.
Thank you J!
And for any business that get damaged just know we have sacrificed so much to pay for wars elsewhere and to pay the salaries of police and other agencies to abuse vulnerable people and many have been so vocally proud of those “sacrifices” so if you were collateral damage I am sorry AND many humans have been collateral damage unacknowledged so ultimately any sacrifice today was sadly needed and is for a better tomorrow.
What does collateral damage of war have to do with vandals? These cases of arson, assault, and harassment are not in any way unavoidable collateral damage of protesting injustice. We pay the police to enforce the law and 99% of them are good people, well maybe 97%.
This “collateral damage” you are talking about is counter to your apparent goals. It will cause people to donate more to the police and support them more than ever.
I just wonder what your feelings would be if they broke your windows or burned your car. As for George Floyd, that video is one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen online, and I have seen some shit. I have asthma, and know what it is like to not be able to breath, your first instinct is to panic and try to escape whatever is causing it. I don’t see how George could have avoided panicking and resisting, yet he wasn’t. What was going through that cops mind is beyond understanding. He will be punished, if not, then you can riot, but for now, let the system work, and vote.
,… and stay the hell out of the road.
Autopsy says he was likely having a heart attack. When someone is talking like he was their airway is not obstructed. That said, I don’t condone a knee to a neck.
But ultimately it is ones behavior of theft, fraud, assault that bring them to the attention of the police and cause their arrest.
J,
Sure you own a business? “Momentarily blocked traffic”? Rooted in the streets for hours and hours surrounding cars, breaking windows, and spray paining walls is more like it.
Any sympathy for $1000s your ‘fellow business owners’ are having to pay out after being shut down by COVID for two months?
What to see more vacant businesses and destroyed tax base? Fewer services for the poor? This is how you get that.
THESE WERE THE ACTIONS OF RIOTERS NOT ‘PROTESTERS’.
There was more than one protester. When you see one part of a protest, it can look and be beautiful and peaceful. Another part, can be totally different.
How is spray painting on buildings and shouting FTP peaceful!! I feel just about the same as the stupid earth whatever’s at Palco. This is immature. My heart breaks for the man that the police killed. That is so so wrong and I’m glad the cop was charged. There are far more good cops than bad. I would be ashamed if I were the man killed and could see how stupid people get ! He was a peaceful man. He was a religious man. We all know we would love to do what that red vehicle did, same as the logging truck at Palco. You walk where your not supposed to you just might get hit stupid people! 😡
This, I think, is a case of multiple confluences from people with widely disparate views seeing an opportunity to advance their agendas because of the social upheaval of the COVID-19 response.
There are the genuine, the ones who want to make a statement that the casual way authorities treat the health and safety of black men they interact with is not tolerable.
There are the right-wing ( and often white-supremacists though not all of them) trolls who are trying to make conflict bigger to justify a stronger and more violent response.
And then there are the left-wing antifa folks who seem to take advantage of any protest to attack the police and increase the sense of strife while trying to engender an actual revolution.
And finally, there are the vast majority of folks who find the perpetual racism evident in the country appalling and disgusting and are trying to figure out how the heck do we fix this in our society and move on to a place where people are free to live without racial fears and anxiety. I don’t have a solution to this last bit because I find racism to be so blindingly stupid that I can’t understand how people with even a very modest intellect can’t see how stupid it is.
Dear Cy Anse, But respectfully, your 1st and 3rd groups are a significant part of your 4th group ! ! !
Kind regards
Cy,
best in thread,
thanks.
Just call it what it is. It’s domestic terrorism. Stay away from my neighborhood. I don’t want trouble, but it will be defended. I don’t condone bad police behavior, but nobody whose property is being destroyed, nobody whose way is being blocked has done anything to deserve this. Any injuries or worse to these perpetrators is brought upon themselves. I say put all of them in jail and if they get COVID in there, that’s also their own fault. Anybody who defends this behavior is a traitor. This is the absolute worst America has to offer. These same people seem to just wait for an opportunity to participate in yet another riot.
Yep!
Best comment yet!
BS Those who have stood by and ignored the atrocities, not even considered the possibility that they were happening and who see the homeless filling the streets etc. are accomplices and history has proven will be outnumbered and over powered by those less comfortable and more courageous.
Do you even actually live in this country?
Lol.
Do you read anything besides the Daily Worker and Sligshot? Lol.
Get real.
Oh hey—nice ideals you got there!
You should be thankful that your opposition doesn’t operate under your ‘rules.’
You Can’t Think That You Can Be A Fly IOn The Wall, Alf, People Are Rioting To Wake people out of their comfy zone. Earned or likewise.
I sent a note to a friend of 30 years about the Sonoma County sheriff’s decision ton not enforce health department orders and he gave me some. ..”I’m living the dream”, don’t need to be bothered with all the crisis stuff. To which I replied , that would be the white plantation owners viewpoint.
Too many people are comfortable with NIMBY attitudes and that’s probably the same thing that contributed to the holocaust in ww2.
We will hang together or most assured we will hang apart.
We had thirty people in Garberville in a steady rain for some hours. No cops at the substation, at least no cars. Looking for the 3rd precinct to shelter in space?
The amount of honks and positive signs were phenomenal. Close to half. Never seen the like. See you all Monday at 5 at Winco for the car-avan calling for rent and mortgage moritorium.
YES!!
Sowbug,
would like to have been part of that,
that is a what a protest should be, yours was positive.
Not what the group here did to our police, not how they vandalized Eureka.
My friend just called and said they were blacking 14th at H street. He had to get creative to make it home. I reminded him that if he gets caught to remember what they did to Reginald Denny. Stopping for the rioters could be risking your life.
More power to you if you want to express your feelings or outrage but your right to protest ends at the tip of my nose…car bumper or any of my personal property.
A reporter, Matt Gutman, was just assaulted on live TV in L.A. while trying to give a mostly positive report of protesters there.
WTF…
Hey Buster….there are always casualties and you are only concerned about these? You so worked up about the personal property of homeless?
All worship at the altar of “Personal Property”
Amen.
Legally protest for what you believe and you have my respect. Block traffic and vandalize and you have lost all credibility with me.
Bt,
thanks,
well said.
Wow if only the intimate detailed and timely reports about vandalism was what happened with police misconduct what a better world this would be. Businesses voluntarily shuddered in protest long ago and inviting sidewalks or whatever be blocked for just cause that would have been impressive.
best chance to clean up eureka, you got all the hippies in one place, hose em down and give them a good cleaning, wheres the fire trucks? or get the guns and give them a street sweeping. just what eureka needs
Just saw one of those juxtaposition funny things on the news.
There is a heavy line of law enforcement in front of a Whole Foods in L.A. pushing back (not actually physically) a bunch of white protesters.
The meme would say…”Oh, hell no! You can have Target but don’t bring that shit around here”.
Reading some of these comments and the perspectives of some people on this blog makes it crystal clear why these folks are marching in the streets.
Truth.
The ignorance…it buuuurrrrnns….
🕯🌳Damn,a whole lot of unconscious bias/racism.🖖🌧🕊🐸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Everybody is saying, “F*ck the police” until a couple of them get hit by a vehicle then you can hear them shouting to the cops the vehicle’s description.. lol …..”Red jeep”- lol. Wow!
F*ck ’em until you actually need them…kinda hypocritical in my opinion, but whatever.
“F*ck ’em” is what happens to good cops or a potentially good career in law enforcement when citizens generally ignore the horrendous actions of police and don’t insist on systemic changes that secure means of reporting misconduct and assuring it is addressed. Mr. Loyd’s murderer had complaints that just sat somewhere gathering dust.
Many people fear the police for good reason and so do not call them when in need.
Jessica,
thanks,
Lol.
I just read that the Salvation Army is going to have a drive through food box drive tomorrow. What do you bet these same people will storm the line and take all the boxes before those who really need it get a chance.
The epd and the local highway patrol do a good job, and showed incredible restraint,
they did not do anything wrong,
there is no need to paint their squad car or hassle them.
Honor George Floyd for the horrible thing that happened to him,
we all feel the pain for George Floyd,
but don’t take it out on the local police
or the local stores
they DID NOTHING TO WARRANT THIS.
Try to work with the police not against them,
In a peaceful protest.
How would you know what EPD does so long as you are not in a vulnerable position of being homeless and/or poor and or in the wrong place and time etc.? Many have witnessed local police brutality and been direct victims and have nowhere to turn, their lives severely damaged or destroyed in silence…people of many ethnicities; skin color is just one excuse of abuse of power. Homeless have been set on fire in their sleep…no arrests, pedestrians hit and run and other publicized incidents of crimes unsolved and those are just symptoms, small indications of what goes entirely addressed.
Memy,
I get your point. I value the EPD. They show up. We have a good chief. We went a while without one and it wasn’t good.
They are better than nothing. We are in a type of quarantine, we need the police. I don’t want to get rid of them.
That said, nobody is perfect. This is a poor county, Eureka is not perfect, and that is not the EPD’s fault.
Your comments make me so sad, I can barely take reading them. Do you think eureka is worse than other cities or towns in California?
I am just worried about the protest getting out of hand, the police are keeping the town from being wrecked, I live here and I don’t want my town wrecked, and I don’t want martial law here, we just are trying to open up from covid.
Peace to you.
LOL, You’re debating with ‘out of towners’ come here to stir up trouble and take some weed home. See them for what they are. They can’t understand how we like to protest here AND support our good local police.
To maintain the illusion that brutality is a racial issue is to maintain the satus quo. We are in this together and it does not matter the melatonin in your system. That includes the police and sheriff. They will be the greatest allies if you let them be. We are not Minneapolis.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_slippery_slope_to_despotism_paved_with_lockdowns_raids_and_forced_vaccinations
You have to acknowledge that the police are there to protect and serve. When they kill the people they are serving, no matter what color, we should not put up with that. Period. Protest is the right way, but if you want your message heard, do it nonviolently.
Exactly
https://mises.org/wire/minneapolis-riots-are-reminder-police-dont-protect-you-or-your-property
Vandalism in my neighborhood near 5th and Myrtle. Tried to flag down FOUR POLICE VEHICLES. None would stop. I have pictures of these thugs. This will get out of control at nightfall. We need to defend our homes with appropriate and necessary action.
Frustrated,
what’s best the best defense?
Hope you’re ok.
Black Lives Matter! Justice for Josiah! I Can’t Breath! George Floyd! No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Ass Police! NO RACIST ASS REPORTING! #KIMKEMPOUTOFHUMBOLDT
Anybody else feel like blocking access from Arcata to Eureka until those who suffered damage from the vandalism get compensated?
Third eye,
Yep,
I concur.
I have a real concern for our police.
Black lives matter is funded by soros, and Antifa is similarly funded.
Those 2 organizations don’t care about anybody and they certainly don’t care about the black people or Latinos, their end game is to make people fight. All lives matter.
Sorry kids, but black lives matter and antifa aren’t real.
Stop the violence in eureka or they will declare martial law.
Idiocracy. There I said it.
Common,
what are you saying?
Black lives matter is funded by soros.
If Soros doesn’t fund them, why are you so worried about my comment? Your funny only those that have lost the argument make ad hominem attacks.
“Friendly Reminder: Soros Funded Violent Ferguson Protest Movement and Paid Black Lives Matter Protesters”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/freindly-reminder-soros-funded-violent-ferguson-protest-movement-paid-black-lives-matter-protesters/
So common,
nice person,
are you saying the Washington times is an idiocracy or
are you saying you are an idiocracy?
That funding comes in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from top Democratic Party donor George Soros
Black Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal foundations – Washington Times
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/black-lives-matter-cashes-100-million-liberal-foun/
Kiddo I wish it was real, but those billionaires don’t care about black lives or any lives but their own.
In Minnesota officer chauvin and Floyd worked at the same club, at the same time. It may not be what people think it is.
When this was first reported I also read of an abduction of a little boy, raped to death and raped after death. Where is the outrage, news coverage, protests?
I looked and couldn’t find any such report. Could you point it out to me?
Wow humboldt locals you should be ashamed. I can’t believe the amount of overt and covert racism I’m reading. However you have the right to say what you think, just like these people have the right to assemble. Our nation has a long history of politically motivated property destruction. It’s almost an American tradition. Windows/property can be replaced, lives can’t.
OK, you replace them.
George Floyd died of a drug overdose while resisting arrest. The “protesters” are useful idiots. They are being used by the globalists to cause disruption and crash the system. Antifa is an ally of BLM. BLM invites them, with the plan of committing terrorist violence. They get their money from guys like George Soros. George and his foundation need to be punished because they are paying people to break the law. None of this has anything to do with justice or racism. Police brutality is not racially biased.