Charges Recommended Against Protester After October Altercation in Arcata, CCTV Footage Obtained
[Stock photo by Hustvedt; Sourced from Wikimedia Commons and cropped]
Zoomed-in version of the CCTV footage
Last fall, on October 28, the tensions around the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict reached Humboldt County after a pro-Palestinian protest on the Arcata Plaza. The troubling situation occurred when Gigi Hyden and her friend, two women leaving the protest, claimed a political discussion-turned-argument with members of the College of the Redwoods (CR) baseball team, escalated to assault, both by vehicle and later at the hands of the team’s assistant coach.
Though none of the CR coaching staff or players spoke with us at the time of the original report, CR’s spokesperson, Molly Blakemore, countered these claims, citing CCTV footage that she said supported the athletes’ account that Hyden vandalized a player’s vehicle, and the women were not assaulted.
Hyden, a protester, in an interview with Redheaded Blackbelt in October, claimed the encounter with a CR baseball player escalated, involving what she called racist remarks about Palestinians. CR’s Assistant Baseball Coach, Brian Barreto, allegedly arrived during the verbal exchange, accusing the women of being instigators, before telling the players to leave and then leaving in his own vehicle. The confrontation, Hyden said, ended with one of the players allegedly hitting her with his car.
Slow motion and zoomed in version of the CCTV footage
The women’s version of the events included an assault by Barreto who they claimed came back to the scene of the incident after a player called him, where he allegedly ran up to Hyden’s friend, body-checked her, and verbally abused them. CR asserted that Barreto never physically touched the women, attempting to prevent them from leaving to avoid charges of destruction of property.
Amid conflicting accounts, the University Police Department (UPD) conducted an investigation. In a statement issued on February 9, 2024, by Aileen Yoo, CPH’s Director of News and Information, the UPD’s findings, contradicted Hyden’s allegations. Additionally, UPD concluded that the evidence shows Hyden vandalizing the student’s vehicle and blocking his exit, leading UPD to recommend that charges be filed. Yoo stated via text message, “UPD has recommended charges of vandalism, false imprisonment, and making a false police report, and the case has been referred to the District Attorney.”
Redheaded Blackbelt reached out to the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office for comment, however, it was at the close of business on Friday. Our requests to CR’s coaching staff and information personnel, late Friday afternoon, have yet to be returned.
We also reached out to Gigi Hyden for comment after UPD issued the statement regarding the case being forwarded to the District Attorney’s Office. Hyden stated that after her initial phone interview with UPD, in which they stated that they’d inform her if charges were being filed, she has had no contact with UPD except to forward ER records to the department. Hyden stated that she learned about the UPD’s findings by reading about it on Lost Coast Outpost. She had no further comments.
Notably, Redheaded Blackbelt has sought UPD evidence in this case through the use of Public Records Act requests since October 30, 2023. We continue to request the additional footage of the subsequent event reportedly filmed by CR students of the encounter between the protestors and Assistant Coach Barreto. As of Friday, February 9, 2024, UPD has denied our request for those videos and access to the related documents citing the following Govt. Codes:
- Law Enforcement Records. Disclosure of certain law enforcement records that would endanger the safety of a person involved in an investigation or would endanger the successful completion of the investigation or a related investigation. Cal. Govt. Code §§7923.600, 7923.615(a)(1).
- Balancing Test. Records where the public interest against disclosure outweighs the public interest in disclosure. Cal. Govt. Code §7922.000.
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Blocking a roadway with a protest sign and kicking a vehicle in the hood is incredibly stupid and dangerous. It warrants retaliation by the driver, to protect their expensive investments, from unhinged protesters.
To be fair, it looks like it’s her survival instinct “kicking” in …
Do I believe he’d actually hit her? Not if he’s smart.
Survival instincts?? More like predator instincts… she came at them like she’s on crack because they *maybe*didn’t agree with her fascists view.
She was just being a violent asshole with a 4,000-pound vehicle in the middle of the street and extremely lucky she wasn’t injured. Karma doesn’t suffer fools.
Supposedly she cracked his windshield with her fist . Don’t think I would be messing with her.
Ball player showed great restraint. A classy kid.
Have you ever tried to break a windshield with your fist? You’ll break your hand in the attempt.
Surely you’ve seen drunk, young, and dumb folks crack a windshield with a butt cheek or knee before on accident? I think punching a window with your knuckles is a good way to hurt your hand but a ‘hammer strike’ with the meaty bottom of your fist could easily cobweb a window.
A window sure but not the windshield.
Had a small framed friend break my pickup windshield and his back in the seventies!
No, retaliation is not “warranted” – there’s no law or rule that authorizes retaliatory violence if/when someone is victimized in some way, as alleged here. Vigilante justice is not a thing that CA law allows for, but I suppose that may not stop someone from having that type of reaction after being on the receiving end of violence.
You’re welcome to run from trouble but I’ll stand up to it each and every time.
California laws that rapist out in one day what’s your point
Don’t be ridiculous
Oh but I thought she was the victim of cis-white male aggression and imperialistic genocide vibes?
That’s *always* the narrative.
Frequently the narrative is false.
#followthemoney
A good demonstration of why it’s important to be on your best behavior if you appoint yourself to be a representative for some cause. Reading these comments, I’d day she fell right into a behavior trap that may be undermining her position. Because in reality, those ball players ain’t gonna change Netanyahu’s agenda. Israel may be committing war crimes, but getting in fights with your fellow citizen doesn’t further that point.
I think you should consider that most violent protesters are there for the violence, not because of dedication to the cause…
those kids handled that really well ,I have worked very hard for 25 years to afford a nice vehicle and would have definitely been in a fight as soon as she touched it.Great job keeping your cool under those circumstances And it should be a Hate crime to make a false hate crime report against a group of white ,black,brown people.That man and his vehicle was singled out because he was a white male ,then abused and accused of what his accuser was doing.If i blocked her In a parking lot ,kicking her car yelling release the hostages and free Isreal I would already be in jail for a hate crime.
Follow the narrative to its conclusion …
At the end, the global elite crush us peasants – of all backgrounds – into dust.
If they have us squabbling amongst ourselves over petty BS, they can pull of their heist that much easier.
Huh? What does this have to do with a global elite? This is about a misinformed nut jobs claiming to love people across the world so much that they don’t mind shitting all over their neighborhood and community members. This is karma at its best. This lying sack of shit thought that she can take advantage of being a black women to get an innocent while looking man in trouble. Striking corresponding metaphor to how they try to portray poor Palestinian “resisting” the Jews.
Like almost everything in the real world, nothing is as black or white as political advocacy would make it. Both Islam and Judaism are the side shows in this war. Groups, formed out of instinctual human nature, are always suspicious of other groups. They load up their own emotions and fears on both sides of this war. As if there were not enough without it. So many Americans want to load up their current one sided view of American racial history on the conflict too.
I admit the cultural denigrating of women in so many Islamic countries and their willingness to promote terrorism around the world along with the disgusting behavior of Palestinians in murdering and taking children hostage, raping women to death in the 10/7 has made it very hard to not be disgusted with Americans here calling themselves Pro Palestinian. It’s one thing to want killing of civilians to stop. To want better national behavior of Israel. It’s totally another thing to justify such ugliness as 10/7 as a valid response because of Israel’s refusal to protect Palestinian’s civil rights. If Jewish settler violence is ugly, Palestinians behavior is equally bad. They gain sympathy only because they are losers and western society principles has a thing about kick a person when they are down. Americans should not fool themselves that Palestinians have any such qualms. We should have qualms about loading so much of our own baggage onto this case too.
The left is crushing you with hate and lies.
That describes both sides
She’s just like the Palestinians she swears to protect… lies and tries to flip the narrative when she herself is the perpetrator. Wouldn’t surprise me if she calls Hamas freedom fighters and denies their mass systematic violent gang rape of Israelis.
What has happened to 15 year old Layan Hamadeh, who “disappeared ” after calling for help, at the hands of the IDF, as her 5 year old relative, Hind Rajah, then picked up the phone, and was then murdered, also by the IDF, along with the paramedics in an ambulance that were attempting to rescue them, the ambulance burned to it’s shell and cinders.
It is you that are flipping the narrative…
Israel is now the collective monster, take a bow, all you immoral, militant, murderous sickos.
Your haughty self righteousness is nauseatingly hypocritical and lacks even the tiniest shred of moral self awareness.
We can all thank Obama for making media propaganda legal
I heard that somewhere. Look it up
Is this a homework assignment?
You’re the one making the statement.
If it’s true, you’ll have no problem backing it up.
NDAA (version 2012) negated the Smith-Mundt Act.
Obama legalized propaganda …
Shh… You might wake the herd.
Seems like the lady acted like an asshole, but that doesn’t put the right wing zealots in Israel in the right. Too bad. Protesting in Arcata, or debating on this forum is worthless if you are just signaling to your own tribe. If you have a compelling argument you might change someone’s mind on the merits. You can’t insult, and bang your fists, and expect to bring someone around to your viewpoint.
Our ally and only democracy in the Middle East Israel is merely defending itself.
Blaming the victim didn’t work out for her this time.
Not to be overly picky, but the nation to which you refer spells its name “Israel.”
Gihane, being a protester is most likely guilty as charged. If UPD says so, you know she is, becasue UPD would normally side with a couple of women over a bunch of White boys.
This is why Deputy DA Reese may have wanted to be a little more circumspect in his decision to counter protest at work. The DA may have to make adjustments in who and how they decide to prosecute this case since Reese has demonstrated his bias. But at least we know where he stands, but I bet it’s a pain in the ass for the DA.
Why cant Mr. be impartial?
Quit it. Feeling justified about race issues can not hang to totally on this one situation. Period.
Just more ? business that’s all
Gigi should take her message right to the source. Stop protesting here. This is not Israel. And her message is offensive to me.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military Friday to prepare a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians from the Gaza town of Rafah, on the Egyptian border, and to attack and destroy the last Hamas battalions there.
“Evacuation” was also the term used by the Axis powers when European Jews were coaxed onto the train cars.
The IDF has been warning of its next attack all through its campaign. If those civilians were not allowed to move out of danger then hamas is to blame.
Brainwashing is obviously, alarmingly effective.
In some cases, apparently, it mustn’t take much scrubbing at all…
Right. It’s not as if the Palestinian civilians can’t pile into their cars and drive with their full gas tanks on their perfectly usable freeways to someplace away from Rafah.
They may be starving and sick, their elderly kinfolk and children may be bleeding from wounds that have not been treated with antibiotics, they may be dazed and confused by the repeated IDF orders to evacuate the places where they were and go to places where they can live in “safety” only to be bombed there, but that is no excuse for not moving once again to promised “safety” where the IDF can bomb them again.
They must do what their Israeli master tells them to do.
If they don’t we in the USA will blame them for their disobedience by continuing to give arms to Israel, just as we have done for half a century.
If you can’t sense my sarcasm and my revulsion at what Israel is doing, read my comment again. I’m sure you won’t be able to miss it.
Unfortunately being ignored is not going to be tolerated. As examples above. So many are so sure that their self righteousness gives them a pass to be as aggressive as they want. Attention must be paid.
I grew up playing in the street, and there was only one rule:
When a car comes, get out of its way quickly and courteously.
Most everything you need to get along in society you learned as a kid. This Gigi Hyden must have been one of those slow kids who couldn’t learn what all the other kids could.
Or she did learn all that, and she chooses to be a bastard anyway.
She quite obviously likes to be provocative and laud and probably takes pride in it. I bet she was the kid falling on the ground and stomping her feet as a child because she’s so entitled she thinks the car should stop for HER.
Sounds to me like you are projecting…
Everyone sees things from their own perspective, along with what they see, and say, as/is the being the truth, and is subject to their own self biased point of view.
It isn’t necessarily the actual truth , based on real, solid, unmistakable evidence.
What you have said in your comments defending Israel, is a prime example of untruths, clearly only poorly masquerading as truths, behind a thin, threadbare, transparent, self biased veil.
And yet you have the nerve to call out question someone else’s false testimony…
Why not also call out your very own…???
Some knuckleheads just have to learn the hard way…
It should surprise no one that she was (allegedly) lying. It was obviously a fishy story. You could Smollett all the way from Arcata
Naughty naughty.
Generally a good idea to avoid a yelling match with some kids and never a good idea to kick peoples’ vehicles or other property and then lie to the police.
This typical Biden voter was just to stupid to realize she was being filmed. Here’s a hint, there are cameras everywhere, on every intersection, and on almost all buildings. You been captured in the cloud. This isn’t the 1950s where people’s word was taken as truth because most people had a sense of civility. You can lie all you want but the film captures the truth. You guys are all for a surveillance state until it bites you right in the butt. Get a life, go milk a cow or light your farts on fire instead. It would have been more productive for your future.
A picture takes precedent over lies.
This story supports my theory that racists are generally people of low intelligence.
What is your theory concerning the level of intelligence of the IDF racist murderers of this innocent little five year old girl, Hind Rajah, and the rest of her family, including a relative, a 15 year old girl, Layan Hamadeh, who “disappeared” at the hands of the racist, murderous, Israeli IDF…
I suppose you would consider the non-pro-Palestinians, as being of far superior intellect and lineage…
And, please, while you are so busy “accurately” judging intellect, do also theorize what level of intelligence merely assuming a superiority of non-pro-Palestinians over pro-Palestinians would indicate…
Geniuses, to a man, would you suppose…???
I don’t think so.
Oops, forgot to include deceased five year old IDF innocent victim Hind Rajah’s picture…
What level of intelligence would you theorize it was, for the IDF, who have murdered her and her family as they tried to retreat from a war zone, along with the Red Crescent Society Paramedics, attempting to rescue them in an ambulance, after being cleared to do so, by the IDF…???
Be honest, now…
You must literally like stars…
I just always assumed they were five pointed stars, not six pointed ones…
I used to like six pointed stars, too…
But, anymore…???
Not so much…
The six pointed stars are giving the five pointed stars a bad name…
Let’s present both sides to the story.
Warning! These images can be disturbing…
Netanyahu’s office releases horrifying images of infants murdered by Hamas
Spokesman for prime minister says the decision to share shocking photos was made ‘so that the world will see just a fraction of the horrors that Hamas carried out’
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-office-releases-horrifying-images-
of-infants-murdered-by-hamas/
You walk alone.
No, “Let’s”, about it, whatsoever.
Justify this.
The blood soaked bed of an Israeli child killed by Hamas.
That commenter is obsessed with Gaza and Israel and will constantly bring the issue into any conversation. Best to ignore than engage.
You keep failing to acknowledge the horrors inflicted by both sides in this terrible war TRG.
And Hamas continues to kill and inflict injury to children.
Will charges also be recommended in the IDF murder of this innocent five year old little girl, as she pleaded for help on her phone, surrounded by her dead and dying family members,speaking to the equivalent of Palestinian “911”…
Only the most dispicable of cretins, could ever, or would ever, stoop so incredibly low, to even feebly and pathetically attempt to justify it in any way, being especially disgusting, by excusing it in the most distasteful of ways…
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/middleeast/hind-rajab-death-israel-gaza-intl/index.html
CNN
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“A 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was trapped in a car with her dead relatives after it came under Israeli fire in Gaza last month has been found dead.
On January 29, Hind Rajab had been traveling in a car with her uncle, his wife and their four children, fleeing fighting in northern Gaza, when they came under Israeli fire, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
“The child [Hind Rajab] and everyone in the car were found killed by the Israeli Army near the Fares petrol station in the Tal Al-Hawa area, southwest of Gaza City, after about two weeks of her unknown fate due to the Israeli military operation in the area,” according to Khader Al Za’anoun, a Palestinian journalist working for CNN who spoke to the child’s grandfather.
The PRCS also confirmed the death of two ambulance workers dispatched to rescue the girl.
“The occupation deliberately targeted the Red Crescent crew despite obtaining prior coordination to allow the ambulance to reach the location to rescue the girl Hind,” read the statement.
Soon after the incident, CNN gave the Israeli military details about the incident last Friday, including coordinates provided by the Palestine Red Crescent Society. In response, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was “unfamiliar with the incident described.”
When contacted again by CNN, the IDF said they were “still looking into it.”
Hind’s cousin, 15-year-old Layan Hamadeh, made a desperate call for help to emergency services that was recorded by the PRCS and shared on social media. Audio of gunshots heard during the call revealed that Hamadeh was killed while making the call.
“They are shooting at us. The tank is right next to me. We’re in the car, the tank is right next to us,” Layan screams, amid intense gunfire in the background.
Layan then goes quiet, and the rounds of fire stop.
The paramedic on the phone tries to speak to her, repeatedly saying, “Hello? Hello?” but there is no response.
Alone, terrified and trapped in the car with the bodies of her relatives around her, Hind made a desperate call for help.
“Come take me. Will you come and take me? I’m so scared, please come!” Hind can be heard saying in a recording of the call to responders, released by the PRCS.
Hind’s mother Wissam Hamada said her daughter dreamed of becoming a doctor.
On Friday, she told CNN she was “waiting for her every second. I wish for her all the best, like any mother wishes for her daughter the best things and the nicest things in the world.” “
One five year old disappears and you rant for paragraphs. Dozens of children are killed and kidnapped by Palestinians and you are silent. There is more than Israelis or Palestinians askew in the world.
Although this thread is veering widely off topic, over 11,500 Palestinan children are reported to have been killed in a battle that was entirely unnecessary.
But…But…But…
Dothens, I tew yoo, DOTHENS OB DEM…
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Over 80k children smuggled into the USA over the last three years are unaccounted for. Gone, poof. The border was closed but is now open and their status as missing is entirely unnecessary. What about these children? It’s a problem we can fix today but instead, look!, squirrel over there. . don’t mess up the plan mannn!
You’re misusing terms to the point that your comment is inaccurate.
Intetionally misleading seems a more apt description.
Honesty is important if you want to have a serious discussion.
11,500 children?
I’ll wager dollars to donuts that number comes from Hamas and is grossly inflated.
I’ll also bet that they are calling anyone under 18 “children” even though many of those “children” were carrying weapons and actively engaged in the fighting.
“Israeli officials this month said they believe the data released to date is broadly accurate…”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fight-keep-counting-dead-gaza-2023-12-21/#:~:text
Do you have any evidence showing the numbers are inflated?
Your quote is from an article nearly two months old that is citing casualty data from an October 22nd report (yeah over two months ago) that listed a total of just over 7,000 casualties. THAT is what the supposed, unnamed Israeli officials said was broadly accurate.
Got anything that shows your 11,500 children number is accurate?
Got anything that shows that number does not include enemy combatants who are under 18?
Feb 10, 2024: “At least 28,064 people have been killed and 67,611 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/10/israels-war-on-gaza-live-death-toll-nears-28000-as-rafah-assault-looms#:~:text
“It has said 70% of those killed are women and children.”
“International aid groups generally agree with its tallies.”
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1220211690/gaza-death-toll-20000-killed-israel
The erroneous numbers come from Hamas and are inflated.
It’s unbelievable that someone would dismiss a response to a armed invasion targeting a select group with mass murder and kidnapping of hostages of citizens from 1 to 80 years old with so trivial and dismissive a word as “unnecessary.” The Hamas attack was, besides brutal, callous and calculatedly political, was unnecessary but you haven’t mentioned at all. A response to such abhorrent acts was certainly necessary for survival even if you considered excessively violent. Especially since the perpetrators were vocally announcing they would repeat such. To do that shows incredible bigotry.
Preventable then?
Israel’s continued land-grabs, incursions, and economic stranglehold turned Palestine into a failed state, thus creating the perfect conditions for a terrorist group to rise to power.
Israel should return to the 1967 borders and allow Arab League peacekeepers to enter Gaza and bring stability to the area.
Palestinians were engaging in attack on Jews long before Israel existed. Jews were not Arab nationalists and simply were to be excluded as not Arab in a time of Arab nationalism. Originally Jews bought land that was not wanted by Arabs and even that was too much for the Arab population to tolerate. Israel did not spring into existence because of Jewish settler violence. Settler violence came from Arab jingoism and Jews reacted with organizing defense. But somehow proPalestinan protesters choose to dismiss this history to focus only on the present situation that came about as the result of Arab intolerance. They whitewash Arab Palestinians even with the atrocities of 10/7 stinking under their noses. They rant about zionism but ignore equally ugly Pan Arabism of the time. It’s still going on yet ignored.
“In 1892, the Ottoman government decided to prohibit the sale of land in Palestine to Jews, even if they were Ottoman citizens…The Ottoman Land Code of 1858 “brought about the appropriation by the influential and rich families of Beirut, Damascus, and to a lesser extent Jerusalem and Jaffa and other sub-district capitals, of vast tracts of land in Syria and Palestine and their registration in the name of these families in the land registers”…“The sparse Arab population in the areas where the Jews usually bought their land enabled the Jews to carry out their purchase without engendering a massive displacement and eviction of Arab tenants.”…In the 1930s, most of the land was bought from landowners. Of the land that the Jews bought, 52.6% were bought from non-Palestinian landowners, 24.6% from Palestinian landowners, 13.4% from government, churches, and foreign companies, and only 9.4% from fellaheen (farmers).”…The shortage of land is due less to purchase by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population. The Arab claims that the Jews have obtained too large a proportion of good land cannot be maintained. Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamps and uncultivated when it was bought.”
So Jews were excluded but Arabs were encouraged to immigrate to Palestine. When Jews bought land, they bought land that was so bad that no one was occupying it and they bought it from Arabs. What was the result? The Nebi Musa riots in which “The crowd reportedly shouted “Independence! Independence!” and “Palestine is our land, the Jews are our dogs!” Arab police joined in applause, and violence started. The local Arab population ransacked the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. The crowd reportedly shouted “Independence! Independence!” and “Palestine is our land, the Jews are our dogs!” Arab police joined in applause, and violence started. The local Arab population ransacked the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem… “
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Nebi_Musa_riots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_land_purchase_in_Palestine
Nearly 100,000 dead and wounded Palestinians, and you can’t see beyond your own snout, ridiculously opting instead to protest “Dozens” instead…???
That is what is askew.
It is your silence that you are obviously unable to register.
You call it “One five year old girl disappears”…
You’re arithmetic is significantly worse than the previously worst numbers oriented commenter….
Like 10 times worse than being off by 100 times…
You focus on the “dozens”, while you overlook the over 27,000…?♂️
That’s totally whack.
But at least your not alone…
There is safety in numbers…
Oh…!!! Wait…!!!
Despite your petty and irrational personal attacks, my “snout” is perfectly aware of the violence against Palestinians. However I don’t turn it into the simple minded melodrama you do. I recognize that Palestinians are not simply victims of the antisemitic tropes you constantly spew but are responsible for their own hateful and intolerant violence for the last hundred years or more too. Any people that not only support but admire the atrocities of Hamas to the point of seeing them as no reason at all for Israel actions are so stewed in their own bile as to corrupt tonthe bone.
Like I said.
Totally whack.
Despite your perpetual and argumentative personal attacks, that amount to little more than knee jerk, flimsy excuses and projection, it’s not like what is connected to that olfactory challenged proverbial “snout” don’t smell. It’s sense, awkwardly plays dumb, perfectly unaware of and uncoordinated with the incomparably greater violence of the Israelies against the Palestinians.
Additionally, you portray the IDF genocide of the Palestinians to be nothing more than a simple minded Seinfeld-esque fictional Sitcom. Your comments have that same incessant, self aggrandizing, totally annoying, loudly resonating, nasally whine to them…
Unlike you, I clearly recognize that those mass murderers, the Israelies, that you support are not simply victims of the antisemitic tropes you constantly accuse others of, but that they, not anyone else, are responsible for the hateful and intolerant violence they have suffered, and that they have perpetrated, for the last few thousand years or more.
Any people that not only support, but admire, the atrocities of the IDF, to the point of seeing them as no reason at all for reciprocal actions, along with the IDF themselves, to be sure, are so stewed in their own gall as to corrupt them to their very, soulless, heartless, ice cold blood and putrid, rancid marrow.
Thank you. People die I’m war. The Real Guest need to step back and realize kids are dying in both sides
It’s a world wide problem.
There are 468 million children worldwide living in armed conflict zones, according to Save the Children’s research, accounting for about 20% of the world’s 2.4 billion children population, based on UNICEF’s statistics.
The abuse of girl children is well known but there is also this as a demented political tactic- “In Iraq and Syria, children were routinely featured in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) propaganda, and the group mobilized children as “cubs” to fight for the so-called Caliphate. Unfortunately there is a myriad of reasons why terrorist organizations actively include children within their ranks: children can be proficient fighters, and they are easy to train, cheaper to feed, and harder to detect. Thus, recruiting and deploying children is often rooted in “strategy” and not necessarily the result of shrinking numbers of adult recruits.”
https://oxfordre.com/internationalstudies/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.001.0001/acrefore-9780190846626-e-602
how do you know the IDF are at fault for her death? hamas told you?
Your comment speaks for itself.
Your answer isn’t any better
Wow! That’s quite a few assumptions you have made about me. If what you picked up on is that I’m not an anti-semite, you are correct. If you think that somehow I feel the Palestinian people deserve to be treated poorly because of their genetics, you are mistaken. If you think antisemitism is acceptable, you may be among the folks referenced by my initial comment.
You were implying that the protester was a low intelligence, anti semitic racist, were you not…???
And of course, simultaneously implying that you, as nothing more than a self proclaimed non anti semitic, have humbly judged yourself to be in possession of a much higher intellect, based on that alone.
Fascinating.
Why do you not also protest the genocide of the Palestinians…???
Because you are not Antisemitic….???
Sounds about right.
It’s just that type of indifference and acceptance that allows such atrocities to continue uninterrupted.
What level of intelligence do you attribute to randomly associating antisemitism and/or racism to one who is merely a protester of the IDF genocide of the Palestinians…
That is not antisemitism, nor is it racist.
She’s not mearly a protester,she singled out a group of white males because of race and gender. If it was a large group of dark females she would of let them pass.Then blocked them and attacked their vehicle. ON TOP OF ALL THAT,She Made a false police report of a hate crime against herself.Cant get much lower then that.
To be clear, Gigi never claimed to be the victim of a hate crime. Though she claimed one baseball player was making derogatory remarks about all Palestinians, she never claimed that any involved said anything derogatory about her. From her account, she made an assault report based on her claim that the vehicle struck her and that the coach allegedly put his arm across her neck trying to prevent her from leaving.
It’s not her participation in the protest that makes her a racist. It’s the race-baiting. Fabricating a story where one pretends to be a victim of racial injustice is racist bullshit. I’m glad she is being charged. As others have noted, her actions seem to fit the definition of a hate crime.
Likewise it’s not her participation in the protest that leads me to the conclusion that she lacks intelligence. It’s the telling of a lie that is nearly sure to be proven false.
It looks to me like she has achieved the trifecta of dishonesty, racism, and stupidity.
In my experience, racists almost always lack intelligence. Biology shows that we are all overwhelmingly the same. We are humans.
Louis Farrakhan seems to be intelligent.
I observe many recorded instances where protesters flat-out lie about circumstances. They seem adherents to the manta, by any means necessary. Lies, deceit, and violence. It ends up making their entire cause look bad.
Why is RHBB still so intent on trying this case in the court of public opinion now when it has been referred to the government for official action? It’s not being swept under the rug. The case will either be dismissed or will be tried with more careful yet public review than can be provided here even with additional video.
It’s a news site reporting the news.
It was news in last October. It is a cause at this point.
“In a statement issued on February 9, 2024…”
Sure doesn’t seem like old news to me.
The statement from the UPD is news but all the rest is commentary and advocacy.
Its an update to a story now that RHBB has more information… How could this upset you?
I hope he sues this garbage blog for promoting Hyden’s libel!
Once again, the RHBB comment section sniffed out the BS while the finely tuned loco comment section blamed the victim and championed the perpetrator.
Loco is an echo chamber. While some of the members here give less than logical evaluations of events, the true nature of events can be seen in the dialogue that follows. Thank you Kym for the space to debate ideas!
Y’all are so weird and inconsistent. Espousing love or support for Israel while also seeking the same political and social ends as folks in the US who identify as Nazis. Its real quiet in the public forum when it comes to talking about the swastikas and innumerable other, direct support of Nazi beliefs and actions taken by the contemporary US conservative. Who said “jews will not replace us?” It wasn’t the libs or dems. Who talked about good guys on both sides when asked about the literal US Nazis?
Gigi shouldn’t have hit that car window with her fist, but man, it would be nice to hear what was said.
Nobody supports nazis, grow tf up