@layman,
Quote:One can only conclude that they "took sides," and sided with the antifa thugs in this case. The net effect is to limit, not promote, free speech. The whole licensed demonstration was shut down, further encouraging such suppression in the future.
The same thing happened at Berkeley, where a scheduled speech was shut down due to violence by criminals which was merely passively observed by the cops, with no real effort being made to curtail the violence by thugs.
I don't know enough of the facts concerning the policing at this event, but you are quite correct about the Berkeley riot.
The absurdly named
The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary or BAMN for short was behind it and the fat boy leftist mayor Jesse Arreguin was a supporter of BAMN
The insane Middle school teacher Yvette Felarca organized it and she and Jesse were buds.
When a city's mayor encourages and enables violent suppression of free speech
and restrains his police force from doing their duty to protect citizens, he is not only a scumbag, he is guaranteeing that an extreme element, unbidden or bidden by the group he is in conflict with, will eventually turn up to do what the police will not.
Arreguin is not directly responsible for what happened today in Virginia, but he certainly helped set the stage for it.