Cops in Atlanta arrested six terror suspects on Saturday during a riot to protest the shooting on January 18 of a “non-binary” envirokook who was protesting a new police training center.
The rioting terrorists set fire to a police car and tossed rocks at Atlanta police headquarters.
But that’s not real violence, said a leftist “freelance journalist” who writes for The New York Times and the long-discredited Rolling Stone magazine.
A riot only entails “violence” if the rioters attack people, David Peisner told CNN. Peisner can only be one of two things: An activist disguised as a “journalist” who sympathizes with the communist goons, or an idiot.
His Twitter feed suggests the former.
The Arrests
At this writing, that feed says nothing about the anti-cop demonstration that quickly went out of control.
“Photos showed that the activists allegedly lit an Atlanta police vehicle on fire in addition to targeting the Atlanta Police Foundation building with rocks and fireworks,” Fox News reported of the rampaging terrorists:
Caution tape was also wrapped around several buildings, including a Wells Fargo location that suffered several broken windows, photos at the scene showed.
The city’s mayor, Andre Dickens, said police caught the rioting terror suspects with explosives.
Arrested were the following estimable citizens, none of whom are from Atlanta. All are charged with four misdemeanors and four felonies, including first-degree arson and domestic terrorism:
- Nadja Geier, 24, Nashville, Tennessee;
- Madeleine Feola, 22, Spokane, Washington;
- Ivan Ferguson, 23, Nevada;
- Graham Evatt , 20, Decatur, Georgia;
- Emily Murphy, 37, Grosse Isle, Michigan, and
- Francis Carroll, 22, Kennebunkport, Maine
Police mug shots suggest that the motley crew of suspects thinks attacking police is an amusing endeavor.
Last month, Carroll was involved in a similar attack, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) reported.
“Several people threw rocks at police cars and attacked EMT’s outside the neighboring fire stations with rocks and bottles,” GBI said of the attack. “Task force members used various tactics to arrest individuals who were occupying makeshift treehouses.”
Carroll was charged with six crimes in that case, including domestic terrorism and aggravated assault.
Fox News asked Democratic politicians who want to “defund the police” to comment, but received no answer. Among those contacted were leftist Brain Trusters Cori Bush (Mo.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.). Mum was the word.
The “Journalist”
All that anti-cop violence offered leftist CNN the chance to bring on Peisner, who riffed off the network’s famous “mostly peaceful protests” chyron below footage of a burning Kenosha, Wisconsin, after the Blake Hoax riots that led to the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two dangerous criminals and wounded a third in self-defense.
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“There’s a real blurring of the lines in the use of the word ‘violence,’” Peisner said:
Is property destruction violence? To some people it certainly is, but this idea that breaking windows or other acts of property destruction are the same as actual violence against humans, it’s kind of a dangerous and slippery concept.…
You keep using these words “violent, violent, violent, violent.” … The only acts of violence against people that I saw were actually police tackling protesters.”
Social media users quickly uncovered Peisner’s sympathies. He retweeted a GoFundMe appeal to raise money for communist tree-hugger Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, whom cops shot to death after he shot and wounded a state trooper.
Along with his “Defend the Atlanta Forest” comrades, Teran was trying to stop the construction of a new police training center on 85 acres of forested land.
“The shootings happened as the police worked to clear protesters out of the woods, according to law enforcement officials and activists who oppose the center. At least four people were also detained in the sweep,” The New York Times explained:
The plans … include an area for police trainees to learn vehicle skills and even a mock village, with space for facsimiles of a nightclub, a convenience store and homes to practice different tactics in an array of settings.
But the proposal has been assailed from the outset by critics of the Atlanta Police Department who have described the $90 million development — derisively nicknamed “Cop City” — as a dangerous investment in militarizing law enforcement. Activists have moved into the forest, and their efforts to block construction have escalated in recent months into violent confrontations with law enforcement officers.
