This has happened several times now, starting with the Milo incident at Berkeley, and now this today.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A scuffle broke out on a Southern California beach where supporters of President Donald Trump were marching when counter-protesters doused organizers with pepper spray, authorities said Saturday.
The violence erupted when the march of about 2,000 people at Bolsa Chica State Beach reached a group of about 30 counter-protesters, some of whom began spraying the irritant, said Capt. Kevin Pearsall of the California State Parks Police. Three people were arrested on suspicion of illegal use of pepper spray, he said.
Reprehensible.
It’s about the most anti-progressive, illiberal, anti-free-speech, unethical, counter-productive, stupid-as-shit thing I can possibly think of for anyone deluding themselves they’re part of our Resistance.
I’m confident I speak for nearly all here when I say progressives DEPLORE this behavior.
I’m not going to jump to false-flag theories like the rightwingers automatically do. Until proven otherwise, we should accept the Associated Press at face value and denounce anyone using abusive tactics to silence Trump supporters.