The solution to violent riots?
I wanted to wait a day or two to see if this story held – and it has. Apparently Lancaster PA. has been able to figure out what cities like Portland, Minneapolis and LA can’t – how to stop violent riots.
Here are some excerpts from just one of the published stories:
The mob marched from the scene of the shooting on Laurel Street to the police station, chucking glass bottles, rocks, bricks, gallon jugs filled with liquid and plastic road barricades at cops, police said …
“Twelve adults — Jamal Shariff Newman, 24, Barry Jones, 30, Frank Gaston, 43, Yoshua Dwayne Montague, 23, Matthew Modderman, 31, Talia Gessner, 18, Kathryn Patterson, 20, Taylor Enterline, 20, T-Jay Fry, 28, Dylan Davis, 28, Alexa Wise, 29, and Jessica Marie Lopez, 32 — face a slew of felony and misdemeanor charges, including arson, riot, institutional vandalism and criminal conspiracy…
Montague, of York, Pa., faces an additional charge of illegal possession of a firearm…
Police said Gaston was on probation and a detainer would be lodged against him…”
Were they charged with assault on a police officer? They should have been.
“About 150 protesters returned to the streets Monday night calling for justice in Munoz’s death, but the demonstrations remained peaceful …”
It worked!
Only when more judges and officials start taking appropriate actions such as these will the violence stop … as it has in Lancaster.
According to Matt Walsh, writing for The Daily Wire, Lancaster official did four things right:
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- The Lancaster Police Department released the body cam footage of the incident within hours. We didn’t have to wait days or months to see if the narrative from the protesters was actually true …
- The police showed up in force on the first night of the protests. Rioters were given a few warnings to disperse before tear gas was deployed. Rubber bullets were also used against the rioters as they began to hurl bricks and other projectiles at law enforcement.
- Police aggressively pursued those who committed crimes throughout the night. Officers in marked police vans chased down the criminals, swiftly arrested them, and carted them off to jail.
- The arrested rioters were charged with multiple felonies and kept in jail on bails set at up to 1 million dollars.
As is so often the case, much of the media has tried to downplay the violence of the riots those arrested were involved in. Below is a picture used in several articles that showed a file picture of one of the protestors arrested during the riot participating in a previous peaceful protest during daylight hours. If you didn’t read carefully you might think she had been arrested and faced a million dollar bail for doing what she was doing in the picture from the previous summer, in another town, during daylight, without violence.
The picture caption read: “Black Lives Matter protestor Taylor Enterline, of Manheim, lays on her stomach for nine minutes in front of the Manheim Borough Police Station this past summer.”
No pictures of the riot in which Taylor Enterline was arrested for was shown.
You decide, was the bail appropriate? Please comment below.
