One person stabbed as COVID anti-vaxxers and counterdemonstrators clash in front of L.A. City Hall

A crowd of several hundred people, many holding American flags and signs calling for “medical freedom,” had descended on City Hall around 2 p.m. for the planned rally. A few dozen counter protesters had amassed on First Street before the clash.
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What is the point in protesting the conspiracy people? You are not going to change their mind and you might get sick being around them.

When you look at the number of people in Los Angeles and you look at the size of this crowd, you realize that not even one percent of the paranoid schizophrenics showed up for their rally.

One older man screamed “unmask them all” and clawed at a woman’s face.
Wtf?
“We are on scene to maintain order after a fight broke out between Antifa and people gathered for the permitted event. We are aware of one male that was stabbed and is being treated by Fire Department personnel,” Spell said in a statement. “No arrests have been made but [the] investigation is ongoing.”
Urm, I guess clawing people’s faces is a permitted activity?

Antivaxxers will screech about "bodily autonomy" from a protective vaccine and then violently assault other people.

Proud boys are a domestic terrorist organization, and they show up purely to initiate attacks on anyone protesting them

These coward chuds went after people filming them and threw punches and LAPD were just spectators. Pathetic.

Sure sounds like cops couldn't be bothered to do their jobs.

Oh there the police are. I guess they had to first change out of their proud boy attire before moseying into formation.

LAPD Spokesperson Capt. Stacy Spell said, "We are on scene to maintain order after a fight broke out between Antifa and people gathered for the permitted event."
Antifa? That characterization is a fabrication of the LAPD. And in the video, why did LAPD move against the counter protesters, and then only after they were beaten by the pro-COVID thugs?
I'm willing to bet any amount of money LAPD Spokesperson Capt. Stacy Spell is NOT vaccinated.

Domestic terrorist group Proud Boys stab journalists in front of City Hall while police watch*
Fixed your headline https://t.co/8PT1FtNmNN

Should refuse people who are not vaccinated at the hospital going forward and let them deal with natural selection

Everyone knew the 21st century would be a dystopian nightmare but no one warned us just how stupid it would be.

Drove by this mess today; didn't know what it was until now; only saw the Trump flags. Makes perfect sense now.

Why use a picture with police when they were absent during much of the violence. How many violent pro-mask during violence/anti-mask for public health people were arrested?

A video of the stabbing is the top post on /r/PublicFreakout right now.
It's hard to see because of the compression artifacts, but the fascist in the grey hat and flag gaiter in the background pulls out a knife at 38 seconds, and then uses it to stab an antifascist counter-protestor about a dozen times starting at 45 seconds.
Imgur link of screenshots (content warning for a low resolution pics of a nazi stabbing someone, in case it wasn't clear from context)

Glad to see the right is all about medical freedom, they can join the pro-choice movement now.

We are slowly witnessing societal collapse thanks to this guy https://t.co/pOzGjX4Tye

I appreciate the folks who showed up to counter-protest and physically fight the fascists. The problem with ignoring the fascists is that they can become emboldened. The last thing we need is more violent fascists, and if violent anti-fascists is what it takes to keep fascists in line, as abhorrent as violence is, so be it.

Everyday this country gets dumber and dumber. It’s depressing how right “Idiocracy” was about the future

Proud Boys from Bakersfield violently attack locals. say it right.

I thought once the election was over and Covid subsided things would calm down, but Covid didn't subside and apparently the election is still not over. And the craziest part is that you pile enough factions of screwjobs together and get them fighting, eventually people will forget who's fighting who and why, and that's when real violence could start. And all it would take would be one real fight, with real casualties, and it could spawn skirmishes all over the country.
Scary stuff, especially as I have a brother who just joined the Army.

This is like 15 people out of 3,000,000+ within 30 miles. Hahahahaha
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