Police in Fort Collins, Colorado released a trickle of details about who they just arrested, in connection to Saturday’s “brouhaha,” and why. In the interest of fairness, “they took action against members of both parties.” They made sure to give the right-wing group an extra special warning, “apparently chastising the pro-cop group’s methods.”
Ft. Collins Police side with BLM
The verbal scolding officers gave their overzealous supporters was “truly supporting a cause means representing its values. Committing crimes in our community is not a way to support police. We stand for safety, period. We want all of our community members to feel safe here in Fort Collins and we reject any form of hate.”
All this controversy stems from a “pro-police group” otherwise known as “Back the Blue,” who beat the living crap out of “a group of Black Lives Matter counter-protesters.” Since all laws have been suspended for riots they decided to match anarchy with anarchy. To their credit, the right-wingers called off the boogie-woogie. One social media poster noted, “you actually hear someone from the pro-police group say don’t use weapons but punching is encouraged.”
Other reports note, it “appears the Back the Blue crowd went after the BLM protesters, and you hear someone shout, ‘Everybody keep their hands off their weapons. Keep punching each other in the face. Don’t shoot anybody.'”
Focused on fairness
Four people were arrested on charges that run from criminal tampering and resisting arrest to disorderly conduct and possession of an illegal weapon. But the cops won’t say which individual of which group was charged with what. They were focused like a laser on fairness, stating for the record, “they made arrests on both sides of the fight and are looking for other troublemakers that got away.”
According to Fort Collins police, “We respect everyone’s right to peacefully assemble. Our officers have consistently supported these rights in recent months as people have gathered to make their voices heard.” They draw the line at violence. “For the safety of our community, acts of violence and other unlawful behavior have not and will not be tolerated from anyone.”
The radicals on the BLM side are playing the part of sweet innocent angels, whining that “even though they were not the aggressors, they were detained by cops but were never told why.” If the anarchists hadn’t shown up in the first place to start trouble, they wouldn’t have found it.