Santa Cruz: Dozens of Businesses Vandalized During May Day Protests — UPDATED: Violence in North Carolina

Did anyone else notice all those articles yesterday which described the protesters participating in the Commie May Day Illegal Alien Slave Parties as “peaceful?”

Well, I certainly took note of it!  What a load of horse manure!

Would the Lame Stream Media be as forgiving if this were a Tea Party?  Certainly not!

In fact, everytime there is some minor incident (usually just fantasies by the Left) in just one of the many thousands of Tea Parties throughout the entire continental United States, the LSM ascribes such behavior to the entire movement.

But, when a bunch of Lefturds start rioting during one of their national events, like the Commie May Day Illegal Alien Slave Parties, the Lame Stream Media is quick to disassociate those individuals from the movement.  But then, we already knew the Lame Stream Media was a bunch of flaming Commie retards.

Need further evidence?  Consider this:  The LSM delights in labeling the Conservative Tea Party events as angry “protests,” yet merely label Lefturd events as peaceful “rallies…”

Riot breaks out in downtown Santa Cruz; windows broken on dozens of businesses, porch of cafe set on fire
By Alia Wilson – San Jose Mercury News
Posted: 05/02/2010

SANTA CRUZ – A group of protesters demonstrating at a May Day rally for worker’s and immigrant rights downtown broke off into a riot vandalizing about a dozen businesses around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.

[See?  What did I tell you?  There's that word, "rally..."

Furthermore, did you notice how the reporter distanced the rioters from the May Day'ers by saying "broke off?"  This subconsciously imparts a splintering type of action in the reader's mind which disassociates the violent actions from the main group of May Day'ers.]

Windows were left shattered and graffiti including anarchy signs were tagged onto buildings. The Rittenhouse Building, Urban Outfitters, Jamba Juice and Velvet Underground all had windows broken, according to Capt. Steve Clark.

Santa Cruz police asked for help from all agencies in the county to break up the riot. At one point, protesters lit a fire on the porch of Caffe Pergolesi and blocked access to firefighters, officers said. Police were able to clear out the demonstrators before more damage was caused.

A large rock sat outside Verizon Wireless on the 100 block of Cooper Street, where vandals tried to break the window twice, according to Clark.

“The damage that was caused was without purpose,” Clark said. “It was senseless violence that victimized a community who cannot afford to be victimized in this manner. This did nothing to add credit to whatever they believed their cause was.”

[Don't you worry about that, Capt. Clark.  The Lame Stream Media will gladly jump in to help minimize the damage and cover this up so as not to discredit the May Day'ers.]

One person was arrested for damaging a window. Police are searching for others responsible for the damage. Protesters cleared the downtown area around midnight.

“Our entire team of investigators are processing the scene of violence for evidence,” Clark said. “We will be looking at video available to try to ID who’s responsible.”

Police ask anyone with information

UPDATE: More reports of violence during the May Day’ers Communist orgy.  This report comes in from Asheville North Carolina:

Vandals destroy downtown Asheville storefronts, car windows

By Mike McWilliams, Jason McGill and Thomas Fraser • May 2, 2010 – citizen-times.com

ASHEVILLE — Most of those arrested for a rash of vandalism Saturday night in downtown Asheville listed addresses in Eastern North Carolina and out of state, according to arrest warrants.

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All but one of the 11 suspects arrested were each charged with seven counts of misdemeanor injury to personal property and three counts of injury to real property. Each was being held under $10,000 bond.

One man was charged with 11 counts and had an $11,000 bond. All are scheduled to appear in court on the charges Monday morning.

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About 10:45 p.m. Saturday, a group of between 20-30 people wearing dark clothing, some wearing masks and carrying backpacks, threw items,including newspaper boxes, through windows of several businesses along O’Henry Avenue. A front window of the Asheville Citizen-Times was shattered, as were multiple storefronts at the Grove Arcade. An ATM was smashed at the RBC on O’Henry.

Multiple cars parked on Battery Park had their windows smashed.

The violence is likely linked to the observance of May Day, a day for marking worker solidarity that has been seized upon for anti-capitalism displays of violence, especially by self-proclaimed anarchist groups in Europe.

[Yup, you had to read almost the entire article [and click on the 2nd page link when reading from the article's front page] before discovering that this violence was linked to the May Day’ers.   That’s what they call, “burying the information.”]

Several in the group yelled unintelligably as they vandalized. The group walked south on O’Henry Avenue and turned left on Battery Park Avenue. Some walked through the alley beside the Citizen-Times, where several employees of the paper had rushed to ensure the safety of their cars.

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Carmel’s chef Mary Scherger said she was having a shift drink at the Page Avenue restaurant when she saw the group smash out a window on a BMW parked along Battery Park Avenue.

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Scherger said she saw some of them run toward Haywood Street and a few run up the stairwell from Wall Street parking garage ditching their garb as police moved in.

Scherger said she recalled a similar act of group vandalism last year, but the group did far less damage.

Diana Kostigen, of Hendersonville, was visiting downtown with a friend from Charlotte, whose car was damaged.

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“I’ve never seen any kind of violence like this in Asheville at all. I’m very shocked, very disappointed, and feeling like I wouldn’t even want to come downtown after 9 o’clock.”

When asked if she might feel unsafe in downtown now, Kostigen said yes.

Christina Williams said she was with friends at Carmel’s when the cacophony of smashing glass, yelling and tumult erupted.

She watched as a bewildered man talked to a Police Department officer beside his seriously damaged car.

“Violence and cowardice,” Williams said, noting that several of the vandals removed their masks and black outer clothing and tossed it away after committing their crimes.

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