Video of a gang of white supremacists harassing a group of peaceful Black Lives Matter protestors in Philadelphia has gone viral.
The disturbing video, which has been viewed almost 700,000 times since Monday, shows roughly half a dozen angry white men, some of whom are holding baseball bats and billy clubs, approach the protestors.
“Pick one of us to f*ck up and we’ll go around and fight you one on one,” one of the men threatens. “Take that f*cking f*ggot energy and go somewhere else!”
While the man shouts the homophobic slur, another man rips a Black Lives Matter sign from a protestor’s hands, tearing it in half.
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Meanwhile in #Philly: my friend shot this video of assholes threatening protestors and "defending the cops" … stay safe bbz. ? pic.twitter.com/u1KEtkPipy
— Ellen Degenerate (@DAZZLESTORM) June 2, 2020
So far, the men in the video have not been identified, but condemnation for them was swift.
“We just want peace.” *swings baseball bat*
— Anne Buckles (@AnnieBeeInPhi) June 2, 2020
Wow, a real tough guy threatening women.
— kenny (@jg95mia) June 2, 2020
Are they testing out their masculinity or something? 🙄
— mary #BLACKLIVESMATTER (@mikittyvicious) June 3, 2020
That guy just assaulted someone else and destroyed their property. He should be arrested.
— Mason Taylor 🧢 (@taylom22) June 2, 2020
None of these guys have been in a fight since the 3rd grade.
— MindTheGAAP (@MindTheGAAP04) June 2, 2020
“We just want peace…” and we’ll get it by ripping your signs and threatening you with baseball bats…
— Bridget Smith Palmer (@bridget_palmer) June 2, 2020
Nazis allowed to roam the streets unfettered but a sitting protest gets gassed, great work America.
— Dubsys (@Dubsys) June 2, 2020
Brave white men in a group with weapons talk 💩 to a women with a sign. Lmfao
— TheEntireCountryShouldBeFightingCovid-19 (@poopbradley) June 2, 2020
White supremacy at its finest attacking peaceful protestors and tearing up a #BlackLivesMatter poster
— payofficial (@payofficial1) June 2, 2020
Just another day in Trump’s America.
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barryaksarben
Like Trump they talk so tough but just tear up a sign and say terrible things . COWARDS
wancell
And when someone snatches a MAGA hat or sign or an American flag is……..?
Just don’t stoop down to someone else’s level.
SteveM
And you can be sure that not only are they enthusiastic Trump supporters, but their dear leader would almost certainly approve of what they’re doing.
Den
And how often do you hear of someone snatching a MAGA hat, as opposed to the hat wearers harassing (or worse) someone advocating for equality or social justice? That’s right…not very often.
And bottom line, the flag is a symbol, not equality or rights or ethics or the freedoms laid out in our constitution.
It’s use as a symbol is upheld by the first amendment.
It is always amazing that the dotards who claim to “love freedom” get horribly bent out of shape when others exercise it. Freedom extends beyond owning guns and carrying them to the shopping mall to intimidate others.
ShiningSex
@wancell,
this whole “don’t stoop to their level” is stupid.
look what has happened to this country NOT stooping to the level of Trump’s racist, sexist, homophobic remarks and his Trumptards remarks constantly on every media outlet. It’s time to fight back and not let them keep us down. Stonewall and Civil Rights movements happened for a reason and it was NOT had by “not stooping to their level”. Words don’t change laws. Action does.
Chrisk
Where’s the Police. A baseball bat is considered an assault weapon. It’s a felony to threaten someone using it.
wancell
These assholes are trying to bait the crowd. Best they ignored them.
If you disband or defund the police, who would you call?
startenout
As black people, we avoid calling them now, so…
GayEGO
We can call them Wharmy, White……etc. army nationalists committing these crimes.
Mister P
They are pro fascists.
jsmu
Identify and DOXXX these micropeen shitweasels.
SteveM
Too bad the BLM demonstrators didn’t grab their baseball bats and split open the heads of those pieces of garbage.
sonic_source
Ironically, those guys don’t even get that if a group of black men with bats approached and attacked a group of whites, things would end badly for the black guys.
startenout
You think they didn’t get that??? They KNOW they’re protected and that people will justify their violence in the same breath that they condemn Black violence and ignore that the people being attacked were doing nothing wrong because “well people were looting somewhere.”
Prax07
Just because someone is “racist” doesn’t automatically mean they’re a Trump supporter. I’m racist as hell and I’d love to see Trump in prison.
iminheatlikeacat
…Well done you??
batesmotel
This is bad, but so are the rioters that are harming innocent people and their small businesses. Not all of the protesters are peaceful. Be balanced for once and show the violence that the rioters are causing as well.
startenout
And make sure you show all the white looters and rioters too and don’t pretend it’s all black people. And make sure you show that it isn’t the protesters, but opportunists who don’t actually care about the cause and are using protests as a cover for their anarchy. And…. well you know all this but you just want to deflect the focus from what is actually happening here in this video because you’re disgusting as usual.
Den
And make sure you show the violence and property damage and looting done by essentially all white mobs at sporting events, spring break locals and so on. Certainly it is always small numbers, but among black people it is often an expression of overwhelming frustration while among whites it is often from too much to drink, privilage, or (as is suspected in some of the recent violence) an attempt to escalate violence.
Inspector 57
Thank you, startenout and Den.
Jared MacBride
I’ll be glad to hold one of the jabronis down with my knee on their throat for 8+ minutes and see how big they talk then. When they go low, I go much, much lower.
ShiningSex
Typical Trumptards.
WSnyder
Behind the macho-ism and false bravado are guys fearing the change that is coming. Their comfort zone of perceived superiority is threatened so like a little dog who barks at everything to make itself seem bigger and meaner than it really is, these pathetic little men need to act out. The thing they hate the most is to be ignored, to be treated like they don’t matter, that they are insignificant. Engaging them doesn’t effect change, it simply feeds their need to exist. Change the conditions so that their toxic rhetoric rebounds on them, strips away the veneer to show their true ugliness. Their hate will be their own undoing and for them, being ignored is something they simply can’t cope with.
VikkMathis
These guys aren’t there to protect the cops, they’re there to intimidate and think (I repeat) think they’re causing fear. The truth is they’re scared shitless for several reasons.
1.) It has nothing to do with white people.
2.) Surprised to see whites joining together with blacks.
3.) Fear or perhaps concerned what this may lead to dealing with racist people.
4.) In their mind they don’t see the fight for injustice, all this see is an up-rise in black power…Something they don’t want.
5.) They think it will affect the white man need to exist in this country and still since 1968 don’t want change.
6.) They know deep down that their behavior toward privilege, prejudice, racism, and unnecessary terrorism is coming to an end.
These type of racist men & (women) out there are all cowards. The only time they show up for anything that has to do with change whether it’s deals with blacks, LGBTQ community, women rights, or anything that can set them back rather than moving the country forward are the same group that shows their asses off and they seem to do it only when they have weapons, cops are around, or they’re blocked. I promise you that these men swinging bats and destroying signs and using gay slurs are doing this to a mainly small group and perhaps a group that really doesn’t have blacks within it. Because you know what the outcome would have been had this been a larger demonstration.
Terrycloth
Where is Billy on the street shoving microphones in their faces ?