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[Jacki O.]

Jacki, why'd you have to turn this shit into a riot?

YOU'RE WELCOME PHOENIX

now i can cross off "getting pepper sprayed by a police officer" from my bucket list

the spray burned some of the face paint onto my skin! so now i know why you dont wear face paint to a riot. Lesson No. 2,456. Learned the hard way.

[Quezo]

Christ Jacki that's awful!

I can't believe that Police were protecting them (the Nazis).
It turns my stomach.

My taxes pay for Police to protect hate mongerers, and the opposition gets pepper sprayed?

Re dick.

[differently biotic]

I totally saw you on the news. I still can't believe how this turned out.

[jeremx]

YOU'RE WELCOME PHOENIX
now i can cross off "getting pepper sprayed by a police officer" from my bucket list

great job! is there any video?

and pepper spray is the worst. found out at a giant brawl outside of club rio years ago. worst part = had my friend pull over on the way home so i could take a leak in an alley. HUGE MISTAKE! (the burn is transferable)

[Jacki O.]

here's my long spiel:

it was actually really shitty in my opinion. i thought we'd all go out there and yell at a bunch of idiots and be silly and have fun, dance in the streets etc. And it started out that way. At the beginning spirits were high, everyone was friendly and taking photos of us clowns, comparing signs. The crowd of anti-neo nazi protesters were a mixed group of people, a small (maybe 20) contingent of black-wearing anarchists, a bunch of ASU students, media personnel, a group calling themselves "One Love" or something like that - carrying very pro-peace banners, children, misc. citizens, elderly people, and us clowns. initially the phoenix police were very nice and considerate even when the "anarchists" were yelling fuck the police and stuff.

We walked down jefferson and saw the group of maybe 20 neonazis all huddled together, surrounded by their hundreds of police protection and we were just yelling at them to go home. i was yelling "Give Your Wife More Power" and "i would never marry you!", throwing white flour in the air, dancing, just being silly.

i was up front by police who were blocking the street with their police bikes, and then a group of riot gear police with shields and shit took their place, and started pushing people back very violently. I was up front standing next to an elderly woman holding a sign that said FREE HUGS and the riot gear cop in front of her pushed her really hard and pushed her down on the ground. The cops weren't moving forward, she was shouting at the nazis, and the cop in front of me wasn't pushing forward either (thankfully)

there was no reason for him to push her. We all helped her up and that's when i was like fuck this, i'm not gonna get beat up by some dick cop who just wants to hurt people, so i moved back to the outskirts. Then all the cops put on gas masks and all the protesters were like "What?"

then they pepper sprayed people and THEN shit got violent and out of control. which allowed the anarchist group to start acting out by throwing rocks and putting newspaper stands in the streets etc.

from my perspective, the phoenix police acted with aggression towards the anti-nazi protesters without motivation.

i was honestly shocked that they'd pepper spray and shoot rubber bullets into such a mixed crowd of people with small children!!! they didn't have to use that kind of force, it was honestly uncalled for.

they pepper sprayed children and people to move us all back so they could escort 20 neo-nazis down jefferson to the federal building!?!?!?! why didn't they just tell the nazi's that it was getting too serious on the street and tell them to just drive to the building? why didnt they talk to the protesters first? they just put on their gas masks and started spraying into the crowd.

at one point all of the clowns i was with got sprayed and we were running away, gagging and coughing, our makeup running off our faces and we ran around the corner of a buidling to recover and i looked up and in the building lobby by the windows were a bunch of scared-as-shit young children, also hiding from the pepper spray, with the security guard who had let them in.

im sure it didn't help them to see a bunch of clowns crying and vomiting in front of them - if they didn't have a fear of clowns before the rally, they do now.

sadly, this event has completely changed my perspective of phoenix police officers, not that it was very good to begin with but fuck those guys now. it was shocking. Later on that night at the P.A.P.A. parade, the police were escorting us through downtown and i couldn't help thinking if that motorcycle cop who smiled at me was the same man who pepper sprayed me or knocked down that woman holding the FREE HUGS sign a few hours earlier...

i think they were using that protest to practice for rioting in phoenix. they instigated the violence.

[jeremx]

they instigated the violence.

very shitty indeed. did anyone catch this on video? cell phone or something?

tia, did the news report show the escalation by police or just the aftermath? any bias detected one way or the other?

[Jacki O.]

i'm looking around for video. i only took photos which i will upload today, here's a pic from facebook:





i would think the media would be pissed because they got sprayed for no reason too! at the pepper spray "Station" where volunteers were pouring vinegar and water on our faces there were tons of cameramen and photographers who had been sprayed receiving treatment

[differently biotic]

it really didn't explain how is escalated at all on any of the news channels I checked it out on. I only looked because I saw the clowns... It was mentioned about the rock throwing but I didn't see that in the footage at all.

I am appalled by the police in Jacki's retelling.

horrible.

[joe.distort]

can we get a permit to speak at the same federal building to promote love, understanding, and tacos?

im not kidding. if these shitfucks can get one for...whatever reason they actual say (safeguarding the country or some shit i assume), you would think the opposite would be true.

[Jacki O.]

clowns!

i did get some of the neo-nazi marchers to laugh at me.

laughter wins but pepper spray makes you vomit

[Quezo]

can we get a permit to speak at the same federal building to promote love, understanding, and tacos?

im not kidding. if these shitfucks can get one for...whatever reason they actual say (safeguarding the country or some shit i assume), you would think the opposite would be true.

Bifecta'd. Let's do this.

[differently biotic]

love, undesrtanding and tacos! I like this.


Jacki and whoever is the one in the red petticoat, were the ones on the news footage a lot, dancing around. it was cute!

[Jacki O.]

here's stephen lemmon's blog post about the rally - he was one of the guys that got sprayed pretty badly



Tia - that's my friend Crystal Cruz who runs Provocatease, she is awesome!

[jeremx]

love, undesrtanding and tacos! I like this.

what's so funny 'bout peace, love, and crunchy corn tortillas?

[jeremx]

here's stephen lemmon's blog post about the rally - he was one of the guys that got sprayed pretty badly

Other anti-fascists held their ground against the police line, while the neo-Nazis did the Hitler salute and yelled sieg heils. One of the counterprotesters yelled back, "Speak English motherfuckers!" Loved that one.

BAHAHAHAHA