by Monica Showalter
American Thinker
Hurling smoke bombs and fireworks, “peaceful” protesters did their level best to disturb restaurant diners on sidewalks; issue threats to homeowners with slogans such as “fire, fire, gentrifier”; and make enough noise to keep residential areas awake with the chuk-chuk-chuk of police helicopters above. They even chanted military jodies, with leftist replacement words to Army-like cadence chants, perhaps to demonstrate that they, too, are an army of sorts. The featured speaker was a self-described illegal alien. Here’s the scene in Washington, D.C.:
Oakland, among other places, was also on the leftist menu: