The New York Times has found something they didn t know was there. Insurrection anarchists have been protesting for racial justice all summer, and some black leaders wish they would go home. It s according to Jeremy Lee Quinn, who has spent the past four months documenting Black Bloc Anarchists.
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00:00:46.860The New York Times also has has written a piece where they have found something they didn't know was there.
00:01:02.780Insurrection anarchists have been protesting for racial justice all summer.
00:01:22.360You can recognize them sometimes because they're wearing black.
00:01:28.080And sometimes they have the big red A in a circle.
00:01:32.020Black block anarchists in half a dozen cities across the country.
00:01:37.740On the last Sunday in May, Jeremy Lee Quinn, a furloughed photographer in Santa Monica, California, was snapping photos of suburban moms kneeling at a Black Lives Matter protest when a friend alerted him to a more dramatic subject, looting at a shoe store about a mile away.
00:01:57.700He arrived to find young people pouring out of the store, shoe boxes under their arms.
00:02:04.160But there was something odd about the scene.
00:04:15.040So, I don't know if he's qualified to tell us these things.
00:04:18.680He worked at Univision until the pandemic.
00:04:21.480He spent the past four months marching with black bloc anarchists in half a dozen cities across the country, chronicling the experience on his website.
00:04:45.120...but grew increasingly uncomfortable with the tactics used by some of the anarchists, which he feared would set off a backlash that could help get President Trump re-elected.
00:04:57.620Now, what I like about this is he's got his priorities right, okay?
00:05:03.280They could set off a backlash that could start a civil war, could get people killed, could burn the whole system down to the ground.
00:05:28.460Mr. Quinn, now I'm not sure if he's uncomfortable with those things or not.
00:05:33.320Mr. Quinn discovered a thorny truth about the mayhem that unfolded in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minnesota, or Minneapolis.
00:06:40.560While talking heads on television routinely describe it as a spontaneous eruption of anger at racial injustice.
00:06:48.080It was strategically planned, facilitated, and advertised on social media by anarchists who believe that their actions advance the cause of racial justice.
00:07:57.100Black clad figures break windows, set fires, vandalize police cars, then melt back into the crowd of peaceful protesters.
00:08:04.780When the police respond by brutalizing innocent demonstrators with tear gas, rubber bullets, and rough arrests, the public's disdain for law enforcement grows.
00:09:04.400By the way, the photographer that did this, Quinn, he said, on the third day of protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota, anarchist publications reported black clad individuals breaking the windows.
00:09:19.120Some anarchists participate in pacifist civil disobedience while others justify committing crimes like arson and looting by saying it wears down the capitalist economic system.
00:09:31.700The systematic online mobilization of violence has been planned and coordinated in real time.
00:09:39.540And celebrated by explicitly violent anarchist socialist networks that rode on the coattails of peaceful protests.
00:09:49.240The ability to continue to spread and eventually bring more violence, including a violent insurgency, relies on the ability to hide in plain sight.
00:09:58.720To be confused with legitimate protesters and for media and the public to minimize the threat.
00:11:28.440Of course, it is a riot is property destruction rather than the underlying grievance that has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people protesting against lynching.
00:11:39.600Priest police brutality or for racial justice going back to the urban uprisings of the 1960s.
00:15:14.740Catherine Engelbrecht is, uh, is with us.
00:15:17.380She's the founder and president of True the Vote.
00:15:19.700Uh, this is a, um, I think it's a 501, are you, uh, yeah, C3, voter rights organization, uh, that just is trying to true the vote against any kind of cheating on either side, which I think all Americans are behind.
00:15:38.820I'll accept the vote if it is accurate and, and nobody has cheated on either side.
00:15:46.440She is here to talk to us about what is happening in, in, uh, Harris County here in Texas.
00:16:17.220I mean, they, they are, they are on, uh, on video, um, claiming that they have, you know, long been, been laundering mail-in ballots, uh, among the most vulnerable of communities and long-term care facilities and, um, to the homeless populations.
00:16:33.640And, and, and this is just part of a much broader piece playing out across Texas, across the nation as, uh, the weaknesses of our process are now being put on full display.
00:16:45.540And, um, you know, and, and the sad truth of it is the fraud has been institutionalized in ways that, uh, a lot of Americans haven't seen until, until now.
00:16:54.380Yeah, this is the first time that I, that I am at least aware of that is, has been a nationwide, seems to be a nationwide push, uh, to institutionalize this, this fraud there in some states.
00:17:07.860They're even suing now to get rid of signature verification.
00:17:16.780And the, and the, the conductor behind all of those lawsuits is a, is a lawyer by the name of Mark Elias, who cut his teeth in the Al Franken-Norm Coleman battle of, uh, of, uh, 2008, when, uh, mail ballots played a pivotal role in securing that election ultimately for, uh, for Al Franken, who went on to be that filibuster-proof vote they needed to get the Affordable Care Act passed.
00:17:41.580Uh, Mark, Mark Elias, Mark Elias has, uh, now grown to great fame, uh, this cycle, he's Hillary Clinton's attorney, and this cycle, he has, he has been behind over 90 such lawsuits that have removed signature verifications, that have removed postmark standards, that have.
00:18:05.180They're going through all over the place.
00:18:07.140Where you, you don't have to have a postmark or a signature verification?
00:18:14.480Oh, they are, they are, they're, this is part of the plan, Glenn, is to cause such rampant confusion over standards, and they're setting them up to knock them down.
00:18:24.980So they're setting up all these lawsuits on the front side.
00:18:28.220Now, stick with me here, they're setting them all up here.
00:18:30.460Nobody knows what the real, where the dust settles, because we're, we're battling this out in the courts.
00:18:35.620Now we get to election day, and boom, November 4th, they have the opportunity to declare all kinds of their own manufacturing of Bush v. Gore legal arguments, or disparate impact against minority and protected communities, because of what they did on the front side of the election.
00:19:54.520Texas is under, Texas is under an all kind of, you know, Texas has never been looked at as a battleground state.
00:20:01.800But there is a reason that Mark Zuckerberg, two weeks ago, dropped $35 million into this state, into the local election administrator offices.
00:20:14.720Oh, I'll do you better than that, Glenn.
00:20:17.080Tony Pippinspool, who is the election administrator in Dallas County, is on the board of Mark Zuckerberg's Center for Tech and Civic Life that pushed $15 million into Dallas County.
00:20:29.400And that's the money that's going behind these mail drop-off boxes and all the things that are brand new popping up here in Texas.
00:20:39.800So, Catherine, I am, I am, I am, I'm not shocked by a lot, but I will tell you, I am every day more and more convinced that there is, there is only a landslide on the Donald Trump side that would convince me that this was a free and fair election.
00:21:08.660If it's, if it's close and it goes to Biden, I don't think I could accept it.
00:21:15.120And there are so many people on the left that if it is close and it goes to Trump, they won't accept it.
00:21:22.860It's, it's a, we are, we are in a very precarious situation.
00:21:30.720And what we are telling people is, is to not just take this on election night, you know, sitting on your couch, watching the numbers roll in and all of the hysteria that is near certain to follow.
00:21:42.760We are encouraging people to, to become poll watchers and bear witness to this.
00:21:49.100We need to learn something from this because we didn't get here overnight and we're not going to get out of it on November 3rd.
00:21:55.500This is going to play out over, over time.
00:21:59.340And there are, there are a lot of, uh, a lot of deadlines that we need to be educated about.
00:22:06.100I mean, if, if the states can't seal their elections by December the 8th, then there's question as to whether or not the electors from those states can be awarded to the electoral college.
00:22:16.320Then you get to date certain of January 20th.
00:22:19.440If there's not been a clear winner, uh, from the electoral college, then the house, the vote, the vote goes to the house of representatives.
00:22:27.260Nancy Pelosi is, Nancy Pelosi has already last week prepared the house and said, start to prepare for proceedings to select the next president in the house.
00:22:40.280So one thing, you know, one thing we have all learned, I think, having been on this journey now for some, some number of years is when they, when they tell you who they are, believe them.
00:22:49.920When they tell you what they intend to do, believe them.
00:22:53.240And we need to be on the field working together to make sure their plans don't come to pass and to bear witness.
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