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https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/09/09/summit-county-woman-facing-charges-after-throwing-dead-raccoon-abortion-clinic/Were laughing at the fact that she only had two eggs in a whole carton crazy, you know, an hour to the dot she shows back up, she said.
She said the other employees ran inside in a panic and locked the doors.
Shes coming up the street with a bag and at first we didnt know what it was it was, just a black bag, the employee said.
When she first saw the bag, she thought it could contain something much more dangerous, like a bomb.
I was worried about everyone else but Im just sitting there going well are you that crazy, you know? Im just sitting here watching the cameras like well, if it is, it is, she said.
The video shows the woman chuck the bag at the clinic but when this employee watched their surveillance video back, she noticed something strange peeking out of the bag.
Im just like, theres something in that bag, it looks like a tail! the employee exclaimed. Im just like, I think thats a dead animal!
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Video..Woman flings dead raccoon at abortion clinic (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Sep 2022
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DFW
(54,488 posts)1. My fantasy would be the clinic flinging something back at her
Like, maybe, a grand piano.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)2. So, I guess she was pleased to see a raccoon's body and immediately
knew how it could be put to use in a noble crusade?
The last part of the article was interesting:
Employees told 19 News things have heated up at the clinic since Roe v. Wade was overturned and that a lot of their regular protestors have gotten nastier because they expected the clinic to close its doors.
From a June 8 Time article:
Armed demonstrators and extremist groups have increasingly gathered at abortion-related protests in the aftermath of the Supreme Courts overturning of Roe v. Wade, causing analysts to warn of a rising threat of violence.
Eight abortion-related demonstrations featured armed individuals in the week after the June 24 ruling, bringing the total number of such protests in 2022 to 10nearly twice as many as in all of 2021 (from me: on top of violent protests more than doubling in 2021), according to a new analysis shared with TIME by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit that tracks political violence and demonstrations.
Anti-government militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys have appeared at 27 abortion-related events as of July 1, according to ACLEDs data, a 160% spike over the previous year. In 2020, far-right groups appeared at only 1% of demonstrations related to abortion rights; so far this year, almost one in five events involved members of a far-right group.
As armed demonstrators and far-right groups flock to abortion-related protests, abortion-rights activists have begun bringing guns themselves, according to ACLED, including at a rally in Dallas on July 2. The combination of the presence of firearms and competing demonstrators has alarmed analysts. Roughly half of the abortion-related demonstrations that have turned violent or destructive have involved counter-protestors. Its all the makings of a really worrying trend, says Roudabeh Kishi, the director of research and innovation at ACLED.
https://time.com/6194085/abortion-protests-guns-violence-extremists/
Eight abortion-related demonstrations featured armed individuals in the week after the June 24 ruling, bringing the total number of such protests in 2022 to 10nearly twice as many as in all of 2021 (from me: on top of violent protests more than doubling in 2021), according to a new analysis shared with TIME by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit that tracks political violence and demonstrations.
Anti-government militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys have appeared at 27 abortion-related events as of July 1, according to ACLEDs data, a 160% spike over the previous year. In 2020, far-right groups appeared at only 1% of demonstrations related to abortion rights; so far this year, almost one in five events involved members of a far-right group.
As armed demonstrators and far-right groups flock to abortion-related protests, abortion-rights activists have begun bringing guns themselves, according to ACLED, including at a rally in Dallas on July 2. The combination of the presence of firearms and competing demonstrators has alarmed analysts. Roughly half of the abortion-related demonstrations that have turned violent or destructive have involved counter-protestors. Its all the makings of a really worrying trend, says Roudabeh Kishi, the director of research and innovation at ACLED.
https://time.com/6194085/abortion-protests-guns-violence-extremists/
Very little has been reported on this since late June-early July, when covered dropped off dramatically. The FBI was investigating and very likely has clamped down on DVE groups like the Proud Boys. It also seems likely a lot of media are avoiding inciting violence by giving it coverage. The women's medicine industry would be trading info, though.
Timeflyer
(2,035 posts)3. My fantasy is Proud boys and anti-choicers running a gauntlet of enraged, armed women when
they seek medical assistance, telling them god hates them and they're going to burn in hell. Actually, I can't really print my fantasy--too graphic (involves involuntary vasectomies, etc.).