Last weekend there was a Straight Pride Parade in Boston. A group of people decided that since there have been gay pride parades, they should be able to have a straight pride parade. As expected, there were protestors in attendance. Some of them were not very nice.<\/p>\n
The Washington Times<\/a> is reporting today that some of the people who misbehaved during the parade, who expected to get off with a slap on the wrist after being arrested, are not necessarily getting off that easily.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n Two Boston Municipal Court judges refused to throw out the charges against the 18 defendants who appeared Tuesday in court, frustrating defense attorneys and prosecutors who sought to have minor charges dismissed, as reported by local news outlets.<\/strong><\/p>\n Judge Thomas Horgan also told out-of-towners that they risked 90-day jail sentences if they set foot in Boston for any reason other than court and lawyer appointments, rejecting one defendant\u2019s request to visit relatives in the city\u2019s Jamaica Plain neighborhood.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cStay out of Boston,\u201d said Judge Horgan, according to the Boston Herald.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article continues:<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Larry Calderone, vice president of the Boston Police Patrolmen\u2019s Association, praised the courtroom outcome, noting that many of those arrested came from outside the city and state and accusing them of coming to \u201ccreate havoc.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n He said the four officers injured have not been able to return to work yet, and that the union wants the offenders \u201cprosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cA lot of the assaults that happened during the day, you only knew of a few of them,\u201d Mr. Calderone told reporters outside the courtroom. \u201cMany officers were assaulted throughout the day with bottles of urine being thrown at them, bottles of chemicals, bottles of unidentified material, rocks.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The city is looking into complaints that police used excessive force during the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMultiple times I asked why I was arrested, he said \u2018for calling me a pig,\u2019\u201d Joshua Abrams, who was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, told WBZ-TV before his arraignment. \u201cWell, that\u2019s my First Amendment right to do so.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n If Mr. Abrams was resisting arrest, that is a crime. This is how protestors who cross the line from protest to assault need to be treated. Enforcing the law serves as a warning to those who want to cause trouble that they will be held accountable for the trouble they cause. The First Amendment allows protest; it does not allow assault.<\/p>\n As a side note, American Greatness<\/a> reported the following yesterday:<\/p>\n Far-left Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley lent a helping hand to violent antifa agitators over the weekend after a number of them were arrested on assault and battery charges.<\/strong><\/p>\n The two \u201cSquad\u201d members urged their followers on Twitter to contribute to the bail fund for the \u201ccounter-protesters\u201d who tangled with law enforcement while protesting the Straight Pride Parade in Boston on Saturday. A masked Antifa protester told reporters that the violence was necessary in order to shut up Straight Pride marchers.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is the fact of the new Democrat party. If you are for law and order, there is no way you can support this. I have not yet heard any Democrats denouncing these tweets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last weekend there was a Straight Pride Parade in Boston. A group of people decided that since there have been gay pride parades, they should be able to have a straight pride parade. As expected, there were protestors in attendance. … Continue reading