WATCH: Rioters Set Fire To Home With Child Inside, Then Block Firefighters’ Access; Emotional Police Chief Details Incident

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WATCH: Rioters Set Fire To Home With Child Inside, Then Block Firefighters’ Access; Emotional Police Chief Details Incident

By Amanda Prestigiacomo, Daily Wire.com, Jun 1st, 2020:

Demonstrators stand around a fire during a protest near the White House in response to the killing of George Floyd May 31, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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On Saturday, Richmond Police Chief Will Smith was overcome with emotion detailing one of the worst acts of violence carried out in the city during the previous night’s rioting, ostensibly over the death of George Floyd.

According to Smith, rioters set fire to an occupied multi-family residence with a child inside, then repeatedly blocked firefighters’ access to the scene.

Thankfully, officers found a way to secure access and saved the family, including the child.

“One incident that is particularly poignant, that truly illustrates the seriousness of the issues we’re facing,” Smith told reporters. “Protesters intentionally set a fire to an occupied building on [West] Broad Street. This is not the only occupied building that has been set fire to in the last two days.”

“They prohibited us from getting on scene,” the police chief continued. “We had to force our way to make a clear path for the fire department.”

“Protesters intercepted that fire apparatus several blocks away with vehicles and blocked that fire department’s access to the structure fire,” Smith said. “Inside that home was a child.”

“Officers were able to –,” Smith attempted to continue, though he was overcome with emotion, “help those people out of the house.”

“We were able to get the fire department there safely,” the emotional police chief added.

“When you take a legitimate issue and hijack it for unknown reasons, that is unacceptable to me,” Smith stated firmly, “it’s unacceptable to the Richmond Police Department, unacceptable to the city of Richmond.”

Protests began popping up across the nation on Tuesday over the death of Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer had his knee on the 46-year-old’s neck for over eight minutes during an arrest, as shown in viral video footage.

“An eight-minute clip filmed by a person on the street shows Floyd telling police he can’t breathe and begging the cop on top of him to stop before he falls unconscious,” The Daily Wire reported Tuesday. “Officer Derek Chauvin was identified as the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck outside Cup Foods on Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street.”

“He’s not even resisting arrest right now, bro,” one bystander is heard telling the officers, according to the video. “You’re f***ing stopping his breathing right now, you think that’s cool?”

The protests quickly turned ugly; arson, looting, and violence spiked in places like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York City, Rochester, Richmond, and other cities.

Since the incident, all four officers involved in the arrest have been fired, investigations from the FBI and state law enforcement have been opened, and, on Friday, the officer at the center of the incident was taken into custody.

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santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago

Anybody who intentionally blocks fire personnel from getting to a burning home (to a fire in which they set) to save those inside, should be shot on sight. This is purely the devil’s work.

TomSJr
TomSJr
3 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

IT IS A FELONY TO DO BLOCK OFFICIAL BUSINESS OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING EMS AND FIRE.

Es werde Licht
Es werde Licht
3 years ago
Reply to  TomSJr

In Europe its now a funny game for some people ( “Refugees” “Antifa” ).
Set somethiing on fire , call the firefighters and when they arrive trow stones and Molotov-cocktails on them.
We have now ( I guess 600 aereas ) in Europe where the firefighteres only go with police protection into so called “No go” zones to extinguish the fire.

ncskeptic
ncskeptic
3 years ago
Reply to  Es werde Licht

Yes but that isn’t allowed to be reported in the US. We must not contradict the narrative that things like that could ever happen anywhere except the US. Usually things like that don’t happen in the US.

dad1927
dad1927
3 years ago
Reply to  Es werde Licht

let it burn…

Gaye
Gaye
3 years ago
Reply to  Es werde Licht

In that case, we know that they hate us so don’t go..

Gaye
Gaye
3 years ago
Reply to  Es werde Licht

We know that they hate us, so what fools we are to risk our lives to save theirs when they will kill us as fast as anything..
History has shown that mixing races has never worked, let alone bringing them into our western countries on mass. Black tribes fight other black tribes, clans fight other clans, Asians fight other Asians, etc so how the hang do they expect these people to get along with each other and us when they put them all together in European countries..

gfmucci .
gfmucci .
3 years ago
Reply to  TomSJr

Big freakin’ deal. A felony. That word has become virtually meaningless. One felony out of how many in the past week? 1,000’s! 99.9% are being absolutely ignored. Felonies are happening all around us and demoncrats are arguing against doing anything about them.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Shades of Reagan:
Bill Barr vows to employ 1960s anti-riot law on loot-and-riot thugs

By Monica Showalter
5/31/20

(Hopefully he may follow through on this…)

Attorney General Bill Barr will go after violent demonstrators with a 1968 law meant to quell rioting.

“We must have law and order on our streets and in our communities,” Barr said Saturday at DOJ headquarters in Washington, DC.

“It is a federal crime to cross state lines or to use interstate facilities to incite or participate in violent rioting,” he said. “We will enforce these laws.”

Barr accused “anarchistic and far-left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics” for the unrest that has spread to cities throughout the nation since Monday, in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police.

“Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda,” he said.

The federal Anti-Riot Act, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, carries penalties of up to five years in prison.


This is about organized crime and organized violence, in pursuit of some political aim. And whoever is doing it needs to be in jail, particularly the organizers from the top.

Barr’s taking a page from that history, defending the American people from this leftist plague hitting America’s small businesses and more, and betting that even with two generations of leftwingery taught in schools, the American people are going to be grateful for the intervention. It worked for Reagan, it will work for Barr and the entire Trump administration. And based on that ABC7 report, https://abc7.com/fairfax-famers-market-the-grove-protest/6221684/ is likely to be welcomed. Everyone knows that morally, hitting back hard, and with resolution, at this violent, larcenous, destructive chaos, in the face of a long soggy history of liberal coddling, is absolutely the most courageous thing any leader can do. Leaders like this get remembered.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/shades_of_reagan_bill_barr_vows_to_employ_1960s_antiriot_law_on_lootandriot_thugs.html

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

More Bricks Appear In Advance Of Monday Demonstrations
Pallets of bricks have been filmed throughout major riot hotspots across the country
“Yo, we got bricks. We got bricks!”—#Rioters in Manhattan chanced upon a cache in the street equipped with bricks and a shovel at 10:01 p.m. on Second Ave between St. Marks Pl. and Seventh St.
pic.twitter.com/dYB7vHdYqL
– Kevin R Hogan (@KRHogan_NTD) May 31, 2020

Still think these riots are fluid? Still think they weren’t coordinated ? Who the heck left pallets of bricks throughout different cities Across the Nation on sidewalks?
– ????.???????????????????????????? ???????????????????? (@JInfanteGroup) May 31, 2020

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

” Who the heck left pallets of bricks throughout different cities Across the Nation on sidewalks?”

Obimbo?

notme123
notme123
3 years ago

He was a community organizer.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  notme123

For organized looting, burning, beatings, and murders … Go to the best.

TomSJr
TomSJr
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

GEORGE SOROS, NANCY PELOSI AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF THIS!

REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!

patd
patd
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Then someone should find more lead!!!!

notme123
notme123
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

The so called peaceful rioters providing distraction so their bros can bring in their weapons? Just a thought ????????

BanLiberals
BanLiberals
3 years ago
Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  BanLiberals

I very much like the second one. However, without white people there would be no corrugated steel. The shacks would simply be made of mud.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  BanLiberals

PAST TIME!

Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
3 years ago

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. He did that to suppress Democrat rioters upset over black students in the school.
“Why Eisenhower Sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock”
https://www.history.com/news/little-rock-nine-brown-v-board-eisenhower-101-airborne

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Why did President Eisenhower send the Hunnert ‘n Worst?

Probably due to them losing their colors for raping so many women in Germany. They didn’t get back their colors until the Viet Nam conflict.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

Funny how the Fecal Bureau of Islamisation didn’t mind it when a Minneapolistan muslum cop gunned down a white Australian woman there.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago

They didn’t pay too much attention when Dillon Taylor, unarmed, was gunned down, in broad daylight, in Salt Lake City.

The murderer, a police thing named Bron Cruz, didn’t miss one day of pay. Initially, it was placed on paid administrative leave. Then, NO charges were brought and case was closed within two weeks.

This occurred around one week after the Hands Up Don’t Shoot incident. And, of course, Bron Cruz is of African descent.

I don’t believe that it even made it, one time, to CNN or MSNBC. I don’t believe it even made it to Faux News.

Wrong narrative.

Es werde Licht
Es werde Licht
3 years ago

But that´s the finishing line for lefties.
Get used of it until everyone have the same IQ-level. The standard ? A Somalian “Refugee” ? A Criminal ? A servile member for “the one and only party” ?
When fighting curruption is a crime then we are not humans anymore.

patd
patd
3 years ago

How about the LTC in Nevada at a Costco store a few years back by the cops there….no rioting ever…in fact the news is hard to find today.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  patd

It must have received little, to no, coverage. I am totally unfamiliar with it.

patd
patd
3 years ago
Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  patd

Thanks for the link.

Gaye
Gaye
3 years ago

Good point, and no one seems to worry that there has been over 35,000 terrorist attacks since Sep 11th, but this is not about Islam, or is it..
That cop committed murder, and his reputation evidently has a long history of not beening good, so charge him with murder.. People lose it when they think that things are not fair..

anonQ
anonQ
3 years ago

I find it disturbing that these terrorists are still being called “protesters.”

TomSJr
TomSJr
3 years ago
Reply to  anonQ

WE, THE PEOPLE KNOW ANTIFA AND BLM ARE TERRORISTS. We do not need to be told THAT.

ncskeptic
ncskeptic
3 years ago
Reply to  TomSJr

Apparently many do need to be told, because it hasn’t sunken in yet.

anonQ
anonQ
3 years ago
Reply to  ncskeptic

Thank you. I was just going to say that.

gfmucci .
gfmucci .
3 years ago
Reply to  anonQ

I call it willful insanity.

Tony Luciano
Tony Luciano
3 years ago

Police should have opened fire on ANTIFA and the rioters

Ban Islam
Ban Islam
3 years ago
Reply to  Tony Luciano

These vermin have beaten innocent citizens to death, they deserve to be shot on sight. And let’s be honest, they’re mostly blacks that are attacking whites, it’s very much racial. If they trigger a race war between blacks and whites, they’ll come to regret it since they’re a small minority.

ncskeptic
ncskeptic
3 years ago
Reply to  Ban Islam

But they’re assisted by a bunch of young white leftists animals who won’t think twice about taking a life. Most patriots are middle aged and will have a hard time shooting someone young enough to be their son or daughter.

patd
patd
3 years ago
Reply to  ncskeptic

You can call them what they are …MORONS!

evangeline golding
evangeline golding
3 years ago
Reply to  ncskeptic

I wouldn’t have a problem with it.

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago

“take a legitimate issue and hijack it for unknown reasons”
Give me a break.

Riots are signs of violent revolution or insurrection.
A propaganda blitz of images of destruction and accusations of injustice, is a sign of revolution or insurrection.
Stand down orders while rioters have their way are signs of a (D)omestic enemy.

This is all an extension of the violence of a bottle hitting the big screen.

TomSJr
TomSJr
3 years ago

This all started out with Americans sympathizing with George Floyd’s family, friends, and other Americans, who have had the same problems with Police around the world. HOWEVER, now since ANTIFA and BLACK LIVES MATTERS has entered the fray, THEIR CAUSE AND REASONING HAS BEEN LOST and Americans see this.

SO, when November comes and goes, Democrats will be asking themselves, HOW DID WE LOSE THE ELECTIONS? I will tell you why they lost: EVIL
Liberals and Democrat ARE NOW KNOWN AS THE DESTRUCTIVE, EVIL POLITICAL PARTY THAT WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO UPHOLD THE NAZI CREED OF TYRANNY.

When you do nothing or you associate yourself with PURE EVIL, which is what ANTIFA and BLM is and you become destructive with the property of OTHERS, then you destroy any GOOD that will ever come out of the incident with what happened to George Floyd/

ALL LIVES MATTER, NOT JUST BLACK LIVES!
————————————————————————————————–

Those of us out here watching the INSANITY of events around our nation, WILL REMEMBER WHO WAS INVOLVED AND THEY WEREN’T CONSERVATIVES AND CHRISTIANS.

ncskeptic
ncskeptic
3 years ago

All this and we don’t even know if Mr. Floyd’s murder was racially motivated. So far this year there have been 232 civilian deaths at the hands of police. 197 of those killed were white. When cops show up in black urban areas everyone standing around with a cell phone starts filming. There’s usually no such documentation when the subject is white. Even if there was it would hardly make the news. A cop killing a white person goes against the only permissible narrative in this country and weakens the case for rampant racism.

patd
patd
3 years ago
Reply to  ncskeptic

Had nothing to do with his race, it was because he was combative with the cops and we know how cops get when you fight them.

patd
patd
3 years ago

“Thankfully, officers found a way to secure access and saved the family, including the child.” WTF????!!!! Aren’t they issued guns with live ammo???? The dumbazzes should have given the rioters lead poisoning on the spot!!!! Can’t fix STUPID and when you are an LEO who can’t defend the public you need to be fired!

Ray
Ray
3 years ago

Pansie firefighters, too?? You have axes so use it on the thugs that are blocking entrance.

Philip
Philip
3 years ago

Fire does nothing but steal, and fire doesn’t discriminate. These kids are playing with fire and it’s not ok! I don’t think they even understand what they are really doing.

usn
usn
3 years ago

Should have shot them.

Merlinever
Merlinever
3 years ago

These are not just protesters, rioters, or looters; they are criminally insane sub-humans who revel in the destruction of property and life.
They all deserve to be shot.
Survivors deserve to be shot again.

danE
danE
3 years ago
Reply to  Merlinever

Gotta wait until the demonicRATS are happy with their agenda, on getting rid of President Trump! THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET RID OF TRUMP!

leonore35
leonore35
3 years ago

Why are not fire hoses and water cannons being used on those hooligans?

turkeychoker
turkeychoker
3 years ago

just shoot them

jerrys
jerrys
3 years ago

All black senators, congress people, governors mayors and police chiefs should be immediately recalled and removed from office. We are a white racist country.

All this rioting over the death of a black man who was likely on drugs but not one word about that moslem cop. mohammad noor, who shot and killed an unarmed woman. We are a racist society.

We should emulate S, Africa, Liberia, Somalia and other fair and wonderful countries.

Proscribe islam or your children will be under sharia slavery!

Joseph111
Joseph111
3 years ago

.
these are not just animals, they are rabid animals, and as such they need to be put down.
.

Jack
Jack
3 years ago

@NYCMayor Mayor Bill de Blasio isn’t truly taking this seriously! If he wanted to stop these hooligans without killing them he good issue his Finest Shot Guns loaded with rock salt instead of standard gauge shells or other means. Its ok Bill its now academic and out of your hands The tide is about to shift with heavily Armed US Troops with Permission to Use their Weapons if necessary. Your inaction stupid has kept this escalating violence going.. You surely aren’t any type of leader

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
3 years ago

These scumbag rioters and criminals are no better than the Muslims. At least they have something in common!

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
3 years ago

Shoot everyone involved, UNACCEPTABLE.

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