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September 7, 2020
Black Lives Matter protesters screamed in
the face of white elderly outdoor diners during protests in Pittsburgh
on Saturday, disturbing new video shows.
Cellphone footage shows the crowd taking
over the outdoor dining space with one person even approaching the older
couple’s table before drinking their beer in front of them; another
smashed a glass from a table.
One protester tells the diners: ‘Fuckk the
white people that built the system.’ He adds: ‘Fuck 12′; a reference to
police. Others eating at the restaurant pick up their belonging and
leave after demonstrators call them an ’embarrassment’.
The demonstrations are in response to
several black Americans who have died in police custody, with the
recently shared footage of the death of Daniel Prude in Rochester, New
York in March, sparking the new wave of outrage.
Similar scenes have played out across the
county with a diner in Washington D.C. last week cornered by a group of
anti-racism protesters outside a restaurant. In another incident, diners
in Rochester were also confronted by a large group of demonstrators.
‘We’re shutting your party down,’ one
woman was seen shouting in the face of a New York diner as demonstrators
smashed the customer’s glasses in front of their faces, broke plates,
overturned chairs and chanted at them to get out.
A second video taken in Pittsburgh over
the weekend shows a demonstrator speaking with a megaphone while walking
next to a cyclist. It’s unclear what is said, but the demonstrator
nudges the cyclist with his megaphone. The cyclist swats the
demonstrator in response, but a second protester hits the man from
behind.
Police in Pittsburgh are said to have
launched an investigation into both clips; there were no arrests during
Saturday’s protest.
The footage of the diners in Pittsburgh
being approached sparked outrage online. One Twitter user, Michele
Lippert, wrote: ‘I am so sick of this!!!’ Another, Ricardo Dinero, said:
‘These terrorists have no place in Pittsburgh or anywhere in America.
They don’t care about black lives, they care about chaos.’
Bob Billen wrote: ‘I just don’t understand
what the endgame is for this insult, smash and dash style of
“protesting”. Who is sympathetic to it?’
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