Hallowed Sons Motorcycle Club arrived to stop FLAG BURNING

superbeets · Jul 2, 2015

[h=1]'Disarm the Police' protesters set fire to stars and stripes as part of demonstration stunt - then had to be saved by the NYPD when a group of angry bikers showed up and took objection[/h]

Flag-burning protest took place at Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, Wednesday
Disarm the Police claimed it was for the Charleston church massacre
Group planned to burn American and Confederate flags
Hallowed Sons Motorcycle Club arrived to stop the fiery stunt
The NYPD had to step in to stop protesters being hurt
Pro-flag demonstrators also went to the protest

PUBLISHED: 21:18, 2 July 2015 | UPDATED: 23:35, 2 July 2015

Anti-NYPD group Disarm the Police staged a flag-burning protest on Wednesday night for what they claimed was a stand against the Charleston church massacre - but the activists had to be rescued by none other than New York's finest.
The scene at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn descended into madness when the fiery stunt was crashed by a group of bikers opposing the flags being burned.
Disarm the Police had announced on their Facebook page that they planned to light up both American and Confederate flags - saying they both 'symbols of oppression' - with over 350 people responding as attending.
However 40 members of the Hallowed Sons Motorcycle Club turned up at the scene about 8 pm to make sure no more flags were burned.

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superbeets · Jul 2, 2015

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Here to put up a fight: About 40 members of the Hallowed Sons Motorcycle Club turned up a flag-burning demonstration at Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, on Wednesday night to stop the demonstrators

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NYPD officers had to step in and save protesters from being hurt by members of the biker club

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The activists made plans to burn the American flag during a protest at the Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn

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The group called Disarm NYPD said that they would burn both American and Confederate flags at the event

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superbeets · Jul 2, 2015

NYPD officers who were at the scene in front of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument - a memorial to the more than 11,500 American prisoners of war who died in captivity aboard British prison ships during the Revolutionary War - as a precaution then had to step in to make sure no fights broke out.
According to the bikers, the protesters needed that protection.
'They took off like little b----es,' said one biker told The New York Post.
'They lit the f---ing flag and took off running once they got slapped once or twice.'
But it wasn't just the bikers that turned out opposing the Disarm the Police protest.

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superbeets · Jul 2, 2015

Putting a stop to this: Ridgewood man John Carroll steps in to stop a flag being burned

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Speaking out: Pro-flag demonstrator John Carroll said he would 'stand by this flag anytime'

Some pro-flag demonstrators also stepped in.
John Carroll, of Ridgewood, was booed by the crowd as he went in and took one of the flags that was left on the ground to burn.
'If you're going to burn the American flag, you're going to run the risk of running into people like me,' Carroll told NBC New York.
'I will stand by this flag all the time.'
Diane Atkins added: 'We believe in what the United States of America stands for, and the flag that people have died to protect it.'

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superbeets · Jul 2, 2015

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Police lead members of the Hallowed Sons Motorcycle Club away from the protest to stop fights erupting

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Over 350 people on Facebook said that they planned to attend the flag-burning event

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Escort: The biker group aggressively intervened to the flag-burning and violence broke out

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Pro-flag demonstrators: Other people also turned out to oppose the burning of the American flag

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Residents all over New York turned out to show their anger at the event and what it planned to do

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superbeets · Jul 2, 2015

State senator Marty Golden, a Republican from Brooklyn, told NBC the event was 'wrong'.
'It's a wrong message to send to our children, wrong message to send to our communities,' he said.
'Just plain wrong.'
Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams said that Disarm the Police had taken the wrong route, especially since the protest was meant to be about the Charleston church massacre, one of the worst hate crime in recent American history.
'I am sympathetic to those protesting institutional racism in our society, but burning the American flag is a fringe act that will do nothing to combat the challenges we face,' Adams said.
Disarm the Police hit back on their Facebook page, saying the flags are nothing but 'a piece of cloth'.
'We find it a sign of the times that people can care so much about a piece of cloth, while at the same time be so quiet about black churches being burned all over the country.
'We do not believe the ideals of America are anything to be revered.'

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'Disarm the NYPD': The group said that it does 'not believe the ideals of America are anything to be revered'

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An American flag is left in a barbecue to burn at the protest in Fort Greene park on Wednesday night

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Organizers had said earlier that the flag burning was aimed at combating racism and social injustice

The statement continued: 'We dream of what real freedom looks like: freedom from paramilitaries occupying our communities, beating and killing our sons and daughters; freedom from our communities being destroyed by the speculative capital of gentrification; freedom from mass surveillance; and freedom from systemic racism,' the statement continued.
'So, we will burn the American flag, a symbol of oppression and genocide, and in the same action, dismantle our stunted, cynical expectations of what is possible in the world.'

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