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MAGA Rioter Who Assaulted Security Guard Night Before Capitol Insurrection Outed by Her BLM-Supporting Daughter.

[quote]Therese Duke, 50, was ousted from UMass Memorial after the January 5 incident

Duke's daughter Helena, 18, outed her on Twitter after footage went viral

Mother was seen trying to grab security guard's phone, and guard punched her

Duke was seen on video with bloodied face saying she was hit by 'that black girl'

Guard Ashanti Smith, 28, was also fired from her job and faces assault charges[/quote]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9156053/MAGA-rioter-outed-BLM-supporting-daughter-fired-hospital-job.html

[quote]She was identified after her daughter Helena, 18, tweeted video of the confrontation, adding a caption that read: 'Hi mom remember the time you told me I shouldn't go to BLM protests bc they could get violent鈥his you?'

Footage from a protest on January 5, the day before the Capitol riot, shows Duke trying to snatch a phone out of the hands of security guard Ashanti Smith, 28, who immediately wheeled around and jabbed the Trump supporter in the face with her fist.

Smith was fired after the incident and charged with assault, but insists that she acted in self-defense.

Duke said she had worked at UMass as a medical assistant for 15 years and now Smith worries about her future job prospects. [/quote]

馃 Lete's see. Assaulting a police officer at the Capitol?

Don't think she'll be having to worry about applying for a job anytime soon. 馃槀
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SW-User
Nothing to be proud here. She was wrong for going to Capitol. But when you see hundreds of properties were burned over Black rights, she did nothing in compared.


It takes a special kind of abomination to target your own mother for political vendetta. Her mother disliked her supporting to BLM also but didn't do public drama like that..

Politics should never be something which creates that much animosity among family.
TinyViolins31-35, M
@SW-User To be fair, you can support Black Lives Matter without supporting property destruction. It's not a tenet of their movement. Just like it's possible to support Trump while condemning the domestic terror carried out by his followers
beckyromero36-40, F
@SW-User

How many Capitol Hill police officers were killed during the BLM protests?
SW-User
@TinyViolins no kind of violence is justified. What I question here is the mentality. These kind of people don't represent the kind of liberalism I believe in.


It's like people calling Trump islamophobic coz he banned 8 islamic countries Which have always been the enemy country for US while he hardly banned Muslims from south asia. While they hail Biden as champion of morality who called hundreds of drone strikes in northern tribal belt of pakistan, killing thousands of innocents.

No one is saint here.
beckyromero36-40, F
@SW-User

Completely in agreement with what Sen. Lindsey Graham says here:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bkDykGhM8c]
TinyViolins31-35, M
@SW-User I think you're painting with a broad brush based on sensationalized incidents. I've been to and known several people who have attended BLM protests and none of us witnessed or partook in property destruction. You can look up and down BLM chapters and affiliated pages and not find anything advocating for vandalism. Furthermore, significant parts of the violence and property damage were caused by right-wing instigators as different police departments can attest to in their arrest report.

That said, I agree that violence like that is unwarranted, unproductive, and morally wrong. In the heat of mass protests, the mob mentality emboldens a lot of destructive tendencies from easily suggestible members. Not just with BLM, or political protest in general. Sometimes it just takes a soccer game. That's why I think you're doing a great disservice to fairness by conflating the two as parts of the same ideology.
SevIsPamprinYouAlways56-60, F
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