A town hall for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia outside of Atlanta on Tuesday quickly deteriorated into chaos, as police officers forcibly removed several protesters.

Ms. Greene, a Republican firebrand and loyal ally of President Trump, had barely reached the podium to speak when a man in the crowd at the Acworth Community Center stood up and started yelling, booing and jeering at her. As her supporters stood and clapped, several police officers grabbed the man, later identified by the police as REDACTED, and dragged him out of the room.

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    So this gutter slime can stand up at a State of the Union in a hooker skirt and disrupt the speech, but anyone disrupting her gets stun gunned?

    Hey y’all, in case you haven’t noticed, American fascism is here.

    Buy a gun. Train. Help others purchase guns. Help them train.

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    officers grabbed the man, later identified by the police as REDACTED of Atlanta, and dragged him out of the room.

    The man’s identity should not be allowed to be publicly blasted to the media by police for checks notes NOT committing a crime.

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      The official attitudes about this are interesting. In some countries they’re more worried about protecting the privacy of the accused. In other countries they identify the accused because they’re worried about people being disappeared.

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        Was nothing against you just the concept of outing innocent people the way the police and media do

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      These fucking clown gaping mouth breathers need to be filled with FACTS and the constitution vs their “husbands” showing their junk to underage girls… and thinking “Pizzagate”, was truly a thing!!

      Marge disrespects her fellow Neanderthals and every other Homo Sapien by believing “dems are drinking the blood of children”, “thinking that Ohio immigrants are EATING cats and dogs”, YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP!

      These GOP followers truly believe her and her trash even against school shooting victims!!

      DEAR GOP MEMBERS… DO FUCKING BETTER AND USE CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS!! Otherwise, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM AND THE EMBARRASSMENT OF AMERICA! … What did you learn?

      The GOP “party” doesn’t give a fuck about you unless you make over a million … and that’s truly because they want your “donation” …

      “The American Experiment” IS A FUCKING FAILURE! Cut the losses and help the people, otherwise, you are no better than North Korea!

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    identified by the police as REDACTED

    REDACTED is such a sturdy name. I wonder if it’s a new naming trend.

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    This is a prime MAGAt. I am sure she loved a little torture with her town hall.

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      being putins mouthpiece in the house, she has to bark every few months.

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    Summary of TFA: A couple people got dragged out, but the klan rally was mostly uninterrupted.

    People there like her. Because they are awful like all people.

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    Someone needs to discharge a stun gun in that dumb cunt’s fucking mouth

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    I’m not well versed in property law, but the article says that the rally was at a community center. Does that necessarily imply that this is public, rather than private property? And if so, what possible justification could there be for the police to violently subdue people for exercising their freedom of speech on public property? Legal justification, that is. The MAGAts would obviously cite their hatred for all things pertaining to American freedoms (save those directly to do with bearing arms) as justification.

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      Just because the property is public doesn’t mean the public can do whatever they want in it. People who are interrupting whatever is going on can definitely be removed from the proceedings.

      And cops use violence with impunity, so legalities are moot there.

      This is not an endorsement of what happened, just the legal justification for removing a person from an event at a public building.

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        Just because the property is public doesn’t mean the public can do whatever they want in it

        Yes, but what those people were doing was exercising their first amendment rights. It’s not like they were going around punching people, or shouting “Fire!”. And considering that they were there attending a town hall, it’s really hard to make the case that they were loitering.

        People who are interrupting whatever is going on can definitely be removed from the proceedings.

        I don’t know that that’s true, legally speaking. I am, however, ignorant of a great many things, and this is definitely one area in which I feel a profound deficiency. But just because people routinely get abused in this way by the police doesn’t necessarily imply that it is legal for them to do so. As you point out in your next sentence, cops use violence with impunity, and our justice system tends to look the other way when they do.

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          It’s definitely true. For instance, you can’t just walk onto the Senate floor and protest.

          You might be exercising your first amendment right to protest, and the US Capitol is a public building, but that doesn’t mean it’s illegal to throw you out.

          And honestly, if this was a maga person protesting at a Democrat town hall, would anyone here jump to their defense that they were exercising their right to protest?

          If someone is interrupting an event, it’s perfectly reasonable for them to be removed from that event. The removal and the police brutality are two separate conversations.

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            The removal and the police brutality are two separate conversations.

            Yeah, that was more my point with my initial post. I understand escorting someone from the premises if they are causing a huge scene, but these cops violently wrestled these people out of there, even employing a potentially lethal weapon on two occasions. Many people have died over the years from being tased, and so to see it being used so wantonly is incredibly disturbing.

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    Why use stun guns? I thought these GOP slavery fans would have preferred to whip the disobedience out of the protesters with a cowhide or a bullwhip to keep their southern traditional values.