LOS ANGELES — Police arrested several dozen people and fired non-lethal projectiles to disperse an unruly crowd on Saturday after a dueling protest over transgender rights at a Los Angeles spa turned violent.
The protests stemmed from a video that circulated online earlier this month, in which an irate customer complained to the staff at Wi Spa that a transgender woman was in the women’s section of the spa.
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The video sparked controversy after the spa defended its policy of allowing transgender customers in its facilities, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Police declared an unlawful assembly in front of the spa in Koreatown around 11 a.m. when demonstrators against transgender access to the spa’s facilities clashed with counter protesters and some in the crowd threw smoke bombs and other objects at officers, Det. Meghan Aguilar, a spokeswoman for the LAPD, said.
Video posted on Twitter shows officers in riot gear hitting protesters with batons and firing bean bag rounds and other projectiles. At one point, a woman was hit in the abdomen, causing her to fall to the ground.
Antifa vandalized buildings with their political messages in Korea Town in Los Angeles before rioting. pic.twitter.com/4xEjPc1Yk0
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 18, 2021
Los Angeles: Antifa throw a smoke device at police at the violent WiSpa protest today. pic.twitter.com/a9PpjeNT15
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 17, 2021
Los Angeles: Police beat back antifa after they hurled projectiles at the officers. Antifa gathered today to again oppose a group of conservatives protesting the WiSpa where a person allegedly exposed their penis to women & girls. pic.twitter.com/xGmPAPTkSh
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 17, 2021
Antifa member gets clubbed by an LAPD officer after pulling down his/her mask and spitting in the faces of the cops. Video by @DrewHLive: pic.twitter.com/tQLeKOMYUu
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 18, 2021
At a protest near Wilshire Bl & Rampart Bl, 2 groups clashed. Smoke bombs/projectiles were thrown at ofcrs & a dispersal order was issued. Several dozen people were arrested. Numerous items in violation of 55.07 LAMC were found discarded including a stungun, knives, pepper spray pic.twitter.com/exk7vvTfRm
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) July 17, 2021
Several dozen people were arrested for ignoring orders to disperse, and police found stun guns, knives and pepper spray discarded on the street, police later said.
Aguilar didn’t have an immediate arrest count because authorities were still processing the people who were arrested and screening to see if anyone needed medical treatment.
She said no officer was injured and no protester was transported to hospitals.
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And here again, it is not about their rights—it is about their privileges.
For people who choose to live an alternative lifestyle, why do they have to constantly escalate everything into a confrontation claiming that their rights are being violated? Live the lifestyle if that is your thing and leave the combative element out of it.
When the Transgendered Lesbian married the Bi-Sexual, it created a BLT,,,,unable for mak’in Bacon, let alone common sense. So much for “Thy will be done” now replaced with “My will be done over.”
That’s the thing SoT.. THESE DEPRAVED cretins, can never STOP SHOVING THEIR rights down everyone else’s throat, AND FORCING US TO give up our rights, to celebrate THEIRS….
Just look at the sheer cringness we’ve seen over the past 20 years..
Progressivism, men in women’s bathrooms and men in girl’s bathrooms. Liberalism is such a nice evil, isn’t it? Evil is now nice!
Were any antifa arrested, or only people in favor of sanity?
More likely, only those in favor of NOT HAVINg these perverts invade their space, were arrested…
Something that needs to be drilled into heads of the LBGTQXYZ crowd and the demon-rats that are promoting this excrement. I don’t really care one way or the other what your sexual identification is. No ones “rights” are superior to anyone else’s rights. If you are a transgender male (female?) up and until your junk is physically removed, you can’t infringe on females rights by exposing yourself in front of them.
That’s the thing tremors… THEY DO FEEL THEIR rights, override EVERYONE elses…
I full well understand that they do feel their rights override everyone else’s and sadly the leftist running blue cities and states feel the same way. I believe there will be, however, a major backlash and the end result won’t be pretty.
I keep seeing conservatives say that. BUT I HAVE BEEN WAITING for that “major backlash” for years, and STILL am not seeing anything remotely CLOSE to it, happening…
This allowing transgenders to use womens facilities reminds me of the section where it was said, ” If it doesn’t Fit, you must acquite , ” The test then, whether transgenders should be allowrd in the womens accomodations is, If the ” Transgender still has the male organ, then the'” so-called ” Transgender , ” Transgender, ” isn’t allowed in the womens section such as shower areas or other areas that socity restricted to women only. Facilities..
Give them the option. A SHOT GUN to blow it off, or a Pair of lawn sheers to CUT IT OFF.. Then you can come in and use the gals facilities.