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On First Day Arizona Law Takes Effect, Protesters Arrested In Phoenix

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A protest against the recent controversial immigration law in Arizona turned violent today as several protesters were arrested for their behavior. The protest was organized as a response to yesterday’s ruling that parts of the law were unconstitutional and the fact that the law partially went into effect today.

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer reported live from the scene, where men dressed in military uniforms could be seen watching the crowd. According to Brewer, the crowd was “insisting that they are going to engage in civil disobedience,” and, as the cameras rolled, described several protesters being “dragged away.” The report did not specify how many had been arrested, as it appeared that the police were still working on subduing the crowd. She also spoke to one of the protesters who went by the name Emmanuel, who told her that, despite the potential for arrest, he was out there “for my rights, for the rights of humans.”

Video of Brewer’s report below:

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  • yweston

    Glenduh will probably get his army of Baggers together and tell them to go to AZ and spit on protesters.

  • timzank

    yweston said:
    Glenduh will probably get his army of Baggers together and tell them to go to AZ and spit on protesters.

    I assume you don’t care about borders, we’re all oone big family and all illegals should be granted amnesty?

    That’s a serious question, by the way. What do you propose?

  • timzank

    Anybody else the least bit surprised SEIU & friends had the buses gassed up in L.A. and headed immediately to Phoenix with “paid” protesters?

    All this for the sake of elections. What a country we’ve become.

  • notsofast

    They were bused in SEIU union thugs.

  • timzank

    notsofast said:
    They were bused in SEIU union thugs.

    PAID ones to boot! These people have no moral compass whatsoever. Can you imagine how frickin’ sad your life must be to be a paid stooge protester?

    losers, absolute losers.

  • Moderate

    “PAID ones to boot!”

    Making money as a professional protester. I am sure the SEIU pays minimum wage.

  • timzank

    Moderate said:
    “PAID ones to boot!” Making money as a professional protester. I am sure the SEIU pays minimum wage.

    For gig’s like this I wouldn’t be surprised if they paid in cash, booze & hookers.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    Can we please get back on the subject that those tea-party protests are going to become violent someday?

  • Thelonious Funk

    Are these arrests going to be used to point out the ‘soaring’ crime rates in border states?

  • timzank

    Thelonious Funk said:
    Are these arrests going to be used to point out the ’soaring’ crime rates in border states?

    Nope, just to point out the intolerant nature of the leftist thugs.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    timzank
    Nope, just to point out the intolerant nature of the leftist thugs.

    i’m so glad the “leftist thugs” are out protesting a law they disagree with…unfortunately, when someone disagrees with someone who opposes the law..like az representative raul grijalva…they decide to use their ‘second amendment rights’ as sharon angle cries out…
    it appears someone fired on rep. grigalva’s office when he found the glass shattered and a bullet inside

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    forgot to post a clip or that asshole notsofast will call me a ‘lying lib’…what a joke

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/111685-grijalva-closes-district-office-after-finding-bullet-and-broken-window

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    These are just manufactured protests. There is NOTHING real here. Phony, phony, phony.

    View my latest video “Just How Dumb Are Liberals?”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yIgBNyUUc

  • timzank

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    timzankNope, just to point out the intolerant nature of the leftist thugs. i’m so glad the “leftist thugs” are out protesting a law they disagree with…unfortunately, when someone disagrees with someone who opposes the law..like az representative raul grijalva…they decide to use their ’second amendment rights’ as sharon angle cries out…it appears someone fired on rep. grigalva’s office when he found the glass shattered and a bullet inside

    Kind of telling isn’t it, that you have to pay people to protest? Manufactured outrage, pure Alinsky. As for the shot fired, maybe it was the same guy that shot up Eric Cantor’s office?

  • MichelleF

    BO’s at it again:

    For those keeping score, in the last couple days, we’ve found out the SEC is now exempt from Freedom of Info Acts, the WH is very close to being able to come into any business and seizing employee emails, and now this. Did I wake up in Russia!?

    NRO: Memo circulating on Capitol Hill shows how Obama might legalize some illegals without Congress

    According to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” — that is, without the consent of the American people through a vote in Congress…
    Perhaps the most egregious suggestion is to “Increase the Use of Deferred Action.” “Deferred action,” as the memo defines it, “is an exercise of prosecutorial discretion not to pursue removal from the U.S. of a particular individual for a specific period of time.” For example, after Hurricane Katrina, the government decided not to remove illegal immigrants who’d been affected by the disaster.
    The memo claims that there are no limits to USCIS’s ability to use deferred action, but warns that using this power indiscriminately would be “controversial, not to mention expensive.” The memo suggests using deferred action to exempt “particular groups” from removal — such as the illegal-immigrant high-school graduates who would fall under the DREAM Act (a measure that has been shot down repeatedly in Congress). The memo claims that the DREAM Act would cover “an estimated 50,000” individuals, though as many as 65,000 illegal immigrants graduate high school every year in the U.S.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/29/nro-memo-circulating-on-capitol-hill-shows-how-obama-might-legalize-some-illegals-without-congress/

  • Thomas J – Libertarian

    yweston said:
    Glenduh will probably get his army of Baggers together and tell them to go to AZ and spit on protesters.

    Maybe so, maybe not…but you can bet that the SEIU thugs are out there cracking skulls. I mean, how disgusting is it that American citizens expect that we have a controlled border, expect people to follow our laws, and know who enters our country. That’s just crazy talk.

  • Thomas J – Libertarian

    Amazing…when there are Tea-Party protest they are peaceful. Yet when lefties protest they get out of hand.

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