Antifa targets ‘Babies Lives Matter’ rally, police let them know that wasn’t a good idea

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Antifa likes to pretend that they are noble and are somehow “fighting fascists.”

(Article by Nick Arama republished from RedState.com)

But just what “fascists” were they fighting when they targeted the “Babies Lives Matter” rally in Santa Monica on Saturday? We’ve other Antifa guys show up at events to defend things like “kid-friendly drag shows.”

I guess you’re not allowed to be anti-abortion or want to protect kids or the Antifa crowd will try to shut you down. Funny, that sounds kind of — fascist — when you try to shut down the opinion of others and believe that your own opinion is the only one that should be allowed.

But they found out that things don’t go well when you try to scuffle with the police. This News2share clip shows Antifa dressed in black bloc after they tried to get up in the face of the anti-abortion folks. The police were trying to separate the two groups and that’s when it got out of hand with Antifa pushing back against the cops. Police had their batons and used them to help move the Antifa folks back, pushing some of them to the ground.

VIDEO THREAD: Antifascists in black bloc scuffled with police Saturday afternoon on the outskirts of an anti-abortion "Baby Lives Matter" rally in Santa Monica.

"Fuck antifa!" the anti-abortion group could be heard yelling from across the barricades after officers with horses… pic.twitter.com/XAm2eRqfbF

— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) May 14, 2023

Three officers on horses tried to help further move the Antifa folks as one of them said they better move back “before someone goes to jail.” The anti-abortion folks chanted, “Babies lives matter” and “F**k Antifa.”

During that scuffle in the above video, there was a transgender person who was pushed to the ground.

About a minute into the violence in the previous tweet, a Santa Monica police officer throws a transgender man to the ground, who is helped up by an anti-fascist counter-protester.

"I'm literally recovering from surgery, you fascist fucking pig," he appears to say. pic.twitter.com/PnHz7ZEjw2

— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) May 14, 2023

“I’m literally recovering from surgery, you fascist f**king pig,” the transgender person yelled.

Antifa starts with a deficit of common sense, but these characters seem to have won the prize for the bizarre. One of their leaders with a megaphone kept trying to annoy the police as they tried to separate the two groups. He claims he wasn’t doing anything, “I’m just shaking my ass!”

Police began to separate the anti-abortion side from the anti-fascist/abortion-access-supporting side using barricades, and an abortion access supporter began twerking on the barricades.

"I'm shaking my ass, I'm not doing anything!" they told police. pic.twitter.com/3Vzcf1FI1s

— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) May 14, 2023

The person has some significant issues.

There was at least one reported arrest involving a man on a bike. An anti-abortion person claimed he was run over, although the situation was unclear and there wasn’t video of what occurred.

In the one situation that led to an arrest Saturday at the rallies in Santa Monica, a man ended up on the ground from his bike.

An anti-abortion man claimed "he ran me over" (although I've heard from another source that he was pushed; the fall was not captured on video).… pic.twitter.com/J2ndyKPRj2

— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) May 14, 2023

The man on the bike was taken into custody, although it wasn’t clear exactly for what. The cops arrested him after whatever he said in the interaction with them. I’m not sure what Antifa thought they got out of all this, but a few of them found out it doesn’t end well when they tried to scuffle with the police and ended up on their butts.

But ultimately, after the police separated the two groups and were able to hold the Antifa folks at bay, the Antifa folks seemed to give up on the fight and decided to head out.

After the scuffle in the first tweet, police separated the two sides more effectively, adding two layers of police tape to create a no-person's-land.

The opponents and supporters of abortion access yelled at each other from across the police line, until the supporters left. pic.twitter.com/hMFtKFbP7o

— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) May 14, 2023

Meanwhile, the pro-life “Babies Lives Matter” group serenaded them as they left, with “Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, goodbye!”