Charlie Kirk displayed a symbol that was suggestive of Nazism at his final rally. Kirk organized a national youth organization, Turning Point. I have not listened to Kirk much, but I do NOT think he espoused Nazi or racist ideas.
The image below is from the day he was killed. Charlie Kirk certainly did not deserve to die. I am very sorry that he was killed. It was horrible.
I am only posting what I see and how it can be interpreted. That does not mean that Charlie Kirk even realized that such an association might be made with that symbol. Most probably, however, Antifa would see that as a symbol of Nazism. That is the point.
He was using a symbol in his signage that is not exactly a Sieg rune in the standard style for a Nazi youth organization, but it suggests a Sieg rune. Kirk was a youth organizer.
A double Sieg rune was the symbol of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS). A single Sieg rune was the symbol of the Deutsches Jungvolk (German young people). The DJ was a younger organization than what we call the “Hitler Youth” (Hitlerjungend). Even if he did not make this association with Nazism, Antifa will take it as a hidden message.
Below is a badge of the “Deutsches Jungvolk”.
I am not trying to justify his shooting, I would agree with him on many things, but why was that symbol being displayed? It is a “dog whistle” to those who do have Nazi sympathies. It is also a “dog whistle” for Antifa. They often brand people as “Nazis” simply for having conservative beliefs. Use of such a symbol will reinforce their paranoid belief that Kirk was a secret Nazi-sympathizer.
Uniform of the Deutsches Jungvolk iwth Sieg Rung
It is not clear how long he has been using that symbol, but it seems unlikely that it was the first time he had displayed banners with that symbol. The same symbol was on the canopy that he was sitting under.
This post provides an overview of the Antifa Pacific Beach riot and what happened in the trial of the two Antifa who went to trial in April, 2024, Jeremy White and Brian Lightfoot. There were eleven Antifa originally charged in the conspiracy to riot. Nine of them pled guilty before the trial began. There is also a 12th Antifa, Jonah Bigel, who participated in the riot and attempted to burn down a police storefront a couple of weeks after the riot. He was arrested and prosecuted separately.
Verdict:The verdict was read on 5/3/24. The two defendants who went to trial. Both were found to be guilty of conspiracy. Jeremy White was found not guilty of his one count of assault. Brian Lightfoot was found guilty on 6 counts of assault, not guilty on one count and the jury was hung on 9 counts. Nine other Antifa had already pled guilty.
Antifa has an anarcho-communist ideology that justifies violence against fascists, Nazis and racists. When there is a shortage of fascists, Nazis and white supremacists to attack they tend to brand everyone who opposes them as that. They are a revolutionary movement and believe that the American system is a fascist and racist system, which should be destroyed. It is not clear that any person they attacked during this riot could be legitimately labeled a fascist, Nazi, or white supremacist. In any case, it is still a crime to attack someone for what you perceive (or imagine) their beliefs to be.
NOTE: This post is a work in progress. I will be fleshing it out with more video and text for a couple of weeks to give you a concise view of how it went down.
Patriots and high school boys attacked
Four patriots and four high-school boys arrived at that event early to provide a place where those arriving could congregate. An estimated 40-50 persons in Black Bloc showed up. About 50 more persons were with Antifa mostly from the ideologically allied Black Lives Matter movement. The Antifa were armed with bear-spray, pepper-spray, tasers, full cans of Twisted Tea used as projectiles, knives, batons, clubs, and one baseball bat, carried by Jonah Bigel. Lightfoot sprayed all eight of them first with bear spray and a couple of other Antifa joined the spraying. Video of this incident is shown at the beginning of this news video by the “Daily Caller” website.
The four patriots were the main target, but the 17-year-old school boys were also sprayed and one was beaten down by a group of Antifa. Light testified that he analyzed the patriots and he knew they were about to become violent because the one in the blue checkered shirt had his hands in his pockets.
Prosecutor relates White’s and Lightfoot’s comments on the initial attack that started the riot.
As the four patriots retreated they continued to beat and kick them and throw projectiles at them. A helpless, unarmed woman was beaten was by several of them. Jesse Cannon threw a wooden folding chair that hit her in the back. She lunged at Lightfoot who had bear-sprayed her. Lightfoot pushed her to the ground while several Antifa continued to beat and kick her.
Lightfoot claimed self-defense in this incident, because she lunges at him out of desperation. The prosecutor pointed out that once you attack someone, you can not claim self-defense any longer if they try to fight back. The unarmed woman’s attempt to fight back was not even a a real threat to Lightfoot.
Some of them chased one of the high school boys, who had already been sprayed with bear-spray for some distance along the boardwalk. The 17-year old was very thin, probably weighed less that 150 pounds. Several of them started beating the boy mercilessly and spraying him. It seems it was Samuel Ogden who brought a heavy walking stick about 5-feet long similar to the photo to be used as a club. They also beat boy with the walking stick. They showed a photo in court of the boy’s back in court with about 6 huge welts on his back from the club. I have not seen that image on the Internet, probably because he’s a minor. However, the photographer, John Cocozza, was hit later with the same club and the boy’s wounds look the same as Cocozzas in the photo below, only the boy had about half a dozen on his back.
Man and dog bear-sprayed
One of the Antifa knocked a child off a bicycle. An man, walking his dog on the boardwalk, approached Jeremy White to complain about it. White bear-sprayed the man and his dog. The dog was lunging at White, but the man was tightening his grip on the dog and still had a strong grip on him when they were both sprayed.
Excerpted from Prosecutor Harvey’s Closing Statement. All court audio is credited to Ken Stone of Times of San Diego.
Phone stolen and smashed
Two Republican woman tried to cross the area occupied by Antifa / BLM to go to the patriot area as the anarcho-communists chant a threat of violence FUCK AROUND, FIND OUT!. They stole the phone from one of the women and took turns stomping on it. One Antifa member pounded it with a flagstaff. The phone was in live mode, so they recording themselves committing the crime. Then, they gave the destroyed phone back to its owner as evidence.
First photographer attacked
Here, John Cocozza describes what happened to him. He is a professional photographer, who was just there that day to take photographs. He is trained in the martial arts and has work as a bouncer in bars. He had no fear of Antifa and talked back to them. For probably that reason he was tagged as the “enemy”.
Second photographer attacked
A second photographer on a bike was attacked, referred to as RL in the court documents. RL carried a knife in a scabbard, which is legal.
RL was beaten down by several people. His bicycle and hat was stolen and thrown into a garbage dumpster.
Jeremy White is accused of pointing him out for attack for other. He is also accused of following him around the corner and bear-spraying him and tasing him.
John Cocozza helped free RL from the attackers. Brian Lightfoot grabbed from Samuel Ogden the same walking stick that the high-schools boy was beaten with and hit Cocozza on the back with it.
Man beaten while trying to rescue daughter
An older man, who according to defendant Lightfoot was attacking a younger woman. The man was slugged by Lightfoot the father in the head and knocked him to the ground by one of the Lightfoot, then three other Antifa jumped in and the four of them beat the man together. The DDA played the 911 call and the man told police he was her father trying to get her out of the danger of the Antifa riot. She was possibly a supporter of Antifa / BLM and did not want to leave. So, they were probably having an altercation with him trying to her to pull her out of the riot. Lightfoot was wiping away tears after they played that 911 call. However, when the prosecutor asked whether he regretted attacking that father trying to save he daughter, he said, “no”.
Man punched and bear-sprayed
A older man who had been drinking talked back to several Antifa members. He was bear-sprayed by Lightfoot without any justification. Have not seen video of that on the Internet, but the prosecutors showed it in court.
Unidentified men beaten down
There were, I believe, one or two unidentified men where were beaten down and bear-sprayed by a number of Antifa members.
This is one such attack on an unknow man by a group of Antifa, presumably for no good justification. I assume that, because the were attacking other people with no justification.
Notice a call goes out for a medic from multiple Antifa members. That the medic is not for the person that the mob beat viscously, but for one of the mob who carried out the beating. Jeremy White is standing there watching the beating, but there is no sign that he offer to help by stopping the beating or aiding the victim.
Antifa/BLM rioters attack police
The riot was declared an unlawful assembly by police, but only on the Antifa/BLM side. The Antifa/BLM mob refused to leave, which is itself a crime. Some on the Antifa/BLM side attacked the police line. Bottles, rocks and eggs were thrown at police. The police drove the mob back by firing volleys of pepper balls on the ground to create a cloud of irritant.
See an aerial view if this fighting at 10:49 this link.
The twelfth Antifa conspirator
Jonah Bigel, AntifaThis document below from from the court file describes the charges against Jonah Bigel. Bigel was charged with seven felonies and one misdemeanor. He tried to burn down a police storefront, possessed an illegal unregistered handgun, which would be useful for crimes. He was the one carrying a baseball bat at the J9 riot in PB. Bigel participated in the attacks on persons they perceived as pro-Trump and he also broke a store window with the baseball bat. To make it worse, he did these things while he was on probation for an earlier conviction. I don’t know the details of his conviction. Will try to obtain that and add it here later.
White testified at the trial that he had participated in a number of national protests. He received a congressional award from Bernie Sanders.
Listen here to the interview that White gave for the Antifa-friendly website, “It’s going down.” White has plenty of legal and ideological reasons to spin things. No one should assume he is being truthful.
Antifa ideology justifies violence
This is an except from the Antifa Handbook by Bray. Antifa supports violence upon those they deem to be fascist or white supremacist. They often define their opposition as “fascist”, whether they really are or not. It states that Antifa does not wait for violence from the other side to shut the event down. That is exactly what Antifa did at this Pacific Beach event. They didn’t wait for violence, but tried to shut down a free speech rally with rampant violence from their side without any justification.
So far 10 persons identified as antifa have been charged with criminal conspiracy and a large number of other felonies for their attack on a pro-Trump rally in Pacific Beach, a suburb of San Diego on January 9, 2021. Their names are Alexander Akridge-Jacobs, Jesse Merrel Cannon, Joseph Austin Gaskins, Brian Lightfoot, Christian Martinez, Luis Francisco Mora. Bryan Rivera, Faraz Martin Talab, Jeremy White and Erich Louis Yack.
Jonah Bigel was arrested some months ago and is already being tried. He is also mentioned in the criminal acts listed below, but he has not been charged in the criminal conspiracy so far.
This post is under construction. I will be added information here, as I obtain it.
Court Dates:
A prelim hearing is scheduled for 12/17, presumably at the downtown San Diego courthouse. More exact information will be posted later.
Akridge-Jacobs, Alexander Alexander Akridge-Jacobs
Bigel, Jonah Jonah Bigel (left) Bigel is charged with a crime for the 1/9/21 event, but he was arrested earlier in February, 2021 and has been being prosecuted since them. To read more about Joseph Bigel go to this link:
Serna, radical Leftist and SEIU Union leader distributed tortillas and asked young students to throw them at the Latino opposition
After a high school championship basketball game, between Coronado High and Orange Glenn High of Escondido, tortillas were thrown, which was taken as an racist act against the majority Latino team from Orange Glenn. It appears that the racist act was “engineered” by an Democratic operative in order to pressure Coronado to implement the teaching of Critical Race Theory and other such Marxist racial ideology in Coronado, which is a Republican enclave in San Diego, Ca. Lucas Serna, brought the tortillas and encouraged impressionable, young Coronado students to throw them, saying it was a celebratory thing and okay to do, even that it was approved by the Coach.
According to a local Talk Show host, Carl DeMaio, Lucas Serna turns out to be a member of the local Democrat Club, a Democratic Socialist and a leader in the SEIU. It is believed he set Coronado up for a charge of racism, a dirty trick.
The school superintendent and most of the school board jumped to the conclusion that Coronado High students were guilty before the investigations were done. The California Interscholastic Federation also jumped the gun and issued a statement stripping Coronado High of the SoCal Championship and putting the school on probation for three years.
UPDATE: Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey calls on School Board to Apologize for Smearing Coronado and Students
As a result of this incident, a couple of professional leftist agitators have gotten involved and are exploiting it for publicity and fundraising purposes. Enrique Morones and Tasha Williamson are two of them. Yusef Miller is probably another, though I have not been following him. I have posted links to archives for Enrique Morones and Tasha Williamson in the upper right margin.
Enrique Morones is known for tricking the Border Patrol, arranging a cross border wedding (see video) for a convicted, major cartel drug smuggler in December, 2017.
Tasha Williamson was arrested when she threatened to burn down National City in 2018 (see video) and was the most prominent BLM leader with the mob burned La Mesa’s downtown to the ground during a BLM protest turned riot.
This post provides one page where interested persons can obtain an overview of what happened and links to relevant internet resources. Whether you live in Coronado or not, this is a good example of a leftist dirty trick and anyone can learn something about their tactics and how they operate from this example. Around the time that Trump was elected president, we saw many incidences of fake hate crimes and/or over prosecution of minor incidents, deemed hate, for political purposes.
PROFESSIONAL LEFTIST AGITATOR, ENRIQUE MORONES
Enrique Morones hypocritically rails against racism, when it seems not to be about racism at all, but trying to frame others as being racist for political purposes. In public comments at a special CHS board meeting, he called the tortillas, “bombs of racism”.
This veteran confronted the BLM marchers head-on. The BLM radicals were lead by Tasha Williamson and marched down the middle of Coronado’s main street, flying a Mexican flag, vandalizing public property and chanting insulting slogans. I can totally understand how he feels, but I would not personally recommend this approach. It can get you in more trouble than it’s worth. As said already above, Tasha Williamson threatened to burn down National City in June of 2018 and was the BLM leader in La Mesa (as well as all of San Diego County) when downtown La Mesa was burned to the ground during a BLM/Antifa riot. She toured La Mesa’s downtown with her entourage as it burned during the riot. See the video here.
More information about yesterday’s protest: A man was detained by police for physically assaulting protesters. Coronado police provided this statement: The man was detained then released due to the fact that the victim declined to press charges.Â
Carl DeMaio has really been on top of this story, publicizing much critical information that others media outlets censor. Click on the ling to go to Carl’s KOGO podcast to see his updates.
Serna admitted to Carl DeMaio and other reporters that he is a Democratic activist and leftist / progressive union leader.
SPECIAL CORONADO SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
The Coronado School Board had a special meeting on June 22, 2021. There are the comments at that meeting by the trustees and the public.
Citizens of Coronado mostly opposed the rush-to-judgment by the School Board. Three leftist agitators (outsiders) also spoke out trying to brand Coronado as an enclave of racism, Yusef Miller (8:30), Enrique Morones (14:20) and Tasha Williamson (18:10).
