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Riot Police Called in to Protect Obama from Out of Control Tea Party

By Doug Powers • April 28, 2010 08:28 PM

Jim Hoft at Big Government has some pictures from a Quincy, Illinois Tea Party today. President Obama was speaking nearby about Wall Street greed, and somebody obviously thought the Tea Partiers posed a major threat, because security reinforcements were brought in.

Thank goodness the riot police showed up quickly before something serious happened. Look at these extremist maniacs!

And of course you can never be wearing too much body armor when dealing with terrorists who are wielding the dreaded bullhorn of mass destruction:

No word yet on how many crimes were carried out in town while the police were being ordered to monitor this seething cauldron of Tea Party rage, but it was a small price to pay to keep the area secure.

More pics and a video of the riot cops — including a very small geared-up officer that leads me to believe it might have been “take your SWAT kid to work day” — can be found here.

Update: A tad more info from the Quincy Herald-Whig:

There were a few tense moments when the crowd moved west down York toward Third Street after the president’s motorcade arrived. A Secret Service agent asked the crowd to move back across the street to the north side. When the crowd didn’t move and began singing “God Bless, America” and the national anthem, Quincy Deputy Police Chief Ron Dreyer called for members of the Mobile Field Force to walk up the street.

Update II: Jim Hoft wrote to say that the above report about the crowd refusing to move is not true, and that the call to bring in the police came from the inside and for no apparent reason (other than perhaps intimidation — or maybe “somebody” claimed they heard a racial slur). More here.

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#101

On April 29th, 2010 at 1:53 pm, corkie said:

On April 29th, 2010 at 1:01 pm, Truesoldier said:

From the article:

Sorry, I should have made clear that I was addressing my question to Quincy. Maybe the author identified the SS pin or maybe they just assumed a local law enforcement officer dressed in a suit was SS.
#102

On April 29th, 2010 at 2:12 pm, tiredofit08 said:

Post riot police interview of little girl and mother..pass it around…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2vF4aewSQo&feature=player_embedded#!
#103

On April 29th, 2010 at 2:59 pm, tbear44 said:

That nice lady in the top picture, far right, looks like Maxine from numerous funny emails. Right on Maxine! You go girl!
#104

On April 29th, 2010 at 3:15 pm, FirstSkirt said:

Thanks, all, for the laughs I got reading the posts – made my day.

On the other hand, this seems to me to be a set up orchestrated by Obeyme’s folks to give the appearance that Tea Parties need to have a strong police presence (which would make the 3 beautiful ladies in the picture keel over from laughing!). I put NOTHING past BHO and those who support him.
#105

On April 29th, 2010 at 4:31 pm, spaceycakes said:

1, 2, 3, 4! Does anyone remember what we came here for?!
#106

On April 30th, 2010 at 10:17 am, cheapseat said:

Yes those dangerous thugs of the tea party rival the anarchist latinos of last weekends show in arizona. I suppose tomorrows “have a happy communist may day” parade by our law abiding illegal alien crowd, with their catholic priest leadership (keep those tythes rolling in as the pope needs a new rembrandt in the vatican) will be as peaceful.
#107

On May 1st, 2010 at 10:25 am, beachmom said:

When Obama was here we went with our anti health care and smaller govt. signs. The cops were out of course. The funny thing? There were 2 cops at the pro Obama end. There were 4 cops plus a cop with a camera taking pictures of all us rabble rousers at our end.