Two of Turning Point USA’s leaders were accosted by protesters they say were Antifa in Philadelphia Monday morning, according to videos posted to Twitter.
Turning Point USA communications director Candace Owens tweeted a video saying she and Charlie Kirk, the organization’s founder and president, were “ATTACKED” and protested while they were eating breakfast in Philadelphia, Penn.
Charlie Kirk and I just got ATTACKED and protested by ANTIFA for eating breakfast. They are currently following us through Philly. ALL BLACK AND HISPANIC police force protecting us as they scream “f*ck the racist police”. pic.twitter.com/x5WUNr9mM6
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 6, 2018
In the video, one person dumps a glass of water on Kirk. Antifa can be heard screaming “f*ck white supremacy.” In a follow-up video posted by Owens, they chant “1-2-3, f*ck the bourgeois!”
To be clear: ANTIFA, an all-white fascist organization, just grew violent and attacked an all-black and Hispanic police force.
Because I, a BLACK woman, was eating breakfast.
Is this the civil rights era all over again? pic.twitter.com/piJfnopniW
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 6, 2018
“This is the face of the Democrats,” Kirk tweeted, saying Antifa issued death threats against him and Owens. He added that “conservatives aren’t safe” and pointed out these are exactly the kind of tactics Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., called for leftist activists to employ against members of the Trump administration and conservatives.
So @RealCandaceO & I were peacefully eating breakfast this morning. Within 20 mins ANTIFA mobilized a protest, started screaming at us, attacked us, & threatened death against us
This is the face of the Democrats
Conservatives aren’t safe – @RepMaxineWaters called for this https://t.co/fLG0j3BsQq
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 6, 2018
“If you think we’re rallying now you ain’t seen nothing yet,” Waters said at a rally in Los Angeles in June. “If you see anybody from that [Trump] Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
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