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submitted 7 months ago by Evilphd666@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein said she may have suffered a rib fracture after she says she was knocked to the ground and assaulted by police during her arrest at a pro-Palestine protest at Washington University in St. Louis.

“Today I have really sore ribs, I’m going to the emergency room to see whether I have a rib fracture because they were using their bikes as a weapon,” Stein said during a Sunday interview on “NewsNation Prime.” “Basically ramming the handles of the bike into our chests and into my ribcage and trying to flip us over.”

Stein, 73, who was arrested Saturday, spent six hours in police custody and is facing charges of assaulting a police officer. “I wiggled out of that assault, and was told by the officer that I was assaulting him, which is absolutely ludicrous,” Stein said.

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 94 points 7 months ago

The Biden regime trying to silence critics through the use of political violence

do-not-do-thisqin-shi-huangdi-fireball

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago

In evil fascist communist north Korea...

[-] chicory@hexbear.net 85 points 7 months ago

Fucking cops. Reminds me of this from 2020:

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 81 points 7 months ago

Reminder: this cop got off without any penalty

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 49 points 7 months ago

Yeah, that was fucking wild

[-] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

blue state btw

[-] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 83 points 7 months ago

glad i singlehandedly cost hillary the election by voting for stein in 2016

[-] Baahb@feddit.nl 30 points 7 months ago

My wife still hasn't forgiven me.

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

do you live in a swing state?

[-] Baahb@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago
[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

A state where Trump won 52.3% of the vote, and she still hasn't forgiven you?

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago

lmao your vote meant nothing then. Shame how idealistic some people can get about vote

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago

I voted for Stein in Michigan in 2016 and Imma gunna do it again joker-che

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 82 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Madea Benjamin also posted a picture of a gigantic bleeding bruise on her leg that the pigs gave her at a protest

If the pigs are doing this to well known media figures who are older white women imagine what they are doing to the unknown POC.

[-] RION@hexbear.net 75 points 7 months ago

Didn't really give a hoot about her hitherto (except thinking it's very funny when libs mald about her 2016 run) but huge respect to her for this

It would've been so easy not to show up, but she did. Maybe if you wanna be cynical you could say she's just trying to pump up her approval with the kids, but I chose to believe bloomer

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

Jill Stein has never been a stranger to protests. Honestly shocked she hasn't faced stuff like this more.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 68 points 7 months ago

Her rib was assaulting the police officer by being intact

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 66 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Feels prudent here, quoting from Wiki

The bicycles are custom designed for law enforcement use. Many manufacturers of bicycles offer police models, including Haro, Volcanic, Trek, Cannondale, Fuji, Safariland-Kona, Force, and KHS.

Never buy one new of those manufacturers. There's enough other manufacturers out there that this is very easy to do.

EDIT: Fuji especially by the way, they made big news during the BLM protests that they wouldn't anymore and then quietly resumed it after. To no surprise to anyone but still, if the jellyfish have you beat on spines you deserve ire

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Always check around for giveaways or sales for second hand bikes too. Mfers are always planning on biking but never do it and then offer them up cheap on Craigslist and shit.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 49 points 7 months ago

In b4 liberals scream about how she's faking it and is trying to siphon votes off of Biden because she's a Russian troll

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You could never possibly be "in before" that. She singlehandedly gave us TrumPutLer complete with every commie here that voted for her maybe-later-honey

[-] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 49 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Bike cops using their handlebars like improvised batons is something new to me

[-] Milksteaks@midwest.social 16 points 7 months ago

You know how police dogs are considered police, well bikes are police too. Obviously Jill steins ribs assaulted the bike which led to the assaulting an officer charge

[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 46 points 7 months ago

Rib involved breaking

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 46 points 7 months ago

Wow maybe don't assault peace officers sweetie if you don't want to get hurt maybe-later-honey

[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 45 points 7 months ago

Jill Stein is actually the first presidential candidate I ever voted for... in 2012, before anyone gave a shit about her. Her platform was centered around the Green New Deal, a term most wouldn't be familiar with until AOC started using it many years later.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This has some significance, not a lot or anything... But liberals will try to make this mean nothing, and they might succeed or might not

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

"She's a Ruzzian operative, Putin owns her"

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 34 points 7 months ago

I wish. I want a traitorous 5th column 3rd worldist President so bad

[-] notthenameiwant@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

Some of her advisors this time around are literally on the board of "Friends of Socialist China" this time around, so expect China related freakouts in the coming months.

[-] sawne128@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

A thing libs miss when they say that the protests are pointless (always said in bad faith), is that stuff like this exposes to the rest of the world how evil the USA is.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

How long can we sit in the spotlight with a festering oozing swastika carved onto our belly before it's enough exposure

[-] notthenameiwant@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

Absolutely unnecessary to do to anyone, much less a 73 year old woman. Barbaric.

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