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Calandro echoed other protesters who called the alleged slurs "lies" and blamed Democratic infiltrators for starting trouble. "Don't believe it," said the retired New York City cop. "I'm telling you. These are all family people here. Not one of those 'demonstration' crowds, and I've worked them all."
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Yesterday's rally was enthusiastic & had folks from all walks of life. I was there for hours walking around the event and didn't hear anything close to a racial slur. I don't think the crowd that I saw would have tolerated it. This article is a regrettable piece of "journalism" without intellectual integrity.
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I was observing the rally yesterday, not the entire time I admit, and saw nothing described in this article. Sounds like the media and the dems are trying to sway public support of this grass roots fight against this horrible bill and take attention off the way they vote.
I walked past the anti war protest at the White House and that was a scary site.
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
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