Just more hate and violence from leftwing Democrats....


Antifa activist facing assault charges was tied to Democratic policymakers
By Fred Lucas | Fox News

Joseph Alcoff, center, has been pictured with Rep. Maxine Waters, left, and Sen. Sherrod Brown, right.




What a difference a year made for Joseph Alcoff.

On Monday, the 37-year-old has a court date in connection with charges he’s facing in Philadelphia that include aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation for allegedly being part of an Antifa mob in November that attacked two Marines, Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, both Hispanic. Alcoff and two others charged in the attack have pleaded not guilty.




But while Democratic officials are distancing themselves from Alcoff now, until recently he was a well-connected, aspiring political player in Washington who may have even had a hand in key policy proposals.

His endorsement apparently mattered when several congressional Democrats in February 2018 issued press releases with his quote backing their bill on regulating payday lenders.


As the payday campaign manager for the liberal group Americans for Financial Reform, Alcoff participated in congressional Democratic press conferences, was a guest on a House Democratic podcast and met with senior officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2016 through 2018.


He was also pictured with now-House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Both committees oversee financial regulatory policies Alcoff was advocating.

Alcoff met with then CFPB Director Richard Cordray and other senior CFPB officials on April 2016, again in March 2017 and a third time in May 2017, as first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

During this time, he reportedly was an Antifa leader in Washington.

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Alcoff’s former employer had little to say about the matter.

“As of December, Mr. Alcoff no longer works for AFR,” Carter Dougherty, spokesman for Americans for Financial Reform, told Fox News in an email.

Dougherty didn’t answer whether Alcoff had been fired or resigned. He also didn’t answer whether the organization was aware of Alcoff’s associations during his employment.

Alcoff was reportedly also an organizer for Smash Racism DC, the group responsible for gathering and shouting threats outside the home of Fox News host Tucker Carlson in November and for heckling Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife Heidi at a Washington restaurant in September. Reports have not said Alcoff was directly involved in either incident; only that he was associated with the group.



Democrats are hardly eager to be associated with Alcoff now. Most spokespersons for Democratic members of Congress did not respond to inquiries from Fox News, or distanced themselves from Alcoff.

In one appearance, Alcoff dressed up as “Lenny the Loan Shark” at an event last March held outside the CFPB headquarters, which featured Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va.

“The congressman has never interacted with him nor has he taken any financial policy advice from him. Their names have appeared on the same piece of paper,” Beyer spokesman Aaron Fritschner told Fox News. “He appeared at the same press conference, but they didn’t speak to each other. This person was literally wearing a shark outfit.”

In the February 2018 press statement, House and Senate Democrats co-sponsoring the Stopping Abuse and Fraud in Electronic (SAFE) Lending Act, which boosted regulation on payday lenders, issued versions of a press release, most including the Alcoff quote.

“The Consumer Bureau and Congress have in the past understood the way that payday lenders structure loans to catch Americans in a cycle of debt with exorbitant interest rates,” Alcoff said in the press releases. “It is unfortunate that some in Washington would rather open the loan shark gates than continue to think about sensible borrower protections. The SAFE Lending Act would put Washington back on track to stop the debt trap.”

In August, Alcoff was a guest on the House Democrats' Joint Economic Committee podcast, criticizing the decline of the CFPB under the Trump administration.

“It’s been an incredible kind of erosion [Trump administration actions] recently, but these are really, really important basic functions [CFPB’s mission] that people across the country should be able to look to Washington and expect,” Alcoff said on the podcast.

In connection with the subsequent attack in Philadelphia, the two Hispanic Marines said the Antifa mob of about 10 or 12 attackers shouted racial slurs during the beating. Only three from the mob were identified and arrested. The attack happened at the same time as a right-wing rally in Philadelphia, which Antifa showed up to protest. The Marines who were assaulted said they were not even aware of the rally.

“On one side, you have the Proud Boys, a racist group of Nazi thugs. On the other side, you have anti-racist activists,” Alcoff’s lawyer Michael Coard told Philadelphia Magazine. “Unfortunately, in the mix, there were two Marines who were caught up in the whole thing as innocent bystanders.”


Coard, an African American activist in Philadelphia, also told the magazine regarding the alleged slurs, “The question that I have for the D.A.’s office and the police is this: Does anybody think that I, Michael Coard, would represent a racist? … I would never represent a racist. In fact, if I believed that he was a racist, I would prosecute him myself.”

 

Oh man I always get a kick out of it when the right wing false propaganda noise machine tries to push a talking so impotent you can prove its bullshit in like two words.

"Proud Boys."

Or just letters:

KKK

Or how about just one word:

Charlottesville

 

I saw Fox and didn't need to read the fake news.

 

These people are high ranking Democrats themselves...


Alleged Antifa leader charged with 'ethnic intimidation' over attack on US Marines
by Diana Stancy Correll
| January 29, 2019
A man accused of being an Antifa leader has become the third activist to be charged over attack on two U.S. Marines in Philadelphia in November.


Joseph Alcoff, 36, of Washington, D.C., faces charges including aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation, and conspiracy from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, the third man charged in relation to the attack on U.S. Marines Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres.

The Marines testified in December that approximately 10 to 12 activists counter-protesting a right-wing We the People rally allegedly confronted them and called them “Nazis” and “white supremacists.” Despite the assurances of the Marines, who were not in uniform, that they were not part of the rally and that they were Hispanic, the group of counter-protesters kicked them and insulted them.


Shortly after the attack, Tom Keenan and Thomas Massey, both 33, were arrested and were released on bail as they await a trial. But as Torres was reading news stories about the attack, he discovered an article in the Daily Caller that linked Keenan and Alcoff, Philadelphia Magazine reported.

The article included a photo of Alcoff, and Torres recognized Alcoff as one of his attackers. Torres then provided investigators with photos he had taken of the suspects. The investigators concurred that Alcoff was depicted in the photos.

Alcoff is said to have been an organizer of Smash Racism DC — the same group that demonstrated in front of Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson’s home. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is due in court on Feb. 11.

 

Democrat party member and antifa leader Alcoff has had a long history of protest. The below video captures him in the mid-2000s saying “I’m a Communist, motherfucker” before spitting at the person recording him....

Perhaps this is the same treatment people like Elisabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and many other Democrats deserve....

You leftwing douche bags must be so proud!

 

Proud?
Not for public consumption old boy.
But, behind closed doors?

 

Yeah right. Its the left that is violent. Its the leader of Antifa we need to be worried about inciting violence. Not the fucking POTUS. Bullshit.

Donald Trump Supporter Launches 'Incredibly Violent Attack' On BBC Cameraman At El Paso Rally

*Also note the double standard at play here. A woman grabs Kelly Ann Conway in a restaurant and she gets arrested charged with assault, and is going to court. But Trump supporters who attack people at his rallies get escorted out by security.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-supporter-launches-apos-incredibly-105355973.html

 

A guilt by association fallacy occurs when someone connects an opponent to a demonized group of people or to a bad person in order to discredit his or her argument. The idea is that the person is “guilty” by simply being similar to this “bad” group and, therefore, should not be listened to about anything.
https://owl.excelsior.edu/argument-...acies/logical-fallacies-guilt-by-association/

 

Just like you do to the "gaping hinds in fly over country"?

 

Ignorance has been the main problem since the story of Cain and Able. With ignorance comes human suffering, Jesus.

 

Going back to the OP, can we say "no shit sherlock "?

Old news.

 

5

 

Nothing surprises me
But I still have faith that this country will finds its way

 

It's all fun and games until the crying starts.

Sherrod Brown and Maxine Waters are political cowards with no backbone.

 

Great thread. All those assholes claiming Trump incites violence are just using Saul Alinsky's playbook about accusing your opponent of the very thing you're guilty of. Just like the KKK was the terrorist arm of the Democratic party after the Civil War, so is Antifa the terrorist tool of the Dems today.

 

Huh. Cause even the KKK can't stand the lying, hypocritical despicables?