Video: SWAT team outside Obama event beats back geriatric tea-party hordes
posted at 8:20 pm on April 28, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via Sharp Elbows. This isn’t a SWAT team, actually, just local cops in riot gear, but it is the first time I’ve ever seen police in armor do a jaunty little parade down the street when responding to an event. I assure you, when the NYPD rolls up in helmets and shields, they’re all business.
But then, maybe “teabaggers” as crazed as these needed a demonstration to show ‘em who’s boss.
The crowd carried signs with messages ranging from “Give Us Liberty Not Debt” to yellow flags saying “Don’t Tread On Me.”
Urged on by people with megaphones, the crowd shouted slogans, among them “Remember in November” and “You work for us.”…
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.
The cops were there for only 15 minutes but that was long enough for comedy gold. If you think the video’s funny, wait until you see Gateway Pundit’s photos. Calling all cars: Be on the lookout for an insurrectionist with blue hair…
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Surely one of the Riot geared Police had to have been going “You have got to be kidding me… We got suited up for this? You tackle these people and we’ll have a lawsuit to pay for the cost of a hip or knee replacement!”
Razgriez on April 28, 2010 at 8:24 PM
Subtle.
Wind Rider on April 28, 2010 at 8:24 PM
The Schwartz? OHHHH the Schwartz!
Ape #1: [as the Spaceballs and what is left of Mega Maid land on the Planet of the Apes] Dear me. What are these things coming out of her nose?
Dark Helmet: [One of the apes takes his binoculars out and sees Colonel Sandurz, Dark Helmet, and President Skroob coming out of Mega Maid's nose] Hey, hey, hey. Watch my Helmet.
Ape #2: Spaceballs.
Ape #1: Oh, sh*t. There goes the planet.
alohapundit on April 28, 2010 at 8:26 PM
I dont know whether to laugh or cry
FlickeringFlame on April 28, 2010 at 8:26 PM
Storm troopers hold back those dangerous nazi tea partiers.
Fletch54 on April 28, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Like WTO: Seattle all over again…
ninjapirate on April 28, 2010 at 8:27 PM
I think everybody is playing this, and the tea party peeps are squeezing out every ounce of friendly publicity they can get.
Lord knows, we’re overdue for some scrooching.
platypus on April 28, 2010 at 8:28 PM
I forwarded Hoft’s biggovernment article to my daughter’s family in Quincy. Comedy is even more golden if you know Quincy as well as my family all do. This video is also up on realclearpolitics under video tab.
A solid reminder that one of the most effective weapons at our disposal is ridicule. The local rag tries to cover by saying the police department is responsible for ordering riot police. That is preposterous. Has to be something that was green lighted by the powers that be. Does anyone believe security or any other facet of the immaculate one’s descent to the hick parts of Earth in America are not totally controlled and scripted? There are no coincidences with leftists.
redneck hippie on April 28, 2010 at 8:28 PM
left, left, left right left.
You GOT to be kidding me. Are we sure that wasnt just a wierd star wars fan club field trip.
FlickeringFlame on April 28, 2010 at 8:28 PM
http://www.google.com/images?q=WTO:+Seattle
ninjapirate on April 28, 2010 at 8:28 PM
I’m sure Charles Johnson will be telling us that these old racists should have been arrested for… living… or something.
tetriskid on April 28, 2010 at 8:28 PM
Was Baracky all “a-skeeerd” of these rabid seniors and soccer moms?
I haven’t had as good of a laugh in ages!
Again, sigh, you just can’t make this sh*t up.
tru2tx on April 28, 2010 at 8:29 PM
Ha!
Weight of Glory on April 28, 2010 at 8:30 PM
One of those old ladies looks like my grandma, and you don’t want to turn your back on her, especially if she’s sporting knitting needles.
Kensington on April 28, 2010 at 8:31 PM
I know a lot of police, including more than a few SWAT guys. I’m sure it was command that forced them to do this, and they were hating every minute if it.
Buford Gooch on April 28, 2010 at 8:32 PM
What a joke!!! Scared of a few old ladies and gentlemen with signs? Good grief!!!
yoda on April 28, 2010 at 8:33 PM
Yeah, you laugh AP but one of those walkers can be turned into a deadly weapon with three or four changes.
Just need to wipe the BenGay off the sides before you start.
SteveMG on April 28, 2010 at 8:34 PM
What are those things on each officers left hip….they look like extra large tea bags to me. heh
That para-military cadence was pretty freaky too.
GnuBreed on April 28, 2010 at 8:34 PM
Maybe someone threw a bingo card at a police car.
Mark1971 on April 28, 2010 at 8:35 PM
Hell’s Grannies
Philly on April 28, 2010 at 8:35 PM
FlickeringFlame, whoever was calling cadence sounded about as professional as an eighth grade band.
I wonder what would have happened if someone in the crowd with military drill experience had said’ “Detail, Halt!”
Pelayo on April 28, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Comedy gold indeed.
The RNC should mine this for November.
The Ugly American on April 28, 2010 at 8:36 PM
In Quincy!? At least one had to see his granny in the crowd. How many were giggling?
katy the mean old lady on April 28, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Headline:
“Police successfully quell riot, prevent wide-spread anarchy”
No film at 11:00
JusDreamin on April 28, 2010 at 8:37 PM
I’m sure it didn’t exactly make their day.
MB4 on April 28, 2010 at 8:37 PM
Tax dollars well spent. We must protect Obama from citizens engaging in peaceful, free assembly…at all costs!
AUINSC on April 28, 2010 at 8:38 PM
can we call Obama’s thugs Brown shirts yet?
unseen on April 28, 2010 at 8:38 PM
Is this guy an idiot, I simply hate it when people with a camera, can’t work a camera. Hold it still!
Daemonocracy on April 28, 2010 at 8:38 PM
I see those old ladies were ready for combat; Wore red shirts to hide any blood.
Isn’t (wasn’t) it a crime to make a false call to the police department?
CLEARLY, SOMEBODY WANTS TO INMTIMIDATE THESE PEOPLE; BUT, SURELY NOT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OR BARRACK OBAMA, NOOOOOOOOOO!
Where’s the photoshopped images from CNN, ABC, CBS, showing these people wearing masks and throwing molotov cocktails, overturning dumpsters and cars, and burning tires and smashing store fronts and looting?
Cybergeezer on April 28, 2010 at 8:38 PM
Madison Conservative has machine guns mounted on his.
katy the mean old lady on April 28, 2010 at 8:38 PM
The MSM must have needed some photos of cops in riot gear at a Tea-Party rally to counterbalance the photos of cops in riot gear at immigration rallies.
29Victor on April 28, 2010 at 8:39 PM
Wait for the SWAT Teams ordered by Obowma outside polling places come November…
… We can’t have any of THAT VOTING thingy, now can we?
Seven Percent Solution on April 28, 2010 at 8:39 PM
Man, can you imagine what Naomi Wolff would have gotten out of this if Bush was President?
Would’ve compared it to, well I was going to say Kristallnacht but they’ve used that one already.
SteveMG on April 28, 2010 at 8:40 PM
Is this still my beloved (free) country?
Who advises Obama, in a video world?
How will this benefit the nauseating Arrogant in Chief?
U.S. America, if you have any decency left, you do something about this in Nov. Otherwise you deserve your self-destruction.
Schadenfreude on April 28, 2010 at 8:40 PM
They were chanting “USA” and singing “God Bless America”. Of course Obama had to respond harshly, he couldn’t let a bunch of Right-Wing Extremists like that go unchecked.
malclave on April 28, 2010 at 8:40 PM
My side hurts. to much laughter.
smokinjoe on April 28, 2010 at 8:40 PM
All kidding aside, granny is well known for overturning parked cars.
ThePrez on April 28, 2010 at 8:41 PM
I was thinking the same thing, I actually feel sorry for the police on this one, especially now that it is forever stuck in cyberspace.
And can you imagine the stories those ladies are telling the grandkids right now? LOL, thats gold right there.
JusDreamin on April 28, 2010 at 8:41 PM
Uh hoh my god….
Those poor cops must have been so embarrassed.
NeoKong on April 28, 2010 at 8:41 PM
There’s a hold up in the Bronx.
Brooklyn’s broken out in fights.
There’s a traffic jam in Harlem,
That’s backed up to Jackson Heights.
There’s a Scout Troop short a child.
Khrushchev’s still at Idlewild.
Car 54 where are you?
Pelayo on April 28, 2010 at 8:42 PM
That won’t happen.
The New Black Panthers will keep things under control, no need for police to get involved.
malclave on April 28, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Hey, just because they look innocent doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous.
Remember this?
tommylotto on April 28, 2010 at 8:43 PM
This is the video that needs to be shown next to the real riots in AZ after the bill was signed.
AUINSC on April 28, 2010 at 8:44 PM
And, oh yea; Somebody stole a rubber foot off one mans walker and used it to mark his cars antenna so he could find it in the parking lot.
No bail has been set.
Cybergeezer on April 28, 2010 at 8:44 PM
First, you laugh, then, you want to cry, then, you’re dead.
Look at Venezuela.
Schadenfreude on April 28, 2010 at 8:44 PM
Death Panelswill take care of this blue haired ilk!!!!
FEMA camp for the Grannies that survive the Death Panels in…..5…….4…..3….
PappyD61 on April 28, 2010 at 8:44 PM
Russia and China are really laughing.
Schadenfreude on April 28, 2010 at 8:44 PM
Yeah, ‘cuase shaky video is much worse than no video at all.
cozmo on April 28, 2010 at 8:45 PM
This is right out of Monty Python.
ddrintn on April 28, 2010 at 8:45 PM
Gosh this would be so ominous if wasn’t so freeking funny watching those tools trying to march in cadence. In boot camp they would all be commanded to fall on their faces and do 50… pushups that is.
docdave on April 28, 2010 at 8:46 PM
Listen men, those old geezers and geezeretts are cunning and they are crafty. They may be carrying used tea bags in their depends to hurl at you. There may have stiletto knives planted in the tips of their canes. They may have filled their dentures to a fine sharp point. So don’t take any chances. If any of them get too close taser them all!
MB4 on April 28, 2010 at 8:46 PM
No doubt. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of those cops had a grandmother at the rally. I can see her walking up to him now:
Grandma: Jimmy tie your boot, you look like a slob.
Police: Nana! Please! You’re embarrassing me!
Weight of Glory on April 28, 2010 at 8:46 PM
Those are bundles of PlastiCuffs. Basically large nylon cable ties that riot police use to quickly handcuff large groups of malcontents. Standard riot gear, just like the helmets.
CurtZHP on April 28, 2010 at 8:48 PM
Do these cops carry cans of Silly String instead of Mace?
profitsbeard on April 28, 2010 at 8:48 PM
Obama’s jackbooted thugs…? heh Breitbart has pics with lady teapartiers with the riot police in the background. The locals should be ashamed of themselves.
d1carter on April 28, 2010 at 8:48 PM
And SEIU.
Cybergeezer on April 28, 2010 at 8:49 PM
Wanted for reckless needleworking. May be armed with candy.
amerpundit on April 28, 2010 at 8:49 PM
After the demonstrations, these MEAN old ladies were witnessed serving tea and cookies to all officers that participated in THE FARCE!
Cybergeezer on April 28, 2010 at 8:51 PM
Cybergeezer
During the French and Indian War the French captured an English captain. They took him before their general for interrogation. The French general began began making fun of the British red tunic. He laughed and told the English captain that he was an easy target. The captain replied that if he were shot, his men would not see any blood and would not become frightened. The French general turned to his aide and shouted, Pierre, make an order for my signature. “From now on all French officers will wear brown pants.”
Pelayo on April 28, 2010 at 8:51 PM
oh my, what a pathetic clown O is :-) send in riot police to round up gramma :-) guess he could spare some of them for the AZ borders :-)
P.S. I agree that probably the cops felt awfully embarassed and idiotic when they saw the composition of the violent ‘crowd’ :-)
jimver on April 28, 2010 at 8:51 PM
Not one Oathkeeper in that whole bunch ?
macncheez on April 28, 2010 at 8:52 PM
Grannies Gone Wild!!!!
Who knew?
65droptop on April 28, 2010 at 8:52 PM
The hungover rednecks I went to boot camp with marched better than these clowns on our first formation off the bus.
Cybergeezer on April 28, 2010 at 8:53 PM
Where are the ancarchists? I don’t see any, just peace loving Americans, unlike the WTO meetings where vandalism and violence are the norm.
Will the riot police be out when illegals march in the streets on may day (lower case to show disrepect).
madmonkphotog on April 28, 2010 at 8:53 PM
Test run for November. Think I’m kidding?
SouthernGent on April 28, 2010 at 8:54 PM
….you ….yea you in the wheel chair!!!!…..get back or we will take you down with the rest of these nazi’s!!!!!!
Baxter Greene on April 28, 2010 at 8:54 PM
Excellent!!!
Cybergeezer on April 28, 2010 at 8:54 PM
I question the timing (let’s not forget yesterday’s vid showong the difference between the teaparty protests and the anti-anti-illegals protest).
DethMetalCookieMonst on April 28, 2010 at 8:55 PM
waiting for 0bama to say that the police acted stupidly…
still waiting…
pappy on April 28, 2010 at 8:56 PM
What state is this in?
thomasaur on April 28, 2010 at 8:56 PM
You know what’s a good PR visual? Elderly protesters singing “God Bless America” while being trailed by riot police in full gear.
Stay tuned for next week when Democrats will have World War II veterans arrested outside the Capitol Building for blocking traffic with their wheelchairs.
amerpundit on April 28, 2010 at 8:57 PM
Tell me about it. I have been laughing so hard I cracked three ribs. My intelligence service tells me that Hu Jintao laughed so hard he cracked four.
PootyPoot on April 28, 2010 at 8:57 PM
Quincy, Illinois.
Wethal on April 28, 2010 at 8:58 PM
The camera was shakey and yet it still looks peaceful.
DethMetalCookieMonst on April 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Well I cracked six ribs.
VinyFoxy on April 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
jim hoft photoshopped out the brass knuckles and the torches and billy clubs those ladies were carrying
Joe Caps on April 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Just a question,in my youthful days as as Petty Officer
2nd Class as a Navy Leaguer,I recall vividly the marching,
and Left,right….marching,
so,do Swat Teams normally march to their positions!!
Jus sayin!!
canopfor on April 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM
I’ve got a lot of respect for cops and the work they do. But if they’re going to let themselves be used like this by the Marxist-in-chief to further a fake libel about “violent tea partiers,” that respect won’t last.
Rational Thought on April 28, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Seriously, you can see every member of the riot squad wishing he was somewhere else at that moment. Anywhere else.
amerpundit on April 28, 2010 at 9:00 PM
sadly, this was just a warm up exercise.
if, as we can expect, the LSM justifies this, then next time it will be worse…and so on
Justrand on April 28, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Thnx, I couldn’t find a reference to a state in any of the links.
thomasaur on April 28, 2010 at 9:01 PM
I wonder what he’ll say.
INC on April 28, 2010 at 9:01 PM
Quick someone set that video to the theme song of the old SWAT show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iwp1d7eKbA
Dash on April 28, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Jimmy crack corn, and I don’t care
Jimmy crack corn, and I don’t care
Jimmy crack corn, and I don’t care
My country’s gone away
Now it lies beneath the old oak tree
It’s epitaph is there for all to see
Beneath this stone it’s forced to lie
The victim of the Obama Teatsy fly
Cheshire Cat on April 28, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Cybergeezer, I have been wanting to post that joke for a loooong time. Thanks for the lead in.
Pelayo on April 28, 2010 at 9:03 PM
The blame lies with those who ordered them to do this. Do you seriously think any one of them wanted to be there?
katy the mean old lady on April 28, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Anyone know if this has hit the major networks yet? If reported accurately (I know, fat chance) it should knock a few more points off of Obama’s popularity numbers.
docdave on April 28, 2010 at 9:04 PM
I’m sure we will start hearing about how Obama had nothing to do with this…how it’s just all bad optics. Ever notice how these ‘bad optics’ keep happening with the guy though. Again and again and again.
AUINSC on April 28, 2010 at 9:04 PM
OMG there was a dustup during the SWAT occupation:
tru2tx on April 28, 2010 at 9:06 PM
During the campaign, he blamed all the screw-ups on “staff.”
I doubt that’ll change. Bet the secret service takes the fall for it, as they had to do with the party crashers.
Wethal on April 28, 2010 at 9:07 PM
PELAYO:
This disabled Iraq war vet was driving his pickup truck down a country road and sees a Bhuddist with a gas can thumbing a ride; He picks him up and goes down the road aways when he sees an arab walking along the side of the road; The vet thinks to himself that he can fake drifting off to sleep and run over the arab and get away with it; As he’s nodding off and running off the road, he hears a bang of metal and he jerks the wheel back toward the asphalt and says,”Oh no! Did I hit that guy”? The Bhuddist says “No; You missed; But I got him with the gas can”.
Cybergeezer on April 28, 2010 at 9:08 PM
Oh wee oh, oh ,oh!
jacrews on April 28, 2010 at 9:09 PM
Police to Tea Partier: “Please get back on the sidewalk.”
Tea Partier: “I think we had better get back on the sidewalk.”
Police to immigration protester: “Please get back on the sidewalk.”
Immigration Protester: “Fuck You, Pig.”
Pelayo on April 28, 2010 at 9:10 PM
This is one of the funniest things Janet Napolitano has done in a long time…the last was around Christmas, saying the system worked. So these folks are a bigger threat then violence on the southern border or say I don’t know militant jihadis bent on killing Americans?
Where is Glenn Beck he could have so much fun with this. You know they make those big cell phones for older people “Jitterbugs” Glenn Beck should hold one up and say on air: Janet Napolitano call me :)
Dr Evil on April 28, 2010 at 9:10 PM
I’m pretty sure the guy calling cadance was a Tea Party infiltrator of Pinnochios’ Jackboot thugs!
He was sayin Left, Left, LefTARD, Left!
Pretty sure I’ll have my concealed carry by then and will exercise my voting rights if I have to use my second amendment ones!
dhunter on April 28, 2010 at 9:11 PM
Well in November the Tea Party, it did jump and it did pitch
It threw the democrat congress tyrants in the ditch
There they died and they wondered why
The verdict was they were the latest victims of the Obama Teatsy fly
Cheshire Cat on April 28, 2010 at 9:11 PM
If I hadn’t read the article, I would have thought the pictures were of a group of Walmart greeters.
I guess the police must have been there to protect Pres. Obama…they kept saying “…left…left…left…”
Blaise on April 28, 2010 at 9:11 PM
Obama what a pos afraid of little old ladies, what a sissy.
jainphx on April 28, 2010 at 9:11 PM
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