Here is a video of Yvette Felarca, an organizer for BAMN, being interviewed. She has a wound dressing on her forehead. This was after she was allegedly attacked by a neo-Nazi though I didn’t find a YouTube of the attack on Youtube … perhaps that attack is another Alternate Fact.
magellan01 linked to a video of Yvette Felarca assaulting a white supremacist, though not mentioning her by name. My understanding is that this video was taken shortly before the attack against Ms. Felarca, and the interview in first link. BAMN is a militant organization which, according to one blogger, “is an antifa cult, led (in part) by Yvette Felarca, that literally kidnaps teenagers, forces them to defoo their families and serve in their militant antifa organization.” (What does ‘defoo’ mean?)
I had never heard of Ms. Felarca nor of BAMN until I clicked on Magellan’s video. Searching shows she has never been mentioned at SDMB (unless her name was truncated or misspelled). BAMN had one passing mention:
I don’t fully understand the erislover post (which is much longer than the excerpts) but I don’t think he’s pro-BAMN or pro-Felarca. Neither is Magellan:
I think Magellan has some of his facts wrong. The protest was from June 2016 and took place in Sacramento. Ms. Felarca is a Berkeley Middle School teacher, not a UCB professor.
More significantly, Ms. Felarca’s fists were only tickling the big strong guy (who holds a weapon, but deploys it unsuccessfully if at all). The cops did step in, when the guy started getting kicked. And “the lone protestor” had friend(s) who showed up with a knife and wounded Ms. Felarca. Anyway, I have mixed feelings. I’m not pleased that BAMN is kidnapping children and forcing them to riot. :eek: But watching Ms. Felarca be interviewd I find myself admiring her, and wishing I were young again.
My first urge was to Pit magellan01. I suppose Ms. Felarca’s “attack” on big neo-Nazi was technically assault, but magellan01’s whining seems so typical of the right-wing scum now taking over America. They complain that whites are oppressed, laugh when Trump’s goons beat up blacks, but post as above, wanting us to know that Neo-Nazis are special snowflakes too, and need the cops to ward off Ms. Felarca’s petite fists.
I object to the kicking of unnamed “neo-Nazi”, but magellan01 wanted Ms. Felarca arrested when she was just pushing him.
So … I leave it to Dopers. Is she a heroine? a terrorist? or just another American with justifiable anger leaving in interesting times?