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ROBERT DIGITALE

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | August 14, 2017, 12:11PM

| Updated 17 minutes ago.

An animal rights protester was arrested early Monday for blocking a driver with a truckload of live chickens making a delivery to Petaluma Poultry Processors.

Jon Frohnmayer, 32, of Berkeley, was booked into the Sonoma County Jail by Petaluma Police after a plant security guard arrested him for trespassing, said Police Lt. Tim Lyons. Frohnmayer had blocked the truck for 15 minutes around midnight at the plant at Cader Lane and Lakeville Highway.

Frohnmayer took part in a demonstration by the animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere. The group, which has held frequent Sunday protests at the plant for about two months, issued a press release alleging the truck drove into a throng of activists, who felt intimidated and threatened.

Lyons, however, said, The truck didnt drive into the protesters.

Petaluma Poultry spokesman Brian Sobel insisted security guards have been very, very patient with the protesters.

While acknowledging the demonstrators right to peaceful protests, Sobel said the company intends to conduct business, and were trying to do it as safely as possible.

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A Roanoke millennial will oppose Rep. Bob Goodlattes 2018 re-election bid.

Democrat Peter Volosin plans to run against Goodlatte, R-Roanoke County, who is serving his 13th term in the House of Representatives.

Volosin, 31, has never sought office before. He moved home to Roanoke in May after living in Washington, D.C., for about seven years.

Dozens of Democratic candidates have entered Virginias 2017 House of Delegates races and next years congressional races as a reaction to President Donald Trump and his policies, but Volosin says hes not running because of the Trump factor.

Tired of partisan politics in Washington, Volosin said he is seeking the 6th District Democratic nomination because hes fed up with political gridlock at the federal level.

With the way government is these days, with nothing getting done, I felt like that its time that we get somebody in there who wants to build collaboration, build partnerships and nobody else has come up so why not do it myself, he said.

Goodlatte, 64, plans to seek re-election, spokeswoman Beth Breeding said Friday.

She declined to comment further.

The 6th District has been in Republican hands since Goodlattes election to Congress in 1992. In 2016, Goodlatte, chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, beat his Democratic opponent with 66 percent of the vote. At the end of June, Goodlatte had close to $1 million in cash on hand for his 2018 re-election bid, according to the latest campaign finance reports.

Volosin is an independent contractor whose work revolves around urban planning. He earned his bachelors degree from Brown University and obtained his masters degree in urban and regional planning from Georgetown University.

He has worked a number of jobs over the years, serving as a desk clerk at a San Diego hotel, a paramedic and nurse in Washington, D.C., and eventually, consulting on regional planning efforts for various cities in Indonesia.

Volosin is an avid swimmer who qualified for the 2008 U.S. Olympic trials.

Hes also the son of Jimmy Volosin, who owns Jimmy Vs restaurant in Roanoke.

While Volosin is still forming his campaign platform, he believes health care is a right for all citizens, and he aims to reform the countrys immigration system so it is more welcoming to immigrants and refugees. Volosins husband, Malcolm Quigley, is from Ireland and a U.S. green card holder working toward full citizenship.

With the 2018 election still a distant glimmer on the horizon, Volosin will go on a listening tour this fall to hear from 6th District residents.

Im willing to listen to anybody because we need to have everybody at the table and come up with these creative solutions, he said.

Democrat Kai Degner, who opposed Goodlatte in 2016, conducted numerous listening tours while on the campaign trail. After losing the election, Degner has been raising money to form a super PAC devoted to unseating Goodlatte.

He recently started manufacturing Beat Bob bumper stickers and promises to refund the $3.99 shipping and handling fee for anyone who receives a sticker within 30 days of Goodlatte losing an election or retiring.

Democrats are lining up in record numbers to challenge Virginias Republican congressional representatives.

Seven Democrats oppose Rep. Barbara Comstock of Fairfax, six oppose Rep. Dave Brat of Henrico County and five oppose Rep. Tom Garrett of Buckingham.

Several Democrats are mulling a challenge to Reps. Scott Taylor of Virginia Beach, and Rob Wittman, of Westmoreland County.

No Democrats have emerged to challenge Rep. Morgan Griffith of Salem.

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PETER HERMANN, JOE HEIM AND ELLIE SILVERMAN

WASHINGTON POST | August 13, 2017, 4:07PM

| Updated 6 hours ago.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Police in Charlottesville, Virginia, came under criticism for failing to keep apart warring white nationalists and counter-protesters who battled it out in the city streets on Saturday amid what at first seemed an anemic response from authorities.

Anger over the how police responded came from all directions and intensified after the deaths of a woman struck by a car that plowed into a group of counter protesters. Experts said police appeared outnumbered, ill-prepared and inexperienced.

The worst part is that people got hurt and the police stood by and didnt do a godd---- thing, said David Copper, 70, of Staunton, Virginia, after an initial morning melee at a park that when unchecked by police for several minutes.

Fourteen people were injured in clashes; nine others were hurt in the car crash. Later, two Virginia State Police troopers were killed when their helicopter smashed into trees at the edge of town and burst into flames. The loss of police officers only compounded the calamity on a day that pushed police, city officials and residents to their limits.

Cable news replayed a seemingly endless loop of the early violence at Emancipation Park, where police in riot gear had surrounded the expanse on three sides, though seemed to watch as groups beat each other with sticks and bludgeoned one another with shields. Many on both sides came dressed for battle, with helmets and chemical irritants.

Police appeared at one point to retreat and then watch the beatings before eventually moving in to end the free-for-all, make arrests and tend the injured. The governor declared a state of emergency around 11 a.m. and activated the National Guard.

The whole point is to have overwhelming force so that people dont get the idea they can do these kinds of things and get away with it, said Charles Ramsey, who headed both the District of Columbia and Philadelphia police departments. Demonstrators and counter demonstrators need to be in sight and sound of each other but somebody has to be in between, he said. Thats usually the police.

Complicating the dynamics was the fact that several dozen groups of armed militia men in full camouflage toting assault-style weapons were in the middle of the crowds. Some claimed that they were there to keep the peace, although none was seen trying to stop the skirmishes.

Cornel West, the Princeton professor and writer who attended a morning church service at First Baptist Church in Charlottesville with a large group of clergy members, said the police didnt do anything in terms of protecting the people of the community, the clergy. West said that if it hadnt been for the anti fascists protecting us from the neo-fascists, we would have been crushed like cockroaches.

Richard Spencer, the white nationalist and one of the leaders of the rally, said police failed to protect groups with which he is affiliated. We came here as a demonstration of our movement, Spencer said. And we were effectively thrown to the wolves. The police, he said, did not protect us.

Local and state authorities declined to address specific questions about how the demonstration was handled or their strategy for the day.

Thomas, the police chief, said only that the city will be reviewing events of the day over coming weeks and months.

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Gov. Terry McAuliffe thanked law enforcement and noted that this could have been a much worse day today. He put the blame squarely on the white nationalists who came here to hurt people. He added, without mentioning a specific incident, And you did hurt people.

Lt. Joseph Hatter, a commander with the Charlottesville Police, said officers tried to create separate areas for protesters and counter protesters to reduce the violence. But, he conceded, It didnt work, did it? I think there was a plan to have them separated. They didnt want to be separated.

About the apparent delay in reacting to the violence, Hatter said, I dont know that we did wait. I think we did the best we could under the circumstances. He declined to elaborate.

State Del. David Toscano, D-Charlottesville, minority leader of Virginias House, praised the response by Charlottesville and state police.

Things were getting out of hand in the skirmishes between the alt-right and what I would describe as the outside agitators who wanted to encourage violence, he said.

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Heim and Silverman reported from Charlottesville. Hermann reported from Washington.

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The Trump resistance movement cheered when Democratic attorneys general in several states sued to block the president's plan to bar travelers from some Muslim majority countries.

But with far less fanfare in the months since, an emboldened coalition of Democratic state attorneys general has unleashed a torrent of lower-profile litigation they argue is necessary to protect public health, the environment and consumers from a Republican White House.

State attorneys from Massachusetts to New York to California, often working together, have brought more than 40 legal actions against the Trump administration over the last seven months. The pace, which both parties describe as unprecedented, has produced an average of one lawsuit or legal motion every five days since Trump's inauguration, not including many more letters, legal threats and formal comments to federal agencies.

"Donald Trump and his administration has been out there in ways that are illegal, that are unprecedented, that don't seem to understand some of the basics of the rule of law," said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. "It's required constant vigilance from Day 1."

The White House did not respond to a request for comment. But the frequency and variety of the legal challenges from cases involving the energy efficiency of ceiling fans to gender reassignment surgeries at the Veterans Administration have sparked criticism that Democrats may be playing politics with their states' legal resources.

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The Hong Kong democrat who claimed he was kidnapped and tortured in the city by mainland agents rebutted allegations that his story was a self scripted charade as he pledged to quit the local political arena for good in the wake of the incident.

The remarks by Howard Lam Tsz-kin came as pro-establishment lawmakers challenged the authenticity of his accounts made on Friday, which have renewed fears the one country, two systems principle has been eroded.

Lam said he was abducted by mainland agents in Yau Ma Tei on Thursday, pushed into a van, brought to a building, and tortured with staples punched into his thighs. He said he woke up on a Sai Kung beach on Friday morning.

But some questioned why Lam did not immediately report the case to police and even cleaned his clothes when he got home a move described by founding Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming as a bit silly as doing so could have jeopardised evidence needed for an investigation.

There was sand and mud [in the clothes] and they were stinky, Lam said on Sunday during a Facebook Live session. My wife asked me to soak the clothes ... and so I did. I didnt think too much about it.

He added that his mother was horrified by the incident and did not want him to report the case to the police or make it public.

But Lee and former Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho Chun-yan eventually prevailed upon Lams mother, with both arguing that a press conference would afford Lam better protection.

Lam on Sunday clarified he never altered the written statement he gave police regarding the exact spot where he was kidnapped, as suggested by some reports, and voiced disappointment the force leaked some details of the statement.

He earlier said he believed the abduction was linked to his intention to send a signed postcard from Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi to Liu Xia, widow of the late mainland dissident, Liu Xiaobo.

I do not want to be a hero

Lam

But Lam vowed on Facebook Live to end his political activism in Hong Kong as he denied allegations he was trying to exploit the incident to build political capital.

I am under immense pressure. I am very exhausted, he said. I do not want to be a hero, and I do not want to climb up the political ladder.

I will not actively engage in any political activities any more. I am just a coward who hopes to keep my family members safe. Goodbye and thank you.

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