An angry antifa mob hounded Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens out of a Philadelphia restaurant where they were attempting to eat breakfast Monday morning.
When word got out that the duo was dining at Green Eggs Cafe, a throng of bullhorn-wielding agitators arrived and loudly disrupted their meal. In the first video, posted on Twitter by Owens, she can be heard explaining to people inside the restaurant that the reason for the disruption was that “we happen to be conservatives.”
As they departed the restaurant, one of the protesters bellowed, “They’re not Nazis, they’re soft fascists! They’re soft fascists!”
Once outside the restaurant, they were met by the cursing agitators, who were blowing whistles, flipping the bird, and chanting, “1-2-3! F*** the bourgeoisie!”
The all-white mob also howled, “F*** white supremacy!” at Owens, TPUSA’s outspoken communications director.
The irony of this didn’t escape conservatives on Twitter:
Antifa attacked Candace Owens today
I haven't seen this many white Democrats kick a black woman out of a diner since the 1950s
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 6, 2018
One agitator screeched “shame on you!” and doused Kirk with a bottle of water.
“Whoa!” he can be heard exclaiming in the video.
Kirk, the founder of TPUSA, told Philly Voice that “something was thrown at me simultaneously with the water,” but he wasn’t sure what it was. The police gave him the opportunity to press charges, but he chose not to.
In a tweet following the protest, @PhillyANTIFA called Kirk a “neo-fascist” and said he visited Philadelphia “in a heat wave so some hydration enthusiasts gave him a drenching.”
Neo-fascist Charlie Kirk visits Philly in a heat wave so some hydration enthusiasts gave him a drenching #visitphilly pic.twitter.com/yAmi15InWH
— ANTIFA Philadelphia (@PhillyANTIFA) August 6, 2018
In another tweet, they justified the assault by calling Kirk a “disgusting, homophobic, racist, bigoted presence.”
GTFO YA JABRONI!!! Charlie Kirk's disgusting homophobic, racist, bigoted presence is met by some proper Philadelphia hostility #toiletpaperusa pic.twitter.com/eR02h1M2op
— ANTIFA Philadelphia (@PhillyANTIFA) August 6, 2018
“If we allow the Democrats to regain control of Congress, these radicals will be in charge of the levers of power,” Kirk later tweeted.
Owens was undeterred. “We love the police, we love America, we love the USA,” she yelled back at the antifa agitators.
Philadelphia police officers can be seen in the video footage attempting to separate the pair from the volatile mob.
To be clear: ANTIFA, an all-white fascist organization, just grew violent and attacked an all-black and Hispanic police force.
Because I, a BLACK woman, was eating breakfast.
Is this the civil rights era all over again? pic.twitter.com/piJfnopniW
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 6, 2018
Charlie Kirk and I just got ATTACKED and protested by ANTIFA for eating breakfast. They are currently following us through Philly. ALL BLACK AND HISPANIC police force protecting us as they scream “f*ck the racist police”. pic.twitter.com/x5WUNr9mM6
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 6, 2018
Why won’t Democrat leaders denounce these ANTIFA thugs?
This is the new base of the Democrat party.
They hate America and will go to violent measures to attack conservatives
This is @RepMaxineWaters America – she called for these sort of attacks
See the hatred yourself pic.twitter.com/rnVWH8tOt5
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 6, 2018
As Owens and Kirk thanked the Philly police for protecting them, a member of the all-white antifa mob bellowed through a bullhorn, “They’re not protecting you, they’re not protecting anyone! They’re protecting money and their salaries! They don’t give a sh*t about you! Or anyone!”
Would like to personally and publicly thank the @PhillyPolice force for keeping us safe today. As you can see in the video, they were all Hispanic and black. The white liberal thugs were shouting “no good cops in a racist system”.
Listen to the BLACK female officer at the end: pic.twitter.com/R287Z4wHCr— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 6, 2018
Philly antifa called the police “race traitors” for protecting the pair.
https://twitter.com/no_ice_PHL/status/1026457969632968704
Owens on Monday retweeted a video of a speech she gave last month in which she explains how the left’s war on the police was launched to manipulate black voters:
The Left launched a war on police officers to secure the black vote.
Their media used the horrific death of Philando Castile to manipulate black minds.Never again will we allow this. pic.twitter.com/3zMSkQlw9x
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 6, 2018
Kirk pointed out the obvious double standard for how the media reports such protests.
If a angry conservative mob formed while two young liberals, one white guy and a black woman, were eating breakfast, and the mob hurled horrific insults, threw objects and assaulted them, the left would call it a “hate crime” and every major outlet would be demanding condemnation
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 6, 2018
The antifa protest against Owens and Kirk follows a Back the Blue rally in support of police officers at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Saturday. Included in that conservative crowd was popular pro-Trump activist Scott Presler, who got his car dented, tires slashed, and mirrors smashed while attending the rally.
Dear @PhillyMayor,
Today, I went to Philly, the City of Brotherly Love, to rally in support of your police.
When I returned to my car, all 4 tires were slashed. How does this inspire people to move to your anti-police sanctuary city? pic.twitter.com/VhuYF0nAUx
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) August 4, 2018
The only positive you can draw from these distressing events is that they are motivating conservative voters during an election year in which the House is up for grabs.
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