We mentioned before the story of the city of Oakland, California, that despite the rise in crime there, as in other, afflicted Democratic cities, the city council moving money away from what the police chief thought was needed. Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong delivered a very impassioned response on how this is going to hurt his effort to bring crime under control.

“We find ourselves in a crisis. We find ourselves reeling from a weekend of violence where we have seen four homicides over a three-day period. It now has us currently at 65 homicides for the year – that’s a 90% increase compared to last year,” Chief Armstrong said.

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 28, 2021

So that’s left the chief in a tough spot. What’s he going to do to help reduce crime? To him, it isn’t about politics, but doing what he can to save lives.

He has decided to reach out to the community and see if he can get a little more community involvement to help in the effort. What kind of help might he get? It’s a pretty progressive city, but it looks like a lot of people are sick of all the crime.

The chief actually drew a lot of people to come out for such an event — about 200, mostly black families showing their support, calling for an end to the violence. The group includes parents who have recently lost children who had been gunned down; the names of the murder victims were read at the event, becoming an effective memorial to remember those lives and fight to stop more lives from being taken.

But they aren’t the only folks who came out. The gathering got disrupted by a small group of mostly-white Antifa people, who came to yell and jeer at them.

Surreal moment in Oakland. About 200 mostly black families rally with police to call for an end to the epidemic of gun violence. Mothers at the stage mourning recently murdered children. In the back, less than a dozen mostly white antifa protesters assembled to jeer them. pic.twitter.com/uuE9Sohhkm

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) July 10, 2021

Dramatic confrontation before I got there. A lot of the anti-violence activists from East Oakland said they were disappointed in the white anti-police antifa protesters, said they seemed close minded and disconnected from the actual violence in the city. https://t.co/UEByf9WH5E

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) July 10, 2021

The Antifa people are disconnected — because they’re really not about black lives as much as they are about the Marxism. Getting together with police to actually do something and save black lives gets in the way of pushing that.

The Antifa folks tried to drown out the speakers. But the black folks fighting to save people’s lives let the Antifa folks have it — and they weren’t shy about it. They gave the Antifa people the tongue-lashing they deserved.

In #Oakland today there was a "Stand up for a Safe Oakland" rally against gun violence

Several #Antifa, who appear to be all white, showed up to "protest" by drowning out mostly black speakers who were naming and remembering homicide victimspic.twitter.com/rYleOwDCWd

— AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) July 10, 2021

Some were upset as it was pretty clear to them the #Antifa were not from around there

Oakland has seen a massive spike in homicide with 71 so far this year in only July. There were 85 total in 2020 and 68 total in 2018pic.twitter.com/TvBppqCAJq

— AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) July 10, 2021

More Video:pic.twitter.com/jqBI6O898M

— AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) July 10, 2021

Great job, folks! That’s what’s needed — to call out the Antifa frauds for what they are. They don’t give a hang about black lives. It’s all about their agenda and how they can use people to get it.