BNormal, Illinois
June 1, 2020
I just made a police report that I was threatened by some
ostensible "protesters" but more likely plain ordinary assholes on
my way back home tonight from Front Street in Bloomington. I had gone down
there because I had heard a bunch of people shouting and I'm a curious guy by
nature. This group of people - a combination of black folks and white folks and
all about in their early twenties, I would guess, didn't do anything down at
Front and Center. Didn't protest once they got there, just muddled and blabbered
among themselves. then after a while they dispersed and some walked directly
across the street to where I was standing talking to a neighbor. She left in
one direction and I turned to follow the group back down to my place.
Well, one guy turns to me and says, "Are you with us?"
I said no, I was going back home to hit the sack. The guy says, "If you're
not with us, then you're part of the problem!" I just kept walking. Then
the guy turned and said, "You're just wanting to get positive I.D. on
us!" I said no, I'm just going home.
The guy got progressively more belligerent and the rest of the
group started yelling at me too. I was getting a little ticked by this point, so I said, in so many words, fuck you, motherfucker! Well, the guy
didn't like that, and he said “Fuck *you*! If it wasn't for my crew, I would
beat the fuck outta you!" I thought, "Ya know, I think he could very
*easily* beat the fork outta me," so I turned down the street in a
direction away from them.
Among this group, there were one or two who looked like
peaceable people who might have gotten hoodwinked into this deal, but on the
whole, this was just a bunch of wankers - *dangerous seeming ones,* though and bent on
destruction. On the basis of what my more knowledgeable neighbor said, I'd say
these people were not from Bloomington and they were indeed the outside
agitators I'd heard about.
Whoever they are, they sure as hell are not bent on a mission of
reconciliation and instead are making shambles of a peaceful protest.
