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Lancaster protesters throw bricks, break glass at police station after shooting of knife-wielding man

Protesters targeted police officers, a police station and adjacent buildings in Lancaster, Pa., overnight, throwing bricks, glass, flower planters, and even plastic road barricades.

More than 100 people flooded the streets surrounding Lancaster Bureau of Police station early Monday morning to protest the fatal police shooting of a Black man armed with a knife during a domestic disturbance call hours earlier, police said.

At the station house, protesters “damaged a county vehicle parked in the front of the police station,” police said in a Monday morning press release.

“Bricks were thrown through the front of the police station and into the post office window,” police said. People also “threw water bottles, glass bottles, rocks, bricks, gallon jugs of liquids and parts of plastic road barricades at Officers.”

Crowds gathered on an access ramp to the police station, on West Chestnut Street, and in an adjacent park, where police ultimately released pepper spray after the protesters were given warnings to disperse before the gas was deployed, the department said.

Eight people were arrested, four not even from the same county. And the crowd consisted of lots and lots of Typical White Liberals

Protesters out in the intersection of West Chestnut Street and North Prince in Lancaster city in response to police involved shooting that occurred Sunday afternoon. @LancasterOnline pic.twitter.com/sstzzefznf

— Blaine Shahan (@BlaineShahanLNP) September 14, 2020

Let’s learn a bit about Ricardo Munoz, shall we

The sister of the knife-wielding Lancaster, Pa., man shot dead by a cop said Monday that he was bipolar, schizophrenic and off his medications — and that she was just trying to get mental-health aid when she called authorities.

“He had an episode. He was just incoherent and acting out,” Rulennis Munoz, 33, told Lancaster Online of her 27-year-old kid brother, Ricardo Munoz.

Police said in a Sunday press release on the incident that, “The caller related that her brother was reportedly becoming aggressive with his mother and was attempting to break into her house.”

So, this is somehow the police’s fault, when he’s attacking them with a knife?

“He was a sweetheart. He cared,” she said, noting that he first began displaying symptoms of mental illness about 10 years ago while attending college.

In March 2019, Ricardo allegedly slashed and stabbed two men, a woman and a 16-year-old boy in a Lancaster home after he was beaten up outside the house, according to police.

When cops arrived to that call, he was holding a knife to his own throat and had to be Tasered.

Munoz was charged with four counts of felony assault and that case was ongoing, with Munoz free on $1 million bail, according to court records.

Here’s your sweetheart

Two questions arising out of the #RicardoMunoz shooting in Lancaster, PA. If police can’t shoot a man charging at them with a knife, what does the concept of self-defense mean? 2. Could a social worker have done better in this situation? pic.twitter.com/10RYcVkKJN

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) September 14, 2020

The sister thought she was calling “a local crisis intervention group and a nonemergency police number”. How well would that have worked out for the social worker who showed up? Body cam footage here. It happened quickly. I’d like to hear from all the rioters how they would have handled the situation.