Protestors clashed with the Stafford sheriff’s deputies again Monday night, this time of the Falmouth Bridge over the Rappahannock River.
A group of protestors was marching on the bridge that links Stafford County to Fredericksburg City at about 6:30 p.m., with arms linked, blocking all four lanes of traffic, according to sheriff’s office spokeswoman Amanda Vicinanzo.
Windows at businesses along Liberia Avenue in Manassas were smashed following protest Sunday evening.
Manassas police spokeswoman Sarah Maroney said, after a group of peaceful protesters left, new ones showed and starting throwing objects, which ended up smashing the glass of businesses like Glory Days Grill.
People are struggling now more than ever to provide food for their hungry families and volunteers are needed in food shelters to help them.
“To combat this growing hardship, Prince William County and the cities of Manassas Park and Manassas have come together with many local nonprofits to create the Community Feeding Taskforce. A central warehouse has been created in the City of Manassas where large deliveries of food are broken down and transported to 45 food pantries for distribution in our communities,” according to Deb Hannum in an email sent to us for Volunteer Prince William.
Protesters fanned out across Manassas on Monday afternoon in the latest in a series of protests in the Manassas area in the past three days, following the death of 46-year-old George Floyd, in Minneapolis.
Floyd was killed during an arrest attempt on May 25. Former police officer Derek Chauvin is charged in his death.
The Fredericksburg City Government, in an abundance of caution for additional protests, has closed government offices at 2 p.m. according to a press release from the city’s Public Information Officer, Sonja Cantu.
This comes in light of what the city’s Fire Chief, Mike Jones, called a ‘civil disturbance’ that Fredericksburg faced on May 31 when peaceful protests turned unruly and people refused to disperse. Protestors, as well as Virginia Delegate Joshua Cole, were subdued with tear gas by police.
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Joyce Rosenberger Slaight died May 30, 2020 at the age of 100. Joyce was born on September 26, 1919, in Bucks County, PA, to Chester and Alma Rosenberger. The family moved to Tottenville, Staten Island, NY when Joyce was four years of age. She was a graduate of Tottenville High School, West Chester State Teachers College (PA) and the Packard Business School (NY, NY). Prior to her marriage, she worked for Staten Island National Bank and for the Richmond County Savings & Loan, Assoc.
For the second night in a row, Virginia police have faced off with protestors and gassed a Virignia State Delegate, only this time it was in Fredericksburg.
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The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) has called for the immediate resignation of Delegate Lee Carter (D-Manassas, Bristow) for ‘abusing his power as an elected official in Virginia to bully and intimidate law enforcement officers and threaten to cut police budgets.’
This comes in the wake of a video posted on Facebook by Isaiah Knight, the Director-Elect of the Peaks of Otter Soil and Water Conservation District and Chairman of Virginia Families PAC, that appears to depict Delegate Carter saying ‘I’m a member of the general assembly. I write the state police’s budget. They’re gonna f***ing regret it.’
