Bikers and motorcycle clubs from across the country gathered in Sturgis, South Dakota last week and tossed pandemic caution aside to celebrate old-school biker freedom. Antifa decided a rally with 100,000 frustrated bikers was a good place to really put the left-wing terror group’s antics to the test.
It did not go well.
After creating a potentially treacherous situation for themselves, the sad collection of dodgy progressives was ushered away for their own safety by police, according to the Gateway Pundit.
Video of the encounter reveals five or six people dressed in the Antifa-style “black bloc” seemingly attempting to disrupt the Sturgis rally while wearing masks and hoodies and carrying far-left flags. At the time, around 10,000 bikers occupied the immediate area where Antifa appeared. In the video, police appeared primed to not let the situation escalate.
According to Powerline, the bikers showed poise and restraint as apparent members of the noted terror group attempted to antagonize them. Then a tall, purple-haired Antifa member kicked the bike of one rally-goer. Antifa quickly found out that a biker’s manners only extend so far, and “all hell broke loose,” writes the Gateway Pundit.
“Here we go guys,” one onlooker in the video says. “They started it.”
That’s when the crowd—which may have included Hell’s Angels, Pagans, Mongols, Bandidos, Warlocks, Outlaws, Sons of Satan, Iron Horsemen, Breed, Bikers for Trump, and regular ol’ motorcycle hobbyists—moved in on the demonstrators as police whisked the purple-haired pest away to the sound of attendees chanting “USA! USA! USA!”
One cop calmed the crowd down, asking, “Let us maintain control at least. Let us maintain control,” before adding “I know that’s a stretch,” while chuckling to himself.
The remaining Antifa would-be marauders left under a police escort. Some bikers stood on the edge of the road clapping for the police, and one man shouted “Get them the f-ck out of here!”
In video of the dust-up, a man says, “So the cops are here stopping everybody from chasing them down there. They were about to get stomped.”
The man in the video then adds, “end of story, they got bum-rushed quick, wrong place, wrong place for Antifa.”
“This is the only reason those guys are still alive right now,” he says, then notes, “the guys [Antifa] want to defund,” referring to the police.
In late July, USA Today reported that an ad going around social media and Craigslist, supposedly as a recruitment tool to agitate rally-goers at Sturgis, was a fake.
“Calling all organizers and BLM attendees,” the title of the ad read.
The ad claimed the “Stirgis [sic] Racist Motorcycle Event needs to be dealt with…we must show a strong force against this greasy racist group who may seem tough but they are not.” The ad asked “comrades” to not directly incite violence but does tell them to protect themselves and others with them by “whatever means is accessible” if “confronted.”
The ad also noted this particular left-wing outing “is not a paid event but the media will take note of this unprecedented show of force.”
Local police have not commented if the allegedly phony ad may have been tied into the group who slinked away under their protection.