MAMARONECK - Liberal author and Trump critic Amy Siskind called the cops when conservative agitator and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes showed up at her door Monday night, telling police there were 'unwanted parties on her property.'
McInnes, who lives in neighboring Larchmont, maintained it was an attempt at a neighborly act of reconciliation that ended with an overreaction by Siskind.
“That’s the general pattern here, is a total lack of communication, where rumor and innuendo can roam wild in the streets,' he said.
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Amy Siskind, President of New Agenda, has been a major social media figure in the #Resistance. She currently has a book deal, and her popular Twitter account has over 300,000 followers. — Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@AmySiskind) January 19, 2021. Because dictators always cut taxes, broker peace in the Middle East, and create thriving economies that set records for low minority unemployment. Lmao pic.twitter.com/3rv58V1XKo — Amy Siskind (@AmySiskind) September 21, 2020 Blake Wheeler, the captain of the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets, tweeted in the direction of Brian Pallister, Manitoba’s premier, on Sunday, saying it’s “time for universal mask mandate.
The incident punctuated a tense feud that flared up between the two pundits, stemming from Siskind's call this week for an 'anti-hate' vigil to let McInnes know 'that we are inclusive and repudiate hate.'
She called it 'disturbing' that he lived locally, but later softened her stance. At least one Facebook post was deleted late Monday after Siskind, who has more than 400,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter, was contacted by a reporter.
© Nick Stumphauzer Right-wing commentator Gavin McInnes appears in Nick Stumphauzer's documentary 'How to Kill 14 People without Saying a Word.'McInnes fired back Tuesday, and said the people at Siskind's door were hardly intimidating — they were his family.
“Of these four people, three of them are little kids and one was holding his teddy bear,' he said. 'The pipe dream was that she opened the door and my wife would say, ‘Look, let’s talk about this. I’m a Hillary supporter. Why are you putting my beautiful children in danger?’ This was not about intimidation and I was very open with everyone.”
He said he was “standing behind them with my hands behind my back.”
Siskind did not respond to an email, nor did her lawyer return calls Tuesday.
McInnes, who has referred to himself as a 'western chauvinist,' is a right-wing commentator and co-founder of Vice Media. He also founded the Proud Boys, a far-right organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as a hate group — a tag that McInnes vehemently refutes.
Siskind, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, has traveled the country promoting her book “The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year.'
The flap between the two was prompted by a report in The Journal News/lohud on Monday about Siskind's call for a vigil. The article noted that McInnes lives in Larchmont, and that Siskind sought to highlight that fact with a vigil.
Both McInnes and Siskind have requested that the article be removed.
On Tuesday, Mamaroneck police would not provide a copy of the police report of the Monday-night incident. The Journal News/lohud filed a state Freedom of Information Law request for the report.
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McInnes said the incident was the latest example of the intolerance his family has been subjected to since moving to the Sound Shore community in 2016.
“I’m all about discussion, but this community so far has been nothing but innuendo,' he said. “A family has one Trump supporter in it and they’re pariahs in this community, and I don’t understand why. And especially when it’s under the guise of inclusiveness.”
Meanwhile, vigils are planned in Larchmont, and possibly in Mamaroneck, in remembrance of Saturday's attack that left 11 dead at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Mamaroneck Village Manager Daniel Sarnoff said Siskind has contacted the village over a planned vigil tentatively scheduled for Thursday evening at Harbor Island Park. The event would include faith leaders from throughout the community.
'I don’t know enough information about the situation to make a comment at this time,' Mayor Thomas Murphy said Tuesday.
In addition, the Larchmont 'Candlelight Vigil for Peace and Tolerance' is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Constitution Park.
'Our event is completely separate,' said Larchmont Mayor Lorraine Walsh. 'Our event is a community-based peaceful vigil to express our sorrow and upset over what took place this weekend and the general tone of anti-Semitism and hate speech in the USA. It's going to be a peaceful event.'
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This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes and Trump critic Amy Siskind come face-to-face
A slew of verified leftist “blue checks” took to Twitter after the news broke of a mass shooter in Boulder, Colorado, to claim — without evidence — that the suspect was a “white male.” The platform allowed verified users to spread this misinformation without restraint or punishment.
“The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago. Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country,” tweeted Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece Meena Harris on Monday.
But after it was later revealed that police identified the suspect in the Boulder mass gunman as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa, Harris issued a backhanded follow-up tweet admitting that she was wrong, making sure to caveat her new tweet with a comment disparaging white men.
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“I deleted a previous tweet about the suspect in the Boulder shooting,” Harris wrote. “I made an assumption based on his being taken into custody alive and the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by white men.”
I deleted a previous tweet about the suspect in the Boulder shooting. I made an assumption based on his being taken into custody alive and the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by white men.
— Meena Harris (@meenaharris) March 23, 2021
Harris, however, was one of many verified Twitter accounts to claim the Boulder gunman was a “white man” simply based on the fact that police had taken him into custody alive — a narrative oftentimes pushed by the left in an attempt to promote the subjective claim that police treat white gunmen with more respect than gunmen of other races.
“Description: ‘Police have taken him into custody.’ Translation: He was white,” tweeted author Don Winslow.
Description: 'Police have taken him into custody'
Translation: He was white
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) March 23, 2021
Beyond infuriating that the Colorado terrorist killed a cop but was arrested alive, while cops shot Tamir Rice dead for holding a toy b/c the cop feared for his life.
How is an unarmed black child more frightening than a grown white male mass murderer??
Reckless.
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. قاسم رشید (@QasimRashid) March 23, 2021
Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old black child. Police shot him in 1.7 sec & let him suffer in agonizing pain for 4 min & die.
Colorado terrorist is a grown white man who killed 10 people including a cop. Cops arrested him alive & helped him to a stretcher for immediate medical care.
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. قاسم رشید (@QasimRashid) March 23, 2021
Pointing out how white suspects get the benefit of the doubt without being stopped, frisked, beaten, shot or killed is not a call for harsh treatment
It simply means we KNOW cops are capable of treating ppl humanely….just not us
y’all could use a few more ass-whoopings, tho
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) March 22, 2021
Strength to those relatives in Boulder, Colorado who could have been in that grocery store today. 10 people lose their lives; another White male snaps in a bloody massacre, another violent armed White male apprehended alive.
— Chase Iron Eyes (@ChaseIronEyes) March 23, 2021
Feminist Amy Siskind also made it clear that she believed the gunman was “a white man” due to the fact that the suspect was “taken into custody” alive.
“If he were Black or Brown he would be dead,” Siskind affirmed.
The shooter is was taken into custody.
In other words it was almost certainly a white man (again). If he were Black or Brown he would be dead.
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) March 23, 2021
But the next day, after the suspect’s name was released, Siskind interestingly shifted gears by encouraging her followers not to give the gunman “attention” by having “his name widely known,” but rather, “mourn the victims,” instead.
Let's mourn the victims, but not glorify the killer with the attention of having his name widely known.
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) March 23, 2021
Other blue checks on Twitter responded to the Boulder shooting by claiming there exists a “culture of entitlement” that causes “white men” to go to on shooting sprees at the drop of a hat.
Others even suggested that AR-15s are somehow to blame.
We can change the culture of entitlement that inspires white men to go on shooting sprees.
We can get rid of weapons that make mass shootings more possible.
We CAN do these things, but the Right relies on them for fundraising, political power, and intimidation against democracy
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) March 23, 2021
The suspected gunman in the Boulder, Colorado mass shooting is a white guy. Seven reported dead!
Free video converter for a mac. Cue “mental issues,” “bad day,” “parking dispute,” or anything else other than what he most likely is – a white domestic terrorist. pic.twitter.com/v0ukqWtIVN
— CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) March 22, 2021
Extremely tired of people's lives depending on whether a white man with an AR-15 is having a good day or not.
— Julie DiCaro wrote a book (@JulieDiCaro) March 23, 2021
When a white guy with an AR-15 shoots and kills a bunch of people, is the motive* reality relevant?
*SPOILER ALERT on the motive: He was having feelings (anger, inadequacy, invisibility, impotence, i.e. not special).
— George Hahn (@georgehahn) March 23, 2021
Boulder, Colorado.
Another mass shooting in the US.
Another white guy with an AR-15.
Another achievement of NRA. pic.twitter.com/X86nM1iHko
— Carlos Latuff (@LatuffCartoons) March 23, 2021
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“Call it what it is .White supremacist domestic terrorism,” chimed in actress Rosanna Arquette after the news broke of the shooting in Boulder, Colorado.
Call it what it is .White supremacist domestic terrorism
— ✌🏼rosanna arquette (@RoArquette) March 22, 2021
It was so relaxing to just be worried about being killed by an invisible virus instead of literally any slightly inconvenienced white man with a gun.
— Camilla Blackett (@camillard) March 23, 2021
People will continue to die just so that white men can own guns and reinforce the power they already have.
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— Dr. Oni Blackstock (@oni_blackstock) March 23, 2021
Twitter has not taken action against these verified users for their misinformation, despite the fact that in other cases it has “fact-checked” memes and obvious parody.
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