Bi-racial Progressive leader Tara Samples could be investigated for trying to incite a riot during a peaceful protest at her home

CLEVELAND, OH – One of Nina Turner’s top Bernie Gitman-Sanders “Progressive” surrogates, Akron council woman Tara Samples, showed her true Communist and fascist colors during a protest at her home. It came after Akron city council enacted an ordinance that “ordered” homeowners and renters not to allow anymore than six guests in their homes.  Guests must wear masks and socially-distance from the home’s occupants.

Phil Lombardo was the only Akron councilman with the brains to know the ordinance was unconstitutional; so he alone voted “no.”  This is the same Akron city council that just voted to ban “hair discrimination.”  It’s another ordinance, like Akron council’s guest restriction, that exceeds the authority of an elected office.

The signature of Akron Mayor Daniel Horrigan on the guest restriction ordinance resulted in their acts as representatives of the electors being protested by qualified Ohio electors at their homes.  Samples was the only councilmember to go “histrionic drama queen gangster” when Americans led by Larry Seeley arrived to voice their concerns about her vote on the ordinance.  She broadcast live from her social media page as she described the act of patriotic Americans exercising their 1st Amendment right as “ridiculousness.”

Seeley and his supporters weren’t fellow American citizens to Samples. They were “Trumpers.”  Samples is the same “Progressive” anarchist who in June was standing with Black Lives Matter and Antifa anarchists protesting violent Akron police whose budget also gets her vote.

True legislative ridiculousness.

When the peacefully-protesting Americans showed up at Samples’ mother’s home, where she lives at 1290 7th Avenue with her bi-racial children, her social media video shows the council woman constantly making reference to her own ethnic identity.  She broadcasts that “everybody knows I have a white father.”  Samples “white father” exclamation appears to have been uttered to deflect from her being called a racist for the words she was hurling at protestors.

In the background, despite Samples’ commentary, protestors shouted, “we will not comply.” They described Samples as a member of council and criticized her behavior towards them. Samples claimed they needed a permit to protest.  A permit would mean the government has to give a person with a “right” to protest the “permission” to protest.

Despite all Samples claims in the live social media broadcast that she was not a racist, the words coming out of her mother’s mouth were those to which the protesting Americans were reacting.

You peckerwoods get out of here.  You kiss my ass.  Your mother’s a mother fucker.  Kiss my black ass.  Leave me alone.  Step in my yard and you’ll get what you want.  Go on back in your neighborhood.  Yo’  momma is the only bitch. Aw fuck all you crackers.

After her mother’s vile tirade, Samples is heard in the background egging on her social media followers saying, “Dude called my mother a racist bitch.”  Samples, herself, subtly played the “this is the east side” race card.

She vainly attempted – after her mother’s racist words – to recharacterize her own actions as non-racial.  At no time does she admonish the mother – whose home she’s living in – to stop calling her American constituents racist names.

Throughout her live social media broadcast, Samples refuses to allow followers to hear what the protestors were saying without her own, contrary, commentary.  Samples was an elected official being told her votes on council were unconstitutional.

There’s a dialogue Samples has with her live social media audience where Seeley and the other Americans with him may have a cause of action to file a criminal complaint against her … individually.  It’s where she said the police won’t deal with this ridiculousness, so I will.  Samples follows up with, “wait until my family gets here.”

Language like “I’m from a different hood” and the escalation of drama that occurred after Samples’ relatives arrived in larger numbers than the protestors shows her inciting a riot.  As they started to arrive Samples’ mother is overheard saying, “I don’t hear you now.”

If Seeley were to file a criminal complaint with the United States Department of Justice, Samples would have to explain what she meant with words like, “When my family turns out and it turns into something else.”  She may also have to explain, “I can guarantee y’all they don’t like what’s about to happen.”

Samples justified her conduct with words like, “They think they can come over here with propaganda about a mask.”

Protest leader Larry Seeley.

Akron’s house restriction ordinance is as unconstitutional as its hair ordinance is ridiculous.  If this is how elected officials are going to misuse public offices they don’t deserve to be in them.  The fact that some of the Americans in front of Samples’ home carried a Trump sign, and wore the flag of the United States of America, doesn’t make them “Trumpers” anymore than she’s a “Sanderer.”

Seeley is a citizen of the United States of America; and it was ignorant of Samples to bring up his residence in a halfway house operated by an American Negro woman.

Seeley and the other Americans with him were lawfully exercising their 1st Amendment rights no council can suspend.  They can’t suspend the Constitution of the United States of America that keeps the government from deciding how we interact with others in the privacy of our homes.

Eric Jonathan Brewer

Cleveland's most influential journalist and East Cleveland's most successful mayor is an East Saint Louis, Illinois native whose father led the city's petition drive in 1969 to elect the first black mayor in 1971. Eric is an old-school investigative reporter whose 40-year body of editorial work has been demonstrably effective. No local journalist is feared or respected more.

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