On June 3, 2016 Donald Trump held a campaign rally in San Jose, California.

Violent leftists attacked Trump supporters. Police stood aside and did nothing. The incidents were many and bloody that day. I wrote about one of them at the time for another website:

The violent anti-Trump and anti-Trump-supporters protests in San Jose have beggared belief.

So has the poor response by the city. The mayor, a Hillary Clinton supporter, said that Donald Trump brought the trouble through his ‘irresponsible’ behaviour. Police did not seem to do much. The lady who was egged put on a jovial face, even though the second egg could have easily blinded her; thank goodness it was just that tiny bit off-target.

Twitchy has a complete catalogue of tweeted videos. Here’s the lady who was egged:

A young man was struck in his right temple:

Punches were thrown. More people were injured:

Police did not help:

On March 18, 2017, KCBS reported that Trump’s Deplorables can sue San Jose:

A federal judge is giving Donald Trump supporters the green light to pursue their lawsuit against the city of San Jose. The plaintiffs accuse the city for not protecting them during a campaign rally last year.

This is important (emphases mine):

The Trump supporters in this case claim that San Jose police officers intentionally steered them into an angry mob of protesters, following a Trump campaign rally last June.

However, the city of San Jose is confident nothing will happen:

On Wednesday, federal judge Lucy Koh allowed the lawsuit against the city and individual police officers to go forward, however she dismissed claims against Police Chief Eddie Garcia.

Last year, Mayor Sam Liccardo said the lawsuit was baseless.

“The notion that there was some stand down order is ridiculous,” Liccardo said.

City Attorney Rick Doyle is confident the city will prevail. Doyle said Wednesday that police officers didn’t do anything wrong and were trying to maintain some kind of crowd control in a chaotic situation.

Twitchy has more in their article of March 18, including this:

The Twitchy article points out:

If federal judges are going to block President Trump’s executive orders based on things he said on the campaign trail, let’s hope that statement by the police about “weighing the need” to protect citizens has just as much influence in this case.

Here are the suspects. These were the only ones arrested, but there were many more who participated in the violence:

A discussion at The Donald provided more information. American police forces often have a motto of ‘protect and defend’ or ‘serve and protect’. Someone mentioned the 1981 case, Warren v District of Columbia:

the police do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to citizens based on the public duty doctrine.

The_Donald’s readers see two possible outcomes:

1/ Only if the DoJ files civil rights lawsuits against the chief of police will this go anywhere. Until then assume that San Jose police are actively working for the SJW [social justice warrior] left and behave accordingly.

2/ This could be approached from a failure to protect/prevent a breach of the peace.

Personally, I am not hopeful Trump supporters will win. Regardless, it’s the principle that matters. I hope that similar cases will be raised in Berkeley and other cities — and get the green light to proceed.

It seems that people on the wrong side of the law get more protection than the average citizen. This is another reason why Trump won.

I will post an update when it becomes available.