After obtaining a secret audio recording from a far-left Saturday activist planning session in Nashville, The Tennessee Star can reveal locations wherein left-wing agitators plan to wreak havoc during August’s special session of the Tennessee General Assembly.
Those locations include Amazon’s Nashville office, the Lee Company, owned by Gov. Bill Lee (R), and the Metro Council.
The recordings also reveal that some left-wing agitators plan to be arrested during these “protests.”
During the Saturday training session, which was sponsored by Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, organizers of the event, including Julie Edwards, the Advocacy & Organizing manager of the group and her boss Francie Hunt, completed an exercise in which the agitators ranked the danger level of being arrested at each location by assigning a color to that location.
Green was a non-dangerous place to protest in terms of the likelihood of being arrested, yellow a bit more dangerous, orange a bit more dangerous still, and red signifies a highly dangerous place to protest.
The participants indicated that Metro Council was a “yellow” on the danger scale.
“To me, the biggest risk would be agitators, counter-demonstrators, NRA supporters, police supporters or whatever, and altercations that would happen there that, if not controlled, could lead to arrests of folks on our side as well,” said one of the participants.
The group decided that “marginalized people of all sorts” and “people with disabilities” were at the highest risk of being arrested at Metro Council.
The next protest location was Amazon, to which the far-left crowd assigned a danger value of “red.”
The group agreed that “people of color” and trans people, along with people with prior arrests, were most at risk of being arrested for protesting at Amazon.
“If you’re for sure getting arrested, make sure what effect it has on you if you have prior charges,” the exercise leader advised.
Lee’s company was deemed to be a level “green” risk for arrest because it was only private property, and there likely wouldn’t be a large police presence there.
The agitators also plan to protest at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Nashville.
The Star published a full story on that plan, which includes potential acts of domestic terrorism, on Thursday.
Neither Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood nor Hunt have returned comment requests for this series.
Listen to the audio here:
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter.
