PLAY INTERRUPTED – AT 11:51 A.M. ET:  I don't approve of this kind of behavior, but it does indicate the level of tension in the country today.  From Fox:

Protesters disrupted a New York City stage production of "Julius Caesar" Friday that featured a bloody assassination of a character that resembled President Trump. 

One protester, identified as Rebel Media's Laura Loomer, stormed the stage and shouted, "Stop Leftist Violence."

Another protester, identified as Jack Posobiec, rose to his feet and yelled, "The blood of Steve Scalise is on your hands" and "Goebbels would be proud."

Video of the incident was quickly posted on social media. It showed the crowd booing as an announcement was made that the show was briefly halted.

Loomer was arrested and Posobiec was escorted out of the Shakespeare in the Park theatre complex located in Central Park. 

I interviewed Posobiec by phone at the Central Park Police Precinct - where he was waiting for his colleague to be processed on a criminal trespass charge. 

"We were protesting what we saw was the normalization of violence," he told me. "I couldn't believe they were going on with the play in light of what happened with the attack on Congressman Scalise."

COMMENT:  We cannot and should not approve of the protest, which disrupted the Shakespeare company's right of free speech.

ON THE OTHER HAND...now maybe some of those on the left will understand what conservatives and even moderates face every day on college campuses, where their speakers are shouted down, chased, and silenced.  It's a good lesson.   Problem is, leftists aren't very adept at learning lessons.

June 17, 2017