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Lynnette 'Diamond' Hardaway and Rochelle 'Silk' Richardson - better known as Trump-supporting hosts of 'The Viewers View', 'Diamond and Silk,' - joined us Wednesday to share their thoughts on President Trumps first days in the White House.

WASHINGTON - Lynnette 'Diamond' Hardaway and Rochelle 'Silk' Richardson - better known as Trump-supporting hosts of 'The Viewers View', 'Diamond and Silk,' - joined us Wednesday to share their thoughts on President Trumps first days in the White House.

PROTESTS

"You know, I think it's time to stop protesting and sit down and let President Trump work for you," Hardaway told FOX 5s Allison Seymour. "It's really time for those protesters to either get on the 'Trump Train' or get out of the way before they get ran over." Hardaway also added she feels many of those protesting have been paid to do so.

TRAVEL BAN OR TEMPORARY PAUSE?

"First of all, we call it 'temporary pause' on immigration until we properly vet people that are coming into our country," Hardaway said about Trumps executive order to restrict travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. Hardaway referenced incidents like the San Bernardino attack and the Boston Marathon bombings to reinforce the need for the change. "We already have enough problems in this country. We don't need to add it to. It's a pause - so that we can properly vet people when they coming into our country."

"Where were the protests when President Obama did the same thing in 2011?" Richardson added, referencing the 2011 action the Obama administration took to slow processing for Iraqi nationals seeking refuge following the arrests of two Iraqi nationals on terrorism-related charges.

As far as those who were caught up in the travel restrictions - Hardaway says it was for the good of the country. Hardaway said that the inconvenience was necessary and similar to what happened in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks.

TRUMP SUPPORT

"Because he don't waver. He don't back down and he's going to do what he say he is going to do, Hardaway said when asked why the sisters are suck vocal Trump supporters. "We sent him to do a job and he's doing his job and we love it!"

"The common sense approach he takes with these different issues. It's the common sense approach that resonates with all Americans, Richardson said. "That's why he's in office right now and that's why he is President Donald Trump."

SUPPORT FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER?

"Hold up. I don't see eye to eye with the Black Lives Matter movement because their movement is now a mess," Hardaway told Seymour after a previous interview showing their support for the group was mentioned. "Listen, I can be on your team. I understand that there are bad apples - we will get rid of the bad apples. But we cannot treat our police like we don't need them. Because when something go down at my house, I can't call Black Lives Matter. I pick up the phone and I call 911."

"I am in agreement with the President. We have to have law and order. We can no longer have chaos," Hardaway continued.

MEDIA THE OPPOSITION?

"Because they are biased," Hardaway said when asked by Seymour why the sisters dont like the media. "All they do - they take and they twist and they don't tell the truth."

"Like they said that Hillary Clinton is going to win the election - look how they spread fake news for months," Hardaway continued. "And look who won. We told them President Donald J. Trump was going to be the 45th president. And now look - he's the 45th President of the United States."

"For all people," said Richardson.

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BLM protesters meet with Portland Police

Katharine Bavoso, WCSH 12:06 PM. EST February 01, 2017

BLM protesters arrested (Photo: WCSH)

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER)-- Portland Black Lives Matter protesters will have a discussion about the July 15thdemonstration with Portland Police officers on Wednesday morning at First Parish Church.

Protesters and police will be able to talk about what lead to and what happened that Friday night. Eighteen people were arrested when a peaceful demonstration became unruly and protesters swarmed the old port, blocking off traffic on commercial street. By admitting to disorderly conduct last week and coming to the meetings Wednesday morning, the charges against 17 of those arrested will be dropped in six months time. In an agreement with prosecutes, in addition to the meeting, each protester must pay $140 to the victim's compensation fund and another $60 to the restorative justice program.

Due to the number of protesters, two meetings with police will take place at the church, the first starts at 9am.

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Protesters opposing the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in North Dakota. Lawmakers in the state have proposed bills that would increase penalties for protesters who block highways. Michael Nigro/Getty Images hide caption

Protesters opposing the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in North Dakota. Lawmakers in the state have proposed bills that would increase penalties for protesters who block highways.

From the Black Lives Matter movement to environmentalists trying to stop new oil pipelines to the recent Women's March against President Trump, the past year has been filled with large, often spontaneous protests.

Now the reaction to those protests is appearing in a number of Republican-controlled statehouses across the country where lawmakers are introducing proposals to increase penalties for those who block roadways while protesting.

A bill in Iowa was inspired by a protest against Donald Trump shortly after the November election. More than 100 demonstrators blocked traffic on Interstate 80, just outside of Iowa City, stopping traffic on the busy trucking route for almost a half-hour.

"You're not just stopping traffic," said Republican Senator Jake Chapman about his bill, which would apply to people blocking highways with speeds posted above 55 mph. Violators could get a felony and spend 5 years in prison, plus a fine of up to $7,500

"You're impeding law enforcement ability to get to call where there could be serious life threatening situations," said Chapman, who also works for an ambulance service.

National pattern

Opponents of the bill call it an attack on free speech.

"Republicans have taken over state legislatures across the country and they appear interested in punishing people with different views than theirs," said Democratic Senator Joe Bolckom of Iowa City.

In North Dakota, where protests have gone on for months over construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, a lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow motorists to run over and kill any protester obstructing a highway as long as the driver did not do it intentionally.

Bills that would increase penalties on unauthorized protests have also been introduced in Michigan and Washington.

Bills in state legislatures across the country would increase penalties for protests that block highways, such as these in St. Paul, Minn. in the summer of 2016. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images hide caption

Bills in state legislatures across the country would increase penalties for protests that block highways, such as these in St. Paul, Minn. in the summer of 2016.

Last week in Minnesota, a House committee approved legislation that would increase penalties and charge demonstrators the cost of policing protests. After the fatal shooting by police of an unarmed black man, Philando Castile, Black Lives Matter protests blocked busy interstates in the Twin Cities. Republican state Rep. Nick Zerwas cited the cost of responding to protests for taxpayers as justification for the bill.

"These individuals have broken the law," Zerwas said at the hearing. "It is against state statute to be on the freeway."

The hearing became heated when John Thompson, a friend of Castile, testified, telling lawmakers the protesters were trying to focus attention on the issue of police killings.

"You know what they were doing? They were asking for all you guys to come out and say what is it we can do to help you," Thompson said. "Not one of you came out!"

Free speech concerns

As protests continue to ramp up nationwide, Rita Bettis with the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, says elected officials should be protecting free speech rights. She says bills like the one in her state do the opposite.

"In our country where the government's power flows from the people, peaceful protest is a source of democratic strength not a weakness and it deserves to be protected and cherished," Bettis says. "Not attacked."

Advocates like Bettis say if a few states can reduce a demonstrator's ability to block traffic, it could have a chilling effect on Americans' right to protest.

Tim Nelson of Minnesota Public Radio News and Amy Sisk of Inside Energy contributed reporting to this story.

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Updated: Jan 31, 2017 - 6:21 AM

A number of teachers and staff in the Bellevue School District are expected to come to class Tuesday showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

This is something the school district has not done before. The event isput on by a private group, Educators for Justice.

Organizers say they have seen a rise in cases of discrimination within the school district in recent months and want to raise awareness.

Teachers and staff are expected to come to campuses wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts.

Seattle teachers put on a similar event last year.

Thousands wore custom made shirts and buttons that raised awareness about racial inequality in school.

But what's different about Bellevue is that according to the organizers' website, they are planning to do the "day of action" every Monday for the rest of the school year.

Teachers in Bellevue will be wearingshirts with this message on the back:

I stand for and with all my students who are targeted due to their race, gender, orientation, immigration status and or religion.

On the organizers site, so far they have sold 230 Black Lives Matter T-shirts raising more than $2,000. The money will be used for need-based scholarships for students of color.

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Allen Scarsella took the stand Monday to describe shooting into a group of protesters as the only way he could protect himself, but a prosecutor worked to paint him as a racist looking for a reason to use his gun on black people.

Scarsella acknowledged that he shot five protesters on Nov. 23, 2015, after he and three others went to Minneapolis Police's Fourth Precinct to livestream an ongoing protest after the death of Jamar Clark, who was shot and killed during a scuffle with police.

Scarsella was charged with first-degree assault and riot, both felonies.

"I was really scared, the situation got totally out of control," he said.

But Assistant County Attorney Judith Hawley tried to poke holes in his story, noting that details changed when he explained what happened afterward. Scarsella also admitted going to the protest wearing a shoulder holster that made it easy for him to pull his gun, and that he had his jacket unzipped on the cold night.

She hammered him on why he didn't call 911 or report to the police after the shooting. Scarsella said it was because one of the friends in his group, Joseph Backman, told him later that he had called 911. But Hawley noted that Backman wasn't with Scarsella at the time of the shooting.

"So you chose not to go to police?" Hawley asked.

"I didn't have the presence of mind," he responded.

"Then you had the presence of mind to call Mr. Backman and say 'Come pick me up'?"

Racist texts raised in court

Hawley also hit Scarsella with numerous racist text messages he sent to friends in the year before the shooting. Though they had already been introduced in the trial, Hawley tried to use them to paint intent for the protest shooting.

One message talked about reloading a gun "to kill eight black guys." Another recommended putting a Confederate flag on a gun to "get a chimp to chimp out so you could shoot him."

In another, he wrote to a friend about riling up black people so he could gun them down.

"Once again you are texting about using a [gun] to kill black people?" Hawley asked.

"That's what we were talking about, yeah."

When Hawley asked if his texts were "just words," Scarsella said yes and that they didn't mean anything to him.

"So you can bandy around saying the N-word and it doesn't mean anything to you?" Hawley asked.

"I believe in freedom of speech," he responded.

He also said he was "ignorant" about the issues people of color face.

"I think that led me to the texts I sent," he said.

He described other texts as jokes "not meant to be taken seriously."

"They were private text messages between me and a friend, a friend who knew me very well," he testified. "They weren't meant to offend anybody, offend any kind of general audience; they weren't meant to be taken seriously, even by us.

"None of those things directed my actions," he added. "I never acted on any of those things."

Scarsella, 24, also testified that he attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for two years before he left because of a misconduct investigation. He also applied to become a Minnesota State Patrol trooper in 2014.

Along with Scarsella, Nathan Gustavsson, 22, of Hermantown; Daniel Macey, 27, of Pine City, and Backman, 28, of Eagan stand charged with second-degree riot and aiding an offender. Gustavsson took the stand in Scarsella's defense on Friday.

Under questioning by his attorney Laura Heinrich, Scarsella described the protesters as the antagonists that night.

Scarsella told the jury that at the protest, he and three friends quickly found themselves surrounded by an angry crowd, questioning whether they were with the police or KKK.

Men were wearing masks

Protesters earlier testified in the trial that they asked the men to take the masks off their faces. Scarsella said he didn't comply because "I didn't feel it would be prudent at the time."

After Scarsella took a punch to the cheek, the four started walking away from the crowd when Gustavsson got punched. Scarsella said he picked him up by the coat and kept walking north up Morgan Avenue. Scarsella said they saw a group of five to seven protesters break off and come after them.

Scarsella said he told them to get back "20 or 30 times." But he said the group continued to yell at them, threatening to beat them. "One said, 'White boy, you're going to die,'" Scarsella testified.

About a block from where the confrontation started, he said he saw a man closest to him pull out what he believed was a weapon. Scarsella pulled out his gun and opened fire.

Under cross-examination, he said he didn't warn the protesters that he had a gun or that he was going to fire.

His testimony finished Monday; the defense is expected to continue its case on Tuesday.

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