He’s getting closer
Holy shit. Trump just had protesters gassed so that he could have a photo op with the gassing.
Police fired tear gas at peaceful demonstrators outside the White House Monday, just moments before President Trump addressed the nation about violent protests that have unfolded across the country over the killing of black men by police.
[Black people actually. Breonna Taylor was a woman.]
Sooner after his address, Trump used the path cleared by police to walk to St. John’s Church, which had sustained fire damage during protests the night before.
During his address from the Rose Garden, said he was dispatching “thousands and thousands” of armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting and looting seen in recent days.
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Hundreds of demonstrators had peacefully gathered at Lafayette Park, when police, Secret Service and military police suddenly moved in to disperse the crowd.
With tear gas.
I may be becoming as batshit as a right wing am radio infotainer, but it was not lost on me that most of those arrested in Portland for actually committing vandalism and throwing stuff at police weren’t actually from Portland. The vast majority of people were peacefully protesting and as long as they were PPD watched patiently (at some times taking a knee).
Sad day, but I would not be the least bit surprised to find out that the alt right Trumlodytes weren’t staging all this as an excuse for the Tauchensheissenfuhrer to declare martial law and steal another election.
Staged by the alt-right? I doubt it. We’ve seen how antifa-types behave in previous, smaller-scale scenarios, and there’s no reason to think that they’re magically better behaved this time around.
No, there’s apparently mounting evidence that there is considerable involvement by “accelerationists” on the right as well as the left. It’s “the boogaloo.” It seems possible and indeed likely that it’s a mix – plenty of lefties going berserk but plenty of righties too, and mixed in with them some who just want to break things and maybe score an armful of jeans from Old Navy. Along with of course the core people who are doing what they say they are doing.
This didn’t happen with the Women’s Marches. The Women’s Marches…marched.