Posted on 08/30/2020 3:56:55 AM PDT by Libloather
Marchers protesting for racial justice confronted police and toppled newspaper boxes and set some of them on fire Saturday night in the Adams Morgan section of Northwest Washington, before converging near the White House and prompting a tense standoff with police.
The protesters, shouting familiar chants of “No Justice! No Peace!” asked diners to raise their fists in the air before police on bicycles arrived. The protesters shouted at the officers before toppling the boxes and lighting two of them on fire at about 9 p.m.
The group of about 175 people continued marching through northwest D.C., going into several neighborhoods, including the U Street area and Dupont Circle, chanting, toppling garbage cans, setting off small fireworks and setting additional small fires.
At 11:40 p.m., that group of protesters, along with other, smaller groups that had been marching through the city, converged on Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House.
There, dozens of police officers in riot gear cleared the plaza firing off flash-bangs and chemical spray. A chaotic scene unfolded as demonstrators fled. Scores regrouped at 16th and K streets, where they defiantly continued to set off fireworks and confront police. Police again used chemical spray to disperse the crowd.
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black lives matter that further our marxist agenda
Oops......will be more specific next time.
I’m astonished you could decipher my one-finger hunt-and-peck typing on the phone! Apologies!
I do not see even ONE black person at this rally. It was all about racial justice....yet no blacks!
Ding! Ding! Ding!
You captured it in one sentence.
No problem......mentioning the two hunters clued me in.
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