Posted on 07/14/2024 6:35:12 AM PDT by cotton1706
America's political divisions turned violent on Washington's streets during U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday, as black-clad anti-establishment activists set fires and clashed with police, while Trump supporters cheered the new chief executive.
Hundreds of protesters with varying agendas marched through downtown, and some groups clashed with police, throwing rocks and bottles, which police responded to with tear gas and concussion grenades. A helicopter hovered low overhead.
At one flash point, a protester hurled an object through the passenger window of a police van, which sped away in reverse as demonstrators cheered. Earlier, activists wearing masks used chunks of pavement and baseball bats to shatter the windows of a Bank of America branch and a McDonald's outlet, all symbols of American capitalism.
Multiple vehicles were set on fire, including a black limousine and a television truck. A knot of people dragged garbage cans into a street a few blocks from the White House and set them ablaze, later throwing a red cap bearing Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan into the flames.
Police said at least 217 people were arrested and six officers were injured in scuffles with activists. The people arrested would be held overnight before making court appearances on Saturday, Peter Newsham, interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, told a news conference. Newsham added that police would continue to monitor security around the night's celebrations.
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The leftists started early, first with their pussy-hat marches, then with their masked violent footsoldiers.
In our more ‘enlightened’ era, those events might be better identified as “Insurrection Stuff”
"ALL the rioters got off unpunished. Judge Lynn Leibovitz blocked the key charge, the Jury nullified (its DC!) and the Feds gave up."
https://vdare.com/articles/it-will-come-to-blood-reflections-on-the-left-s-anti-trump-inauguration-tantrum
I was there. It was terrifying, those Antifas have such hatred in their eyes. It felt very unsafe.
99% of political violence since Obama’s first term has come from the left.
DNC.
I went to the Trump inauguration, got there early found my spot, witnessed pepper spraying, broken plate glass windows, trash fires and tanks in DC. When we finally left I was given a military escort into an underground garage to my car. And a police escort blocks out of the city. I’ve been to every inauguration since Carter. The Left is psycho.
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