Posted on 04/14/2022 6:56:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you still weren’t convinced of the legal double standard between the right and the left, this announcement by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday should remove all doubt.
The Biden Administration’s radical civil rights division boss at the DOJ has “reached an agreement to settle claims in four civil cases arising from the June 1, 2020, law enforcement response to racial justice demonstrations in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C.”
This was during the Black Lives Matter and Antifa Reign of Terror or, as then-Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan accidentally coined it, a “Summer of Love,” after the George Floyd riots began in Minneapolis and spread across the country.
Protesters and violent rioters set seized upon Lafayette Square, breaching a White House perimeter, and rioted, rallied, and set fires for days. An umbrella group called “Shut Down DC,” composed of far-left professional agitators, including Lisa Fithian, called helped orchestrate the attack to incapacitate the nation’s capitol.
Washington, D.C. not only indulged this “first amendment activity,” but Mayor Muriel Bowser also encouraged it by memorializing part of the city streets with a Black Lives Matter mural paid for by taxpayers.
And now the feds are basically apologizing and acknowledging that they weren’t nice enough when they cleared the rioters and arsonists in front of the White House — rioters who torched the so-called “President’s Church” and forced then President Donald Trump and his family into the bunker for their safety.
And make no mistake this is more about Trump and less about civil rights.
DOJ Civil Rights Division head Vanita Gupta settled with BLM DC to make “changes to agency policies for protest responses will strengthen our commitment to protecting and respecting constitutionally protected rights.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
In a news release, Gupta said the DOJ’s federal officer and Park Police would “amend its policies to provide that the fact that some demonstrators have engaged in unlawful conduct does not ordinarily provide blanket grounds for use of force, crowd dispersal or declaration of unlawful assembly.”
The upshot is that it will be next to impossible to declare a riot and use crowd dispersal if some peaceful protesters in attendance refuse to leave.
The agreement between the DOJ and BLM DC also means that the organization agrees to drop its lawsuits against the feds.
Among other changes in policy that will be implemented within 30 days, according to the press release, the feds promise to:
Appeasing terrorists
Weren’t these a-holes trying to assault the White House?
Meanwhile deadly force and indefinite incarceration is used against the Jan 6 protestors.
This is hilarious.
Sean Hannity, why aren’t any of the 99% “good ones” among law enforcement speaking out against any of the insanity, or resigning?
RE: This is hilarious.
I’m not sure “hilarious” is the right word...
Bitter irony
If only these were in place for the Jan. 6 protesters.
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A GIANT GAME OF “CAPTAIN MAY I” ==the DOJ.
Seems most of the mental midgets surely cannot fathom what 'disperse' or 'leave the area' means. So the tried and true clearer procedure should be changed to a billy to the side of the knee and a shouted in the face 'get the fug outta here' that the rioting classes do understand./sarc off
This is so F up!
Just when you think Democrats can’t be more crazy…….
“wear fully visible badges and nameplates” -— Good way to harass and harm people and their families. Complete insanity.
DOJ seems to have inadvertently left out the apology for not having opened the gates and doors to the White House for the rioters.
I guess that’s just implied.
In 2020 when the brass threw the LEO’s under the bus to placate the terrorists by defunding, a very large contingent of LEO’s did quit
Sadly, that means that there are even fewer “good ones” now. How tragic to think of it. Witness the jackbooted thugs in Canada and Australia, and elsewhere.
How do we get an honest explanation of how “Equal Protection Under the Law” is supposed to work? (And please don’t give me any of those smart-ass answers about queer+Muslim is >= than black, unless the black is a dyke.; etc.)
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