Posted on 12/14/2021 4:06:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
. In the park, protesters faced the familiar pop, pop, pop of pepper bullets and stinging clouds of tear gas meant to push back hundreds of them as they tried, again and again, to break through the police barricades set up around President Trump’s home.
Later, American flags and parked cars and buildings were lit ablaze — including St. John’s Church, a historic landmark opened in 1816 and attended by every president since James Madison. Firefighters quickly extinguished the basement fire, which police said was intentionally set.
Downtown, baseball bats bashed through windows at coffee shops, banks and one office building after another. Vandals and looters roamed throughout the city, scrawling graffiti and targeting dozens of businesses well after the mayor’s 11 p.m. curfew began.
Giant grocery store — with employees still inside — was broken into, as was a Sephora in Gallery Place. On H Street NE, looters ransacked a CVS. In Georgetown, the Nike store’s boarded-up doors were broken down and its merchandise plundered. In Friendship Heights and Tenleytown, five miles from the White House, other groups hit a Target and smashed open Rodman’s, a beloved drugstore, specialty grocer and housewares shop — all in one.
The smell of fire hung heavy in the air, and shattered glass speckled the pavement. Gone were the windows of the Lafayette Building, home to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Next door, all the outdoor umbrellas at the Opaline Bar and Brasserie were warped and charred. As police and firefighters showed up to investigate, the destruction continued around them, the looters uncaring.
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Why would the Rats punish their paid protesters? Only Conservatives go to jail. That’s the purpose of all those Soros bought District Attorney’s.
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Wow! January 6 was bad! What? This wasn’t January 6? My bad!
And yet does DC sue BLM or AntiFa?
No - they only sue the Jan 6 protesters for “damage” and they didn’t even burn anything down!
Excellent post. This article is the best possible example of the utter double-standards that the media and the Democrats have used in their absurd claim that January 6th was one of the worst days in American history. Apart from the deaths of Ashli Babbitt and the other woman killed by DC police, January 6th wasn’t even as bad as the events in the same city just six months earlier.
There was a large number of secret service uniformed officers injured as well.
Ah, the actual “insurrection.”
However, when their lives are perceived to be in danger then it's a different matter.
That's the difference between the two events.
This was an insurrection.
The head of DC BLM said they wanted to forcibly remove President trump from the White House.
Dozens of secret service agents were injured defending the White House from that insurrection.
IT is outrageous.
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