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Today I was looking for something in my emails and came across this June 4, 2020 email I sent to an old girlfriend about Trump and the 82nd Airborne.

The largest mass arrest in American history.

For those of us in improvised imprisonment, there was no food or bedding, etc, supplied, thousands of us got extremely hungry as the days dragged on but the National Guard was the primary muscle along with plenty of cops from various agencies, etc.
We met with the FBI, passing by in a line as they sat at folding tables, anyone who agreed to be interviewed was told that they would be fed and released.

Eventually, I was transferred to a D.C jail where there were boxes of 100s of dry baloney sandwiches in each cell and we could eat all we wanted. Almost 13,000 were arrested.

The media sure knows how to sell BS in all this anti-Trump
nonsense, can you imagine if Trump got old school tough?
It is very strange to be in custody in America and being starved. After several days of no food, whether out of sympathy or to avoid our building prisoner agreement (3,000 of us) to fight our way out, the National Guard guys pitched in their own money for food and gave out a small fast food single burger to each of us, and then nothing more during our time there, (they merely issued them to us and we handled the distribution ourselves.

From Wikipedia:
“At one point, so many soldiers and Marines were being moved into the area from bases along the East Coast that troop transports were landing at the rate of one every three minutes at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland, about 15 miles east of the White House.
Among these troops were 4,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division.
Troops from the Marine Barracks lined both sides of the 14th St bridge. These troops were to back up the 5,100 officers of the D.C. Metropolitan Police, 2,000 members of the D.C. National Guard and federal agents that were already in place.
Every monument, park and traffic circle in the nation’s capital had troops protecting its perimeters. Paratroopers and Marines deployed via helicopter to the grounds of the Washington Monument.”

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“”While the troops secured the major intersections and bridges, the police roamed through the city making massive arrest sweeps and used tear gas. They arrested anyone who looked like a demonstrator, including construction workers who had come out to support the government. By 8 am 7,000 protesters had been arrested.
The city’s prisons did not have the capacity to handle that many people thus several emergency detention centers were setup including the Washington Coliseum and another one surrounded by an 8-foot-high (2.4 m) fence was set up next to RFK Stadium.
No food, water, or sanitary facilities were made available by authorities but sympathetic local residents brought supplies.
Skirmishes between protesters and police
occurred up until about mid-day. In Georgetown, the police herded the protesters and onlookers through the streets to the Georgetown University campus. The police then engaged in a back and forth with the protesters outside the university’s main gate on O Street, lobbing
tear gas over the gate each time they pushed the crowd back. Other forms of gas were used including pepper based and one that induced vomiting. Police helicopters also dropped tear gas on the university’s lower athletic field where protesters had camped the night before.
Numerous people were severely injured and treated by volunteers on campus. By afternoon the police had suppressed the disruption efforts and the protesters had mainly dispersed””
Next several days:
“”Smaller protests continued resulting in the arrests of several thousand more, bringing the total to 12,614 people, making this the largest mass arrest in U.S. history.””