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Troops line up outside the fenced-in White House as protesters begin to arrive in D.C. for George Floyd march that is set to attract one million people
Daily Mail ^ | June 6, 2020 | Frances Mulraney and Andrew Court

Posted on 06/06/2020 9:31:57 AM PDT by kevcol

The nation's capital braced itself with members of the National Guard guarding famous landmarks and patrolling a new pedestrian-only demonstration area as streets were closed off.

The White House remained a fortress, with black fences between seven and nine feet high erected around its perimeter cutting off protesters, as D.C.'s mayor formally renamed the street outside 'Black Lives Matter Plaza'.

Streets were shut in downtown from 6am as the first of the dozens of demonstrations organized for the day began and the city's metro system announced it was reopening cars closed due to coronavirus to boost rider capacity.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: babygate; bunkerboy; dcmetro; floydriots; georgefloydriots; nationalguard; obamasfault; riots; wasdc; washdcriots; whitehouse
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To: certrtwngnut
We have been to D.C. with 200,000 - 500,000 thousand people as have others here on FR.

I recall the Vietnam protests from 68-72. The Washington Post actually had people counting the crowd from aerial pictures to gauge its size accurately. It was a different WaPo back then, and honest about most things. Just so people here know, and are not fooled by press reports which will exaggerate today’s crowd, 500,000 people fill the entire Elipse behind the White House and the Washington Monument grounds all the way to Independence Avenue. For 1,000,000 people, add to that a crowd that fills the Mall from 14th to 3rd Street.

Today’s protest will be nowhere near that level. For one thing, the logistics of assembling that many people require that busses and caravans be entering the city for days beforehand, and that temporary shelter be arraigned for them in the meantime. I have seen no such activity in the D.C. area.

101 posted on 06/06/2020 10:13:48 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: kevcol

So it’s Bring Your Kids to the Riots Day?


102 posted on 06/06/2020 10:14:27 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: Jim Robinson

Too bad all the graduating seniors this year didnt apply for a permit to protest and gotten all their classmates together and had a Protest graduation.

It seems that law abiding citizens are the only ones susceptible to the China-flu.


103 posted on 06/06/2020 10:14:57 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: Jim Robinson

Lol!! Yes!!


104 posted on 06/06/2020 10:15:15 AM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: Truthoverpower

nah..it’s to show those night-thugs and others what they’ll be up against this time around if they show up!


105 posted on 06/06/2020 10:15:22 AM PDT by caww
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To: Pollard

And they all cleaned up their own garbage before they left.


106 posted on 06/06/2020 10:15:48 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: a fool in paradise

and the 10000 people still trying to get past the security fence near the Washington monument where i was at 12:00. and i saved that 360 photo on my hard drive. look at it every once and a while for fun.


107 posted on 06/06/2020 10:16:54 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (spooks won on day 76)
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To: Fightin Whitey
"If the filth do real harm then the real people of the nation must step up."

Count on it! There are big number of clandestine militia orgs and they will show and shoot. I highly doubt the Secret Service would detain them. This truly is a Cold Civil War. If it goes hot, these punks will be back in Mom' basement.

108 posted on 06/06/2020 10:16:57 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: Trillian

Maybe lives and try to blame it on Trump.


109 posted on 06/06/2020 10:17:15 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: plain talk
They had the DHS at our protest.
110 posted on 06/06/2020 10:17:27 AM PDT by EBH (May God Save Our Freedom from our enemies within)
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To: Jim Robinson

The need to vote by mail is gone. Ding Dong the pelosi argument is dead. ....thanks antifa.


111 posted on 06/06/2020 10:18:38 AM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: McGruff
This woman brought her two small kids with her to the rioting protests. They were out on the street since morning!!...according to reporter.


112 posted on 06/06/2020 10:20:07 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Circus freak in the act of child abuse.


113 posted on 06/06/2020 10:22:46 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Neither could I and if we are still worried about being unkind we are in a lot of trouble. They are killing us out there and we’re still stuck on kind/unkind.

After the coup, the incredibly overblown virus and now the burning of our cities and outright shooting at cops we need to start worrying about more things than being unkind.

But I appreciate that people on this board have empathy and are Christian.

I just don’t have as much.


114 posted on 06/06/2020 10:23:55 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of the Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: kevcol
set to attract one million people

Remember the million man march!!!

115 posted on 06/06/2020 10:25:07 AM PDT by ontap
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To: caww
Looks like her head is on backwards. Definitely a future leftist


116 posted on 06/06/2020 10:25:37 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: Pollard

Body language says little girl wants NO PART OF THIS


117 posted on 06/06/2020 10:27:58 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Anyone tired of the Chinese Fire Drill (tm) yet???)
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To: dp0622

I have NO empathy for this BS Black people are far more racist against whites than the other way around Blacks have MORE opportunity than whites at this point, easier for them to get into college, easier for them to get a top notch job if qualified if they WORKED HARD they have MORE opportunity at this time in our country!! I have had ENOUGH more than ENOUGH!!


118 posted on 06/06/2020 10:29:04 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: EBH

Its the Hate Trump demonstration in Support of Joe Biden. Has nothing to do with Civil Rights. Its going to get worse before it gets better.


119 posted on 06/06/2020 10:29:42 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: McGruff

The picture they are taking is for when that little boy grows up to be a politician, he can say he was in the fight with his parents. Can’t deny a picture is proof.

Buncha damn idiots, the lot of them.


120 posted on 06/06/2020 10:29:53 AM PDT by BigpapaBo (If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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