Posted on 06/17/2020 6:02:28 AM PDT by karpov
The "peaceful protester" lifted up his shirt to show me where he'd been hit by rubber bullets the night before — three or four round, red welts about the size of quarters. This was late afternoon on June 1, about an hour before Trump made his much-criticized walk from the White House across Lafayette Square to St. John's Episcopal Church.
The "peaceful protester" in question had been atop the maintenance structure in Lafayette Square the night before and was among those who set it on fire, he said. In fact, being shot by the rubber bullets of riot-clad park policemen and other law enforcement agents excited him enough to make him want to burn everything down, including the White House itself.
"Why did they shoot you off the roof?" I asked.
"We were giving it to them good," he laughed. "Bricks, rocks, bottles — they decided to get us back."
It all sounded like good fun: the rioting, the vandalizing of revered public monuments, the smashing of windows, the burning, the looting — exactly what you'd do on a dull Sunday night during lockdown after you've seen everything there is to see on Netflix.
The "peaceful protester" was white, as was most of the crowd that day. He was about 25 years old, thin (bordering on anemic), and had a scraggly beard and many tattoos. He wore black cargo shorts, military boots, and a homemade "anarchy" T-shirt and carried a heavy black backpack full of something I didn't ask about. What looked like an eastern European army surplus infantryman's helmet hung at his side.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Are there any videos showing the violence?
They need to shoot these “peaceful protesters” in the nuts. Maybe, just maybe preventing them from polluting the gene pool like their parents did.
The RNC should make one
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No mention in the article of the 50 secret Service agents injured there in the days before that.
If questioned, the police could just say they were following Biden's suggestion to aim for their legs. (Biden didn't say which leg)
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