Posted on 12/14/2020 6:55:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Black Lives Matter signs that apparently were burned and destroyed at historic Black churches in Washington, D.C., during a pro-Trump rally this weekend are being investigated as possible hate crimes, authorities said Sunday.
D.C. police said they were seeking information about the incidents, which occurred at Asbury United Methodist Church, founded in 1836, and Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, where Frederick Douglass' funeral was held in 1895.
"This weekend, we saw forces of hate seeking to use destruction and intimidation to tear us apart," Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, said in a statement Sunday. "We will not let that happen, and continue to stand together strong and United to Love."
She said the police department and religious affairs officials from her office reached out to the churches Sunday.
In a statement, Asbury's senior pastor, the Rev. Ianther Mills, said pro-Trump supporters removed a Black Lives Matter sign from the church and "literally burned it in the street."
"It pained me especially to see our name, Asbury, in flames," she said. "For me it was reminiscent of cross burnings."
Seeing the incident on video, Mills said, "made me both indignant and determined to fight the evil that has reared its ugly head."
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BLM and Communist AFascists burned churches and synagogues and there weren’t any hate crime charges.
To learn who rules over you....
Two justice systems in this country! Never thought this would ever happen!
To know who has the power, look at who you cannot criticize.
NOT a "protected class"!!!
They sure have stretched the meaning of “Hate crime”.
What was an unconstitutional sentence enhancement and unequal protection under the law, is now an unconstitutional thought crime and oppression of non-protected classes of citizens.
Someone explain to me why BLM terrorists can yell “F____ the POlice - then physically assault police - and it is NOT a “hate crime”...
They can attack counter-protestors, steal their TRUMP flags, their “ALL LIVES MATTER” signs, and burn them, shred them, and physically assault them... and it is NOT a hate crime.
But take one of THEIR signs... and it becomes a hate crime? What happened to “equal protection”?
These stories are hard to sell as “hate crimes” because the previous hoaxes expose an obvious truth: Non-blacks generally don’t venture into areas where these signs are displayed. If it was on a modernist post-Christian “temple” posing as a church in a “safe (white) zone”, then maybe...
Wonder if they will investigate the American Flag being burn as a hate crime.
The whole matter will be closed quietly when they discover that the perpetrator is black. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
Public burning of anything is generally not a real great idea.
Fk em.
US flags burned-—————meh!
Oh, and “ police are seeking information”.
Back the blue though.
I Agree sort of, Anyone that puts these hateful Marxist signs near a Church should be found Guilty of a Hate Crime
It would take great familiarity with the black church community for any outsider to do this.
That’s a real shame....just tragic.
LMAO!!!!
Police, who are despised by BLM, is now going to investigate destruction against BLM signage? Well, at least, we can find out which cops are on the defund-cops side.
Howz about making a deal?
For each US flag that is burned, we get one burn of a Black Lives Matter flag.
The very concept of a hate crime could only come from weak-minded folks who’ve never encountered a concept that they could understand.
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