Posted on 06/09/2021 12:57:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
U.S. Park Police did not clear Lafayette Park and the nearby area of protesters on June 1, 2020, so President Donald Trump could walk from the White House over to St. John’s Church, but learned of his interest in surveying the site hours after they already had begun planning to clear the area to put up new fencing, according to a new watchdog report.
The Interior Department’s inspector general did not determine whether law enforcement acted inappropriately against demonstrators last year, but found that poor communication between agencies and ineffective dispersal warnings "may have contributed to confusion during the operation and the use of tactics that appeared inconsistent" with initial plans.
The office also concluded that the Park Police officers acted within their authority to begin clearing Lafayette Square and nearby before the city’s 7 p.m. curfew, a move that was widely criticized at the time as having contributed to the chaos and confusion at the scene.
Citing interviews, radio dispatches, videos and other records from Park Police, the 38-page report echoes claims from senior Trump administration officials last year that the park wasn’t cleared for Trump’s controversial photo op.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Funny how CNN didn’t call those antifa attacks on the White House an “insurrection.”
Too late, the media LIED and abused their FCC licenses. Oh, and Congress is doing nothing about these ongoing lies. The media needs to be stripped of their FCC licenses and forced to register as political lobbyists.
bkmk
‘A mockery of our Constitution:’ defense chiefs clash with Trump as protests crisis deepens:
https://fortune.com/2020/06/04/mockery-constitution-esper-mattis-trump/
Esper and Mattis.
So just another set up by shady people around him to make him look bad.
Good job, ABC! It only took you a year to stop lying and tell the truth about this.
We all knew when it happened what the truth was though.
I like Scott for one thing he has said, “Disagree without being Disagreeable”
...and I’ll leave it at that.
btt
Why are we paying for an investigation of this? The Deep State needs to investigate all its enemies.
Esper and Mattis, Graham and Scott. Yellow bellied bastards.
IIRC, rioters had already damaged the famous old church. Did these rioters even make the news before President Trump crossed the street??
So what if they did. I really hate this tempest in a teapot crap.
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