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Lafayette Park Update

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Watchdog report finds Park Police did not clear racial injustice protesters from Lafayette Park for Trump's visit to St. John's Church last June

The US Park Police did not clear racial injustice protesters from Lafayette Park to allow for then-President Donald Trump's march to St. John's Church last June, but instead did so to allow a contractor to install a fence safely around the White House, according to a new inspector general report.
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This is news to me.

The head of the Park Police similarly had told Congress last year that Trump's visit to the church was not the motivation for clearing the area of peaceful protesters.
"We did not clear the park for a photo op," acting Chief Gregory Monahan testified. "There was 100%, zero, no correlation between our operation and the President's visit to the church."
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Ranb
 
the correlation, of course, is that the cops fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd both there and directly outside the church, including teargassing the priest, and physically attacked protestors and reporters, just before Toupee Fiasco went for his photoshoot (did they ever use any of those photos? Y'know what, who cares).

The fact that the (Cheeto-appointed) IG did not interview anyone with Capitol Police or the White House, and that the supposed fencing schedule was hastily rearranged to also correlate with this violent stunt is...highly suspicious.
 
I honestly don't know which is worse. Firing tear gas and rubber bullets to clear a peaceful protest so the President can have a photo op, or so they could install a fence.
 
PhantomWolf said:
I honestly don't know which is worse. Firing tear gas and rubber bullets to clear a peaceful protest so the President can have a photo op, or so they could install a fence.
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*Insert Chidi Anagonye "okay, but that's worse. You do get how that's worse?" meme here*
 
The timing of that makes no sense unless it's just another Dumpers-rewriting history.

Donald Trump Put a Fence Around the White House to Keep Demonstrators Away. It Is Now Completely Covered in Protest Art
The eight-foot-tall fences were put up after law enforcement last week used tear gas to clear protestors out of the area so that Trump could pose for a photo op with a bible at nearby St. John’s Episcopal Church.
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So the urgent clearing of Lafayette Park an hour before curfew would have gone into effect anyway was a week before the fence was put up.
 
PhantomWolf said:
I honestly don't know which is worse. Firing tear gas and rubber bullets to clear a peaceful protest so the President can have a photo op, or so they could install a fence.
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Is either as bad as installing a fence purely for implausible deniability so your firing tear gas and rubber bullets to clear a peaceful protest so the President can have a photo op can be pretended not to have been so the president could have a photo op?
 
Jack by the hedge said:
Is either as bad as installing a fence purely for implausible deniability so your firing tear gas and rubber bullets to clear a peaceful protest so the President can have a photo op can be pretended not to have been so the president could have a photo op?
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Well apparently they seem to believe that doing it to install a fence is better, I'm more to the line of at least if it was for a photo op well at least that makes some sort of warped sense. Violating civil rights to install a fence? That's a WTF?
 
I read about this earlier today and was skeptical. The story doesn't quite make sense to me but I didn't want to spend a lot of time on this. I'll just be lazy and follow this thread.
 
mgidm86 said:
I read about this earlier today and was skeptical. The story doesn't quite make sense to me but I didn't want to spend a lot of time on this. I'll just be lazy and follow this thread.
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It doesn't make sense at all and I'm not sure why the news media reporting on this seemed to passively accept the claim.
 
PhantomWolf said:
Well apparently they seem to believe that doing it to install a fence is better, I'm more to the line of at least if it was for a photo op well at least that makes some sort of warped sense. Violating civil rights to install a fence? That's a WTF?
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It's simple-minded lying to protect the orange muppet. Pretty much every reporter there was pretty clear - there was no construction notice, no notice at all before ttacking the demonstrators/reporters/priest, oh also what the hell was with the low-flying helicopters that same night near Chinatown?

"We wanted to put up a fence" no, they wanted to terrorize nonviolent protestors.
 
Mumbles said:
It's simple-minded lying to protect the orange muppet. Pretty much every reporter there was pretty clear - there was no construction notice, no notice at all before ttacking the demonstrators/reporters/priest, oh also what the hell was with the low-flying helicopters that same night near Chinatown?

"We wanted to put up a fence" no, they wanted to terrorize nonviolent protestors.
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I am well aware of that. The issue I am having is that anybody thought that saying "We didn't do it because the President wanted an Photo Op, we did it because we wanted to put up a fence," was somehow better than admitting the truth.
 
theprestige said:
The left seems to have the corner on the "somebody should punch those guys" market these days.
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Can you elaborate on this? Do you mean left leaning people saying, for example, a person of a certain way of thinking deserves to be punched? If this is the case, I would posit that is completely different to the Government using the police to attack protestors.
 
Ranb said:
Watchdog report finds Park Police did not clear racial injustice protesters from Lafayette Park for Trump's visit to St. John's Church last June


This is news to me.



Ranb
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Except that Trump said he was taking a walk over to the church before the gestapo from the park police rioted and attacked the crowd.
 
RolandRat said:
Can you elaborate on this? Do you mean left leaning people saying, for example, a person of a certain way of thinking deserves to be punched? If this is the case, I would posit that is completely different to the Government using the police to attack protestors.
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Well, to be fair on the right it is more "someone should shoot said people" or "someone should be allowed to commit vehicular assault against said people."
 
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