WASHINGTON — Protesters started fires near the White House as tensions with police mounted during a third straight night of demonstrations held in response to the death of George Floyd at police hands in Minnesota.
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An hour before the 11 p.m. curfew, police fired a major barrage of tear gas stun grenades into the crowd of more than 1,000 people, largely clearing Lafayette Park across the street from the White House and scattering protesters into the street.
Protesters piled up road signs and plastic barriers and lit a raging fire in the middle of H Street. Some pulled an American flag from a nearby building and threw it into the blaze. Others added branches pulled from trees. A cinder block structure, on the north side of the park, that had bathrooms and a maintenance office, was engulfed in flames.
Several miles north, a separate protest broke out in Northwest D.C., near the Maryland border. The Metropolitan Police Department says there were break-ins at a Target and a shopping center that houses Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue Men’s Store, T.J. Maxx, a movie theater and specialty stores. Police say several individuals have been detained.
News reports are that a guard shack was torched. WHY HASN’T DC POLICE OR WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE OF THE WHITE HOUSE SHOT THESE LOWLIFE THUGS TO DEATH?!? THIS IS NO JOKE!
The last few nights just got Trump reelected, and Democrat candidates for Congress are going down in massive defeat. Just keep showing the video of that Rochester NY white woman being beaten in front of her husband, and other such clips.
Nixon, who wasn’t well liked mostly won on a platform of law and order and the Siilent Majority.
Trump already has the Silent Majority.
A voter who pulls the Democrat lever is an accomplice to criminality and anarchy.
Election Day isn’t coming fast enough.