Live updates: Barr personally asked to push back protesters outside White House
Source: Washington Post
Attorney General William P. Barr personally ordered law enforcement officials on the ground to extend the perimeter around Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. to push back protesters just before President Trump spoke Monday, a Justice Department official said.
That order came as clashes between police and the public continued to intensify, with largely peaceful daytime protests over George Floyds death in Minneapolis police custody descending into violence and chaos after dark, amid widespread curfews and National Guard deployments.
As the mayhem spread and police escalated their use of force firing gas and rubber bullets at peaceful protesters in cities from Washington, D.C., to Walnut Creek, Calif. authorities across the United States also said they were under assault, with officers shot in St. Louis and Las Vegas and others struck and injured by cars in New York as authorities looked to contain unrest.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/02/george-floyd-protests-live-updates/
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Perhaps he had to increase the volume so he could watch Fox today.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Now, ya got, Hicks, now jerkoff, who else will come into the fray . .
Submariner
(12,503 posts)and had to get Donny out of spitting range.
Let the Gooie Looies fly...
whistler162
(11,155 posts)IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)BComplex
(8,029 posts)What an evil piece of shit.
LudwigPastorius
(9,130 posts)maxsolomon
(33,284 posts)the DOJ commands the DOD?
dhill926
(16,336 posts)since when does an AG have this power...
riversedge
(70,185 posts)maxsolomon
(33,284 posts)Sec Def.
The AG doesn't get to deploy military aircraft.
DENVERPOPS
(8,806 posts)the RepubliCONs do.
Welcome to the newly installed Corporate Fascist Tyranny...............
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a Jew.
Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak for me.
This is BY FAR the most thoroughly corrupt political party in the history of our nation.................
marble falls
(57,067 posts)alp227
(32,015 posts)Officers from the U.S. Park Police and other agencies used smoke canisters, riot shields, batons and officers on horseback to shove and chase people gathered to protest the death of George Floyd. At one point, a line of police rushed a group of protesters standing on H Street NW, many of whom were standing still with their hands up, forcing them to race away, coughing from smoke. Some were struck by rubber bullets.
Secret Service officers then surrounded the area and created a protective zone for President Trump, who moments later crossed the street and made an appearance outside St. Johns Church.
On Tuesday, however, federal officials offered conflicting reasons for the forcible removal of the protesters, seeking to separate the move from Trumps visit to the church.
budkin
(6,699 posts)Impeach the toad.
bluestarone
(16,900 posts)He must have given BARR, a CODE word to move against the protesters! (He wouldn't order it himself)
riversedge
(70,185 posts)obamanut2012
(26,067 posts)They are in no way law enforcement or military.