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Post by onelasttime on Jun 13, 2021 4:38:50 GMT
If true…..
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Post by pixiechick on Jun 13, 2021 5:21:36 GMT
The bottom line of the story...
The protests were so peaceful that the church was set on fire. The protests were so peaceful that the park police themselves said they were planning DAYS BEFORE on clearing the park because people were getting violent. 49 police officers were injured in the days before because they were being pelted with rocks and bottles.
From the Washington Post:
Those interior discussions did not affect how and when the police acted.
The police chief said I can tell you with 100% certainty that whatever trump was planning, the timeline set in place DAYS BEFORE did not change.
No I can't give you the exact link because they want me to pay for a subscription to find it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2021 12:31:37 GMT
The bottom line of the story... The protests were so peaceful that the church was set on fire. The protests were so peaceful that the park police themselves said they were planning DAYS BEFORE on clearing the park because people were getting violent. 49 police officers were injured in the days before because they were being pelted with rocks and bottles. From the Washington Post: Those interior discussions did not affect how and when the police acted. The police chief said I can tell you with 100% certainty that whatever trump was planning, the timeline set in place DAYS BEFORE did not change. No I can't give you the exact link because they want me to pay for a subscription to find it. No, bottom line is that you're still a hateful trump sucker. |
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 13, 2021 13:50:56 GMT
The first of two Washington Post stories on the clearing of Lafayette Square.
“Report: Park Police didn’t clear Lafayette Square protesters for Trump visit”
Inspector general finds plan to clear park on June 1 was set in place days earlier, to build fence and protect officers
By
Tom Jackman
and
Carol D. Leonnig
June 9, 2021 at 3:54 p.m. PDT
When the U.S. Park Police led law enforcement officers into a crowd of mostly peaceful protesters outside Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020, including officers equipped with chemical irritants and officers on horseback, they did so as part of a plan made days earlier to build a fence around the park to protect officers, not to facilitate the visit minutes later by President Donald Trump to a nearby church, an inspector general’s report released Wednesday concluded.
The report also found that D.C. police officers fired tear gas at protesters as they moved away from the park toward 17th Street, the Park Police did not deploy tear gas on June 1, but did on previous days, and Bureau of Prisons officers fired pepper spray munitions from the park without provocation during the clearing. Investigators also found that the audio warnings issued by the Park Police before the operation were not widely heard by the crowd and mostly ineffective.
The report by the Interior Department’s inspector general focuses on the Park Police and does not fully address questions about the involvement of other agencies or the Trump administration in the events of June 1. Interior officials said they may not have heard all of the discussions that went on about the operation within the Secret Service or the White House, but that those discussions did not affect how and when the Park Police acted. The investigators did not interview Secret Service or White House personnel.
The report found that preparations to clear the protesters and erect a fence began two days before the park clearing. But the idea may have gained greater urgency on the morning of June 1, in a meeting Trump held in the Oval Office with his chief of staff, military advisers, Attorney General William P. Barr and other law enforcement officials. The Washington Post has previously reported that Trump was furious at reporting that revealed he had been taken to an emergency bunker on the first night of protests that previous Friday night and the poor impression created that he had no control over the protests consuming key downtown areas in the nation’s capital, according to multiple law enforcement sources and Trump advisers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity at the time due to the sensitivity of the incident.
The group agreed the Park Police and supporting teams of law enforcement officers would extend the perimeter and gradually push protesters further away from the White House and St. John’s Church, which had been vandalized the previous night. By midday, Trump was working with close confidants on a plan to project his control over the city by walking across Lafayette Square outside the White House and over to the church, the Trump advisers said at the time.
Officials familiar with Lafayette Square confrontation challenge Trump administration claim of what drove aggressive expulsion of protesters
Park Police officials, including then-acting chief Gregory Monahan and an unidentified incident commander, told inspector general investigators that they learned “around mid- to late afternoon ... of the President’s unscheduled movement to Lafayette Park.” Both Park Police officials reported that “they were not told a specific time for the President’s potential arrival and that learning this information did not change their operational timeline,” which was to push protesters back as soon as National Guard officers and the fencing arrived, both of which occurred after 5 p.m.
“I can tell you with 100 percent certainty,” Monahan told the investigators, “that the Secret Service and the Park Police ... timeline did not change the entire day.”
However, a redacted portion of the report seems to indicate that an unnamed government official asked for an earlier clearing of the park. Monahan told investigators he was not given a reason for the request, and that he rejected it and “stated the clearing operation would begin once all law enforcement officers ... were in place.” This does not seem to be a reference to Barr’s visit to the park shortly after 6 p.m. That visit is described elsewhere by a Park Police operations commander who said the attorney general asked when the protesters would be moved, and that Barr did not give an order at that time to clear the park. The commander said the conversation with Barr was the first he’d heard that Trump was coming.
As protests sprang up around Lafayette Square after the May 25, 2020, killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Park Police began getting pelted with water bottles, rocks and fireworks which led to 49 officer injuries through May 31. At 6:32 p.m. on June 1, Park Police officers joined by Arlington County Police and Secret Service officers began clearing H Street on the north side of the
Twelve minutes later, Trump began speaking in the White House Rose Garden. “What happened last night was a total disgrace,” the president said. “As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults and the wanton destruction of property.”
The thumping of munitions and wailing of sirens could be heard in the background as Trump spoke.
At 7:02 p.m., Trump began walking to the park, and at 7:06 p.m. he stood in front of St. John’s church on H Street and held up a Bible for a photo opportunity.
Interior officials said they found no evidence that the Park Police cleared the square for the photo opportunity.
“If we had found that type of evidence,” Interior Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt said, “we would not hesitate in presenting that, and saying that was influencing the Park Police’s decision-making to clear the park. Just so you know, if we had found that, if we had seen that type of evidence, we would absolutely have reported that, without a doubt.” Greenblatt was appointed during the Trump administration.
Trump issued a statement Wednesday thanking the inspector general for “Completely and Totally exonerating me in the clearing of Lafayette Park!” The former president said “our fine Park Police made the decision to clear the park to allow a contractor to safely install antiscale fencing.”
Scott Michelman, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C., said in a statement the government “has given various conflicting explanations” for the clearing of Lafayette Square.
The ACLU of D.C., Black Lives Matter, other civil liberties groups and individual protesters are suing Trump and senior officials in connection with the incident. The government has asked a judge to dismiss the suits.
“These shifting explanations cannot distract from the fundamental problem: The force used against the demonstrators at Lafayette Square was grossly excessive in relation to any conceivably legitimate purpose,” Michelman said in his statement.
After a night of violence in and around the park on May 31, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser had announced a 7 p.m. curfew for June 1, and many wondered why the Park Police didn’t wait for the curfew before taking on the protesters. According to the report, the Park Police incident commander told investigators, “We were not enforcing the mayor’s curfew. We’re a federal entity. We don’t work directly for the mayor.”
Instead, the operation arose out of a meeting on May 30, two days earlier, in which the Park Police and Secret Service jointly decided “to establish a more secure perimeter around Lafayette Park” in response to the protests, the report states. A fencing contractor told the investigators that the Secret Service contacted her on May 30 to discuss erecting the fence, that it agreed to do so if police created a safe area for the builders and preferred to do so in daylight.
A federal procurement data website shows a solicitation from the Secret Service to build the fence, for more than $1.1 million, was issued on May 30 and contracted on June 1. The report states that all fencing materials were in place on 17th Street by 5:30 p.m., that construction began at 7:30 p.m., shortly after Trump’s visit ended, and was finished by 12:30 a.m.
Bureau of Prisons officers showed up after the briefing, the report states, and it was not clear if they were told not to use pepper balls. The report says the BOP officers did fire pepper balls from inside the park, possibly because they heard stun and stinger-ball grenades used by Park Police and reacted to those, but no protesters had tried to breach the park.
D.C. police have acknowledged that its officers used tear gas as the protesters moved toward them, though they were not involved in the initial push away from the park and were not subject to the Park Police directives on use of force. A department spokeswoman said in a statement that officers acted to protect themselves after people threw objects at them, including an “incendiary device” that burned an officer.
Greenblatt said a separate investigation was being done into the use of force by Park Police during the operation.”
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 13, 2021 14:02:02 GMT
#2.
“The lingering questions about the clearing of Lafayette Square
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Secret Service and U.S. Park Police officers stand guard in Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020, in Washington. (J. Lawler Duggan/For The Washington Post)
By
Philip Bump
National correspondent
June 10, 2021 at 8:01 a.m. PDT
“The most important question asked about the clearing of Lafayette Square on June 1 of last year came that day from Attorney General William P. Barr.
Barr had come out of the White House shortly after President Donald Trump’s staff had alerted journalists that the president planned to make remarks from the Rose Garden that evening. Hundreds of protesters were still in and around the small park just north of the executive mansion, some of whom began shouting at Barr as he approached. The attorney general met briefly with a several officials responsible for security in the area, including the operations commander from the U.S. Park Police, the agency that was primarily responsible for security.
In footage from that moment, you can see Barr speak to the commander, after which the commander’s head droops with seemingly intentional melodrama. From a report released Wednesday by the Interior Department inspector general, we learn what Barr asked.
“Are these people still going to be here when POTUS comes out?”
“These people” were the protesters. And “POTUS,” of course, was the president of the United States, who, within an hour, emerged from the White House, strode through a square newly and contentiously cleared of demonstrators and posed for several photographs outside of a church.
Barr’s question was a valid, if not a pointed, one. The Secret Service had informed its liaison with the Park Police at 4:50 p.m. that Trump planned to leave the White House to “assess the damage” (in the words of the report) from vandalism that occurred during protests over the preceding days. At 6:04 p.m., the White House announced Trump would be speaking at 6:15. At 6:10, Barr came out to talk to Park Police.
The interaction was captured by CNN.
Barr and his aides wait for the commander, wearing a white shirt under a black vest, to arrive. When he does, there’s a brief conversation. Barr points toward the protesters. An aide with him, at left in sunglasses, checks his watch. Barr, talking, points again. The commander’s head sinks. Barr pats him on the back. The commander leaves, as does Barr.
So were those people going to be there when the president came out? Trump was supposed to start speaking at 6:15, four minutes after the encounter between Barr and the commander. Barr said more than one thing; did he also point out that time was running short? Is that why his aide looked at his watch?
We don’t know Barr’s side of the story because the inspector general’s report focused only on the conduct of the U.S. Park Police (USPP), the organization that falls within the Interior Department’s mandate. Many other agencies were on the scene that day, including Bureau of Prisons officers — airdropped in by the Justice Department in response to the ongoing protests — and the Secret Service. Most of the officers there were under Park Police direction (except the Secret Service) but the inspector general only “sought interviews and information from individuals outside of the USPP when doing so would provide us with information about the agency’s USPP’s activities. Accordingly, we did not seek to interview Attorney General William Barr, White House personnel, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officers, [D.C. Metropolitan Police (MPD)] personnel, or Secret Service personnel regarding their independent decisions that did not involve the USPP.”
Five minutes after Barr and the commander spoke, uniformed Secret Service officers briefly began pushing the crowd back. At 6:28 p.m., after several audio warnings to the crowd to disperse, Park Police began clearing the area from east to west; that is, starting from the side nearest the church where Trump would later appear for his photographs. At 6:43 p.m., nearly half an hour after scheduled, Trump begins speaking, even as the area is still being cleared.
“Thank you very much,” he said while concluding his speech at 6:50 p.m. “And now I’m going to pay my respects to a very, very special place.”
According to the report, this was also the moment at which Park Police confirmed having cleared the area.
The gist of the report is that this was essentially a coincidence.
The inspector general’s assessment does add new information to the established timeline that reinforces the Park Police’s assertions that the area was cleared to erect new fencing to better protect the White House complex. Its initial news release about the effort to clear the area cited this rationale largely in passing, focusing instead on the need to clear the area to “curtail the violence that was underway.” In the days that followed, though, it became the central motivating factor, including being cited by Barr in an interview with CBS News.
We now know, for example, that the plan to install fencing along the square was, in fact, ready to be initiated. There were three trucks with material already on scene by 5:30 p.m. At 5:50 p.m., the report indicates the incident commander for the Park Police “instructed the USPP Horse Mounted Patrol unit and the USPP and ACPD civil disturbance units to prepare for deployment onto H Street,” the street just north of the square and the northern boundary of the secure area. “At 6:04 p.m.,” the report continues, “the USPP incident commander drafted the dispersal warning on his mobile phone.”
Both of those preparations were made before Barr arrived at the scene. That’s compelling evidence for the argument that the area was going to be cleared despite Barr’s presence.
But other details continue to suggest that there was a sense of urgency driven by the White House. At 6:12 p.m., for example, immediately after the incident commander spoke with Barr, he talked to the assistant chief of D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department..
“The MPD assistant chief of police told us he asked the USPP incident commander to delay the clearing operation until the Mayor’s 7 p.m. curfew when the MPD believed it would have clear authority to arrest protesters who failed to comply with the curfew,” the report states. “... According to both the USPP incident commander and the MPD assistant chief of police, the USPP incident commander responded that the USPP would not wait for the curfew and would begin the operation shortly.”
The incident commander mentioned that Barr was at the scene but, the assistant chief said, the commander “did not suggest that the USPP had to clear the park for a potential Presidential movement, stating that ‘he didn’t say that the President was a reason that they [the USPP] were doing anything.’ ”
The other question is why the Secret Service began pushing back the crowd when it did.
The Park Police incident commander told inspectors that he’d been told by his colleague with the Secret Service (with whom he shared control of security) that “the President’s visit would likely occur later that day or in the evening, after protesters had been removed from the area.” That update is apparently the one that occurred just before 5 p.m. Park Police officials nonetheless told the inspector general that their timeline for the day never changed.
Again, at 6:16 p.m. — one minute after Trump was initially supposed to start speaking — the Secret Service began its independent effort to clear the area. It encountered strong resistance, prompting it to first deploy pepper spray and then to fall back.
Several Park Police officials told inspectors “the Secret Service lieutenant later apologized for the early entry onto H Street during the operation but did not explain why it occurred.” Each also indicated they had no reason to think it was related to Barr’s visit. Again, no Secret Service personnel were interviewed for this report on the actions of the Park Police.
There is an interesting redaction in the section of the report that focuses on when the Park Police learned about the president’s plan. It suggests “an official” made a request that was rejected. Instead, an acting deputy chief “reiterated to the official the USPP’s operational plan and stated the clearing operation would begin once all law enforcement officers under the command of the USPP were in place.”
Again we come back to Barr's question. At 6:11 p.m., after the White House has informed Park Police that Trump would be on-scene once the protesters were cleared and after the White House has announced the speech that preceded that visit, Barr steps out of the White House where he speaks with the incident commander.
“Are these people still going to be here when POTUS comes out?”
There are three possible answers to that question.
The first was “yes,” which was obviously not feasible. There was no chance that the Secret Service would bring the president out into an angry mob of people. There is similarly no chance that Barr thought that was a feasible response.
In other words, this was not a question. It was, at least, a nudge. While there are repeated references within the report to the fact that the Park Police do not report to Barr, it’s obviously the case that any pressure from the attorney general would not be insignificant.
So then we're left with the other two possible answers. One is “no, if Trump waits until the park is cleared before coming out.” The other is “no, because we'll clear the park now so that he can come out.”
It’s this distinction that is now the crux of the issue. There was a curfew coming into effect at 7 p.m. for which the Park Police chose not to wait. It chose to clear the area right at the moment that the White House was making preparations for Trump to come out. It is, in fact, possible that this was a coincidence that worked out for the president; that the Park Police were just about to push the protesters back and Trump just had to kick out his speech by half an hour.
But that brings us to a Washington Post report from June 2, the day after the incident. Post reporters did speak with a Justice Department official who offered a different assessment of Barr’s role the prior day.
“When Barr went to survey the scene, he was ‘surprised’ to find the perimeter had not been extended and huddled with law enforcement officials, the Justice Department official said,” according to our report. The official added that Barr “conferred with them to check on the status and basically said: ‘This needs to be done. Get it done.’ ”
It got done.”
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 13, 2021 14:50:06 GMT
😀
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 13, 2021 17:35:01 GMT
No wonder he got along with trump.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 13, 2021 19:13:30 GMT
Breaking news. ... rolling eyes here... "I never lied!" 'God made me tell the truth in the White House!' Says Kaleigh McEnany While speaking to Turning Point USA's Young Women's Leadership Summit, McEnany recalled that she had been asked if she would ever lie to the American people soon after taking the job as press secretary. "And I said without hesitation, no," she remarked. "And I never did. As a woman of faith, as a mother of baby Blake, as a person who meticulously prepared at some of the world's hardest institutions, I never lied. I sourced my information." www.rawstory.com/kayleigh-mcenany-lies/She forgets that even her teachers called her out for lying!! |
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 13, 2021 19:23:44 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 13, 2021 19:28:08 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 13, 2021 19:30:43 GMT
Netanyahu out!!
Lost vote of confidence 59-60.
He did walk over and shake Bennett's hand.
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 13, 2021 20:05:32 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 13, 2021 23:21:35 GMT
Former's chosen ones so far...
These Far Right senators all have Trump’s endorsement for reelection.
✔ Ron Johnson (WI)
✔ Rand Paul (KY)
✔ Marco Rubio (FL)
✔ Mo Brooks (AL)
✔John Kennedy (LA)
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 14, 2021 4:01:18 GMT
I wonder if people are actually buying these…..
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 14, 2021 4:07:41 GMT
Great entertainment too...🤣
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 14, 2021 4:13:16 GMT
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Post by pixiechick on Jun 14, 2021 8:57:00 GMT
The first of two Washington Post stories on the clearing of Lafayette Square. “Report: Park Police didn’t clear Lafayette Square protesters for Trump visit”Inspector general finds plan to clear park on June 1 was set in place days earlier, to build fence and protect officers By Tom Jackman and Carol D. Leonnig June 9, 2021 at 3:54 p.m. PDTWhen the U.S. Park Police led law enforcement officers into a crowd of mostly peaceful protesters outside Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020, including officers equipped with chemical irritants and officers on horseback, they did so as part of a plan made days earlier to build a fence around the park to protect officers, not to facilitate the visit minutes later by President Donald Trump to a nearby church, an inspector general’s report released Wednesday concluded. The report also found that D.C. police officers fired tear gas at protesters as they moved away from the park toward 17th Street, the Park Police did not deploy tear gas on June 1, but did on previous days, and Bureau of Prisons officers fired pepper spray munitions from the park without provocation during the clearing. Investigators also found that the audio warnings issued by the Park Police before the operation were not widely heard by the crowd and mostly ineffective. The report by the Interior Department’s inspector general focuses on the Park Police and does not fully address questions about the involvement of other agencies or the Trump administration in the events of June 1. Interior officials said they may not have heard all of the discussions that went on about the operation within the Secret Service or the White House, but that those discussions did not affect how and when the Park Police acted. The investigators did not interview Secret Service or White House personnel. The report found that preparations to clear the protesters and erect a fence began two days before the park clearing. But the idea may have gained greater urgency on the morning of June 1, in a meeting Trump held in the Oval Office with his chief of staff, military advisers, Attorney General William P. Barr and other law enforcement officials. The Washington Post has previously reported that Trump was furious at reporting that revealed he had been taken to an emergency bunker on the first night of protests that previous Friday night and the poor impression created that he had no control over the protests consuming key downtown areas in the nation’s capital, according to multiple law enforcement sources and Trump advisers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity at the time due to the sensitivity of the incident. The group agreed the Park Police and supporting teams of law enforcement officers would extend the perimeter and gradually push protesters further away from the White House and St. John’s Church, which had been vandalized the previous night. By midday, Trump was working with close confidants on a plan to project his control over the city by walking across Lafayette Square outside the White House and over to the church, the Trump advisers said at the time. Officials familiar with Lafayette Square confrontation challenge Trump administration claim of what drove aggressive expulsion of protesters Park Police officials, including then-acting chief Gregory Monahan and an unidentified incident commander, told inspector general investigators that they learned “around mid- to late afternoon ... of the President’s unscheduled movement to Lafayette Park.” Both Park Police officials reported that “they were not told a specific time for the President’s potential arrival and that learning this information did not change their operational timeline,” which was to push protesters back as soon as National Guard officers and the fencing arrived, both of which occurred after 5 p.m. “I can tell you with 100 percent certainty,” Monahan told the investigators, “that the Secret Service and the Park Police ... timeline did not change the entire day.” However, a redacted portion of the report seems to indicate that an unnamed government official asked for an earlier clearing of the park. Monahan told investigators he was not given a reason for the request, and that he rejected it and “stated the clearing operation would begin once all law enforcement officers ... were in place.” This does not seem to be a reference to Barr’s visit to the park shortly after 6 p.m. That visit is described elsewhere by a Park Police operations commander who said the attorney general asked when the protesters would be moved, and that Barr did not give an order at that time to clear the park. The commander said the conversation with Barr was the first he’d heard that Trump was coming. As protests sprang up around Lafayette Square after the May 25, 2020, killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Park Police began getting pelted with water bottles, rocks and fireworks which led to 49 officer injuries through May 31. At 6:32 p.m. on June 1, Park Police officers joined by Arlington County Police and Secret Service officers began clearing H Street on the north side of the Twelve minutes later, Trump began speaking in the White House Rose Garden. “What happened last night was a total disgrace,” the president said. “As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults and the wanton destruction of property.” The thumping of munitions and wailing of sirens could be heard in the background as Trump spoke. At 7:02 p.m., Trump began walking to the park, and at 7:06 p.m. he stood in front of St. John’s church on H Street and held up a Bible for a photo opportunity. Interior officials said they found no evidence that the Park Police cleared the square for the photo opportunity. “If we had found that type of evidence,” Interior Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt said, “we would not hesitate in presenting that, and saying that was influencing the Park Police’s decision-making to clear the park. Just so you know, if we had found that, if we had seen that type of evidence, we would absolutely have reported that, without a doubt.” Greenblatt was appointed during the Trump administration. Trump issued a statement Wednesday thanking the inspector general for “Completely and Totally exonerating me in the clearing of Lafayette Park!” The former president said “our fine Park Police made the decision to clear the park to allow a contractor to safely install antiscale fencing.” Scott Michelman, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C., said in a statement the government “has given various conflicting explanations” for the clearing of Lafayette Square. The ACLU of D.C., Black Lives Matter, other civil liberties groups and individual protesters are suing Trump and senior officials in connection with the incident. The government has asked a judge to dismiss the suits. “These shifting explanations cannot distract from the fundamental problem: The force used against the demonstrators at Lafayette Square was grossly excessive in relation to any conceivably legitimate purpose,” Michelman said in his statement. After a night of violence in and around the park on May 31, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser had announced a 7 p.m. curfew for June 1, and many wondered why the Park Police didn’t wait for the curfew before taking on the protesters. According to the report, the Park Police incident commander told investigators, “We were not enforcing the mayor’s curfew. We’re a federal entity. We don’t work directly for the mayor.” Instead, the operation arose out of a meeting on May 30, two days earlier, in which the Park Police and Secret Service jointly decided “to establish a more secure perimeter around Lafayette Park” in response to the protests, the report states. A fencing contractor told the investigators that the Secret Service contacted her on May 30 to discuss erecting the fence, that it agreed to do so if police created a safe area for the builders and preferred to do so in daylight. A federal procurement data website shows a solicitation from the Secret Service to build the fence, for more than $1.1 million, was issued on May 30 and contracted on June 1. The report states that all fencing materials were in place on 17th Street by 5:30 p.m., that construction began at 7:30 p.m., shortly after Trump’s visit ended, and was finished by 12:30 a.m. Bureau of Prisons officers showed up after the briefing, the report states, and it was not clear if they were told not to use pepper balls. The report says the BOP officers did fire pepper balls from inside the park, possibly because they heard stun and stinger-ball grenades used by Park Police and reacted to those, but no protesters had tried to breach the park. D.C. police have acknowledged that its officers used tear gas as the protesters moved toward them, though they were not involved in the initial push away from the park and were not subject to the Park Police directives on use of force. A department spokeswoman said in a statement that officers acted to protect themselves after people threw objects at them, including an “incendiary device” that burned an officer. Greenblatt said a separate investigation was being done into the use of force by Park Police during the operation.” Yes. A whole lot of information there that was never investigated by the so called journalists. They put forth a narrative that they now say was wrong. Oops. They could have avoided that by doing their job. So much for journalism. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 14, 2021 14:35:13 GMT
Something that needs to be considered. Combat vet says NOT having a Jan 6th Commission will divide the military.. What worries Ackerman is that the military has traditionally been removed for internal U.S. politics and he claims there is a risk they will become a tool of whomever controls the White House as commander in chief and a war within the ranks may break out along political divides. "If this trend of increased military politicization seeps into the active-duty ranks, it could lead to dangerous outcomes, particularly around a contested presidential election," he wrote. "Many commentators have already pointed out that it's likely that in 2024 (or even 2022) the losing party will cry foul, and it is also likely that their supporters will fill the streets, with law enforcement, or even military, called in to manage those protests. It is not hard to imagine, then, with half of the country claiming an elected leader is illegitimate, that certain military members who hold their own biases might begin to second guess their orders." He added, "This might sound alarmist, but as long as political leaders continue to question the legitimacy of our president, some in our military might do the same." Using his experience overseas as a reference point, Ackerman noted that the U.S. government needs to restabilize and that a Capitol riot insurrection commission is needed to get to the truth. "Consensus on anything in Washington is hard to come by these days, but there is a common interest here: Both parties will certainly agree that if they win the next election, they won't want the other side to contest it," he advised. www.rawstory.com/jan-6th-investigation/ |
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 14, 2021 14:49:07 GMT
Oh put a sock in you idiot.
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Post by femalebusiness on Jun 14, 2021 16:04:17 GMT
I wonder if people are actually buying these….. Wow! I sure hope dixiechick sees this. Wouldn't want her to miss the big event. 😂😂😂 |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jun 14, 2021 16:05:39 GMT
I wonder if people are actually buying these….. Wow! I sure hope dixiechick sees this. Wouldn't want her to miss the big event. 😂😂😂 I can't figure out if these tickets actually have a DATE on-- can anyone see what day this supposed event is taking place?? I don't want to miss it when it's televised, lol. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 14, 2021 16:10:13 GMT
Yes, August 15, 2021.
In front of the Capitol steps.
Music by Ted Nugent and Kid Rock
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Post by femalebusiness on Jun 14, 2021 16:10:26 GMT
Heads up for August 15th. These idiots are gearing up for another attack on our country. They always telegraph their sick intentions.
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Pearl Clutcher
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Post by lindas on Jun 14, 2021 16:48:50 GMT
I wonder if people are actually buying these….. Just another fake post on Twitter. |
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sueg
Prolific Pea
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Location: Munich
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Post by sueg on Jun 14, 2021 16:50:32 GMT
Oh put a sock in you idiot. Does he still believe that the US was respected around the world in the past 4 years? Have I got news for him. |
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 14, 2021 17:10:44 GMT
I wonder if people are actually buying these….. Just another fake post on Twitter. From the article… “Where were we? Oh, moral compasses. There is a lot of money to be made off the MAGAs if one can put that thing on hold for a year or so. Someone is making tickets to Trump’s second inauguration, dated August 15, 2021, oh and they’re charging $1200, which would be offensive even if there were to be such an event and even if one was the biggest MAGA. But evidently some – we cannot know how many – are buying these things. It is almost like they think that the bigger the scam, the more real it must be.“ It appears you made an assumption without actually reading the article attached to the tweet. |
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lizacreates
Pearl Clutcher
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Post by lizacreates on Jun 14, 2021 17:46:49 GMT
Just another fake post on Twitter. From the article… “Where were we? Oh, moral compasses. There is a lot of money to be made off the MAGAs if one can put that thing on hold for a year or so. Someone is making tickets to Trump’s second inauguration, dated August 15, 2021, oh and they’re charging $1200, which would be offensive even if there were to be such an event and even if one was the biggest MAGA. But evidently some – we cannot know how many – are buying these things. It is almost like they think that the bigger the scam, the more real it must be.“ It appears you made an assumption without actually reading the article attached to the tweet. It was a joke. The tickets are not real. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 14, 2021 17:56:37 GMT
Surely there will be those who do go to DC for the 'event'
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lindas
Pearl Clutcher
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Post by lindas on Jun 14, 2021 18:39:08 GMT
Just another fake post on Twitter. From the article… “Where were we? Oh, moral compasses. There is a lot of money to be made off the MAGAs if one can put that thing on hold for a year or so. Someone is making tickets to Trump’s second inauguration, dated August 15, 2021, oh and they’re charging $1200, which would be offensive even if there were to be such an event and even if one was the biggest MAGA. But evidently some – we cannot know how many – are buying these things. It is almost like they think that the bigger the scam, the more real it must be.“ It appears you made an assumption without actually reading the article attached to the tweet. I read the article and then I did my own research. It wasn’t hard to find out they were fake. |
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 14, 2021 19:20:59 GMT
From the article… “Where were we? Oh, moral compasses. There is a lot of money to be made off the MAGAs if one can put that thing on hold for a year or so. Someone is making tickets to Trump’s second inauguration, dated August 15, 2021, oh and they’re charging $1200, which would be offensive even if there were to be such an event and even if one was the biggest MAGA. But evidently some – we cannot know how many – are buying these things. It is almost like they think that the bigger the scam, the more real it must be.“ It appears you made an assumption without actually reading the article attached to the tweet. I read the article and then I did my own research. It wasn’t hard to find out they were fake. Of course the tickets are fake. Nobody said otherwise. However you were not clear in your comment “another fake post on twitter”. What was fake? The post or the tickets? The tickets exist so the post was not fake. And the guy was clear the tickets were fake so again it wasn’t a fake post. |
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