Quote (Ghot @ Jun 2 2020 11:08am)
The more accurate version of the clearing of Lafayette Square, not the church.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/trump-st-johns-church-bible.htmlAnd there's more... the protesters weren't "cleared" until the 7 pm curfew. And unless they can teleport, they wouldn't be gone BY the time of curfew.
Long story short... another group of idiots, breaking the law, were tear gassed.
Good for the police.
did you even read? my point of about them not being able to discern from protesters, rioters, and people who are either at their places of business or work (trump designated churches and their work essential). Still you are rolling around to deflect that this was violence perpetrated by trump.
In Lafayette Square, one of the visiting priests attending to St. John’s was sprayed with tear gas as she tried to help scared demonstrators leave the area, said Bishop Budde, who was not at the church when Mr. Trump visited.
Bishop Budde denounced the way the president held up a Bible during his visit, a move she interpreted as a political prop.
“The Bible is not an American document,” she said. “It’s not an expression of our country. It’s an expression of the human struggle to serve and love and know God.”
The president has been an infrequent visitor to St. John’s, but attended a church service there on the day of his inauguration. Since his election, the church has been dragged into the backdrop of some of Mr. Trump’s most partisan fights. Last spring, Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel who led the investigation surrounding the Trump campaign’s ties to Russian interference in the 2016 election, drew a gawking crowd outside St. John’s before his report was released.