At the White House Saturday, police used pepper spray, tear gas and what appeared to be rubber bullets on protesters, seeking to push them back. Protesters tossed objects like bottles toward the police. Some pulled bricks out of a sidewalk near the park and began throwing them toward police.
Multiple cars and dumpsters were set on fire mere blocks from the White House. People smashed windows and spray painted buildings as the night went on. Just after 9 p.m. ET, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy directed the D.C. National Guard to activate in response to U.S. Park Police asking for assistance with the protest, Commanding General William WalkerEarlier, protesters amid the large crowd could be seen standing on top of Secret Service vehicles and a security booth next to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Just before 6 p.m. ET, police warned protesters to clear the street and pushed them to do as much.
After 7 p.m., protesters moved to the opposite side of Lafayette Park, chanting and yelling at members of the Secret Service and Park Police. Officers lined up within the park behind barricades and park chain fencing. They zip-tied the barricades together and used pepper spray to keep protesters back.
Some in the crowd also ripped away the bike rack barriers that separate 17th Street from the Pennsylvania Avenue Plaza. Other demonstrators were seen standing face to face with a phalanx of Secret Service on the plaza.Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.
FIRST OF ALL ITS NOT HIS DOORSTEP AND NOT HIS HOUSE AND PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PICTURE SHOULD BE HANGING THE WHITE HOUSE THE ORANGE LIAR IS A PETULANT CHILD AND ITS 'WE THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE ' NOT TRUMPS AND HIS CORRUPT FAMILY AND ADMINISTRATION AND SO CALLED FRIENDS HOUSE
I’ve been thinking🤔 It’s time for national investigation of ALL police systems to ferret out”bad cops” & practices that allow”bad cops”to have long careers in policing. My analogy would be kind of inquiry/investigation of Catholic Church & abusive priests.
Show how the protestors protected Target not everyone is looting BlackLivesMatter From AndrewSolender
The American spirit is dead！
GeorgeFlyod breaking With Trump naming them thugs and allowing the army to shoot at the protesters, the blacks have no way out. Once they withdraw, they will be identified as family terrorists and imprisoned, suppressed and slaughtered. They can only insist on revolution
The President had his chance to call for peace, beg for healing and to pledge to listen to the unheard voices. Instead he chose to undermine the respect of elected leaders in these cities. This nation is broken. This president has fanned the flames like no other. This is on him.
If the Mayor can't protect the Capital of America then the Military will.
Nothing to do with George Floyd and I'm surprised the Secret Service has shot first and asked questions later already.
Minority Dissatisfied Dissatisfied Dissatisfied Make an effort
If they go to far. Do they know what could happen
I’d be willing to bet “‘magat’ night at the White house’ was a bust on Saturday.
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