(06-04-2020, 06:23 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: It is my understanding that the park police started to disburse the crowd because they (the park police) were being assaulted.  Tear gas was not used, rather smoke canisters and pepper balls.  Allegedly they had no idea that the president was going to be in the area... of a church that was set on fire and defaced the prior night.

That statement has no credibility at all.  

Attorney General Barr has said that he made the decision to move the protesters, because they wanted to expand the perimeter around the White House.  Nothing about anything being thrown at the police.  So the Attorney General has contradicted the head of the Park Police.  

Besides that, I've seen several videos of the event, taken from both behind the crowd and behind the police, and I've yet to see anything thrown at the police.  It looks like people just standing there peacefully, and then all of a sudden the police and national guard start shoving forward, whacking people with batons and shields as they shove them backwards.  

But aside from contradicting the head of the Park Police, Attorney General Barr's statement has no credibility, either.   

Because here's the most important point:  The President stated at the end of his speech that he was going to go to the church.  People always know well in advance when the President leaves the White House, and they always know exactly where and when he is going and how he is going to get there.   So how in the world is it possible that those protesters were moved for any other reason than that the President wanted to walk through there?

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