WaPo about what happened in DC last night
#AmericaOrTrump
#AmericaOnFire
#BUNKERPRESIDENT
washingtonpost.com/local/dc-brace…
#AmericaOrTrump
#AmericaOnFire
#BUNKERPRESIDENT
washingtonpost.com/local/dc-brace…
2-"The third day of protests in the nation’s capital over George Floyd’s death began with bent knees, raised fists and pleas that this night, unlike the last, would remain peaceful. And in those first moments on Sunday, the more than 1,000 people who marched to Lafayette Square
3-"across from the White House listened. Then came darkness, and with it, another night of mayhem. In the park, protesters faced the familiar pop, pop, pop of pepper bullets and stinging clouds of tear gas meant to push back hundreds of them as they tried, again and again, to
4-"break through the police barricades set up around President Trump’s home. Later, American flags and parked cars and buildings were lit ablaze — including St. John’s Church, a historic landmark opened in 1816 and attended by every president since James Madison.
5-"Firefighters quickly extinguished the basement fire, which police said was intentionally set. Much like Saturday night, the worst violence didn’t erupt until police pushed demonstrators out of Lafayette Square and into the city’s streets. Downtown, baseball bats bashed through
6-"windows at coffee shops, banks and one office building after another. Vandals and looters roamed throughout the city, scrawling graffiti and targeting dozens of businesses well after the mayor’s 11 p.m. curfew began.”
