Just spoke with Rev. Gina Gerbasi of St. John's Episcopal Church in Georgetown who was at St. John's across from WH yesterday. She says she and others were driven from the area by force. “It was completely unprovoked. I didn’t hear bullhorns saying ‘the president’s coming.’”
Gerbasi and others were standing on patio of church. "Then the tear gas started," Gerbasi said. "All I'm doing is coughing." "I'm wearing a collar," she said. "I didn't hear a warning. It was completely unprovoked," she added. "He turned it into a literal battleground."
Gerbasi says she had no choice but to run with the others. “This was not a safe enough environment where I could stay ‘stop in the name of God.’ This was dangerous. They were in riot mode,” she said of the forces used to drive out the protesters.
