DC Episcopal Bishop Decries Trump Photo-op in Front of St. John's

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Anonymous wrote:trump’s ridiculous photo op really bombed.

That's it. Trump lost my elderly parents vote.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I found her tweet disturbing. She was more concerned about Trump than the fact that the "protesters" set fire to the church. Seems a little topsy turvy to me.

I don't like it when any pastors get political--and that includes the ones that support Trump and the ones that don't. They should stay out of politics.

Agree. That beautiful, historic church. Where's her outrage about that?

She's compassionate. That's the Christ-like response. Not "what about my stuff?"

My office on 9th street was vandalized last night. The CEO sent around an email this morning saying that minorities are suffering more from COVID (disease rate and job loss), the Minneapolis murder was appalling, and by the way (4th para), our glass front was broken but the night guard is safe and we should all be compassionate and understanding.

Sounds like a nice person.
It is hard to be compassionate to people who intentionally destroy property just for the hell of it. And, I am certainly not understanding of these people.

Until they are held accountable for their destruction, vandalism and violent actions, they won't stop. Having compassion and understanding for them means identifying them and make sure they pay for their crimes. As long as we excuse thees crimes, nothing will change.

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These apologists are disgusting.

So DCUM's two constantly-posting Cons have no Christ-like compassion. Got it.

Compassion for looting, rioting criminals? Nope. And nice try with the sanctimony. As if you'd have any compassion whatsoever for someone who destroyed your property. Hope you've got insurance!

Jesus showed compassion, while dying, for the people who had him crucified. That’s why there is a religion named after him. And why it is supposed to be about compassion and not wrath.

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Wow. The US is officially a sh1thole country.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait is it in poor form to use tear gas and rubber bullets are citizens exercising their constitutional right?!

Wait... they had a "constitutional right" to vandalize and set fire to a church?

Nobody gassed on shot tonight to clear the way for the fat orange an,Ed empowers parade was vandalizing anything. Moron.

Says the moron who can't even string a coherent sentence together.

DP. Now you're attacking someone for typos? You don't like that pp pointed out that none of the people gassed tonight were vandalizing anything.

At least pp isn't president. Here's your candidate trying to string a few sentences together in front of the church:

A reporter asked him if it was his Bible and he said, “It's a Bible. We have a great country,” he said. “That's my thoughts. Greatest country in the world."

"That's my thoughts"? Really? And why are you holding a Bible if you're not going to talk about it?

Let’s get one thing straight. The Jews were gassed. The protesters had some tear gas thrown their way so they would disperse after not listening to police when asked to disperse. The protesters will be back to beat and loot tonight. The gassed Jews will never come back.

So, in your bizarre world, that makes it OK to gas peaceful protestors so Trump can have a photo op?

And, OMG, did you actually say "had some tear gas thrown their way"?

Were they asked to leave prior? Yes or no

Do you understand the first amendment? Yes or no.

If they were asked to leave because the President was going to come through,and they actively refused to disperse after being asked multiple times, yes, they can be forced to leave. With tear gas. Furthermore, in a public park, they need a permit to assemble to protest. Did they have one? No.

"When do you need a permit? Protests of 25 people or more on the National Mall or other National Park Service operated spaces in DC require a permit (click here to see a listing of those spaces) require a permit, as does any event that requires streets to be closed. The Metropolitan Police, because they lost an important court case, are required to allow permit-less marches in the street as long as they stay within a single lane. Demonstrations on public sidewalks are legally permissable without a permit so long as they don’t block the walkway and fewer than 100 people are expected. "

The optics are terrible. That's all that matters. Trump gassed people for one of the most inane photo ops in recent memory. Nobody cares about any of your nitpicking, it won't erase this disastrous image.

So you now admit that they were gathering illegally and should have left when they were asked. They didn't, so the police had to use tear gas to force the issue.

The optics? I think the images and video of people being beaten near to death, and all the looting and graffiti far surpass what you are complaining about. But....TRUMP.... BAD ORANGE MAN

I think you are a toddler in sore need of some sleep.

They weren’t gathering illegally at all - but Trump did just commit a war crime against his own fellow citizens.

You nut jobs keep harping on a few business owners allegedly being beaten, but you don’t care that George Floyd is dead, or that that follows on 400 years of inequality.

You’re worried about graffiti and looting when you don’t care what the GOP has done to the environment or how they’ve robbed the middle class and poor blind to give billionaires more money.

So I say again: go get a snack and go to bed. Hopefully you can wake up more mature in the morning.

There it is folks - allegedly being beaten when you can see the brutal beatings for yourself on video.

Apparently the looters last night flooded into a DC townhome? What did the occupants have to do with Floyd?

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This is how you win an argument with a liberal - use fact until you force them into stupidity.

Oh look, another Con thumping his chest about an argument he actually lost.

You can’t defend the indefensible. Your orange baby gassed people to make one of the dumbest, crudest photo ops in history. All your attempts to conflate the peaceful protestors he gassed with looters are transparent lies. Whether or not he had the right to gas them is irrelevant in the face of the cruelty he inflicted by actually gassing them. The church where he grandstanded is outraged that he used their property to wave around someone else’s bible and didn’t even pretend to pray.

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Anonymous wrote:Facebook post from the St John's church rector:

Friends, I am ok, but I am, frankly shaken. I was at St. John's, Lafayette Square most of the afternoon, with fellow clergy and laypeople - and clergy from some other denominations too. We were passing out water and snacks, and helping the patio area at St. John's, Lafayette square to be a place of respite and peace. All was well - with a few little tense moments - until about 6:15 or so. By then, I had connected with the Black Lives Matter medic team, which was headed by an EMT. Those people were AMAZING. They had been on the patio all day, and thankfully had not had to use much of the eyewash they had made. Around 6:15 or 6:30, the police started really pushing protestors off of H Street (the street between the church and Lafayette Park, and ultimately, the White House. They started using tear gas and folks were running at us for eyewashes or water or wet paper towels. At this point, Julia, one of our seminarians for next year (who is a trauma nurse) and I looked at each other in disbelief. I was coughing, her eyes were watering, and we were trying to help people as the police - in full riot gear - drove people toward us. Julia and her classmates left and I stayed with the BLM folks trying to help people.

Suddenly, around 6:30, there was more tear gas, more concussion grenades, and I think I saw someone hit by a rubber bullet - he was grasping his stomach and there was a mark on his shirt. The police in their riot gear were literally walking onto the St. John's, Lafayette Square patio with these metal shields, pushing people off the patio and driving them back. People were running at us as the police advanced toward us from the other side of the patio. We had to try to pick up what we could. The BLM medic folks were obviously well practiced. They picked up boxes and ran. I was so stunned I only got a few water bottles and my spray bottle of eyewash. We were literally DRIVEN OFF of the St. John's, Lafayette Square patio with tear gas and concussion grenades and police in full riot gear. We were pushed back 20 feet, and then eventually - with SO MANY concussion grenades - back to K street. By the time I got back to my car, around 7, I was getting texts from people saying that Trump was outside of St. John's, Lafayette Square. I literally COULD NOT believe it. WE WERE DRIVEN OFF OF THE PATIO AT ST. JOHN'S - a place of peace and respite and medical care throughout the day - SO THAT MAN COULD HAVE A PHOTO OPPORTUNITY IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH!!! PEOPLE WERE HURT SO THAT HE COULD POSE IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH WITH A BIBLE! HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO STEP OVER THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES WE LEFT BEHIND BECAUSE WE WERE BEING TEAR GASSED!!!!

I am deeply shaken. I did not see any protestors throw anything until the tear gas and concussion grenades started, and then it was mostly water bottles. I am shaken, not so much by the taste of tear gas and the bit of a cough I still have, but by the fact that that show of force was for a PHOTO OPPORTUNITY. The patio of St. John's, Lafayette square had been HOLY GROUND today. A place of respite and laughter and water and granola bars and fruit snacks. But that man turned it into a BATTLE GROUND first, and a cheap political stunt second. I am DEEPLY OFFENDED on behalf of every protestor, every Christian, the people of St. John's, Lafayette square, every decent person there, and the BLM medics who stayed with just a single box of supplies and a backpack, even when I got too scared and had to leave. I am ok. But I am now a force to be reckoned with.

https://www.facebook.com/gini.gerbasi/posts/10157575422089624

This is horrifying. A church pastor was driven away from his church, from holy ground, by tear gas and concussion grenades so that man could have a cheap photo op.

Absolutely unbelievable.

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They teargassed the church's own clergy. Is that what Jesus would do, Trumpkins?

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Anonymous wrote:Wait is it in poor form to use tear gas and rubber bullets are citizens exercising their constitutional right?!

Wait... they had a "constitutional right" to vandalize and set fire to a church?

Nobody gassed on shot tonight to clear the way for the fat orange an,Ed empowers parade was vandalizing anything. Moron.

Says the moron who can't even string a coherent sentence together.

DP. Now you're attacking someone for typos? You don't like that pp pointed out that none of the people gassed tonight were vandalizing anything.

At least pp isn't president. Here's your candidate trying to string a few sentences together in front of the church:

A reporter asked him if it was his Bible and he said, “It's a Bible. We have a great country,” he said. “That's my thoughts. Greatest country in the world."

"That's my thoughts"? Really? And why are you holding a Bible if you're not going to talk about it?

Let’s get one thing straight. The Jews were gassed. The protesters had some tear gas thrown their way so they would disperse after not listening to police when asked to disperse. The protesters will be back to beat and loot tonight. The gassed Jews will never come back.

So, in your bizarre world, that makes it OK to gas peaceful protestors so Trump can have a photo op?

And, OMG, did you actually say "had some tear gas thrown their way"?

Were they asked to leave prior? Yes or no

Do you understand the first amendment? Yes or no.

If they were asked to leave because the President was going to come through,and they actively refused to disperse after being asked multiple times, yes, they can be forced to leave. With tear gas. Furthermore, in a public park, they need a permit to assemble to protest. Did they have one? No.

"When do you need a permit? Protests of 25 people or more on the National Mall or other National Park Service operated spaces in DC require a permit (click here to see a listing of those spaces) require a permit, as does any event that requires streets to be closed. The Metropolitan Police, because they lost an important court case, are required to allow permit-less marches in the street as long as they stay within a single lane. Demonstrations on public sidewalks are legally permissable without a permit so long as they don’t block the walkway and fewer than 100 people are expected. "

The optics are terrible. That's all that matters. Trump gassed people for one of the most inane photo ops in recent memory. Nobody cares about any of your nitpicking, it won't erase this disastrous image.

So you now admit that they were gathering illegally and should have left when they were asked. They didn't, so the police had to use tear gas to force the issue.

The optics? I think the images and video of people being beaten near to death, and all the looting and graffiti far surpass what you are complaining about. But....TRUMP.... BAD ORANGE MAN

I think you are a toddler in sore need of some sleep.

They weren’t gathering illegally at all - but Trump did just commit a war crime against his own fellow citizens.

You nut jobs keep harping on a few business owners allegedly being beaten, but you don’t care that George Floyd is dead, or that that follows on 400 years of inequality.

You’re worried about graffiti and looting when you don’t care what the GOP has done to the environment or how they’ve robbed the middle class and poor blind to give billionaires more money.

So I say again: go get a snack and go to bed. Hopefully you can wake up more mature in the morning.

DP.
This is a totally idiotic post.

1. If they did not have a permit, they were gathering illegally. Sure, the police haven't been enforcing this. Maybe that is why things have gotten so out of control in DC.
2. A war crime? You are f'ing kidding me. This is why I pay little attention to some of you hysterical liberals. You are hyperbolic and frankly, you lie.
3. A few business owners beaten - no biggie, right. And, there is no "allegedly" about it. There is plenty of video out there.
4. What is happening in our cities has NOTHING to do with George Floyd's death. These people don't care about George Floyd. The reason we are not talking about George Floyd is because the cities are on fire and people are being beaten.
5. Your statement about the GOP is ludicrous. What YOU don't seem to understand is that what you see happening in cities right now is a total destruction of places the poor and middle class go to get food and goods. Replacing and repairing the public property that has been destroyed will cost money. And, that means that funding going to these things won't be there for the people that need assistance. Many of theses business owners - middle class people - have lost EVERYTHING. Save me your faux comments about your concern for the middle class.
6. Hope YOU had a good nights sleep and can see the ridiculousness in your post. Maybe it was alcohol talking.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait is it in poor form to use tear gas and rubber bullets are citizens exercising their constitutional right?!

Wait... they had a "constitutional right" to vandalize and set fire to a church?

Nobody gassed on shot tonight to clear the way for the fat orange an,Ed empowers parade was vandalizing anything. Moron.

Says the moron who can't even string a coherent sentence together.

DP. Now you're attacking someone for typos? You don't like that pp pointed out that none of the people gassed tonight were vandalizing anything.

At least pp isn't president. Here's your candidate trying to string a few sentences together in front of the church:

A reporter asked him if it was his Bible and he said, “It's a Bible. We have a great country,” he said. “That's my thoughts. Greatest country in the world."

"That's my thoughts"? Really? And why are you holding a Bible if you're not going to talk about it?

Let’s get one thing straight. The Jews were gassed. The protesters had some tear gas thrown their way so they would disperse after not listening to police when asked to disperse. The protesters will be back to beat and loot tonight. The gassed Jews will never come back.

So, in your bizarre world, that makes it OK to gas peaceful protestors so Trump can have a photo op?

And, OMG, did you actually say "had some tear gas thrown their way"?

Were they asked to leave prior? Yes or no

Do you understand the first amendment? Yes or no.

If they were asked to leave because the President was going to come through,and they actively refused to disperse after being asked multiple times, yes, they can be forced to leave. With tear gas. Furthermore, in a public park, they need a permit to assemble to protest. Did they have one? No.

"When do you need a permit? Protests of 25 people or more on the National Mall or other National Park Service operated spaces in DC require a permit (click here to see a listing of those spaces) require a permit, as does any event that requires streets to be closed. The Metropolitan Police, because they lost an important court case, are required to allow permit-less marches in the street as long as they stay within a single lane. Demonstrations on public sidewalks are legally permissable without a permit so long as they don’t block the walkway and fewer than 100 people are expected. "

The optics are terrible. That's all that matters. Trump gassed people for one of the most inane photo ops in recent memory. Nobody cares about any of your nitpicking, it won't erase this disastrous image.

So you now admit that they were gathering illegally and should have left when they were asked. They didn't, so the police had to use tear gas to force the issue.

The optics? I think the images and video of people being beaten near to death, and all the looting and graffiti far surpass what you are complaining about. But....TRUMP.... BAD ORANGE MAN

I think you are a toddler in sore need of some sleep.

They weren’t gathering illegally at all - but Trump did just commit a war crime against his own fellow citizens.

You nut jobs keep harping on a few business owners allegedly being beaten, but you don’t care that George Floyd is dead, or that that follows on 400 years of inequality.

You’re worried about graffiti and looting when you don’t care what the GOP has done to the environment or how they’ve robbed the middle class and poor blind to give billionaires more money.

So I say again: go get a snack and go to bed. Hopefully you can wake up more mature in the morning.

DP.
This is a totally idiotic post.

1. If they did not have a permit, they were gathering illegally. Sure, the police haven't been enforcing this. Maybe that is why things have gotten so out of control in DC.
2. A war crime? You are f'ing kidding me. This is why I pay little attention to some of you hysterical liberals. You are hyperbolic and frankly, you lie.
3. A few business owners beaten - no biggie, right. And, there is no "allegedly" about it. There is plenty of video out there.
4. What is happening in our cities has NOTHING to do with George Floyd's death. These people don't care about George Floyd. The reason we are not talking about George Floyd is because the cities are on fire and people are being beaten.
5. Your statement about the GOP is ludicrous. What YOU don't seem to understand is that what you see happening in cities right now is a total destruction of places the poor and middle class go to get food and goods. Replacing and repairing the public property that has been destroyed will cost money. And, that means that funding going to these things won't be there for the people that need assistance. Many of theses business owners - middle class people - have lost EVERYTHING. Save me your faux comments about your concern for the middle class.
6. Hope YOU had a good nights sleep and can see the ridiculousness in your post. Maybe it was alcohol talking.

DP. You are mentally stunted. Get help. Nothing you’ve mentioned justified gassing people for an inane photo op. Nothing he did helps with any of the problems you mention or is even related to them at all.

Trump poured gas on the flames, literally. Stop whining about protest permits already.

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Anonymous wrote:Facebook post from the St John's church rector:

Friends, I am ok, but I am, frankly shaken. I was at St. John's, Lafayette Square most of the afternoon, with fellow clergy and laypeople - and clergy from some other denominations too. We were passing out water and snacks, and helping the patio area at St. John's, Lafayette square to be a place of respite and peace. All was well - with a few little tense moments - until about 6:15 or so. By then, I had connected with the Black Lives Matter medic team, which was headed by an EMT. Those people were AMAZING. They had been on the patio all day, and thankfully had not had to use much of the eyewash they had made. Around 6:15 or 6:30, the police started really pushing protestors off of H Street (the street between the church and Lafayette Park, and ultimately, the White House. They started using tear gas and folks were running at us for eyewashes or water or wet paper towels. At this point, Julia, one of our seminarians for next year (who is a trauma nurse) and I looked at each other in disbelief. I was coughing, her eyes were watering, and we were trying to help people as the police - in full riot gear - drove people toward us. Julia and her classmates left and I stayed with the BLM folks trying to help people.

Suddenly, around 6:30, there was more tear gas, more concussion grenades, and I think I saw someone hit by a rubber bullet - he was grasping his stomach and there was a mark on his shirt. The police in their riot gear were literally walking onto the St. John's, Lafayette Square patio with these metal shields, pushing people off the patio and driving them back. People were running at us as the police advanced toward us from the other side of the patio. We had to try to pick up what we could. The BLM medic folks were obviously well practiced. They picked up boxes and ran. I was so stunned I only got a few water bottles and my spray bottle of eyewash. We were literally DRIVEN OFF of the St. John's, Lafayette Square patio with tear gas and concussion grenades and police in full riot gear. We were pushed back 20 feet, and then eventually - with SO MANY concussion grenades - back to K street. By the time I got back to my car, around 7, I was getting texts from people saying that Trump was outside of St. John's, Lafayette Square. I literally COULD NOT believe it. WE WERE DRIVEN OFF OF THE PATIO AT ST. JOHN'S - a place of peace and respite and medical care throughout the day - SO THAT MAN COULD HAVE A PHOTO OPPORTUNITY IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH!!! PEOPLE WERE HURT SO THAT HE COULD POSE IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH WITH A BIBLE! HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO STEP OVER THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES WE LEFT BEHIND BECAUSE WE WERE BEING TEAR GASSED!!!!

I am deeply shaken. I did not see any protestors throw anything until the tear gas and concussion grenades started, and then it was mostly water bottles. I am shaken, not so much by the taste of tear gas and the bit of a cough I still have, but by the fact that that show of force was for a PHOTO OPPORTUNITY. The patio of St. John's, Lafayette square had been HOLY GROUND today. A place of respite and laughter and water and granola bars and fruit snacks. But that man turned it into a BATTLE GROUND first, and a cheap political stunt second. I am DEEPLY OFFENDED on behalf of every protestor, every Christian, the people of St. John's, Lafayette square, every decent person there, and the BLM medics who stayed with just a single box of supplies and a backpack, even when I got too scared and had to leave. I am ok. But I am now a force to be reckoned with.

https://www.facebook.com/gini.gerbasi/posts/10157575422089624

This is horrifying. A church pastor was driven away from his church, from holy ground, by tear gas and concussion grenades so that man could have a cheap photo op.

Absolutely unbelievable.

Once again......

The crowd was driven away to an area in which the police had more control. It wasn't SO the president could have a photo opportunity, but you don't care about truth. Apparently, neither does this pastor at this point (it is a SHE by the way).

The crowd was told to disperse, then they were escorted to the area they could control.

Once things were cleared out, people from the WH made the walk over. They didn't clear them out SO the WH folks could walk over.

And, BTW, Bowser agreed with their efforts to get things under control.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait is it in poor form to use tear gas and rubber bullets are citizens exercising their constitutional right?!

Wait... they had a "constitutional right" to vandalize and set fire to a church?

Nobody gassed on shot tonight to clear the way for the fat orange an,Ed empowers parade was vandalizing anything. Moron.

Says the moron who can't even string a coherent sentence together.

DP. Now you're attacking someone for typos? You don't like that pp pointed out that none of the people gassed tonight were vandalizing anything.

At least pp isn't president. Here's your candidate trying to string a few sentences together in front of the church:

A reporter asked him if it was his Bible and he said, “It's a Bible. We have a great country,” he said. “That's my thoughts. Greatest country in the world."

"That's my thoughts"? Really? And why are you holding a Bible if you're not going to talk about it?

Let’s get one thing straight. The Jews were gassed. The protesters had some tear gas thrown their way so they would disperse after not listening to police when asked to disperse. The protesters will be back to beat and loot tonight. The gassed Jews will never come back.

So, in your bizarre world, that makes it OK to gas peaceful protestors so Trump can have a photo op?

And, OMG, did you actually say "had some tear gas thrown their way"?

Were they asked to leave prior? Yes or no

Do you understand the first amendment? Yes or no.

If they were asked to leave because the President was going to come through,and they actively refused to disperse after being asked multiple times, yes, they can be forced to leave. With tear gas. Furthermore, in a public park, they need a permit to assemble to protest. Did they have one? No.

"When do you need a permit? Protests of 25 people or more on the National Mall or other National Park Service operated spaces in DC require a permit (click here to see a listing of those spaces) require a permit, as does any event that requires streets to be closed. The Metropolitan Police, because they lost an important court case, are required to allow permit-less marches in the street as long as they stay within a single lane. Demonstrations on public sidewalks are legally permissable without a permit so long as they don’t block the walkway and fewer than 100 people are expected. "

The optics are terrible. That's all that matters. Trump gassed people for one of the most inane photo ops in recent memory. Nobody cares about any of your nitpicking, it won't erase this disastrous image.

So you now admit that they were gathering illegally and should have left when they were asked. They didn't, so the police had to use tear gas to force the issue.

The optics? I think the images and video of people being beaten near to death, and all the looting and graffiti far surpass what you are complaining about. But....TRUMP.... BAD ORANGE MAN

I think you are a toddler in sore need of some sleep.

They weren’t gathering illegally at all - but Trump did just commit a war crime against his own fellow citizens.

You nut jobs keep harping on a few business owners allegedly being beaten, but you don’t care that George Floyd is dead, or that that follows on 400 years of inequality.

You’re worried about graffiti and looting when you don’t care what the GOP has done to the environment or how they’ve robbed the middle class and poor blind to give billionaires more money.

So I say again: go get a snack and go to bed. Hopefully you can wake up more mature in the morning.

DP.
This is a totally idiotic post.

1. If they did not have a permit, they were gathering illegally. Sure, the police haven't been enforcing this. Maybe that is why things have gotten so out of control in DC.
2. A war crime? You are f'ing kidding me. This is why I pay little attention to some of you hysterical liberals. You are hyperbolic and frankly, you lie.
3. A few business owners beaten - no biggie, right. And, there is no "allegedly" about it. There is plenty of video out there.
4. What is happening in our cities has NOTHING to do with George Floyd's death. These people don't care about George Floyd. The reason we are not talking about George Floyd is because the cities are on fire and people are being beaten.
5. Your statement about the GOP is ludicrous. What YOU don't seem to understand is that what you see happening in cities right now is a total destruction of places the poor and middle class go to get food and goods. Replacing and repairing the public property that has been destroyed will cost money. And, that means that funding going to these things won't be there for the people that need assistance. Many of theses business owners - middle class people - have lost EVERYTHING. Save me your faux comments about your concern for the middle class.
6. Hope YOU had a good nights sleep and can see the ridiculousness in your post. Maybe it was alcohol talking.

DP. You are mentally stunted. Get help. Nothing you’ve mentioned justified gassing people for an inane photo op. Nothing he did helps with any of the problems you mention or is even related to them at all.

Trump poured gas on the flames, literally. Stop whining about protest permits already.

Was there widespread rioting and looting last night in DC????

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So shameful. The dumpsters here don’t even understand why.

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Anonymous wrote:Facebook post from the St John's church rector:

Friends, I am ok, but I am, frankly shaken. I was at St. John's, Lafayette Square most of the afternoon, with fellow clergy and laypeople - and clergy from some other denominations too. We were passing out water and snacks, and helping the patio area at St. John's, Lafayette square to be a place of respite and peace. All was well - with a few little tense moments - until about 6:15 or so. By then, I had connected with the Black Lives Matter medic team, which was headed by an EMT. Those people were AMAZING. They had been on the patio all day, and thankfully had not had to use much of the eyewash they had made. Around 6:15 or 6:30, the police started really pushing protestors off of H Street (the street between the church and Lafayette Park, and ultimately, the White House. They started using tear gas and folks were running at us for eyewashes or water or wet paper towels. At this point, Julia, one of our seminarians for next year (who is a trauma nurse) and I looked at each other in disbelief. I was coughing, her eyes were watering, and we were trying to help people as the police - in full riot gear - drove people toward us. Julia and her classmates left and I stayed with the BLM folks trying to help people.

Suddenly, around 6:30, there was more tear gas, more concussion grenades, and I think I saw someone hit by a rubber bullet - he was grasping his stomach and there was a mark on his shirt. The police in their riot gear were literally walking onto the St. John's, Lafayette Square patio with these metal shields, pushing people off the patio and driving them back. People were running at us as the police advanced toward us from the other side of the patio. We had to try to pick up what we could. The BLM medic folks were obviously well practiced. They picked up boxes and ran. I was so stunned I only got a few water bottles and my spray bottle of eyewash. We were literally DRIVEN OFF of the St. John's, Lafayette Square patio with tear gas and concussion grenades and police in full riot gear. We were pushed back 20 feet, and then eventually - with SO MANY concussion grenades - back to K street. By the time I got back to my car, around 7, I was getting texts from people saying that Trump was outside of St. John's, Lafayette Square. I literally COULD NOT believe it. WE WERE DRIVEN OFF OF THE PATIO AT ST. JOHN'S - a place of peace and respite and medical care throughout the day - SO THAT MAN COULD HAVE A PHOTO OPPORTUNITY IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH!!! PEOPLE WERE HURT SO THAT HE COULD POSE IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH WITH A BIBLE! HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO STEP OVER THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES WE LEFT BEHIND BECAUSE WE WERE BEING TEAR GASSED!!!!

I am deeply shaken. I did not see any protestors throw anything until the tear gas and concussion grenades started, and then it was mostly water bottles. I am shaken, not so much by the taste of tear gas and the bit of a cough I still have, but by the fact that that show of force was for a PHOTO OPPORTUNITY. The patio of St. John's, Lafayette square had been HOLY GROUND today. A place of respite and laughter and water and granola bars and fruit snacks. But that man turned it into a BATTLE GROUND first, and a cheap political stunt second. I am DEEPLY OFFENDED on behalf of every protestor, every Christian, the people of St. John's, Lafayette square, every decent person there, and the BLM medics who stayed with just a single box of supplies and a backpack, even when I got too scared and had to leave. I am ok. But I am now a force to be reckoned with.

https://www.facebook.com/gini.gerbasi/posts/10157575422089624

This is horrifying. A church pastor was driven away from his church, from holy ground, by tear gas and concussion grenades so that man could have a cheap photo op.

Absolutely unbelievable.

Once again......

The crowd was driven away to an area in which the police had more control. It wasn't SO the president could have a photo opportunity, but you don't care about truth. Apparently, neither does this pastor at this point (it is a SHE by the way).

The crowd was told to disperse, then they were escorted to the area they could control.

Once things were cleared out, people from the WH made the walk over. They didn't clear them out SO the WH folks could walk over.

And, BTW, Bowser agreed with their efforts to get things under control.

Bowser condemned the stunt.

You're supporting the trampling of our First Amendment. Shame on you.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait is it in poor form to use tear gas and rubber bullets are citizens exercising their constitutional right?!

Wait... they had a "constitutional right" to vandalize and set fire to a church?

Nobody gassed on shot tonight to clear the way for the fat orange an,Ed empowers parade was vandalizing anything. Moron.

Says the moron who can't even string a coherent sentence together.

DP. Now you're attacking someone for typos? You don't like that pp pointed out that none of the people gassed tonight were vandalizing anything.

At least pp isn't president. Here's your candidate trying to string a few sentences together in front of the church:

A reporter asked him if it was his Bible and he said, “It's a Bible. We have a great country,” he said. “That's my thoughts. Greatest country in the world."

"That's my thoughts"? Really? And why are you holding a Bible if you're not going to talk about it?

Let’s get one thing straight. The Jews were gassed. The protesters had some tear gas thrown their way so they would disperse after not listening to police when asked to disperse. The protesters will be back to beat and loot tonight. The gassed Jews will never come back.

So, in your bizarre world, that makes it OK to gas peaceful protestors so Trump can have a photo op?

And, OMG, did you actually say "had some tear gas thrown their way"?

Were they asked to leave prior? Yes or no

Do you understand the first amendment? Yes or no.

If they were asked to leave because the President was going to come through,and they actively refused to disperse after being asked multiple times, yes, they can be forced to leave. With tear gas. Furthermore, in a public park, they need a permit to assemble to protest. Did they have one? No.

"When do you need a permit? Protests of 25 people or more on the National Mall or other National Park Service operated spaces in DC require a permit (click here to see a listing of those spaces) require a permit, as does any event that requires streets to be closed. The Metropolitan Police, because they lost an important court case, are required to allow permit-less marches in the street as long as they stay within a single lane. Demonstrations on public sidewalks are legally permissable without a permit so long as they don’t block the walkway and fewer than 100 people are expected. "

The optics are terrible. That's all that matters. Trump gassed people for one of the most inane photo ops in recent memory. Nobody cares about any of your nitpicking, it won't erase this disastrous image.

So you now admit that they were gathering illegally and should have left when they were asked. They didn't, so the police had to use tear gas to force the issue.

The optics? I think the images and video of people being beaten near to death, and all the looting and graffiti far surpass what you are complaining about. But....TRUMP.... BAD ORANGE MAN

I think you are a toddler in sore need of some sleep.

They weren’t gathering illegally at all - but Trump did just commit a war crime against his own fellow citizens.

You nut jobs keep harping on a few business owners allegedly being beaten, but you don’t care that George Floyd is dead, or that that follows on 400 years of inequality.

You’re worried about graffiti and looting when you don’t care what the GOP has done to the environment or how they’ve robbed the middle class and poor blind to give billionaires more money.

So I say again: go get a snack and go to bed. Hopefully you can wake up more mature in the morning.

DP.
This is a totally idiotic post.

1. If they did not have a permit, they were gathering illegally. Sure, the police haven't been enforcing this. Maybe that is why things have gotten so out of control in DC.
2. A war crime? You are f'ing kidding me. This is why I pay little attention to some of you hysterical liberals. You are hyperbolic and frankly, you lie.
3. A few business owners beaten - no biggie, right. And, there is no "allegedly" about it. There is plenty of video out there.
4. What is happening in our cities has NOTHING to do with George Floyd's death. These people don't care about George Floyd. The reason we are not talking about George Floyd is because the cities are on fire and people are being beaten.
5. Your statement about the GOP is ludicrous. What YOU don't seem to understand is that what you see happening in cities right now is a total destruction of places the poor and middle class go to get food and goods. Replacing and repairing the public property that has been destroyed will cost money. And, that means that funding going to these things won't be there for the people that need assistance. Many of theses business owners - middle class people - have lost EVERYTHING. Save me your faux comments about your concern for the middle class.
6. Hope YOU had a good nights sleep and can see the ridiculousness in your post. Maybe it was alcohol talking.

DP. You are mentally stunted. Get help. Nothing you’ve mentioned justified gassing people for an inane photo op. Nothing he did helps with any of the problems you mention or is even related to them at all.

Trump poured gas on the flames, literally. Stop whining about protest permits already.

Was there widespread rioting and looting last night in DC????

WTF is wrong with you? Why does anything else happening—purple dinosaurs, something after he spoke—justify gassing people for a cheap photo op?

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Once again......

The crowd was driven away to an area in which the police had more control. It wasn't SO the president could have a photo opportunity, but you don't care about truth. Apparently, neither does this pastor at this point (it is a SHE by the way).

The crowd was told to disperse, then they were escorted to the area they could control.

Once things were cleared out, people from the WH made the walk over. They didn't clear them out SO the WH folks could walk over.

And, BTW, Bowser agreed with their efforts to get things under control.

Do you believe your own BS? Because nobody else does. So it was just a coincidence the orange fatty crossed the park and did his faux bible waving right after the gassing? You need to do better than this.