Was there a private army on the streets in DC for the past two days?

[malaise]

The world wants to know

[calimary]

1. Me too.

[gademocrat7]

2. I want to know.

[Kaleva]

3. No proof of it.

Just because some want something to be true doesn't in itself make it so.

[Celerity]

4. What sane person would want that? IF it is true, we are another step towards a fascist coup.

[malaise]

6. Thank you

There are rumors and we want the facts

[Kaleva]

9. So far the facts show there is no private army in D.C.

Some people prefer to ignore the actual evidence and prefer to believe unsubstantiated rumors.

[Kaleva]

8. The CTers.

[Celerity]

10. I have not seen anyone doing any CT, just asking legitmate questions. If there are actual CT'ers

speading disinfo, then I am sure they will soon be banned.

[Kaleva]

13. Asking about Bush's earthquake machine was also be considered a legitimate question

"Iranian Earthquake- B*sh did it but how?
I've heard tectonic weapons tossed around but what if that evil dummy prayed for the quake???"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=961876

As far as I know, nobody got banned for asking "legimate" questions about the machine.

[Celerity]

16. erm, you are showing me a post from 2003, when I was six and seven years old

[PubliusEnigma]

5. Brownshirts

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. List of law enforcement agencies in the District of Columbia

List of law enforcement agencies in the District of Columbia

[demmiblue]

11. Bureau of Prisons riot team

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Attorney General Bill Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons to send highly-trained and specialized federal riot teams to Miami and Washington, D.C. to respond to violent protests which broke out in response to the death of George Floyd, however, Miami-Dade County leaders said they didn’t request it.

In statement to CBS4 News, the Bureau of Prisons said, “The BOP has specialized Crisis Management Teams (CMTS), including Special Operations Response Teams, which are highly trained tactical units capable of responding to prison disturbances, and providing assistance to other law enforcement agencies during emergencies. The BOP’s CMTs also include Disturbance Control Teams, that specialize in crowd control scenarios. Per the request of the Attorney General, the BOP has dispatched teams to Miami, Florida, and Washington, D.C.”

During Miami-Dade’s virtual County commission on Tuesday, both Mayor Carlos Gimenez and Miami-Dade Police Director Freddie Ramirez said both were surprised by their arrival.

“I was unaware they were here. We didn’t ask them to be here. We told them we didn’t need them here. There is no reason for them to be here.” said Mayor Gimenez.

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/06/02/federal-riot-team-miami-washington-d-c/

Link to tweet

[malaise]

12. Time to lock up Bill barr

This cannot continue

[crickets]

14. Interesting. trump/Barr testing the ability to just get away with it outside of DC, eh?

Good for Miami for telling them to go home.

[Dennis Donovan]

15. Kick - they've removed insignias and badges

At WH, Fed LEO won't identify themselves, and all insignias and name plates have been removed

[Alex4Martinez]

17. I think so, but it's hard to say for two good (or not so good) reasons:

There is such a fucking clusterfuck of effort to bring troops of any type in that nobody knows and, with this asshole, nobody tells.

But for DC, particularly, Donald has a special situation with DC not being a state per sé, he can bring in other Federal agencies:

Bureau of Prisons, ICE, Border Patrol, Homeland Security creeps, and, of course, private Blackwater types, and DC can also draw National Guardsmen from Maryland and/or Virginia.

Reason two is that the uniforms have increasingly become threatening and absent identifying markings, equally creepy.

Are these guys National Guard or weekend warrior gunhumpers? Who knows? And why the camo, fellas? Are we in the jungle?