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http://thehill.com/homenews/news/333841-nbc-erdogans-bodyguards-beat-up-dc-protestorsThe men who beat up protesters outside of the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday are the bodyguards of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, NBC News confirmed.
Erdogan took a page straight out of Trump's playbook
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NBC: Erdogan's bodyguards beat up DC protesters (Original Post)
Snake Plissken
May 2017
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justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)1. DC Metro Police issued a statement that 2 arrests were made
but didn't say who was arrested (in video it looks like protestors).
They also made some 1st Amendment noise but if they arrested protestors who were attacked, so much for the 1st Amendment.
Link to tweet
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. And the Right Wing goes,sig them,beat the hell out of them.
Does anyone understand what really happened yesterday. We had a Foreign Nation beating up our Citizens on our own turf. Holy shit!!!!
eissa
(4,238 posts)3. Erdogan's bodyguards and Turkish embassy personnel
were the main culprits in the beatings of the protestors. If I were conspiracy-minded, I'd say they played the lead roles because they are immune from arrest. Only two arrests were made, and I'm guessing those were the thugs that joined in attacking peaceful protestors. If you watch the video, you can even see that a few of those Turks were armed. How this was even allowed to happen on American soil is beyond me.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. And the MSM crikets .