Night of destruction across D.C. after protesters clash with police outside White House

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Source: WAPO

By Rebecca Tan,
Marissa J. Lang,
Antonio Olivo,
Rachel Chason and
John Woodrow Cox
June 1, 2020 at 2:00 a.m. EDT

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 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 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. Firefighters quickly extinguished the basement fire, which police said was intentionally set.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-braces-for-third-day-of-protests-and-clashes-over-death-of-george-floyd/2020/05/31/589471a4-a33b-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html

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I wish we didn't have the looting.

[Maxheader]

1. What do they want?

[McKim]

3. Some Are Agent Provocateurs

Some are agent provocateurs. They want to foment mayhem so that Trump can being down repression and look heroic while he restores order and thus discredit the Black Lives Matter Movement for a start. Trump is adding twitter fuel to the fires. This legitimate non violent protest has been cooped by the Far Right until we take it back. I am contributing to my local NAACP and the Black Lives Matter Movement to reinforce our best leaders.

[Auggie]

4. +1

[Archae]

2. "Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn" -Batman

[RobinA]

8. Yeah, This

Here in Philadelphia the people I see in pictures are twenty/thirty-somethings, white and black, mostly but not exclusively male, just looting and breaking things. Half with masks on, which I find rather amusing. Who loots with a mask?

[niyad]

5. Apart from the sad spectacle of the unrest (fomented, I have NO doubt) by outside agitators, I

am annoyed by the phrase "President Trump's home", as though it is his personal residence. It is OUR HOUSE, which he is temporarily soiling, not his. I am surprised, and disappointed, that WaPo would allow that phrasing.

[mackdaddy]

6. DC may also have some of the greatest disparity between the Power class and Servant Class.

When I last visited there, there seemed to be the Island of privilege around the mall and power center buildings there. But if you got just a few blocks away the feeling changed and life seemed harder, and more homeless people wearing army jackets. I don't pretend to be an expert, just my feelings at the time.

Income disparity has been getting worse for my entire 60 years plus lifetime. No doubt there are provocateurs like the Umbrella & Hammer man who want their race war, but I think that this last literally holding a man down by the neck until dead has blow off the cork that has been keeping this unfair system intact.

This is a lot bigger than "just" murders by the police. That is just the ragged edge of the injustice and unfairness the has become of our society. I hope whatever comes next is better.

[MasonDreams]

7. I can't believe they called the WH "president trump's home"

And they capitalized two of those three words. Home was not capitalized. The White House does not deserve this stain.