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In reply to the discussion: I was detained for protesting Trump. Heres what the Secret Service asked me [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Either your reading comprehension sucks or you are intentionally misrepresenting what I said.
What I said was once someone has gone to that level of action- traveling to the location from out of town, smuggling a banner in, and risking arrest the Secret Services job is to look into them and make sure they are not a threat of doing anything to harm the President.
Lots of people protest. Very, very few will travel into NYC from out of town and smuggle a banner into a secured area, breaking the law (no matter if you want to understand that or not) to do so. That she was willing to smuggle it into Trump Tower was a different level of activity.
I didn't say what she did was a threat. I didn't say she was a threat. I said that she went to far greater effort for her protest than the vast majority of people and that made her stand out and warrant further investigation.
The fact that she had once served as a tour guide at the White House also probably increased their scrutiny, because it means she has a high degree of familiarity with how White House security works from having been around it a great deal. So you have someone who used to have White House access who is familiar with White House security protocols who just traveled into town for the express purpose of smuggling an item past security for an illegal priest action.
I don't get how you don't understand that the Secret Service is obligated to look into her further given all that.
It's not that she was a threat. Is that when someone comes on to their radar like she did it's their job to go out and make sure is isn't a threat.
Got it yet?