The world is watching: the current top story for leading news outlets in France, Germany, Spain and Australia pic.twitter.com/093UGvP6eU— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) June 2, 2020
Yeah, this is a real good look. And I don't think anyone is laughing, not even at Trump's mighty sword.
Holy shit there are helicopters with red cross markings trying to disperse crowds using downwash in DC RIGHT NOW #DCProtest #GeorgeFloydProtests pic.twitter.com/uLkzliIxtm— numbers does pwn (@thatnumbersguy_) June 2, 2020
Helicopter covering right above the #DCProtest, whipping up an astounding amount of intense wind. pic.twitter.com/iWYBtqKjeR— Carl David Goette-Luciak (@CDGoetteLuciak) June 2, 2020
This is insane.https://t.co/DDwF7WQT6j pic.twitter.com/ogtx6TA8wB— Deepak Gupta (@deepakguptalaw) June 2, 2020
Does that right include being chased away by military helicopters? Or have anything to do with the "2nd Amendment rights" the C-in-C mentioned just before he had the streets cleared so he could walk to a church he doesn't attend? Or this?Gen Milley will have to answer to history for what he has done tonight marching in the President’s photo op war on peaceful protesters. https://t.co/QvnTDQghQk— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) June 2, 2020
Army blackhawks are conducting “show of force” passes on protestors. One flyover snapped a tree that nearly hit several people. pic.twitter.com/Z8UnQOypYy— Thomas Gibbons-Neff (@Tmgneff) June 2, 2020
Moving back to earlier today:
The desire for a certain backdrop for a press announcement is not a security requirement. In other words, using the power of the U.S. Military to clear out peaceful protestors for a presser is a massive abuse of power.— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) June 1, 2020
He wanted the #photoop of 'walking' and standing in front of St. John's church because his vanity was bruised after being barricaded in the bunker??!!! Holy crap! Nothing in my vocabulary to describe this BS!! @TheRickWilson?— Britlumbia (@pantalithia) June 2, 2020
Trump fired tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protestors so he could get a photo opp in front a church that didn’t want him there, holding a Bible from which he cannot name a single verse, all to prove he’s not a coward hiding in his bunker again. A perfect encapsulation.— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) June 2, 2020
“I am your president of law and order.”— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) June 1, 2020
LBJ was besieged at the White House by 100,000 protestors against Vietnam war in 1968.
Nixon, by more than 500,000 in 1969.
Neither deployed forces against demonstrators this way.
2/2— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) June 1, 2020
This is how Mayor Daley of Chicago sounded after “police riot” at Dem convention in 1968. Difference: not the president.
3/— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) June 1, 2020
No GOP senator who fails to speak up about Trump’s caudillo statement should be listened to again about “justice,” “tolerance,” “kindness,” “constitutional restraint."
"Whose side are you on?"
How would the United States respond if the leader of any other country used tear gas and flash bombs to violently disperse a peaceful protest in order to walk over to a place of worship and pose for the cameras with a religious text?— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) June 2, 2020
How would the newspapers respond? Because the NYT failed the test:
Online headline is strong but print front page only vaguely alludes in graf five to an incident many NYT journalists called out as remarkable on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/lWNhP3xQNr— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 2, 2020
I don't think that curfew in D.C. is going down all that smoothly. Where are the "thousands of heavily armed troops" they were threatened with?
A protester tells me from inside that they took injured protesters into the basement and used milk to wash out people’s eyes. When they ran out, neighbors passed jugs of milk over the fence. https://t.co/RExS6P8EYm— Derek Hawkins (@D_Hawk) June 2, 2020
When do they start arresting everybody? And what if it had to start with the military (who aren't there, apparently)?NEW: The Justice Department "has deployed all of its law enforcement components – FBI, ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals, and BOP” in the District of Columbia. pic.twitter.com/cnq5lFAUkI— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) June 2, 2020
We are a nation founded in dissent, birthed in freedom, committed to equality, and yet regularly reminded that we struggle to achieve all three. The President has made it clear that the fight for these Constitutional principles is a fight against himself.— Seth Moulton (@sethmoulton) June 2, 2020
Canada must feel like they live in an apartment above a meth lab.— John Fritchey (@johnfritchey) June 2, 2020
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