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alp227

(31,959 posts)
Sun Jun 14, 2020, 07:32 PM Jun 2020

Officials familiar with Lafayette Square confrontation challenge Trump administration claim

Source: The Washington Post

During the nearly two weeks since authorities charged at peaceful protesters to push them from D.C. streets — about 30 minutes before President Trump walked through the area for a photo op — his aides, the attorney general and federal law enforcement officials have sought to shield the president from political fallout with a simple defense: one scene, they say, had nothing to do with the other.

The notion that the street-clearing offensive around Lafayette Square was already planned, and separate from Trump’s decision to visit a nearby church, has emerged as the administration’s central explanation for scenes of federal officers shoving protesters with shields and firing pepper balls, chemical grenades and smoke bombs at retreating crowds on June 1.

“This was not an operation to respond to that particular crowd. It was an operation to move the perimeter one block,” Attorney General William P. Barr told CBS News last week.

However, the accounts of more than a half-dozen officials from federal law enforcement, D.C. public safety agencies and the National Guard who were familiar with planning for protests outside the White House that day challenge that explanation. The officials told The Washington Post they had no warning that U.S. Park Police, the agency that commanded the operation, planned to move the perimeter — and protesters — before a 7 p.m. citywide curfew, or that force would be used.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/officials-challenge-trump-administration-claim-of-what-drove-aggressive-expulsion-of-lafayette-square-protesters/2020/06/14/f2177e1e-acd4-11ea-a9d9-a81c1a491c52_story.html



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Officials familiar with Lafayette Square confrontation challenge Trump administration claim (Original Post) alp227 Jun 2020 OP
Move the perimeter is such bullshit scarytomcat Jun 2020 #1
K & R for exposing lies. n/t IllinoisBirdWatcher Jun 2020 #2
Trumps lies are starting to catch upwith him (a bit at least) riversedge Jun 2020 #3
Medal Ceremony for the Hero of the Battle for Lafayette Square Marcuse Jun 2020 #4
k&r -- thanks for posting! obamanut2012 Jun 2020 #5
Moving The Perimeter. Why? ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #6

scarytomcat

(1,706 posts)
1. Move the perimeter is such bullshit
Sun Jun 14, 2020, 07:56 PM
Jun 2020

the peaceful protesters would have moved back. If asked. Could have just started moving the barriers slowly down the block. He wanted to show his strength but he committed a crime instead.

Marcuse

(7,391 posts)
4. Medal Ceremony for the Hero of the Battle for Lafayette Square
Sun Jun 14, 2020, 09:46 PM
Jun 2020

“I moved on them like a bitch. Like a hot knife through butter.“

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
6. Moving The Perimeter. Why?
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:53 PM
Jun 2020

Easy excuse, but absent any explanation why it was thought necessary to move the perimeter suggests it's a lie.

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