Every time you recite a version of events drawn exclusively drawn from one side of an issue, you are either: a) implicitly calling the other side liars, and/or b) not bothering to fact check the things you choose to believe. The Parks Police released a statement that they only moved on the protesters after some of them started throwing projectiles at officers. They also said that they deployed smoke bombs and pepper spray, not tear gas. Are they lying? What is the proof? Presumably, anyone could pick up one of the spent tear gas cannisters, or take a clear video/picture of one them, to refute their statement. Or is it really more likely that: a) the people reporting on the "peaceful protest" weren't paying enough attention to the right spot at the right time to see the projectiles launched, and b) these people couldn't tell tear gas from a dog fart?
Here is some more information for you to attempt to deny, deflect and pretzel yourself with:
1) It was early in the morning on June 1st, when the Great Law and Order President, after days and nights of being tagged as the BunkerBitch and being goaded by Fox News to be a strong man, that he first stated, in a conference with top military brass, that he wanted to make a walk to St. John's Episcopal church.
2) In the ensuing hours WH officially hurriedly made arrangements, which collapsed into confusing and harried decisions that were not full coordinated and conflicting information of who is incharge, for the now infamous walk of shame.
3) That mess of a plan was originally scheduled to be enacted at 4pm but was delayed for unknown reasons. My guess is it was not in the right TV time slot for The Bunkerbitch.
4) Trump's personal attorney AG Barr first appeared in Lafayette Square shortly before 6pm. Flanked by his security detail a DOJ staff Trump's personal attorney surveyed the 'battlespace' in the park and was recognized by some protesters who shouted at him and some threw water bottles in his direction, however none had any chance of hitting their target unless propelled by an RPG. Barr was "told" that police "believed" protesters gathered rocks to throw at police though no evidence of these "rock collections" were actually evidenced, nor were any rocks thrown at security forces. Before walking back to the BunkerBitch's house he told law enforcement to clear the area using crowd control measures. Trump's personal attorney then waddled back to the WH.
5) While it was Trump who came up with the idea of the church visit, senior adviser Hope Hicks, chief of staff Mark Meadows, as well as Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka Trump, were involved in the initial planning of the operation, according to two senior White House officials. The final decision to visit the church came roughly five hours before police and military forces swarmed the park to clear out the protesters, though officials in the press office were not looped into the plan until much later.
6) As reporters were scrambled to the Rose Garden to set up for Trump's speech, loud bangs began on the other side of the White House fence. Just after 6:22 p.m., the transmission came over the police radios -- US Park Police had issued the first warning to protestors, a law enforcement source told CNN With Barr gone from the scene, authorities made their move, with lines of federal officers in riot gear converging on the protestors. The assault against the constitutionally protected rights of the PEACEFUL protesters now commenced in all of it's inglorious infamy on the order of the law and order Bunkerbitch.
7) Tear Gas was employed and why the Chief of the Parks Police is a lying sack of a Trump stooge.
a) A spokesperson for the Park Police said its officers were using pepper balls, not tear gas. Though the two have different chemical make-ups, they are both strong irritants that are used by law enforcement. Eyewitness accounts show canisters put off thick smoke that clearly contained an irritant that made people choke and cough.
From the CDC - Riot control agents (sometimes referred to as “tear gas”) are chemical compounds that temporarily make people unable to function by causing irritation to the eyes, mouth, throat, lungs, and skin. Riot control agents are used by law enforcement officials for crowd control and by individuals and the general public for personal protection (for example, pepper spray).
So it is obvious that the pepper balls employed to assault the peaceful protesters fit the definition of tear gas.
b) There has been absolutely no documented evidence except the word of the Chief of Parks Police and an unsubstantiated "belief" by police that rocks were being stockpiled. There has not been any substantiated and documented evidence that protesters were tossing projectiles at police. Water bottles were thrown in the direction of Trump's personal attorney but had no impact whatsoever given the vast distance between protesters and Barr and also the vast distance between protesters and police.
It was/is all there in the videos of the vicious assault orchestrated by the BunkerBitch against peaceful protesters.
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