PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS SURROUND WHITE HOUSE, CLASH WITH POLICE:
Police clashed with Gaza protesters on Saturday morning as the demonstrators attempted to surround the White House in Washington DC.
As the protest ensued, officers were in the process of making an arrest of a woman and the other demonstrators around them started to follow, chanting, “Let her go!” A mob surrounded the officers in an attempt to make the arrest and could be seen pushing the policeman.
Demonstrators attempted to pull the arrested woman away from the police officers and were eventually successful in helping her to escape. During the clash with police, mace was also used by the officers to quell the mob, according to reporter Jordan Fischer.
Other protesters cheered after they set the suspect free from the police as she was being arrested.
At one point during the protest, a man wearing a Hamas headband lifted up a mask of Joe Biden with blood stains after others had defaced a monument.
One protester was seen at the demonstration holding a sign that said, “F*ck Israel. Stand with Hamas.” The man with the sign explained to an interviewer, “I support by any means necessary what Hamas can do to resist the genocide that Israel and the Jews who do it.”
Smoke bombs were also reportedly being set off in front of the White House during the protest.
This all sounds pretty insurrection-y to me. Hey, you know what that means!
The good news is those responsible will be arrested and prosecuted because I've been assured that No One is Above the Law. https://t.co/oSzfX9fYWf
— Sunny (@sunnyright) June 8, 2024
UPDATE: Charles Cooke writes, “It gets boring to play these ‘what if?’ games, but that they are boring does not mean that they aren’t necessary or true. What if the people who did this had been right-wingers? What if they’d been wearing MAGA hats?”
We all know the answers to these questions. There would have been mass arrests — and mass hysteria to go along with it. We’d have had wall-to-wall coverage in the press, an endless supply of furrowed opinion pieces in the newspapers, and the delivery of hundreds of new “expert” theories confirming the intrinsic link between right-of-center views and murderous hyperbole. As it is, I’ve had to search quite hard to find out what happened yesterday, and most of the photographs and videos I’ve seen were taken not by TV stations or newspapers but by amateurs on Twitter. There is a reason that I’ve used NBC’s report twice in this post: I couldn’t find an equivalent on the homepages of CNN, the BBC, the New York Times, or the supposedly D.C.-oriented Washington Post.
We all know why this is. And, until it changes, the Democrats’ rhetoric will continue to fall flat — even in such cases as it’s demonstrably correct.
Indeed.