“We ain’t destroying our city no more, we’re taking our city back,” a protester told the Washington Post Tuesday afternoon, as he led a group towards the national mall. His comment was as if designed to pre-empt specious reports that any police aggression to come had been triggered. The group that eventually settled in front of the Lincoln Memorial spoke so quietly that an NBC newscaster gave his dispatch in a stage whisper, to avoid interrupting. The scene cast a sharp contrast to the police force that loomed over the protesters. The officers staggered across the steps, blocking the protesters from what has long been the symbolic center of public protest in America. Wearing army fatigues and body armor, they looked like what they were: an army occupying ground.
as if designed to pre-empt specious reports thathad been triggered. The group that eventually settled in front of the Lincoln Memorial spoke so quietly that angave his dispatch in a stage whisper, to avoid interrupting. The scene cast a sharp contrast to the police force that loomed over the protesters. The officers staggered across the steps, blocking the protesters from what has long been the symbolic center of public protest in America.
onservative lawmakers have taken to this proposal thirstily, arguing that a show of military power is required to take back the country from what Rep. Tom Cotton described inIn Cotton’s twisted vision, the use of the military in the ‘50s and ‘60s to carryout de-segregation orders justifies its use 60 years later toAdvertisement
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