The scene lived this Monday in the vicinity of the White HouseIn American capital, it is not something that is frequently seen in the United States, a country that proudly boasts of being the greatest democracy in the world. Police officers and the Secret Service repressed, they fired rubber bullets and tear gas at peaceful protesters to protest against racism to disperse them and allow the president Donald trump walk to a church to take a picture with a Bible in hand.
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This Tuesday, it was also learned that it was the attorney general William Barr who ordered the officials to extend the perimeter to push back the protesters, reported The Washington Post.
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That order came as clashes between police and the public continued to escalate, with largely peaceful daytime protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, which turned into violence and chaos after dark, amid widespread curfews and deployments of the National Guard.
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As the chaos spread and the police intensified their use of force (firing rubber and gas bullets at peaceful protesters in cities from Washington to Walnut Creek, California), authorities across the United States also said they were under assault, with officers shot in St. Louis and Las Vegas and others beaten and wounded by cars in New York as authorities appeared to contain the unrest.
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Before taking a walk through Lafayette Park to head to Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Trump spoke in the Rose Garden about the response to protests across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer who put him on the pavement with one knee to his neck. Many of these massive demonstrations They have ended in looting and fires.
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Instead of calling for unity and trying to ‘calm down’ in tension and outrage, Trump gave an incendiary speech of about eight minutes in which he accused an alleged “radical left” and ‘Antifa’ (the label by which certain extreme-left anti-fascist protesters are called) of the excesses.
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“We are putting an end to the riots and anarchy that has spread throughout our country … We will end it now,” he said, saying that the streets had to be militarized to repress the protesters, who, by the way, have been mostly peaceful. .
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The chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, Democrat Adam Smith, released a statement in which he said: “It is not American to use our service members to dominate civilians, as has been suggested by both the president … We live in a democracy, not a dictatorship. “
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The negative reactions to the actions of this Monday came from the Democrats, passing through religious leaders to Republicans of the Senate, who before the outbursts of Trump usually do not comment.
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