Police clear peaceful protestors
Considering the state of the church after the "peaceful" protesters were forced out, they might not have been so peaceful after all.
Was it the protesters who were cleared out that were responsible? Or was it a previous nights or hours work?
I find this whole nationwide incident to be so chaotic and murky that it is difficult to make sound judgements on the information we are getting. There are police brutalizing peaceful protesters, rioters, looters, press and bystanders alike and pretty much every other permutation between those groups. How the fuck can anyone, even people who are there, say with certainty who incited violence or who was responding to the threat of violence?
Anyway, here we are with Trump making a show of his forcefulness that will almost certainly only serve to widen the gulf between ideologies. Never once has he called for any kind of reconcilation, or tried to prevail on cooler heads. All he seems to know how to do is to throw gasoline on fires in the hopes that the wood will turn to ash quicker. Then the portion of people who have a legitimate point to protest get drowned out by the elements that decide that looting and rioting are better than words.
The whole thing makes me sad and I don't even live there.