Opinion: Police mistake nationwide protests as demanding more brutality
Seeming to think that the nationwide protests over police brutality were actually a request forof it, police around the country arrived at peaceful demonstrations Monday night clad in riot gear and bristling with shields, pepper spray and flash-bang grenade launchers. They fired tear gas into a crowd of protesters peacefully assembled outside the White House. They kettled more protesters in a small residential street elsewhere in D.C.
Seeming to think that the crowds pleading for police accountability were clamoring for the streets of American cities to be treated as a “battlespace” , law enforcement hovered helicopters low over the streets of downtown Washignton,
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