Riots In Dc

More Than 200 Arrested, Charged With Rioting In Dc

... taken at least 217 people into custody after some Inauguration Day protests turned chaotic. Some rioters set fire to trash cans and newspaper boxes and smashed in windows of downtown businesses amid protest of President Trump’s swearing-in. “My sense is that these are not people that are from Washington, D. C.,” Newsham said. “And I say that because we deal with peaceful demonstrations in this city every single day, of all kinds with folks that live in this area, and we haven’t seen this type of behavior. It’s very unusual for this region.”. All 217 people arrested during the inauguration demonstrations were charged with rioting, Newsham said. Protesters clashed with law enforcement at multiple points on Friday, resulting in police officers using flash-bang grenades and pepper spray to push back crowds. Hundreds of thousands of protesters are set to march through Washington on Saturday for the Women’s March on Washington. Newsham said the demonstration is expected to be peaceful ...

Protesters Close D.c. Checkpoints, Portland Businesses Close Early

... cars, as well as setting fires across the downtown area. Portland businesses are hoping that inauguration day protests are peaceful. [Image by Gillian Flaccus/AP Images]. Many of the inauguration day protests are being organized by the same people who led the election night protests. Kat Stevens, who is organizing one protest group, says that protesters should be supplied for the event, including advising inauguration day protesters to bring extra water to wash pepper spray out of their eyes. Stevens also includes a list of inauguration day protest supplies, designed to cope with law enforcement as well as to keep protesters safe. But there are even divisions among the inauguration protesters. The Women’s March on Portland was nearly torn apart after protesters had felt the original organizer of the protest did not give enough voice to people of color, immigrants, and trans activists. The original organizer requested to remain anonymous, fearing retaliation from white supremacist groups in Eastern Oregon where she lives. The NAACP pulled its support from the protest march because previous organizers did not address racial discrimination, ...

Who Are These Protesters In Black And Why Are They Smashing Things

... windows and fights the police, particularly in the middle of a major media event, it’s wall-to-wall coverage. Anarchists do other stuff, like squat buildings , plant gardens , organize bike coops, and have debates over esoteric points of political philosophy. But no one supervising an article budget at the Wall Street Journal gets worked up about stuff like that. I spoke to a New York City anarchist named Thadeaus about this. He explained. The national media is focused on spectacle, and that's what sells paper or clicks or advertisements, the idea of something spectacular. The idea of things getting broken, riots in the streets, people dressed up like ninjas doing crazy things—that's interesting to the national media, whereas things like free food programs or free stores or support networks for survivors of domestic abuse. That's not really ...

Violent Protests In Dc Streets After Donald Trump Inauguration; 95 Arrested

... members of the group that were attempting to avoid arrest," D. C. Police said, according to NBC News. Video posted on Twitter showed shards of broken glasses spread across the sidewalks, and mask-clad activists pushing over garbage cans, with one of those activists toting a black flag with the "A" symbol for anarchy. Police used pepper spray and fired tear gas shells in an effort to control protesters. At least one older man who was bleeding from the back of his head was taken away in an ambulance. A law enforcement officer said he may have been knocked over accidentally by protesters. "We must take to the streets and protest, blockade, disrupt, intervene, sit in, walk out, rise up, and make more noise and good trouble than the establishment can bear," the group Disrupt J 20 said in a manifesto posted on its web site. Disrupt J 20 organized protests designed to distrupt the ...

In Washington, Protests And Riots On Inauguration Day

... to protest the 45 th U. S. president’s swearing in. The vast majority of the thousands who took to the streets to protest Trump did so peacefully. Some did so en masse. The group Refuse Fascism, for example, led dozens of people down streets near the White House. According to one 30-something who spoke to Foreign Policy but declined to give his name, they were marching “to welcome all of the people who came to protest in Washington, D. C., and to remind them protest can’t just be for one day.”. Many others protested in smaller groups. At Union Station, a group of about 20 stood holding flags symbolizing the industrial workers of the world. One of them, who asked to be identified under the pseudonym Finn Connolly, said he was there to “spark an ongoing to resistance towards Donald Trump’s presidential regime and the normalization of the far-right in ...

Washington Police Use Water Cannon As Protesters Smash Shop Windows

... use pepper spray and water cannon to disperse protesters. There were some reports of looting as protesters made their way through the city. At one checkpoint, protesters wore orange jumpsuits with black hoods over their faces to represent prisoners in US detention at Guantanamo Bay. Black Lives Matter and feminist groups also joined protests. They held aloft placards which read "Resist Trump Climate Justice Now", "Let Freedom Ring" and "Free Palestine". Police officers clash in protests in Washington (AP). Eleanor Goldfield, who helped organise a 'Disrupt J 20' protest, said they wanted to show Mr Trump and his "misguided, misinformed or just plain dangerous" supporters that they will not be silent. The Disrupt J 20 coalition has pledged to shut down the celebrations. Further protests are expected later today. Pictures emerged online of smashed shops in Washington. The route for the march, which organisers called a ...

Grenades Thrown At Trump Inauguration Protesters As 200 Are Arrested

... for the singing of the national anthem. Firefighters run to extinguish a burning vehicle. Dump trucks carrying sand have also been brought in to block streets. At one checkpoint, Black Lives Matter protesters were chanting “Shut it down” before five men chained themselves together, preventing anyone from passing. Trump supporters who have "lost friends" since visiting the ballot box said they were happy to be able to mix with others who believe in the new president. Mr Trump has been criticised for stoking racial tensions in his bid for the presidency. Demonstrators lit fires in the streets. Protestors reportedly outnumbered supporters at Mr Trump's inauguration. Demonstrators lit fires in the streets of Washington as officers tried to contain the situation. The president came under fire for stoking racial tensions during his election ...

Local Rights Advocates Leave From Csra To Protest In D.c

... protesters in D. C. Saturday afternoon. But as soon as they get up there and finish the protest, they'll be heading right back to Augusta Saturday night. News 12 NBC 26 / Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Somewhere in the massive inauguration crowd are familiar faces. Several locals made the trip to watch a piece of American history. With so many people in the crowd it was hard to get enough cell service to connect with them, but we did manage to video chat with a few people after the swearing in ceremony. George Snelling was one of the few people who actually had a seat on the National mall. We Face Timed with him after the ceremony. "We were probably about 100 rows back from the podium, but there were people way in back of us all the way down the Mall and it was just a lot, a lot of people," Snelling said. He and others battled the crowd and drizzle to document a historic moment, one Joe Neal hopes marks the beginning of ...

Violence Breaks Out In Washington Ahead Of Trump's Inauguration

... anarchist protester belonging to the Disrupt J 20 movement sits after using a heavy duty D-lock and motorcycle lock to chain himself to a railing at the entrance gate to the Consulate General of the United States of America in Hong Kong to protest the inauguration of United States President-elect Donald Trump, Hong Kong, China, 20 January 2017. Two activists were arrested and taken away by Hong Kong police during the demonstration. A banner is unfurled on London's Tower Bridge, organised by Bridges Not Walls - a partnership between grassroots activists and campaigners working on a range of issues, formed in the wake of Donald Trump's election, which aims to build bridges to a world free from hatred and oppression. Protesters chain themselves to an entry point prior at the inauguration of U. S. President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, DC, U. S. Bridges Not Walls banner dropped from Molenbeek bridge in Brussels, Belgium, 20 January 2017, in an Greenpeace action part of protests Wolrd protest in solidarity with ...

Police Use Force Against Peaceful Protesters In Dc

... heavy bricks at police while those in the vicinity suffered painful burns and chest pain from pepper spray and tear gas. Things took a turn at Columbus Fountain when one of the organizers got on a loudspeaker and called for the crowd to march to the White House. For a few blocks, it was routine. The crowd chanted in solidarity with Syrian refugees, Black Lives Matter, and Planned Parenthood. They shouted “No Trump! No KKK! No Fascist USA!” and even peppered in “Fuck Trump!” here and there. The crowd continued to grow as the march went from block to block with no clear dominant activist group or social movement. The crowd was extraordinarily diverse. Even children marched. The march had a few clear leaders that were keeping the protests civil and peaceful. Washington, D. C. police. Joey Roulette for Observer. Washington, D. C. police seemed caught off-guard by the growing march, and a few tried to help when busy streets ...

Incredible' Experience For Local Celebrants In Dc

... was very humbling to witness, because not everybody gets the opportunity to be there and watch it," Travascio said. "It was incredible to be there and witness it. "I think it was a unifying speech at many points," he said. "That's what people needed to hear.". Both North Shore natives also saw the crowds of protesters making national headlines for their presence at the event, though neither saw any of the riots covered by TV media during and following the inauguration. "It's a lot of people, and police and fire are doing their thing," Travascio said. For Hudak, the word of rioting and arrests added an unexpected layer to her time in the Beltway — calls from home. "All my friends are worried about me," Hudak said, laughing. "There's police everywhere.". Travascio and Hudak were both planning to continue the celebration through the weekend. What comes next for the country is unknown, but for Travascio, one thing is certain — it won't be the catastrophe that many from Massachusetts fear. "I think America just continues as it has ...

Left-wing Activists Plot To Halt Trump's Inauguration In Mass Riot Starting Next Week

... starting next week. THE RADICAL left is planning a week of riots in Washington DC to cause chaos on the run up to president elect Donald Trump's inauguration. PUBLISHED: 22:33, Tue, Jan 10, 2017. | UPDATED: 23:02, Tue, Jan 10, 2017. And they are hoping that their civil disruption will stop the event from going ahead amid a massive security clamp down over terror fears. According to websites run by organisers, they will take to the streets in mass protests beginning on January 14 in a bid to thwart security services. And they are calling on US citizens from all over the country to travel to the city in a bid to destroy the festivities planned for Mr Trump's swearing in ceremony. Related articles. Trump will be facing protests in Washington. We are planning to shut down the inauguration, that’s the short of it. Legba Carrefour. Slamming his supporters who they call "Christian fundamentalist fanatics, war mongers, racists, science deniers" they are planning to "jump barricades" admitting what they plan to do is "illegal". Legba Carrefour of organised protest group Disrupt J 20 said they are hoping to cause widespread disruption to transportation routes. And they have ...