Saturday night in Washington, DC. I was home watching Madam Secretary when the news came on showing protests downtown in front of the White House around 1 am. Sunday morning. There has been some damage and setting dumpsters and trash cans of fire. Reporter showed earlier phone photo where a dumpster fire had run up an entire trash chute where a building was being renovated. He reported that groups of people with water bottles used them to put out some trash can fires. Other demonstrators had tried to calm down trouble makers, and one woman with a megaphone had yelled “this is not what we are about, this is a peaceful demonstration!!” Right now someone phoned a reporter and says demonstrators are now near 15th and I Street. Most of them are wearing masks, and I would say, not for criminal reasons. DC has been pretty good about masking and the Covid rate has been going down.
A Ronald Reagan signed building sustained some vandalism on 16th St.
Now there is reporting of damage and broken windows, one downtown had electronic items for sale, and Georgetown has had stores like Nike shoes and other for sale items attacked. This is just plain theft, not the demonstrator groups. A lot of people upset and photographing this damage.
Why do they always go after the sneakers?