Posted on 06/03/2020 2:50:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
During a briefing Wednesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany explained to reporters, specifically CNN's Jim Acosta, that the police and other law enforcement officers have the right to defend themselves. Her comments came after the Trump administration was accused of having "peaceful protestors" tear gassed and physically removed from Lafayette Park on Monday evening.
"No tear gas was used and no rubber bullets were used," McEnany explained. "No-one was tear gassed, let me make that clear. That's been confirmed by DOD and Park Services as well."
"Let me go back and address what happened, there has been a lot of misreporting," she continued. "The protestors were told three times over loud speaker that they needed to move and what happened was it grew increasingly unruly, there were projectiles being thrown at officers, frozen water bottles were being thrown at officers, various other projectiles and the offers had no other choice than in that moment to act and make sure that they were safe and that the perimeter was pushed back because as we all know a church was burning in that very area the night before so the appropriate action was taken...It's absolutely uncalled for to thrown bricks. Absolutely uncalled for to throw water bottles that are frozen at police officers."
Press Sec Disputes Allegation That Police Used Tear Gas Against Peaceful Protestors
Meanwhile, a number of U.S. military units have been moved to the Washington D.C. should unrest in the city continue.
The Pentagon has ordered forces and bases in the Washington D.C. area to "Force Protection Condition Charlie," a threat condition that indicates "likely" targeting of military forces and or terrorist action and the second highest alert level available.The state of higher alert was ordered as of 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning for the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
Say it isn't TRUE!!!
(Using BOTH barrels; of course...)
That's exactly what Acosta wants, so he can crow to the leftist networks that the White House is afraid of him. Better to keep him there to get his daily pummeling by McEnany.
“I’ve been requesting OANN from Comcast along with many others. They refuse to offer competition to NBC. Verizon FIOS supposedly carries it. Not sure how others view it”
ATT Uverse carries it with the U-300 subscription.
The sad irony about that meme is, the current incarnation of “Supergirl” is full-on woke.
Your caption is gold!
I saw Pavlich and Candace on Levin’s TV show last night.. might have been a replay but I had not seen it before.
Direct tv has OAN
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