Posted on 06/04/2020 7:24:09 PM PDT by bitt
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) on Thursday criticized the placement of additional barriers outside the White House amid ongoing protests in the city against police brutality and racial inequality.
"Keep in mind that that’s the people’s house," Bowser said during a press conference after workers were seen erecting additional fencing and barriers on the grounds surrounding the White House.
Officials placed concrete barriers along Pennsylvania Avenue NW near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and erected tall fencing along 17th Street NW early Thursday morning. The moves came after law enforcement placed additional fencing on Pennsylvania Avenue NW and parts of H and 16th streets NW as part of its efforts to block pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the area.
While protests have remained largely peaceful the past couple days, police and military personnel, at least some of whom were not wearing identifiers, have been positioned around the White House to keep demonstrators at a greater distance.
On Monday, law enforcement dispersed protesters peacefully demonstrating in Lafayette Square before President Trump visited a historic church in the area for a photo-op.
Bowser said that she was concerned some of the added security measures at the White House would be permanent and noted the local government would push back against any such plan.
"It’s a sad commentary that the house and its inhabitants have to be walled off," she said. "I think that’s a sad commentary. We should want the White House opened up for people to be able to access it from all sides."
She stressed that people need access to the capital's public buildings.
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Will they attempt to overwhelm the USSS & National Guard to breach WH?
https://twitter.com/LisaMei62/status/1268669173003100162
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Andy McCabe says that Antifa is a small insugnicant group.... bwahaha.
A mayor who cares nothing for protecting his city or the White House.
Muriel Bow-Wow-Wowser: another failed black lib District politician in a long line of failed black lib District politicians. The bitch set me up!
“”It’s a sad commentary that the house and its inhabitants have to be walled off,” she said”
It certainly is.
DC Mayor — control your animals and keep them in your yard.
Don’t remember anyone ever complaining about barriers before........TDS is alive and well. Just proves liberals truly are bat sh** crazy
The insanity continues. Prayers for our President and his family
Too bad the Mayor can’t provide security to those in DC.
More proof Democrats have a short-circuit in their brain.
The White House is not a public building. Odd that a Mayor does not know that.
But since that is the way she feels, by all means divert the riot to the Goveners mansion. And, don’t put up a fence.
If Frey was capable of any introspection, he ought to have been crying for the end of his political career. He failed miserably to control and contain the mob and his city and nation are in flames and ruins as a result.
True! Liberalism is a mental disease. Do not doubt that. How else do explain a liberal’s unwavering support such truly ignorant causes.
Wouldn’t these crazy rioters LOVE to get at the White House and damage it, set it on fire or ???? harm it in any way possible? Break windows. They would be elated and probably so would be the press.
This situation is so far out of hand. Anyone who accepts criminal damage to someone or something is beneath any respect whatsoever.
The mayors house is the people’s house also.
Like ISIS was the JV team.
Kind of like Obama equating ISIS to the “junior league”. Actually, one has to wonder if ANTIFA isn’t really ISIS, lots of similarities.
I didn’t know there wasn’t a fence around the White Hut when Barry lived there.
Maybe if “the people” weren’t thugs
Trump needs Rolling Thunder and all patriotic Americans to go to DC Saturday to defend the White House and President Trump. The Left may be planning for an end game overt coup attempt and there are rumors that the military will not deploy even if ordered by the President.
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