DC police chief prepared for possible white nationalist rally near White House Aug 12, 2018

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DC police chief prepared for possible white nationalist rally near White House
By Teta Alim | @teta_alim July 30, 2018 3:49 pm







Jason Kessler, an organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally, tries to speak while being shouted down by counterprotesters outside the Charlottesville City Hall on Aug. 13, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)





WASHINGTON — As D.C. anticipates a planned white nationalist rally to coincide with the August one-year anniversary of the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, D.C.’s police chief is prepared for what’s to come.

“Our role is to make sure we have a First Amendment event that goes on without any types of violence or destruction of property,” D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said at a Monday news conference. “We intend to have the entire police department engaged to make sure that we handle this type of thing.”

Jason Kessler, an organizer of last year’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, submitted a request earlier this year to the National Park Service to hold a rally between Aug. 11 and Aug. 12 at Lafayette Square, right in front of the White House.

Kessler’s application got an initial approval last month, but a permit had not been issued yet.


Still, Newsham said the District’s police department is experienced when it comes to potentially volatile rallies........................

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[Hoyt]

1. trump will go out to greet them. Might even invite them in.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

6. Melatoma is fueling up his back yard tiki torch.

The nice thing is they show up in the dark.

[janterry]

2. Well, this is good as long as it motivates

the left.

Events like this keep the left aware of how much racism there is in the current administration. Moreover, it might motivate those in the middle.

So, in that regard, I hope that the creatures keep crawling out from their rocks. We need to see them in the light of day.

[marble falls]

3. Any bet on how small the turnout will be? August is prime meth brewing season.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

5. HAhahaha.

The blonde chick to her LEFT has been at several of these. She should get out while she can bc she's minor-ly hot and could have a better life.

[marble falls]

9. She's got Stockholm Syndrome. That has to be the only way she'd get involved.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

10. Snickering.

I love the moving page(?) the far right on the bottom of your posts. I have to laugh everytime I see it.
Reminds me of the picture of HRC and Obama sitting next to each other and apparently HRC said something funny to Pres Obama bc he's bent over like he's about to spit out his coffee. She's got her true happy face on. Good people. We shall over come all this.

[marble falls]

14. Mr Scorpio posts this every Wednesday ...

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10949199

It makes me happy and calm every single Wednesday. I wish more people would support it.

That gif of Obama can be copied and pasted. It makes me smile every time I look at it. I saw that Hillary/Obama photo and I love it a lot:



This is my favorite meme from it:

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

15. That's it!

[Initech]

4. Nazi punks fuck off!

[Dale Neiburg]

7. Washington is a crazy quilt of law enforcement jurisdictions

(Fun fact: Lafayette Square -- the smallish park across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House -- is under the jurisdiction of four separate LE agencies simultaneously.)

If the alt-righties get too rambunctious in Executive Protective Service or Secret Service turf, they're likely to get a much less mellow response than they got at Charlottesville.

[Glimmer of Hope]

8. The locals will have none of that shit.

[bigtree]

11. they're actually afraid of coming to D.C.

...I'll be surprised if they manage to get 50 of them to show up.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

12. They should be.

Bunch of real lame folks. Dangerous even to themselves. Wish the gun toters w the AR-15s would show up in all their combat regalia bc when they get a felony...the gun fun is over. ANOTHER bunch of fronting thugs.

[bigtree]

13. I remember the Klan rallies in suburban Md.

...about 20 would show, greeted by about 200 counter-protestors.