Setting cars on fire is ok
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/30/protest-washington-dc-george-floyd-white-house-trump
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and buildings
https://autos.yahoo.com/scaffolding-set-fire-washington-d-200000760.html
for George Floyd of course https://www.bitchute.com/video/ATZiH3d6ZaIP/
Night of destruction across D.C. after protesters clash with police outside White House
Destruction in D.C. after a night of mayhem
Cars and buildings were set ablaze and businesses were vandalized in Washington, D.C., after protesters and police clashed near the White House on May 31. (The Washington Post)
By
Rebecca Tan
Marissa J. Lang
Antonio Olivo
Rachel Chason
John Woodrow Cox
June 1, 2020
The third day of protests in the nation’s capital over George Floyd’s death began with bent knees, raised fists and pleas that this night, unlike the last, would remain peaceful. And in those first moments on Sunday, the more than 1,000 people who marched to Lafayette Square across from the White House listened.
Then came darkness, and with it, another night of mayhem. In the park, protesters faced the familiar pop, pop, pop of pepper bullets and stinging clouds of tear gas meant to push back hundreds of them as they tried, again and again, to break through the police barricades set up around President Trump’s home.
Later, American flags and parked cars and buildings were lit ablaze — including St. John’s Church, a historic landmark opened in 1816 and attended by every president since James Madison. Firefighters quickly extinguished the basement fire, which police said was intentionally set.
Fires erupt in D.C. after tense day of protests
D.C. protests organized in reaction to George Floyd’s death continued on May 31. Multiple fires broke out, including one at historic St. John’s Church. (The Washington Post)
Much like Saturday night, the worst violence didn’t erupt until police pushed demonstrators out of Lafayette Square and into the city’s streets. Downtown, baseball bats bashed through windows at coffee shops, banks and one office building after another. Vandals and looters roamed throughout the city, scrawling graffiti and targeting dozens of businesses well after the mayor’s 11 p.m. curfew began.
Some hit a liquor store near Foggy Bottom, where young men, both white and black, snatched handles of alcohol and took swigs while others ran off with all they could carry. In Shaw, a Giant grocery store — with employees still inside — was broken into, as was a Sephora in Gallery Place. On H Street NE, looters ransacked a CVS. In Georgetown, the Nike store’s boarded-up doors were broken down and its merchandise plundered. In Friendship Heights and Tenleytown, five miles from the White House, other groups hit a Target and smashed open Rodman’s, a beloved drugstore, specialty grocer and housewares shop — all in one.
Near 15th and H streets, another group set fire to a sandwich shop while onlookers chanted, “no justice, no peace.” The smell of fire hung heavy in the air, and shattered glass speckled the pavement. Gone were the windows of the Lafayette Building, home to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Next door, all the outdoor umbrellas at the Opaline Bar and Brasserie were warped and charred. As police and firefighters showed up to investigate, the destruction continued around them, the looters uncaring.
“It’s terrible what they’re doing,” said a passerby on a bike. “There’s only one D.C. They’re wrecking it.” Then he began laughing.
In an interview on “The Today Show” Monday morning, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said the city was “prepared for multiple days of demonstration.”
“We’re working with all of our intelligence to figure out who’s coming here,” she said. By 12:30 a.m. Sunday, D.C. police had arrested 18 people, about half of whom were from outside Washington.
“I’ve been in other parts of the city and I’m very angry that people would destroy their own city or people would come here and destroy our city,” Bowser said in a separate interview with Fox 5. “We’ve seen a significant number of storefronts damaged that have broken glass, have been vandalized, some properties have been looted, and we have more than anything a lot of graffiti.”
She contended that the city had done its best to “harden the area,” removing trash cans, newspaper bins and scooters. In the end, it was to little avail.
The confrontations Sunday followed a weekend of intense, often violent clashes between heavily armored law enforcement officers and outraged activists. Many of them carried torn-off cardboard signs that read “I can’t breathe,” three of the final words Floyd spoke while the Minneapolis police officer, now charged with murder, dug a knee into his neck. How to express outrage over his death was a point of constant contention among protesters at the park.
