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While Twitter is flipping out over the possibility of the Emancipation Statue being targeted in (checks watch) 5 minutes, things on the ground are pretty calm. Some signs and painting and cops standing around.
I’ll be livestreaming later on if/when protesting begins.
I’ll be livestreaming later on if/when protesting begins.
Protesters have generally used ropes and a ton of people pulling to pull down statues.
While this fence and cement may not look like much, they’d render that tactic virtually impossible.
Unless someone has a wildly different plan, I don’t see any way this thing goes down.
While this fence and cement may not look like much, they’d render that tactic virtually impossible.
Unless someone has a wildly different plan, I don’t see any way this thing goes down.
Not my job.
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“Lincoln was not a liberator.”
Right now, speakers are talking on front of about 200 community members saying they’d like to see the Lincoln statue put into a museum instead of in this park.
Right now, speakers are talking on front of about 200 community members saying they’d like to see the Lincoln statue put into a museum instead of in this park.
DC Black History Tour’s @donfolden spoke for a minute, scolding the crowd because “y’all don’t know history.”
Crowd disagrees.
Crowd disagrees.
A truck just apparently hit into a fence nearby, nobody hurt but driver sprinted away. Activist searches back in case there’s a bomb.
He found a backpack with multiple sets of keys, so he thinks driver may have ditched because it was stolen.
He found a backpack with multiple sets of keys, so he thinks driver may have ditched because it was stolen.
Police investigating the abandoned vehicle on Tennessee Ave next to Lincoln Park. Other than the activist who searched the car after the incident, they’ve cleared everyone off the block.
Community gathering continues behind me.
Community gathering continues behind me.
At the statue, the community meeting ends with fists raised and chants of “power to the people” and “black lives matter!”
OANN’s @JackPosobiec was here, definitely not someone the DC left scene appreciates. They chased him out of the park, blocking him from coming back towards it.
Two apparent security guys from another news network escorted him out.
Two apparent security guys from another news network escorted him out.
As Jack was surrounded, some of the rally participants disagreed about whether they should be blocking him, which led to a brief fight among the activists.
Eventually, @DCPoliceDept came and put Jack Posobiec into a van and drove him away as they pushed activists away.
The scene now as I tweet this is pretty calm.
The scene now as I tweet this is pretty calm.
