On Monday, federal police took aggressive actions against peaceful protesters near the White House.
While defending aggressive action taken by federal police to disperse a crowd of peaceful protesters near the White House Monday to allow President Trump to take a picture in front of nearby St. John's Church, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday denied tear gas was used and compared the photo-op to Winston Churchill inspecting bombing damage during World War II and President George W. Bush throwing out the first pitch at a New York Yankees game after 9/11....
While the protests have been mostly peaceful—stretching nationwide and internationally in cities like Paris and Montreal—McEnany and Trump have mainly focused on incidents of looting. But the clearing of the park has proved heavily criticized, including by the bishop who oversees St. John's Church, Mariann Edgar Budde, who toldthat Trump"did not seek to unify the country, but rather he used our symbols and our sacred space as a way to reinforce a message that is antithetical to everything that the person of Jesus, whom we follow, and the gospel texts that we strive to emulate...represent.
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