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Jun 6, 2020 · Protesters gathered near the White House on June 6, 2020. Tens of thousands of people streamed into Washington, D.C., amid heat and humidity Saturday for what might have been the capital’s...
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Nov 5, 2023 · November 4, 20238:41 PM ET. By. Emma Bowman. , Laurel Wamsley. Enlarge this image. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. It was one of the biggest...
Nov 16, 2023 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Police and protesters clashed outside Democratic National Committee headquarters on Wednesday night during a demonstration for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas, the latest reflection of boiling tensions over the bloody conflict.
Oct 19, 2023 · National. Thousands of protestors turned out in Washington, D.C., to support Palestinians. October 19, 20235:11 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. 2-Minute Listen. Playlist. One large group of...
- Police Detain Man with Knife at Rally
- Rally Draws Counter-Protesters Among Modest Crowd
- More Press Than Protesters at Freedom Plaza Ahead of Rally
- Rallygoers Call Security Excessive
- Meet The Organizer of The Capitol Demonstration
- Joggers, Tourists Meet Security Ahead of Capitol Demonstration
- It Might Just Be Me and A Bullhorn
- Capitol Police, The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and Homeland Security
- Organizer: Event Designed to Be Peaceful
Police also arrested a man who was carrying a large knife and appeared to be dressed as a journalist. Authorities detained the man, who was not immediately identified, against a bike-rack barrier, before taking him away. Metropolitan Police said the arrest was made by Capitol Police, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment. — Kevin...
Counter-protesters easily infiltrated the rally, some of them carrying signs criticizing the J6 cause. “There Is No Right of Insurrection,” one sign said. The other side of that placard said, “Do The Crime. Do The Time.” Doug Hughes, the sign bearer, said he flew to DC from Tampa, Fla., to make his statement. “I had something to say, and it was wor...
Media members outnumbered early-arriving attendees at the rally site near the Capitol and at Freedom Plaza, the site of a planned counter-protest, in the 30 minutes before the rally was to begin. A few police vehicles and news station vans lined Freedom Plaza, but the scene otherwise resembled be a typical D.C day with tourists riding by on bikes a...
The few rallygoers who got to the site early said the protest is not about Trump or politics, but about what they call an “abuse” of the justice system regarding jailed Jan. 6 rioters. “There are a lot of people in there who are not violent offenders,” said Anders Bruce, 30, a test tutor who said he lives in northern Virginia. “The punishment is di...
Braynard, a former campaign data strategist who was dismissed from the Trump campaign in 2016, has emerged as the unlikely face of the demonstration aimed at recasting the Jan. 6 insurrection. Before driving promotion for the rally, Braynard worked in the trenches with Trump allies in the months after the election pushing the false narrative that g...
Police blanketed the protest area with armed security in the hours leading up to the rally. Dozens of blue-uniformed police roamed the streets, by foot and by bike. Police vehicles, blue lights flashing, flanked the protest site, a rectangle of grass just west of the lawn of the U.S. Capitol building. A helicopter buzzed the area from above. Road-s...
In recent days, rally organizer Matt Braynard has appeared to downplay expectations for the size of the gathering, contending that the heavy security measures are more aimed at "intimidation" than protection and designed to discourage people from attending the so-called "Justice for J6" event. "It's all meant to deter people from coming," said Bray...
Early estimates have projected a crowd of up to 700 demonstrators who are expected to gather at Union Square, a public plaza just west of the Capitol. If accurate, even that number would represent a fraction of the violent throngthat ultimately swarmed the Capitol building in January, leaving five dead and nearly 150 police officers injured. Yet th...
While the rally is pushing a politically-charged counter-narrative of the Jan. 6 violence, organizer Braynard maintains that the event, and other similar gatherings planned Saturday in more than a dozen states, are designed to be "peaceful." In a video message, Braynard has urged demonstrators to be "respectful and kind" to law enforcement officers...
Jan 6, 2021 · Hundreds of protesters began pressing against a barrier separating the police from the crowd on the Capitol steps, as a half-dozen protesters exhorted the crowd to press toward the building....
May 31, 2020 · 8:50 p.m. ET, May 29, 2020. White House on lockdown due to DC protests. From CNN's Jason Hoffman. As protesters arrived at Pennsylvania Avenue/Lafayette Park, the White House has been locked...
