Whatever does happen next, one thing is clear: Washington has never seen a week like this one.
WASHINGTON — It became clear during the last night hours of Monday, June 1, that there was something different about the demonstrations of the police killing of an African-American man than the ones that had taken place in recent years. A group of protesters breached the barricades that stood between the White House and Lafayette Park, leading to an hours-long standoff just outside the West Wing.
By Monday, troops patrolled the streets along with heavily armed officers from the alphabet soup of federal agencies; ATF, DEA, FBI, SORT teams from the BOP, etc. The nation’s capital, it seemed, was a city under siege. Volleys of rubber bullets and tear gas canisters hit the crowd. Yellow-and-white clouds billowed in the center of the street as the protesters scrambled away. Roughly 15 minutes later, with stinging fumes still wafting through the air, Trump had delivered his brief statement, stepped out of the White House and strode through the park for a photo op at St. John’s Church, which had been set on fire during the chaos on Sunday night.
But the Trump administration wasn’t the only source of questionable claims during the days of protests. On Twitter, hashtags spread like wildfire on Sunday evening, boosting such misinformation as claims that D.C. lines of communication had been cut because activists had been murdered en masse, or that some government buildings had been burned down. None of it was true, but the false stories — and ensuing panic — spread into Monday morning.
“We’re seeing so many videos, so many new names daily that we’re also forgetting that there are so many more that we don’t see that are not recorded,” Aalayah Eastmond, a 19-year-old organizer with Concerned Citizens, told Yahoo News.
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