Just back from #ShutItDownDC. quick thoughts:
1. The unprecedented protection neo-Nazis continue to receive from police is unconscionable. I am from DC, have lived here my whole adulthood and have never seen a protestor group tended to the way these white supremacists have been.
1. The unprecedented protection neo-Nazis continue to receive from police is unconscionable. I am from DC, have lived here my whole adulthood and have never seen a protestor group tended to the way these white supremacists have been.
2. @wmata has some explaining to do. After repeatedly stating that K*ssler & his Nazi pals wouldn’t get special treatment from Metro, all 20 or so of them (lol) got their own train car to ride to Foggy Bottom. Portions of Foggy Bottom’s platform were blocked so they could exit.
3. I saw the police guarding the front section of the neo-Nazi group shoving journalists backwards as they tried to get shots of the Nazis marching. It was unnecessary and dangerous.
4. I haven’t caught up on twitter yet but I’m sure it’s obvious that the neo-Nazis were massively outnumbered by peaceful counter-protesters and left, soaked in DC summer rain and abject humiliation, in a special police van before their stupid rally was even scheduled to start.
5. Neo-Nazi turnout was pathetic today because a) they can’t walk around waving their gun-dicks around in DC and b) there were massive social consequences for many white supremacists in Cville last year.
Continue making it impossible for Nazis to exist unbothered in society.
Continue making it impossible for Nazis to exist unbothered in society.
6. Thank you to everyone who showed up in DC today and in Cville this weekend. Tonight I’m thinking of Heather Heyer, who lost her life for showing up. I hope we can always remember her and her courage, and never stop showing up.
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