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originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
ByStephanie Ebbs andBenjamin Siegel
June 10, 2021, 6:47 AM
• 13 min read
U.S. Park Police did not clear Lafayette Park and the nearby area of protesters on June 1, 2020, so President Donald Trump could walk from the White House over to St. John’s Church, but learned of his interest in surveying the site hours after they already had begun planning to clear the area to put up new fencing, according to a new watchdog report.
The Interior Department’s inspector general did not determine whether law enforcement acted inappropriately against demonstrators last year and did not focus on individual incidents of police use of force, but found that poor communication between agencies and ineffective dispersal warnings "may have contributed to confusion during the operation and the use of tactics that appeared inconsistent" with initial plans.
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Police did not clear Lafayette Square so Trump could hold 'Bible' photo op: Watchdog
Perhaps ATS members forget how many false claims were made by the mainstream media about President Trump. Including this one, in which for months the mainstream media kept falsely claiming that the violent protesters whom even burned the church were gassed just because President Trump wanted to have a photo op at the church. It was all a lie.
The fencing was being installed because useful idiots anti-Trumpers were resorting to violence against agents and police officers around that area. So the area had to be cleared, the anti-Trumpers even burned the St. John's Church in case anti-Trump liars in ATS forget...
Here is an excerpt from another article of why that area had been cleared, and not what the anti-Trump useful idiots even in the media claimed happened...
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"The evidence we reviewed showed that the USPP cleared the park to allow a contractor to safely install antiscale fencing in response to destruction of Federal property and injury to officers that occurred on May 30 and May 31," reads an accompanying letter from Interior Department Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt. "Moreover, the evidence established that relevant USPP officials had made those decisions and had begun implementing the operational plan several hours before they knew of a potential Presidential visit to the park, which occurred later that day."
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The Truth Comes Out: Police Didn't Clear Lafayette Park for Trump to Visit St. John's Church
In fact the visit to St. John's Church by President Trump wasn't even scheduled and at least one park police commander made that clear, and I quote:
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One Park Police commander told the inspector general's office they were caught off guard about Trump's plans during a conversation with Attorney General Bill Barr, who asked, "Are these people still going to be here when POTUS [President of the United States] comes out?" according to the report.
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Police did not clear Lafayette Square so Trump could hold 'Bible' photo op: Watchdog
This is just one of the many lies the mainstream media kept repeating, and of course now democrat leaders are claiming that this is just a whitewash...