A video posted on Twitter showed a group of men holding a BLM sign at the Metropolitan AME Church, while others in the crowd shouted, “Whose streets? Our streets. “Other videos showed people pouring an excellence on a BLM banner and setting fire to the street, while others were excited and cursing Antifine. Someone walks after a minute and uses a fire extinguisher to put out the flames.
Senior pastor of Asbury Church Rev. Dr. Einter m. “It hurt me to see our name, especially in the flames,” Mills said in a statement on Sunday. “For me, it’s reminiscent of cross-burning. Seeing this act on video made me both angry and decided to fight the evil that befell his ugly head.”
“We will move forward without hesitation by assuring the Black Lives Matter and we will continue to shout that truth without stopping it,” he added.
Leaders of the Black Lives Matter organization denied the attacks on churches, and blamed police for allowing “partisan white supremacists” to run rampant.
April Gogans, chief organizer of the DC chapter of Black Lives Matter, accused Bauer of “sitting quietly and comfortably in your home, as Trump sends his criminals to brutalize your citizens.” He said the mayor’s statement was meaningless without action.
A DC police spokesman said Sunday that it is taking crimes seriously and actively.
The events that followed the weekend in support of Trump’s baseless claim that he had won a second term resulted in dozens of arrests, multiple stabbings and injuries to police officers.
Columbia District Police said they arrested about 30 people for various crimes, ranging from possession of weapons to arrest and riot resistance. The violence erupted on Monday after Saturday.
Four people were stabbed around 10pm after a fight in downtown, police said. At least one suspect, Philip Johnson, 29, of Washington, D.C., was arrested on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon. A police report obtained by the Associated Press states that at least one of the victims identified Johnson as the man who stabbed him.
Eight police officers were also injured during the demonstrations, officials said.
Earlier rallies, mostly to show the revolt of Unseen Trump loyalists, were held about two days before the Electoral Rally College Ledge formally met Democrat B Biden as President-elect. Trump, whose term ends on January 20, refused to stick to the futile claims of fraud denied by state and federal courts and to be accepted by the Supreme Court on Friday.
A pro-Trump demonstration last month that drew 10,000 to 15,000 people to the capital also ended late Saturday evening with sporadic clashes between Trump colleagues and local activists near Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House.
On Saturday, police took further steps to keep the two sides separate, closing downtown giant stone to traffic and closing Black Lives Matter Plaza.
But when Saturday’s rallies at Freedom Plaza downtown Nov. 14. When it was low, they led a large group of proud boys, a neo-fascist group known for inciting street violence. Some people wore bulletproof vests as they walked through the city.
The group also raised its profile in September after Trump famously told her to “stand behind”.
After the rallies ended, downtown Washington and Washington quickly merged into a crowd of hundreds of proud boys, and a combined force of Antifa and local black activists – both sides seeking a confrontation in the flooded area from police officers. As the evening wore on, they lined up several lines of city police and federal park police, some facing the opposite side of the street, some keeping them apart.
