by Madeleine Hubbard
The White House was forced to relocate staffers, the Secret Service said, after pro-Palestine demonstrators threw objects at law enforcement and damaged security fencing around the presidential residence.
A video from Saturday evening shows demonstrators chanting “All walls will fall!” as they shake the White House security fence while standing in Lafayette Park. Another video shows law enforcement holding the fence as demonstrators chant, “F**k Joe Biden!”
Other videos show protestors throwing projectiles over the White House security fence and chanting phrases such as “Free Palestine” and “Yemen, Yemen, make us proud. Turn this invasion around,” referring to how Houthi rebels have been attacking ships in the Red Sea since Oct. 7, 2023, and a U.S. coalition responded last week with military force.
Organizers estimate 400,000 people attended Saturday’s demonstration in D.C., according to the ANSWER Coalition, which is a collection of activist groups that unite under the acronym meaning, “Act Now to Stop War & End Racism.”
The U.S. Secret Service said some fences outside the White House were damaged and it resulted in staff members and reporters being “relocated,” according to Fox News Digital. President Joe Biden was not moved, as officials said he was visiting Camp David on Saturday.
“During the demonstration near the White House complex Jan. 13, a portion of the anti-scale fencing that was erected for the event sustained temporary damage,” the Secret Service said. Officials quickly repaired the damage on-site, the agency said.
“As a precaution, some members of the media and staff in proximity to Pennsylvania Avenue were temporarily relocated while the issue was being addressed,” the agency also said. “The Secret Service made no arrests associated with the march and there was no property damage to the White House or adjacent buildings.”
D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said Saturday that peaceful demonstrations are an important part of democracy, but some of the events that transpired that evening were not.
“[V]iolence, destructive behavior, and criminal activities are not tolerated,” she said. “While a majority of today’s demonstration remained peaceful, there were instances of illegal and destructive behavior in Lafayette Park, including items being thrown at our officers.”
Smith also thanked local and federal law enforcement partners and said that her department is supporting the U.S. Park Police in investigating Saturday’s incidents.
The protest is one of several to become physical in the U.S. since demonstrations in support of Palestine began on Oct. 7, when Hamas and other terror groups invaded Israel, killing about 1,200 people and kidnapping 240 others.
It was a mostly peaceful protest.
Gee, you’d think when they rattled the gate that was as much of a threat as a slight, unarmed woman yelling on the opposite side of an oak door. USSS should have opened fire in volleys.
Where is General Milley ?
Standin by the phone to alert China in case Biden wants to nuke them for late payments.
Trying to keep Buttplug from asking to see his scars.
Time to kick the idiots out of America and moved the whole lot to the deepest part of the Amazon lets see them survive
I’ll just leave that just as it is. Nothing to add.
Well, it looks like this is Aug. 24, 1814, the Civil War, the Lusitania, the Zimmermann Telegram, Pearl Harbor, Corregidor, Bataan, Kasserine Pass, Malmedy, Chosin, Kennedy Assassination, Iran Hostage Rescue, 9/11 and 01.06.01 all rolled in together!
Are these protesters that are protesting what they regard as an affront to honest elections and the Constitution? Oh, no… not at all. These are leftists who support a terrorist regime, the Iranian regime that supports the terrorism, the terrorists that attack shipping like pirates and attacks on our own Navy and shipping. Just the standard type of people who align themselves with Democrats. This is THEIR version of “Peacefully go and make your voices heard”; destroy fencing, set fires, assault police, deface monuments, throw projectiles and demand anti-Semitic extermination of Jews in Israel.
White House staff ‘relocated’ after pro-Palestine insurrection turns violent