PBS Newshour, “Anti-Trump protests break out across D.C.”
These demonstrators used tactics associated with so-called black bloc anarchist groups, long prevalent in Europe, often seizing the moment amid more peaceful protests. Continue Reading
New York Magazine, “Inauguration Day in Washington Is Like a Nightmare Twitter Thread”
My sister texts me to be careful and remember her instructions about keeping water or milk on me in case of tear gas, since there are anarchists downtown smashing car windows. Continue Reading
Washington Examiner, “The last time K Street got this exciting was when Occupy destroyed McPherson Square”
On K Street’s Franklin Square — just two blocks down from the Washington Examiner‘s old offices and a few more from our new ones — anarchist anti-Trump protesters were throwing stones and bottles at police, breaking storefront windows, setting limousines on fire, running around naked and generally creating havoc. Continue Reading
CBS Miami, “Anti-Trump Protesters Take Over Streets Of Miami”
It wasn’t a huge crowd, but there plenty of political diversity – everybody from old-line socialists to modern day anarchist and a lot in between. Continue Reading
The Washington Post, “Tensions rise at checkpoints along 10th Street NW as protesters try to block Trump supporters”
But within a few minutes, tensions started to rise at another nearby checkpoint with protesters nearby at 10th and E streets NW. Self-described feminists and anarchists linked arm and sat on the ground to keep parade goers from breaking through to the security lines. Continue Reading
The Washington Post, “Protesters vowed to shut down the city. Police vowed to protect the inauguration. They clashed.”
In one case, police isolated and corralled black-clad, self-proclaimed anarchists after a brief late-morning rampage along K and L streets that involved throwing fireworks, lighting fires and breaking glass at bus stops and storefronts and on a limousine. Continue Reading
The Atlantic, “Welcome to the Trump Presidency”
“There’s a good portion of us who think Trump is a liberal who basically pulled an Alinsky on the GOP and beat them with their own rules,” Hedtke said. “It’s kind of funny, from an anarchist standpoint.” Eastland looked chagrined. “Well, she’s an anarchist,” he said to me. “I have a different view.” Continue Reading
Pasadena Star-News, “Dozens of anti-Trump protesters stage peaceful march in La Puente”
They carried signs and black and red flags, which are symbols of anarchist groups, chanting “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA,” and “not my president.” Continue Reading
The Huffington Post, “Protests, Violence Flare Around Inaugural Ceremony”
“It’s a bunch of anarchists,” said one Secret Service agent. “Fun times. It’s what we expected.” Continue Reading
Bloomberg, “Pomp Mixes With Whiff of Tear Gas for Trump’s Inauguration”
About hour before the inaugural ceremony got under way, a crowd of as many as 500 black-clad and masked young men and women, some armed with crowbars and hammers, marauded through a commercial district a few blocks from the White House, smashing windows of banks, coffee shops and other businesses. On a stone planter, someone spray-painted […]