{"id":120164,"date":"2021-02-07T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T17:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120164"},"modified":"2021-02-07T12:43:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T17:43:33","slug":"protesters-clash-with-cops-threaten-to-burn-dc-during-black-lives-matter-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protesters-clash-with-cops-threaten-to-burn-dc-during-black-lives-matter-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters Clash With Cops, Threaten To \u2018Burn\u2019 DC During \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprotesters-clash-with-cops-threaten-to-burn-dc-during-black-lives-matter-march%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120164&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Antifa-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAnti-fascist\u201d protesters clashed with Washington, D.C., police, disrupted outdoor diners, and threatened to \u201cburn\u201d down the city during a \u201cDC Queer and Trans Black History Month March and Rally\u201d on Saturday, in the latest incident of far-left violence to take place during President Joe Biden\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<p>The march, organized by the \u201cTotal Liberation Collective and the Palm Collective\u201d wound its way through central D.C., delivering \u201clectures\u201d about \u201crace, Black and Indigenous lives,\u201d to Washington, D.C., residents dining outdoors at some of the city\u2019s restaurants \u2014 lectures interrupted, occasionally, with chants of, &nbsp;\u201cIf we don\u2019t get it, burn it down!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group clashed several times with the police during the hours-long march. A number of the clashes were caught on video and posted to social media by guerilla journalist Brendan Gutenschwager.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police form a moving line between the protesters and the outdoor diners as the group continues to mobilize through DC <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DCProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DCProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WashingtonDC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WashingtonDC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sNh96wvkL6\">pic.twitter.com\/sNh96wvkL6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BGOnTheScene\/status\/1358219117304676357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An officer swats away one of the flashlights, leading to brief clashes as police push forward into the crowd in front of outdoor diners here in DC <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DCProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DCProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WashingtonDC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WashingtonDC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UuA76fH5X4\">pic.twitter.com\/UuA76fH5X4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BGOnTheScene\/status\/1358215657641361410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the protest was largely led by representatives of \u201cBlack Lives Matter,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/antifa-members-threatens-to-burn-down-dc-during-black-lives-matter-march\">Fox News noted<\/a> that \u201c[s]ome&nbsp;Antifa protesters mixed in, as a red and black \u2018Antifascist Action\u2019 flag could be seen being carried by a group of protesters clad in black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one point, things escalated after a black bloc protester shined a light into the face of a police officer, who then slapped away the flashlight. The black bloc member retaliated and smacked the police officer,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/washington-dc-protest-antifa-blm\">The Blaze noted<\/a>. \u201cThe officer then pushed the crowd back by using his bicycle. The black bloc protester then slaps another cop. The officer thrusts his bike even more aggressively into the crowd dressed in all black. During the tense situation, a female in the crowd tells the officer to put his face mask on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here tonight because black lives matter,\u201d the group announced as the protest concluded following their march through a row of restaurants, according to Fox. \u201cDespite black lives mattering, black people are still dying at the hands of the police paid for by our tax dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night\u2019s protest was the latest in a series of \u201canti-fascist\u201d demonstrations in major cities \u2014 a series that began just as President Joe Biden, a Democrat, took office in late January, and a series that has largely gone unnoticed by legacy media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Both Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon have seen occasionally violent protests since January 20th, Biden\u2019s Inauguration Day, and, in some cases, those protests have been aimed at Democrats. A January 20th riot in Portland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/im-waiting-for-pres-biden-to-condemn-grassley-blasts-biden-for-silence-on-portland-seattle-violence\">targeted that city\u2019s Democratic Party headquarters<\/a>, smashing through the building\u2019s windows and covering the building in anti-Biden graffiti.<\/p>\n<p>Late last month, \u201canti-Fascist\u201d protesters swarmed and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/federal-agents-defend-ice-facility-in-portland-fire-tear-gas-at-demonstrators\">attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland<\/a>, triggering a federal response. \u201cAgents of the Federal Protective Services confronted crowds of rioters in Portland, Oregon,\u201d on January 23rd, the Daily Wire reported at the time, directly confronting protesters who \u201cdescended on the Portland ICE facility demanding that inmates being held within be allowed to go free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although former President Donald Trump took heat for deploying specialized federal agents to defend a federal courthouse in downtown Portland over the summer of 2020, the Biden Administration\u2019s decision to allow federal authorities to defend the ICE facility appeared to go largely unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>Another Black Lives Matter rally is planned for Sunday in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnti-fascist\u201d protesters clashed with Washington, D.C., police, disrupted outdoor diners, and threatened to \u201cburn\u201d down the city during a \u201cDC Queer and Trans Black History Month March and Rally\u201d on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892821,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5673,5676,4288,4007,5483,3635],"class_list":["post-120164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-clash","tag-cops","tag-during","tag-protesters","tag-threaten","tag-with"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}