{"id":2266312,"date":"2024-06-12T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-rips-disgusting-lack-of-arrests-in-anti-israel-protest-near-white-house\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T22:02:05","slug":"speaker-johnson-rips-disgusting-lack-of-arrests-in-anti-israel-protest-near-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-rips-disgusting-lack-of-arrests-in-anti-israel-protest-near-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson Slams &#8216;Disgusting&#8217; Absence of Arrests at Anti-Israel Protest Near White House"},"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%2Fspeaker-johnson-rips-disgusting-lack-of-arrests-in-anti-israel-protest-near-white-house%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=2266312&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--><p>House\u2064 Speaker Mike Johnson criticized the lack of arrests following recent protests near the White House, where participants demonstrated against U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-ukraine-comments-focus-spotlight-on-how-much-money-us-has-already-sent\/\" title=\"Trump's Ukraine remarks highlight US's substantial financial aid.\">military \u200daid<\/a> to Israel and called for a ceasefire in the Gaza war. The protests, described by Johnson during a\u2062 press conference, involved disturbing behavior including chants supportive of Hezbollah and violent anti-Zionist\u2064 sentiments. Despite the vandalism at Lafayette Park and similar actions \u200dduring\u200b a New York protest against an exhibit honoring victims of a Hamas attack, no arrests were made by Metro \u200cPD, which Johnson highlighted as a failure to address what he\u2063 characterized as dangerous and reprehensible actions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) assailed the lack of arrests related to the riotous protest over the weekend near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> urging President Joe Biden to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-says-dems-should-tone-down-rhetoric-against-israel\/\" title=\"Bernie Says Dems Should \u2018Tone Down\u2019 Rhetoric Against Israel\">cut military aid<\/a> to Israel and demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza war against Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The Louisiana Republican reacted to the demonstration that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/authorities-report-no-arrests-in-anti-israel-protest-that-vandalized-park-near-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trashed Lafayette Park<\/a>, as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/11\/arts\/israel-gaza-protest-nova-exhibit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">widely-condemned protest in New York<\/a> outside of an exhibit memorializing the victims of the deadly Hamas attack on Israel last October, during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fj9OAG1mvkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutside a New York memorial for October 7th victims, shamefully, protesters chanted \u2018Long live the Intifada,\u2019 and outside the White House, vandals and apparently aspiring Hamas members chanted \u2018Hezbollah, Hezbollah!\u2019 and \u2018Kill another Zionist now,&#8217;\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, that happened in Lafayette Park,\u201d Johnson added. \u201cPlain and simple, it\u2019s dangerous behavior and it\u2019s disgusting that the Metro PD didn\u2019t arrest anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Secret Service, D.C. police, and U.S. Park Police <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/crime\/white-house-protesters-vandalized-property-and-clashed-with-law-enforcement-but-police-say-no-arrests-were-made\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told The Washington Free Beacon<\/a> that they did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/authorities-report-no-arrests-in-anti-israel-protest-that-vandalized-park-near-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not detain anyone<\/a> in connection to the D.C. protest. Police said they tried to arrest one person who climbed a statue, but that individual got away as members of the crowd intervened and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/authorities-report-no-arrests-in-anti-israel-protest-that-vandalized-park-near-white-house\/\" title=\"No arrests made in anti-Israel protest that vandalized park near White House, authorities report\">officers deployed pepper spray<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/thousands-gather-white-house-protest-war-gaza-rcna156186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Julio_Rosas11\/status\/1799490347543773336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> from reporter Julio Rosas showed police officers being chased out of the park while being followed by some protesters as chants of \u201cYou have to leave\u201d morphed into \u201cF*** the police.\u201d Another video appeared to show objects being <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ScooterCasterNY\/status\/1799527340881408033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thrown<\/a> at a park ranger.<\/p>\n<p>Images of the statues in Lafayette Park being covered in spray paint with messages such as \u201cFree Gaza\u201d have stoked outrage and called for a response from law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-park-police-investigate-criminal-activity-after-anti-israel-protests-white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday that the U.S. Park Police is conducting a probe into the rowdy gathering. A National Park Service spokesperson said Park Police investigators are looking to identify \u201canyone involved in criminal activity that occurred on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpermitted demonstration resulted in an assault of a park ranger, injuries to two U.S. Park Police officers, and significant damage to the park resources,\u201d the rep said, adding that staff were \u201cundertaking extensive cleanup and repair efforts to address the damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) criticized the absence of arrests following a chaotic protest near the White House. He urged President Biden to stop military aid to Israel and called for a ceasefire in the Gaza conflict with Hamas. The Louisiana Republican responded to the upheaval that damaged Lafayette Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2266313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2156670385-scaled-e1718225105806.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2156670385-scaled-e1718225105806.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266312","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}