Following the protests at Union Station by anti-Israel agitators defacing federal property in protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tackle to Congress, a Park Police union is pushing again towards criticism that just a few arrests have been made.
Hundreds of Hamas-sympathizing agitators descended on Washington, D.C., Tuesday, at one level defacing federal monuments with phrases in assist of the terrorist group liable for the Oct. 7 assaults in Israel, saying, “Hamas is coming.”
Twenty-three individuals have been arrested on the protests, however some have advised that quantity ought to have been greater.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., posted on X, “What number of extra occasions are they going to permit leftist degenerates who assist terrorism and hate America to vandalize property and assault police? There ought to have been a whole bunch of arrests at present in D.C. not simply 23.”
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However the U.S. Park Police Labor Committee is pushing again.
“Our officers on the bottom did the whole lot they might to guard life and property. In reality, regardless of having solely 29 officers out there to mitigate injury — 29! — with no extra assist from the Division of the Inside, we processed a number of arrests for costs starting from assault on a police officer to destruction of presidency property,” Kenneth Spencer, chairman of the US Park Police Fraternal Order of Police, stated in an announcement.
“That is why it is so disheartening to listen to some members of Congress and members of the media, a lot of whom describe themselves as ‘champions’ of regulation enforcement, suggesting that officers gave protesters a ‘go’ or that inadequate arrests have been made.
“Nothing could possibly be farther from the reality. Anybody who actually cares to grasp the issue would see that our officer staffing disaster is on the root of our company’s mission readiness. A small unit of 29 officers arrested 10 people whereas being assaulted by a mob of hundreds. We merely didn’t have the staffing or sources to perform a mass arrest operation.”
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No less than one demonstrator, whose face was lined, was noticed by Fox Information carrying what gave the impression to be the flag of the terrorist group Hamas whereas others have been heard shouting “Allahu Akbar.”
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The White Home condemned the protests Wednesday night, calling the chaos “disgraceful.”
“Figuring out with evil terrorist organizations like Hamas, burning the American flag or forcibly eradicating the American flag and changing it with one other is disgraceful,” White Home spokesperson Andrew Bates stated in a remark to Fox Information Digital Wednesday night.
