- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence that the mayor described as a targeted attack.
FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said they were hospitalized in critical condition.
The rare shooting of National Guard members comes as the presence of the troops in the nation’s capital and other cities around the country has been a flashpoint issue for months, fueling court fights and a broader public policy debate about the Trump administration’s use of the military to combat what officials cast as an out-of-control crime problem.
The sad part of it is that Trump will use this to further clamp down on dissent, regardless of who and why.
He was going to anyways regardless if anyone does anything. It’s why the whole “Peacefully protest so he doesn’t have an excuse” is so misguided. He doesn’t need an excuse.
Trump has the mentality of a rapist: he’s gonna force himself on you regardless of what you think, do or want. The whole “avoid provoking him” thing is victim-blaming.
Of course. He was counting on something like that happening
Some, although surely not all, of all the noisy violence that go with things like “Operation Midway Blitz” is to try to instigate things like this to happen.