WATCH Trump rioters "shout fuck the blue" before Ashli Babbit and others breach a barricaded door

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@mcsnee

There had been some DC NG troops deployed around downtown since at least Tuesday morning, but the ones I saw on Tuesday were not geared up for riot protection–and I think that was, similarly, a decision made in overreaction to the force used during BLM.

But that wasn’t Mayor Bowser’s call - it was against her request, which the Pentagon denied, and explicitly limited DC NG involvement to unarmed traffic control, and specified non-engagement with “protesters.”