Window-breakers dressed in black

[cyclonefence]

in downtown DC, big confrontation with cops--anybody else hear this on NPR?

[elehhhhna]

1. Eric Prince making that sweet cash

[Zoonart]

2. How much you want to bet

they are Rethug plants trying to discredit the lawfully abiding protesters?

[2naSalit]

4. Never doubt that it is

They have been doing this since at least 2000.

[cyclonefence]

6. that was my first reaction

but these folks are being subjected to pepper spray and mild roughing-up by the cops. I'm not sure that paid protesters would submit to that kind of treatment. There were apparently several points at which they could have surrendered. Plus the radio reported that there were a lot more protesters than cops. I just don't know.

[SaschaHM]

3. WHy break Windows in a city that went Heavily blue...

We're just hurting ourselves with this.

[Mister Ed]

9. "We"? Who's this "we" you speak of? n/t

[Brother Buzz]

5. False flag outfit, perhaps, but...

There always seems to be an anarchist element drawn to public events. Punks

[politicat]

7. Bloc is nowhere near this shit show.

Bloc is confrontational, but they're not stupid. Paid agitation, or volunteer liars, or they're a planned distraction.

But they're not Bloc. This? This is like BTVS vampires and Halloween -- this day is a day "off".

[cyclonefence]

8. Here's a link to the NY Daily News story w/pics

I still just don't know.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/protesters-furious-determined-thwart-trump-article-1.2951293