{"id":8316,"date":"2020-06-04T02:27:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T09:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2020-06-23T01:41:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T08:41:45","slug":"a-country-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/04\/a-country-divided\/","title":{"rendered":"A Country Divided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are nationwide protests and riots related to the murder of a man named George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. It has become a huge racial issue and the president has threatened to turn the military on the protesters. It&#8217;s a shit-show. <strong>We are a country divided<\/strong>. How the hell did that happen so quickly?<\/p>\n<p>Trump declared himself &#8220;your president of law and order&#8221; and proceeded to tear-gas peaceful protesters across the street from the white house so he could get a a photo-op in front of a church. Note at the end of the first video he says he is going someplace. In the second video he goes there.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH: Trump delivers remarks as police launch teargas against peaceful protests nearby\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WR6B1TKRDEY?start=625&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Trump walks across Lafayette Park to St. John&#039;s Church\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ShnqmiKLE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Religious persons were not amused. Here&#8217;s an interview with the Episcopal Bishop of Washington DC and a Jesuit priest.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faith Leaders Condemn Trump&#039;s Church Photo-op After Protesters Tear-Gassed | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56HdqDSw1bw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The president later said that tear gas wasn&#8217;t used. Here is a live-streamed video of the protesters being pushed out of Lafayette park, please note all the talk of pain in the eyes at 6:10, 7:09 and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lafayette Park Cleared With Tear Gas Ahead Of Trump&#039;s Church Trip\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x_ZwKL3Qhds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This, of course, escalated the violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are nationwide protests and riots related to the murder of a man named George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. It has become a huge racial issue and the president has threatened to turn the military on the protesters. It&#8217;s a shit-show. We are a country divided. How the hell did that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}