'Beautiful, peaceful and diverse': Thousands of protesters flood streets near White House

After more than a week of protests in Washington, city officials said they expected Saturday to be the largest demonstration yet with potential for tens of thousands of people taking to the streets.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/beautiful-peaceful-diverse-thousands-protesters-flood-streets-near-white-house-n1226606

Thousands of people gathered outside Washington, D.C., monuments and the White House on Saturday protesting the killing of George Floyd, years of unanswered calls for police reform and President Donald Trump's use of military personnel in response to largely peaceful demonstrations.

“I’m tired of the racism. Just tired,” said Rochelle Grate, a 58-year-old information technology specialist from Fort Washington, Maryland, who described the Saturday protest as “beautiful, peaceful and diverse.”

“This is different," she said about the protests seen around the country over much of the past two weeks since Floyd, a black man, was killed in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25. "It snapped people not of color to say ‘Man, this is real and I’ve been blind to it.’”

After more than a week of protests in Washington, city officials said they expected Saturday to be the largest demonstration yet with potential for tens of thousands of people taking to the streets.

“We anticipate the largest demonstrations with regards to numbers that we’ve seen in the city to date,” said D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham at a press conference on Thursday. “And we anticipate that the protesters will continue to be as peaceful as they have been over the past couple of days.”

Newsham said no arrests have been made during protests since Tuesday.

Earlier in the week police officers had lined the perimeter to Lafayette Square, moving closer to the fenced-off crowd as protests grew more rowdy.

There was no police line in Lafayette Square on Saturday and no cops were seen in the blocks surrounding the White House as people danced, painted signs, and marched around downtown. The demonstration remained peaceful hours after the time when just days ago a curfew would have been in effect.

Toxic Masculinity My Foot!

https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/toxic-masculinity-my-foot/

Comrades Rashida, Ilhan, AOC, and Sarsour, I would like to correct the record here. The murder of Israa Ghrayeb and other honor killings in the Palestinian society and world-wide have nothing to do with what you term as toxic masculinity–however, there is a cultural toxicity that you haven’t mentioned and that one is 100% responsible for that great Palestinian contribution to mankind: the ‘suicide bomber’. Which interestingly, you and your clan members, as well as granny Muftia have been endorsing and benefiting from financially for years.

Palestinian honor killings are a common practice with an average of 20 cases per year and about 50 documented instances between 2011-2013. But honor killings are only the tip of the societal violence iceberg. The rates of murder, rape, torture, extortion, hostage taking, cruelty to animals, hate, racism, distrust of other Palestinians that don’t belong to your clan, lying, corruption, child abuse, and oppression are also extreme and beyond any proportion, especially if you consider the Palestinian claims that they are a homogeneous society that has been living in harmony for hundreds of years.

The Majority of Honor Killings Victims are Innocent

In an overwhelming majority of documented cases, there was no proof that the murder victims had violated any moral code of Arab society–only that their families thought that their behavior was incompatible with accepted custom. Sometimes a mere rumor that a woman spoke with a man was enough to seal her fate. In a large number of cases the honor killings were perpetrated to hide that the victim was raped by the father, brother of uncle who murdered her in order to save face and prevent the victim from potentially disclosing the crime after she gets married. In other cases, honor killing served as a pretext for murder for other reasons, such as a family dispute, rivalry, or vendettas.

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This one is easier to read

Helter skelter…