St. John’s Episcopal Church at Lafayette Square in the District of Columbia burned Sunday night, having been set ablaze by rioters in another long night of nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer dug his knee into the handcuffed man’s neck until he stopped breathing. St. John’s, built in 1816, has been called the church of presidents— every president, beginning with James Madison, has attended a service there. It’s located a stone’s throw from the White House.
Benny Johnson notes that President Lincoln prayed in St. John’s. That didn’t stop the violent mob from torching it.
Benny ✔ @bennyjohnson Terrorist group ANTIFA outside the White House lighting St. Johns Church on Fire and ripping down its American flag. St. John’s was built in 1816 every president since Madison has worshiped there. Abe Lincoln prayed in this building. Send ANTIFA to GITMO!
Footage from the scene is devastating:
John Zade, MD @johnrzade Washington protestors burn down St Johns Church, a national historic landmark
Brad Freitas @Chopper4Brad Smoke from multiple fires rising up in front of the Washington Monument #Chopper4 looking south from Maryland, White House center screen. #BreakingNews @nbcwashington #protests2020 #GeorgeFloydProtests
Fox News is reporting at this hour that the fire, which began in the parish office of the church, has been extinguished by D.C. firefighters.
Rioters also defaced many of D.C.’s beloved monuments. The Lincoln Memorial:
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Poster Comment:
There we are -- get that last bit and the picture. We "neo-Confederates" warned for decades that giving the mobs the Confederate flag would only encourage them, that they'd go howling after the rest of American history too.
As soon as the flag came down in Columbia over the extremely questionable Charleston shootings, it got rolling in earnest including permanent defacement of the Lincoln Memorial! Now they've spray-painted its architecture and all brakes are off.
By the definitions gliberalism has forced down our throats, ALL of American history is "RACIST" and must be obliterated -- from the landscape, from our hearts, from historic memory. Connect the dots and it spells the desire of all liberaldumb to KILL YOU AND ME OFF PHYISICALLY.
I cannot WAIT to see how stupid gliberal Whiskeypalians are going to react to this. Do they go with the gliberal agenda of preserving their famously subversive institution, or the other one of coddling nonwhites and bending to their every whim?
Is it sound off against the lawlessness or put a nice plaque where this church used to be commemorating the feral niggers' historic moment?
Any of y'all living in large cities, get ye to smaller surrounds pronto. Serious business!