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Police officers broke up a peaceful protest in front of the White House by tear-gassing the crowds, forcefully breaking the ranks as if civil war were breaking out in the United States, all so that President Trump could walk unimpeded for a photo-op at a church.
That’s all it took for Steve Kerr to be turned: That’s my president.
Such was the sarcasm and fury present from the Warriors coach Monday night after the president deemed a photo in front of a partially lit St. John’s Episcopal Church important enough to violently ensure a crowd protesting the death of George Floyd and the many unchecked powers of police in this country dispersed.
Trump got his picture, awkwardly fiddling with a Bible, seemingly undisturbed by the sirens ringing out all around him, undisturbed by the peaceful protesters he left gasping in his wake.
Kerr had some thoughts:
https://twitter.com/SteveKerr/status/1267661124951916545
As did Rev. Mariann Budde, who oversees St. John’s Episcopal, who told the Washington Post she was “outraged” that she “was not given even a courtesy call, that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.”
Police outside the WH just repeatedly bashed a cameraman as they pushed back protestors – just now on @ABC7News pic.twitter.com/XyE2sI6I3v
— Ben Siegel (@bensiegel) June 1, 2020
