DC National Guard officers who had been assigned to the protest spoke out about what they saw. “As a military officer, what I saw was more or less really fucked up,” one Guardsman told Politico. “The crowd was loud but peaceful, and at no point did I feel in danger, and I was standing right there in the front of the line. A lot of us are still struggling to process this, but in a lot of ways, I believe I saw civil rights being violated in order for a photo op.” Another Guardsman added, “I’ve been tear gassed before. I was there the night before when we got tear gassed, [and] there was tear gas
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