WTF is going on at the Whitehouse???

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

It was bad, I heard there was chanting and dancing.

and cops getting shoved in order to get to Rand Paul, but that was an innocent omission on your part, not a deliberate misrepresentation of what happened. Right?

[spence]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

and cops getting shoved in order to get to Rand Paul, but that was an innocent omission on your part, not a deliberate misrepresentation of what happened. Right?

A cop was trying to just keep people at a distance, tripped and bumped into Paul. He walked into a hotel and the protesters walked away. Big whoop. That's no riot.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

A cop was trying to just keep people at a distance, tripped and bumped into Paul. He walked into a hotel and the protesters walked away. Big whoop. That's no riot.

Paul says the cop was shoved. Please show me the evidence you have, to say he tripped. I'm surprised you didn't say he tripped while reading his skinhead magazine.

No lengths you won't go to. None.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

A cop was trying to just keep people at a distance, tripped and bumped into Paul. He walked into a hotel and the protesters walked away. Big whoop. That's no riot.

If it's no big whoop, why do you have to distort what happened?

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

A cop was trying to just keep people at a distance, tripped and bumped into Paul. He walked into a hotel and the protesters walked away. Big whoop. That's no riot.

video. Certainly not a riot.

Were they peaceful protesters, or a mob? Id say closer to a mob. At the 1:45 mark, look at the huge guy screaming right in a cops face from two inches away. Thats not threatening?

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

A cop was trying to just keep people at a distance, tripped and bumped into Paul. He walked into a hotel and the protesters walked away. Big whoop. That's no riot.

Gee, the way you put it, the cops weren't even necessary. They should have just stepped aside.

[spence]

Originally Posted by detbuch

Gee, the way you put it, the cops weren't even necessary. They should have just stepped aside.

I would think police would usually be present to move a high profile person through a crowd.

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

I would think police would usually be present to move a high profile person through a crowd.

According to Paul, the crowd wasn't merely there. It gathered around him in a threatening way when they recognized who he was and were yelling threatening things at him. And he and his wife made their way to where the police were in time to get their assistance to make it to the hotel. He saw that the crowd/mob was getting bigger and it would be wise for the police to call for back up, which never came. He actually thought that he and his wife were in danger of being killed or severely beaten.

Of course, not being there, you know better, it was just a crowd. No big deal. Just need a few cops to help get through the peaceful crowd.