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The DC Police Chief Behind the Inauguration Crackdown Has a Disgraceful History

According to a class-action lawsuit, more than 200 people hit with “felony riot” charges following their mass arrest at Friday’s inauguration protest in Washington, D.C. were indiscriminately swept up “without warning and without any dispersal order” and attacked with chemical weapons, flash-bang grenades and batons. The crackdown, which was overseen by acting Metropolitan Police Department …