{"id":842,"date":"2020-12-02T19:34:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=130985"},"modified":"2020-12-02T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T19:34:38","slug":"on-the-line-armed-and-dangerous-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/02\/on-the-line-armed-and-dangerous-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Line: Armed and Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"lead\">America was built on armed protest\u2014it is how the nation was founded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve covered protests in America for the last twenty years. But it wasn\u2019t until 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, that I saw men with guns take to the streets. It blew me away.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since then, thanks to President Donald Trump\u2019s rhetoric, I\u2019ve watched the armed and emboldened masses of Boogaloo Bois, Proud Boys, and other far-right militias march unmasked past police who give them fist bumps and support. Leftist activists, by contrast, usually arrive unarmed. And they\u2019re met with police violence: pepper spray, tear gas, and rubber bullets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/02\/on-the-line-armed-and-dangerous-2\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America was built on armed protest\u2014it is how the nation was founded.\u00a0 I\u2019ve covered protests in America for the last twenty years. But it wasn\u2019t until 2017, in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}