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by pjc50 2686 days ago
Indeed. They'd gone to protest outside an abortion clinic, ie harass vulnerable women. They weren't expecting the counterprotestors they got.

A good summary of this faux concern: https://www.salon.com/2019/01/22/defenders-of-the-maga-hat-y...

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This article is complete partisan spin that spills a lot of ink mentioning completely orthogonal criticisms of people and events entirely unrelated to the event that occurred at The Lincoln Memorial...not an abortion clinic.

Here's the 1.5 hour recording of the event so you don't have to sit through some selectively edited hack job:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-pFMZaw5f0

This is an accurate and concise summary of the incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSkpPaiUF8s

Basically: the kid was entirely blameless, preyed upon by a racist native activist specifically because he was wearing a MAGA hat.