generic Secret Service disperses protests at White House
After several hours of intermittent clashes with protesters outside the White House, members of the Secret Service fired pepper spray into the crowd and charged forward to clear the area of demonstrators.
Video Transcript
CROWD (CHANTING): Hands up, don't shoot. Hands up, don't shoot. Hands up, don't shoot.
- So that is tons of mace spray. And the police are moving forward into the crowd. This is Lafayette Park, across from the White House. And the police are just spraying people with pepper spray, against the backdrop of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House here.
[SPRAYING]
But, yeah, it's 3:22 in the morning right now. And after several hours of standoff here, this was the moment that the Secret Service and US Park Police decided to advance. So they're now pushing this crowd through the park.
I am holding and displaying my Secret Service-issued White House hard pass in my hand. I'm with a column of reporters over here. Even though I am wearing an N95 mask, I definitely breathed in a little of that pepper spray.
[YELLING]
Wow. Do you guys see that? The police are just absolutely running forward. All of us reporters are here on the side. The police are just running forward into the crowd.
[COUGHS]
I am holding my hard pass in the air. Press, guys, press. Press.
- [YELLING]
- OK.
- Go!
- Press, press, hard pass. Press.
- [YELLING]
- OK, press. I'm press. I'm getting out. Press, man, press. I'm getting out.
- Get out!
- I'm getting out, dude. I'm getting out. I'm getting out.
- Get out!
- I'm getting out, man.
[YELLING]
