1. They turned a peaceful protest into a riot
Thousands gathered in Washington D.C. to protest the inauguration, but the DisruptJ20 crowd wasn’t there to protest. They were there to riot. Masked and armed with crowbars and pipes, they broke windows at local businesses, destroyed ATMs and trashcans, demolished vehicles and set them on fire, and threw rocks and bricks at the police. When a man in a “Make America Great Again” hat put out of a fire they had started, they attacked him.
What DisruptJ20 seems to have wanted was for peaceful protesters to jump on their bandwagon and create a full blown catastrophe, but that didn’t happen. Most of the protesters remained peaceful, and appeared to be more interested in recording the chaos on their smart phones.
