{"id":36508,"date":"2013-07-04T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36508"},"modified":"2013-07-04T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T18:48:33","slug":"kokeshs-open-carry-protest-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36508","title":{"rendered":"Kokesh&#8217;s one-man open carry protest in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We discussed Iraq Veterans Against the War member Adam Kokesh and his crackpot march on DC with loaded, openly carried weapons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35450\">last May<\/a>. Well, since the DC cops and the Park Police kind of shut down that idea from the get-go, he went all by his lonesome to Freedom Plaza, a few blocks from the White House, and loaded a shotgun. It&#8217;s here on this video;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-sAGGoPidEY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/news\/article\/265063\/158\/VIDEO-Open-Carry-March-Organizer-Loads-Gun-On-Freedom-Plaza\">WUSA9<\/a>, the Park police are aware of the video;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US Park Police know about the video, says a spokesman, and they responded to Freedom Plaza to investigate. Park Police officers did not find Kokesh, or any protest going on, there.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said Park Police are investigating, but at this point cannot determine how the video was recorded, and if and when Kokesh may have been at Freedom Plaza with a gun.<\/p>\n<p>After speaking with the USPP spokesperson, the Metropolitan Police Department released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Metropolitan Police Department and US Park Police are aware that today Adam Kokesh posted a video that appears to have been taken in Freedom Plaza in Northwest, DC. We are in the process of determining the authenticity of the video.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for making us gun owners look like crazy people, Adam. It&#8217;s almost like Kokesh is working against gun rights. I mean, it&#8217;s not like he&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=716\"> pretended to be on the opposite side of an issue to make one of his pointless points<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discussed Iraq Veterans Against the War member Adam Kokesh and his crackpot march on DC &hellip; <a title=\"Kokesh&#8217;s one-man open carry protest in DC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36508\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kokesh&#8217;s one-man open carry protest in DC<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}