WASHINGTON DC (2 JUNE 2020) Read the full article Trump turning “holy ground into a photo-op is a sacrilege,” reverend says
Rev. Gini Gerbasi, the rector at St. John’s Episcopal Church of Georgetown, said she was at the scene when police fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowds so that President Trump could walk over to the church and take photos. She said she was shocked when police moved on protesters, but was more offended that Trump turned the “holy ground into a photo-op.”
“I never would have imagined that I would look up and literally see an entire line of police officers all in this heavy military gear, all black, and these shields, literally pushing and shoving and driving people off of the church patio,”. “I… tried to tend to them and help them on the grounds and suddenly the police were pushing us back. And the people were dropping to the ground, afraid. And they were — when they hear those flash sounds, they thought they were being shot. And people were running at us.”
