This is a photograph of the the crowds at the We Are One concert this past Sunday:
All that space around either side and the end of the Reflecting Pool? Space that “security” excluded the public from. You know, the public – that giant blob of people at the bottom of the picture (who managed to get along just fine without the heel of the Secret Service and MPD bearing on them). Worth contemplating, the mindset that makes it okay to exclude the public from what is perhaps the most public space in the country.
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