Washington DC Police Explain Why They Are Restricting the Rights of Americans

This is surreal. The Washington Metropolitan Police explain to a lawyer, that they are stopping Americans from walking down a public sidewalk, because they are "protecting" them from being assaulted by right wing Venezuelan thugs.

The lawyer points out that the proper thing to do, when the Venezuelans assault Americans, is to arrest the assaulters, not the victims. (We already know that the police arrested the Americans, not the Venezuelans, when the Venezuelans assaulted them on previous days.) They refuse to address their previous dereliction of duty, instead insisting that they will prevent further assaults by the violent thugs, by stopping peaceful Americans from walking on public property.

Meanwhile, the Americans inside the embassy have no access to food, and now have had their electricity and water shut off, while the police allow the right wing Venezuelans to set up tents on the sidewalk, as part of their medieval siege. And then forbid Americans to walk on the sidewalk, to "protect" them.

This is quite Orwellian.