Feds Hunt for Extremists at Sunday's 'Defeat the Mandates' DC RallyBy Nick Koutsobinas | Saturday, 22 January 2022 02:12 PM
Federal law enforcement will be monitoring the anti-vaccine mandate rally, "Defeat the Mandates: An American Homecoming," which is taking place at the national mall on Sunday for any signs of violence.
The event, which is billed as a peaceful protest, will begin with protesters marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, after which Robert F. Kennedy Jr., among other speakers, will give a speech. Kennedy's nonprofit organization, Children's Health Defense, is sponsoring the event.
The permit application for the event details that roughly 20,000 are expected to attend, 6,000 of which are expected to be federal workers opposed to the mandates.
But despite the protest's peaceful appeal, it has caught the attention of the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Capitol Police, both of which have cited concerns of violence occurring at the event, as mentioned in their circulated security intelligence bulletins.
"This demonstration, as with most protest activity, is a soft target," a Jan. 14 Capitol Police bulletin warned, Yahoo News reported. "Extremists have become more comfortable with violence as a means to achieve political goals. The threat of a lone wolf or smaller-scale attack on a soft target remains high."
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