"It was horrific....right as we got to the policeman, fortunately or I don't know we would have survived, we got to the policeman and I don't think the policeman recognized me and as I came closer the crowd was shouting my name and it doubled to 60 and it double again to 120. I can't tell you how...I'm not sure we would have made it. They were attempting to push the police over to get to me...you've seen the pictures of what they do to you.
"If the police are not there, if you defund the police, if we become Portland, if America becomes Portland, what's going to happen is people are going to be pummeled and kicked in the head and left senseless on the curb.
"That would have happened to us I promise you, had we not had the D.C. police to support us...Thank God for the police. Had we not gotten to the police I truly believe that the police saved our lives and we would not be here today or we would be in a hospital today if the police had not been there.
"We can't walk down the street safely in D.C. now, that's how bad it is. I don't hear Joe Biden or Kamala Harris saying one thing about the violence. This mob is their voters. This is the New Democrat party."
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Comment: Raising hysteria and protest to a new level, the timbre of the protesters escalates in DC. Police form a ring around Senator Paul and his wife: Protesters were leveling accusations at Paul, when it was Paul who introduced the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act in Congress: Paul calls for FBI arrests: Fireworks were a surprise ending to the ceremony, meant as a distraction and crowds attending the event were harassed and threatened: Throughout the entire night there was an effigy of Trump in a Guillotine. Threatening violence, threatening to burn down the White House and surrounding buildings and assaulting the elderly were on the agenda: Trump gave his acceptance speech to a live audience of more than 1,000 on the final night of the RNC, a number of activists congregated around St. John's Episcopal Church less than half a mile away from the White House (the one damaged by fire during unrest that broke out in June) and others ratcheted up the noise level with chants and horns to obliterate Trump's address: