Gun control activists were seen storming Tennessee’s State Capitol Thursday amid rising fears of a left-wing uprising at a rumored protest in Washington, DC.
Footage of the ongoing insurrection, posted to social media just before 2pm, shows progressive protesters attempting to enter the Nashville legislation building, and being batted away by several members of the city’s sheriff’s department.
Such dramatics were not exclusive to Nashville, however – as feelings of unrest continue to boil over after a recent mass shooting at a city school involving a transgender gunman who once attended the institution.
Hours earlier, outside Kentucky’s State Capitol in Frankfort, an unrelated procession featuring a clergy-clothes-clad activist in clown makeup and satanic garb assembled to protest their governor’s vetoing of a bill banning medical treatments for trans kids.
The civil disturbances as thousands of tweets promoting a ‘trans day of vengeance’ protest outside the US Supreme Court have been seen – and swiftly nixed – in the wake of the Nashville shooting, which took place on Monday.
Footage of the ongoing insurrection, posted to social media just before 2pm, shows progressive protesters attempting to enter the Nashville legislation building, and being batted away by several members of the city’s sheriff’s department
Hours earlier, outside Kentucky’s State Capitol in Frankfort, an unrelated procession featuring a clergy-clothes-clad activist in clown makeup and satanic garb assembled to protest their governor’s vetoing of a bill banning medical treatments for trans kids
While most condemned the attack – which left three nine-year-olds and as many school staffers dead – several unrelated fringe, extremist groups have surfaced claiming the shooting was a consequence of ongoing oppression of trans people in Southern, more conservative states.
One such group, the Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN), seemingly took notice of this chaos, and used the opportunity to rebrand a planned three-day procession previously called the Trans Day of Visibility as ‘a day of vengeance.’
Posters advertising the procession have been published and shared rapidly on platform such as Twitter, which confirmed Wednesday it had already removed more than 5,000 posts promoting the event.
According to several since-scrubbed advertisements, the event is still to be held in Washington, DC, as scheduled – from Friday until Sunday – though revelers wrote they would ‘march’ on the country’s most important court building at 11am Saturday.
The demonstration currently occurring in Nashville served as a preview of what could be in store for public officials Washington once the weekend rolls around – with footage taken from the scene showing hundreds descending on Tennessee’s foremost legislation building in a fight for tighter gun laws.
Prior to forcing themselves into the building, hundreds were seen gathering outside airing chants of ‘Save our children!’ – phrase that reportedly echoed noisily in the hallways between the state Senate and House chambers this afternoon.
Prior to forcing themselves into the building, hundreds were seen gathering to chants of ‘Save our children!’ – phrase that reportedly echoed thought the state Senate and House chambers days after the city was rocked by a school shooting
Some silently filled the Senate chamber – while others yelled at officials trying to make their way through the building. Children held signs referencing Monday’s attack, which was carried out by a transgender person
Two teenage protesters are seen shouting ‘do something’ at Republican House Member Jeremy Faison, pushing for congress to pass more restrictive gun laws
Protestors are seen gating outside the Tennessee State Capitol Building earlier in the day
Hundreds of school children, teens and parents gathered for the procession to protest gun laws currently in place three days after a shooter opened fire at The Covenant School
Protesters eventually made their way into the state legislature building, with some engaging in officers tasked with keeping the peace
A group of more than one hundred protesters are seen lining the hallways of the building Thursday – two days before a rumored ‘march’ on the US Supreme Court allegedly
A much larger group of more than 1,000 was and is still stationed outside, beseeching the Republican-dominated Legislature to amend current gun laws
Two young girls hold signs reverencing Monday’s shooting, which left three nine-year-old students dead, as well as three school staffers
A teenager is seen raising his sign in support of harsher gun laws during the rally, which was held with the objective of ‘ending gun violence’
The demonstration in Nashville served as a preview of what could be in store for public officials Washington once the weekend rolls around – with footage taken from the scene showing hundreds descending on Tennessee’s foremost legislation building
The procession appeared outside the Capitol Wednesday morning, as state staffers made their way to work to begin taking up bills for the first time since the shooting
Revelers were seen waiting on the steps of the Capitol Building,
A presumably teenage protester holds a sign outside the Tennessee Capitol during the demonstration, which comes amid a rash of mass shootings over the past decade
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