WASHINGTON—As Washington’s authorities brace for violence over Supreme Court verdicts, activist planners told followers not to oppose violence.
At a Sunday meeting hosted in Petworth United Methodist Church and run by the organizing group, Shut Down DC, several activist leaders announced that violence was counterproductive to their group’s own strategy, but not necessarily bad.
Shut Down DC plans to blockade the U.S. Supreme Court so that justices cannot enter on Monday.
The activist group is protesting in response to a leaked Supreme Court draft that suggests the court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“We’re not in the business of telling people what to do,” said longtime activist Nadine Bloch. “We are in the business of pointing out the structural violence of the system. If people don’t like other people’s tactics, fix the system. We’re not going to condemn those other tactics.”…