DC protesters target restaurant diners amid Jacob Blake demonstrations

Police said they responded to a call about a potential domestic disturbance in Kenosha. The viral video shows a black man, believed to be Blake, walking from the passenger side of a car and around the hood with officers following him with their guns drawn. The man opened the driver’s side door and began moving inside the car, after which the officers started firing. Seven shots can be heard in the video, which doesn’t show what happened before the man walked away from the officers.

On Sunday night, protests to defund the police took place in Washington the same night major unrest escalated in Kenosha, leaving businesses smashed and vehicles on fire in the Wisconsin city.

A video of protesters shows people marching and chanting “cops and Klan go hand in hand” in Georgetown.

On Monday, a video on social media showed a crowd of people confronting white diners outside of Washington restaurants, chanting “white silence is violence!” and “no justice, no peace!”

A woman can be seen in a video being confronted by a mob of protesters while dining in Columbia Heights.

By Tuesday, Columbia Heights was trending on Twitter, with users noticing that many of those protesting and confronting people were white themselves, prompting conversations of gentrification.

“Lol @ the white people who gentrified Columbia Heights yelling about social justice to other white people who also gentrified Columbia Heights,” tweeted Walter Deleon, a former district commissioner.

Vinson Cunningham, a writer for the New Yorker, also tweeted about the video, drawing on his own experiences of living in the northwest neighborhood.

“The only yelling I ever heard in Columbia Heights when I lived there happened in the aisles of the then-new Target and on the dancefloor of an objectively terrible bar called Wonderland Ballroom,” Cunningham said.

Other users mocked the video and decried hypocrisy in the protesters.

Fredrick Kunkle of the Washington Post, who was on the ground on Monday, said in Adams Morgan, protesters screamed at a woman identified as Lauren Victor for several minutes after she refused to raise her fist in solidarity with them.

“I felt I was under attack,” Victor, an urban planner, said.

Victor said she didn’t feel right being forced to show support, but she understood their anger.

“In the moment, it didn’t feel right,” Victor said. “I wasn’t actually frightened. I didn’t think they’d do anything to me. I’m very much with them. I’ve been marching with them for weeks and weeks and weeks.”

MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough responded to the thread, saying, “What horrible people.”

Sen. Tom Cotton also retweeted the video, saying the “appalling mob behavior is unacceptable in a free society.”