FBI agents who were assigned to protect national monuments from vandalism by protesters during the BLM riots instead chose to “take a knee” in a sign of solidarity (or submission) when confronted by the mob in Washington DC on June 4th, 2020. The establishment media widely circulated a photo of the incident, creating a national controversy.
The event followed a series of prostrations by Democrat officials and leftists designed to appease rioters while also giving credence to the false claims of “systemic racism” in America.
Times have changed drastically in five years and in 2025 this brand of woke worship is highly frowned upon by the majority of the public. Donald Trump’s return to the White House has driven home the clear message that social justice ideology is dead. This is why it is unlikely that there will be much uproar over the recent demotion of several of the FBI agents involved in the famous “bend the knee” photo, though the media is unsurprisingly outraged.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling with demonstrators. The reassignments, viewed as demotions by many inside the FBI, come nearly five years after the episode that ignited