This is factually correct for anyone complaining. You can argue about some other places, but this was an obvious authoritarian play for a photo-op.

Military officials are condemning this - why is this up for debate? (hint, its not.)

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/national-guard-troops-deploy... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/politics/military-nati... https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-threatens-to-mobiliz...

Per your article - "Moments before, police had cleared largely peaceful demonstrators from the area".

Largely would infer there were some demonstrators using violence.

I don't disagree that it was a bad move politically.

The videos are easy to access. The people who the Trump administration attacked were peaceful. The fact that someone half a mile away might have been looting a store or a random person might have thrown a Poland Spring bottle does not justify assaulting the public so you can take a stroll for a two minute photo op.

The church clergy themselves were teargassed and pushed off the property to make way for Trump. The US Government forcibly seized a church without warning from its clergy to provide a photo op for the president.

It's not just bad politically, its bad.