Black Lives Matter and the ACLU sued Trump and Barr for forcibly clearing a White House protest Monday, saying the president's photo op was a “wholly illegal reason” to use tear gas and other measures against protesters
could hold a photo op, has become a flash point in the ongoing unrest and widespread protests over George Floyd’s killing and systemic racial injustice. Federal police and law enforcement officials used tear gas, rubber bullets, flash bangs, and other forcible measures against a crowd of peaceful protesters gathered outside the White House in Lafayette Square, apparently at the direction of U.S.
“Defendants’ actions to shut down the Lafayette Square demonstration is the manifestation of the very despotism against which the First Amendment was intended to protect.”, which was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on behalf of Black Lives Matter D.C.
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