General Mark Milley says being there, in his uniform, 'created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics'.
Reverend Mariann Budde, whose diocese St. John's belongs to, said afterwards:"He was using our church as the backdrop and the Bible as a prop in ways that I found to be deeply offensive".Known as The Church of the Presidents, St John's had suffered fire damage in a protest.
It also comes as Pentagon leaders' relations with the White House remain tense after a disagreement last week over President Trump's threat to use federal troops to quell civil unrest triggered byProtests have spread nationwide in response to the killing of Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes in Minneapolis on 25 May.
Mr Esper and Gen Milley also let it be known through their spokesmen this week that they were open to a"bipartisan discussion" of whether the 10 Army bases named after Confederate Army officers should be renamed, as a gesture aiming to disassociate the military from the racist legacy of the Civil War.
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