Esper says he disagrees with Trump’s wish to use troops as crowd gathers calmly to protest George Floyd’s killing on Capitol Hill
continued across the US on Wednesday, after a largely peaceful night. As demonstrators returned to the streets, police chiefs called for reform – and the US secretary of defense publicly rejected Donald Trump’s threat to deploy combat troops.
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