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Tall black fences go up around 1600 Pennsylvania Ave ahead of huge Saturday protest as the DC Mayor renames street outside as 'Black Lives Matter Plaza' and lets protesters paint a huge message after Trump called in the military
[Daily Mail]
  • DC Mayor Muriel Bowser commissioned a 'Black Lives Matter' mural down 16th Street, which leads to the White House, ahead of a planned weekend protest

  • A portion of the street, where President Donald Trump had his photo-op outside St John's Church at Lafayette Square, has also been renamed 'Black Lives Matter Plaza'

  • After the announcement that she would be evicting more than 1,200 National Guard troops on Saturday, from DC hotels, Trump blasted her as 'incompetent' on Twitter

  • A protest on Saturday in the nation's capital over the death of George Floyd and police brutality against African Americans could draw more than one million people

  • In preparation, tall black fences, between seven and nine feet, have sprung up around the perimeter of the White House as well as public Lafayette Square and 50-acre park, the Ellipse

  • Many compared the new fencing to the wall Trump pledged to build on the US-Mexico land border

  • Trump has referred to himself as a 'law-and-order' president and face criticism for calling on the military to defend DC against so-called rioters

Posted by: Skidmark 2020-06-05
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