Report: Park Police didn’t clear Lafayette Square protesters for Trump visit
Posted on AllSides June 9th, 2021
From The Left
When the U.S. Park Police led law enforcement officers into a crowd of mostly peaceful protesters outside Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020, including officers equipped with chemical irritants and officers on horseback, they did so as part of a plan made days earlier to build a fence around the park to protect officers, not to facilitate the visit minutes later by President Donald Trump to a nearby church, an inspector general’s report released Wednesday concluded.
The report also found that D.C. police officers fired tear gas at protesters as...
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