Tens of thousands of people packed the streets of the nation’s capital to protest police brutality and racial injustice over the weekend. Saturday’s demonstration was the city’s largest since the 2017 Women’s March.
Go-go band leads crowd to Black Lives Matter Plaza (that’s the White House at the end of the strip): pic.twitter.com/D2Xgtemftj
— Abdallah Fayyad (@abdallah_fayyad) June 6, 2020
And many crowded into the newly named Black Lives Matter Plaza in front of the White House. While earlier in the week, law enforcement met demonstrators with tear gas, rubber bullets and overhead buzzes from helicopters, on Saturday, the two groups “kept their distance,”
President Donald Trump also said the National Guard will begin withdrawing from the city.
How has the energy in the city changed? And what’s ahead for the movement?
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