State supreme courts up the stakes for Democrats in 2024Ĭonservatives criticize liberal Supreme Court justices for ethics issues Why Trump’s strategy of skipping a GOP debate is so risky Ĭlarence Thomas’s problems multiply at Supreme Court ĭemocratic senators urge Biden to allow states to sponsor noncitizens to expand. McConnell warns he won’t back debt-ceiling increase without ‘substantive’. More than 50 House Republicans tear into VA secretary over debt bill claimsįox sends cease-and-desist letter to Media Matters over leaked Tucker Carlson. Ukraine uses US-made air-defense system to intercept Russian ballistic missileġ killed, 6 injured in shooting at Mississippi restaurant Tucker Carlson in texts to Bret Baier: ‘When Trump loses, he’s going to. Kellyanne Conway defends reported concealed Ginni Thomas payments Kemp signs bill allowing removal of local prosecutors in Georgiaīarr: Trump will deliver ‘chaos’ and ‘horror show’ Prom crowning sparks divide at Ohio high school This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Metro Police had in fact been present at the protest to assist the Secret Service.Ĭopyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. police officers to get involved in the confrontation outside the building. He also asserted that Bowser did not allow D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), claiming that she is “always looking for money & help,” according to a post on Twitter. On the same day, Trump lobbed criticism at D.C. Saturday morning, President Trump praised the Secret Service for its efforts to secure the White House. The Friday protests prompted the White House to go on lockdown for a brief period. The protest in Washington, D.C., comes as demonstrations, many of which have turned violent, raged on this week to speak out against the killing of Floyd.
He was pronounced dead 90 minutes after his arrest. In the moments following, Floyd’s body goes limp. Floyd can be heard in the video pleading for air and telling the officer that he could not breathe. Outrage reverberated through the country after bystander video captured former officer Derek Chauvin pinning Floyd down behind a police car with his knee on Floyd’s neck. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) shared video of the protest earlier Saturday in which protesters can be heard chanting, “Hands up, don’t shoot!” The Secret Service said in a statement on Twitter that it made six arrests during the protests that began on Friday. In all the chaos, at least one person was tossed to the ground and presumably arrested. Three warnings of an unlawful assembly from the Secret Service before storming into the crowd.Ī lot of people have been hit with paper spray. WTOP reporter Alejandro Alvarez shared video from the scene Saturday, showing protesters pushing against a crowd of police officers.īarricades have fallen to the west of the White House and the crowd is surging forward, once again coming face-to-face with Secret Service who’ve moved into formation and raised their riot shields-a few stained yellow from eggs just thrown. Protests broke out near the White House on Saturday, with demonstrators pushing down multiple security barricades and some clashing with police, according to multiple reports.ĭemonstrators protested over police brutality and the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man who died in police custody on Monday.
0 kommentar(er)
