Tired of troops on the streets, Washington D.C. proclaims ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’ outside the White House
After another night of protests — relatively peaceful compared with those earlier in the week — in Washington, D.C., the city’s mayor has escalated her efforts to extricate the city from the presence of troops and law enforcement officers who had been ordered there by federal officials.
Washington streets are also being patrolled by uniformed, heavily armed personnel without name badges or insignia to indicate which agencies they work for. On Friday morning, Bowser ordered the space to be renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza. Muralists painted the slogan on the pavement in massive yellow letters that covered two blocks.“There was a dispute this week about whose street it is, and Mayor Bowser wanted to make it abundantly clear whose street it is and honor the peaceful demonstrators who assembled Monday night,” John Falcicchio, the mayor’s chief of staff, told the Washington Post.
“Bowser has consistently been on the wrong side of BLMDC history,” wrote the group. “This is to appease white liberals while ignoring our demands. Black Lives Matter means defund the police.” Bowser’s proposed budget calls for an increase in spending on police while cutting funding to nonviolent community-based intervention programs.Congressional Democrats have expressed alarm about the unidentified troops that have been deployed to the streets.
An internal report published by Yahoo News on Friday showed that the 1,300-strong show of force outside the White House is a task force operation that includes U.S. Secret Service, National Guard, Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Park Police. Border Patrol, ICE, TSA, National Guard, Coast Guard, Federal Protective Service, TSA and more have been called in, says an internal Department of Homeland Security report dated June 4, which details DHS component deployments to Washington, D.C.
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