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June 5, 2020

Trump Builds a Wall Around the White House Amid Mass Protests
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In Washington, D.C., thousands of demonstrators held a youth-led protest
at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Thursday, kneeling on the hot
pavement for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the length of time officer
Derek Chauvin kept his knee pressed to George Floyd's neck.

Across the Mall, federal workers fortified a security perimeter around
the White House complex, erecting a tall black metal fence and adding
new concrete barriers. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Mark Esper has
ordered several hundred active-duty troops from the 82nd Airborne
Division to leave D.C. He first made the order on Wednesday but then
reversed himself, facing White House pressure. 


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