Mr. President, tear down this wall – around Lafayette Square. That’s the message from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to President Trump regarding the extra fencing erected in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square following last week’s protests and riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody. Several thousand protesters had gathered in the area for demonstrations, and a curfew was taking effect. Just as the president was about to address the media in the Rose Garden, law-enforcement officers were seen aggressively forcing the protesters out of the park. “You were responsible for ordering federal officers to force peaceful protestors from the Square using tear gas and other violent means, in clear violation of the protestors’ First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and assembly,” Pelosi and Schumer wrote in their letter.

Source: Fox News June 08, 2020 21:00 UTC