Adam DeMarco is scheduled to testify Tuesday before a House committee investigating the government’s actions in clearing protesters away from Lafayette Square with projectiles, gas, smoke and mounted police.
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House votes to remove Confederate statues from Capitol
The Pentagon, states, cities and NASCAR also have taken steps to ban, remove or replace symbols of the Confederacy.
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Liberal, progressive – and racist? The Sierra Club faces its white-supremacist history.
John Muir, who fought to preserve Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Forest, used racist pejoratives to refer to Black Americans.
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Calls grow for federal officers to shed military-style uniforms
The public has at turns mistaken police for soldiers since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May triggered demonstrations and civil unrest.
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‘Very frightening’: Opposition grows against federal agents deployed to cities
The use of federal agents against the will of local officials also has set up the potential for a constitutional crisis.
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Trump’s heavy-handed show of federal force sparking alarm in cities
The president is continuing to assert federal power and use the Department of Homeland Security in unprecedented ways.
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St. Louis couple charged for pulling guns at protest
However, the governor says he’ll likely pardon Mark and Patricia McCloskey if they’re convicted.
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State moves swiftly to remove illegal, racist names from 5 Maine islands
The islands bore slurs against Black people and Native American women even though both terms were banned as place names decades ago.
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Trader Joe’s removing ‘racist packaging’ after online petition
Trader Joe’s said those names were intended to be playful, but acknowledged they may have had the ‘opposite effect.’
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Marco Rubio tweets tribute to John Lewis – using photo of different Black lawmaker
The Florida Republican senator makes the image of Elijah Cummings his Twitter profile picture – then deletes it 20 minutes later.