Just outside the White House Sunday night, fires burned and plumes of tear gas filled the air. Olivianuzzi reports
Anyone home? Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock As Washington’s 11 p.m. curfew neared, the crowd of protestors in front of the White House was reaching a breaking point. The barricade sliced Lafayette Square in two: a line of police officers, dressed in riot gear, on the side closest to the White House, and the demonstrators, dressed in face masks, spilling out onto H St., stationing themselves in the grass or in trees, or on the steps of St. John’s church.
Just outside the White House, fires burned and plumes of tear gas filled the air. The president gave his final statement of the day at 8 p.m. on Twitter: “FAKE NEWS!” For a while, at least, she seemed to be in the majority. The agitators — whom the president has claimed are led by “left-wing extremists” and “Antifa” — were outnumbered by people with signs that read “AM I NEXT?” and “WHO DO YOU SEE? I AM NOT YOUR ENEMY.”
Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock/JIM LO SCALZO/EPA-EFE/Shuttersto A fire broke out in the basement of St. John’s, a historic 19th-century episcopal church that’s welcomed to worship every president since James Madison. The D.C. fire department eventually put it out, reportedly before there was significant damage.
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