Authorities expect large crowds to gather in the nation's capital Saturday, the ninth consecutive day of protests over police violence against African Americans.
"This multiplicity of forces can breed dangerous confusion," Bowser said in a letter to Trump Thursday.
Officials said several states have sent their National Guards to the nation's capital, a move that the city opposed. Protests, marred with violence, arrests and looting in the first few days, have become largely peaceful recently, and officials expect Saturday's demonstrations to remain that way. Shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday, protesters started congregating in front of the White House on a street Bowser renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza on Friday. Muralists also painted"BLACK LIVES MATTER" in large yellow block letters along the thoroughfare.Crowds gather to demand an end to police violence amid heightened Trump-DC tensions
Demonstrations erupted around the country last week following the death of George Floyd, a black man who was captured on video lying face down while a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck. The officer, Derek Chauvin, is facing a second-degree murder charge. Three other officers have been charged with aiding and abetting.
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