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Report: Park Police didn’t clear Lafayette Park for a Trump photo op

11 June 2021

4:44 AM

11 June 2021

4:44 AM

A government watchdog confirmed US Park Police did not disperse Black Lives Matter protesters from a park outside the White House in order to let then-president Donald Trump pose for a photo op during last summer’s racial unrest.

In a report released Wednesday, the Interior Department’s inspector general concluded that park police removed protesters at Lafayette Park so contractors could build anti-scale fencing.

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