Black Lives Matter D.C. filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr, and the U.S. Park Police for violating their civil rights.
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The plaintiffs of the suit include the Black Lives Matter D.C. organization and a number of local D.C. residents including a nine-year-old.
Lafayette Square was cleared so that President Trump could walk to nearby St. John’s Church where he posed with a Bible.
President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John’s Church across Lafayette Park from the White House Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington.
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The suit says that the incident kept Black Lives Matter D.C. from “exercising their rights to demonstrate” by “creating fear.”
