America’s protests turn jubilant
Democrats are not organising them, but they do stand to gain
A WEEK AFTER the Trump administration ordered riot police to charge a peaceful crowd in Lafayette Square, it was transformed. The leafy park in front of the White House was enclosed by a steel fence, through which police could be seen loitering. The streets alongside it—including newly named “Black Lives Matter Plaza”, at the bottom of 16th Street, in direct view of the White House—had been colonised by protesters and were far more fun.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “No justice, no peace”
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