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   From: lwm@cnn.com   
      
   Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday had “Black Lives   
   Matter” painted in large yellow letters on the street that leads   
   to the White House, and also designated the square in front of   
   Lafayette Park as Black Lives Matter Plaza.   
      
   “There was a dispute this week about whose street this is,” John   
   Falcicchio, Bowser’s chief of staff, wrote in a tweet.   
      
   “Mayor Bowser wanted to make it abundantly clear that this is   
   DC’s street and to honor demonstrators who [were] peacefully   
   protesting on Monday evening,” he added, referring to protesters   
   demonstrating over the May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands   
   of Minnesota cops.   
      
   Bowser, a Democrat who assumed office in January 2015 and has   
   clashed with President Trump over the feds’ aggressive response   
   to the protests, also tweeted out a video of the street shot   
   from above.   
      
   City staffers and local artists painted the large block letters   
   on 16th Street NW, and the work takes up two blocks on 16th —   
   which leads to both Lafayette Square and the White House —   
   between K and H streets.   
      
   Local artist Rose Jaffe said she and others joined city work   
   crews about 4 a.m., the Washington Post reported.   
      
   Later, a city worker hung a “Black Lives Matter Plz NW” sign at   
   the corner of 16th and H streets NW.   
      
   Bowser, who is African American, watched silently as onlookers   
   cheered and the song “Rise Up” by Audra Day played.   
      
   “In America, you can peacefully assemble,” she told the crowd,   
   the paper reported.   
      
   Bowser later tweeted: “The section of 16th street in front of   
   the White House is now officially ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza.’”   
      
   But the move did not impress DC’s Black Lives Matter chapter.   
      
   “This is a performative distraction from real policy changes.   
   Bowser has consistently been on the wrong side of BLMDC history.   
   This is to appease white liberals while ignoring our demands.   
   Black Lives Matter means defund the police,” the group tweeted.   
      
   DC’s shadow Sen. Paul Strauss said Bowser had the authority to   
   unilaterally order the moves, referring to Monday’s crackdown as   
   the capital’s “Tiananmen Square.”   
      
   “Thirty-one years ago troops in Beijing went into Tiananmen   
   Square and squashed a peaceful protest. And here in 2020 troops   
   came and quashed a peaceful protest right here and Black Lives   
   Matter Plaza will go down in our history as our Tiananmen   
   Square,” said Strauss, a Democrat.   
      
   “There’s more authority for a mayor elected by our people to   
   rename a Washington, DC, street than there is to force us to   
   quarter soldiers in violation of the 3rd Amendment to the   
   Constitution,” he continued.   
      
   The amendment reads: “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be   
   quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in   
   time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”   
      
   “So, anybody can say whatever they want about due process, a   
   democratically elected mayor, exercising the people’s First   
   Amendment rights to rename their own street is far more   
   legitimate than anonymous troops coming in from out of town to   
   dominate their fellow Americans,” Strauss said.   
      
   The moves came days after the Park Police and National Guard   
   troops removed demonstrators who were protesting outside the   
   White House.   
      
   The crowd was dispersed so Trump could walk from the White House   
   to St. John’s Episcopal Church, which had been damaged by a fire   
   the night before.   
      
   While Bowser and Trump clashed over the use of force, the   
   president renewed his call for more forceful action against   
   protesters Friday, citing the crackdown in Minnesota as an   
   example.   
      
   “I hope that you also use our National Guard. Call me, we will   
   be ready with them so fast their heads will spin. We did it in   
   Minneapolis, in Minnesota, they were ripping that place apart,”   
   he said while delivering remarks on the positive May jobs report.   
      
   “I love it, we had such success there, and they were ripping it   
   apart. I called the governor and the National Guard went in and   
   in one night it was over. You do not see the problem in   
   Minnesota at all now, not even a little bit,” he said.   
      
   Bowser earlier Friday had demanded on Twitter that Trump   
   “withdraw all extraordinary federal law enforcement and military   
   presence from our city.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/06/05/dc-mayor-has-black-lives-matter-   
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