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A large crowd of protesters ignored the Washington curfew and gathered outside the White House on Tuesday, a day after U.S. Park Police, the Secret Service, the National Guard and other federal law enforcement agencies forcefully cleared the area of demonstrators to allow President Donald Trump to visit a riot-damaged church across the street.
Some protesters told NBC News that they were motivated to join the marches over the death of George Floyd because of the government’s response.
“It ignited a fire in us,” Alondra Pacheco, 20, said of the spectacle Monday, when law enforcement came “at peaceful people just so he could walk across the street.”
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