The suits were sparked by the June 2020 forcible and unprovoked clearing of demonstrators gathered in Lafayette Square during protests over the police killing of George Floyd, according to court filings.
Law enforcement authorities fired flash-bang shells, gas and rubber bullets into the crowd of hundreds of peaceful racial justice demonstrators on June 1, 2020, at Lafayette Square across from the White House. Soon after, President Donald Trump walked through the cleared park to visit the historic St. John’s Church, where he posed for a photo op holding a Bible.
In a statement, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said: “These changes to agency policies for protest responses will strengthen our commitment to protecting and respecting constitutionally protected rights.”in a 2015 settlement Park Police leaders have said the policy on how often and in what manner officers must warn protesters applied to mass arrest situations, not crowd dispersal like in Lafayette Square, according to a
In cases stemming from the Lafayette Square clearing, U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich — a 2017 Trump appointee who previously served as a federal prosecutor, Senate Judiciary Committee aide and associate counsel in the George W. Bush White House — hadin overlapping suits brought by the ACLU of D.C., the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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