Aftershocks of 2020: Trump DOJ Ramps up Prosecutions in Protest Crackdown

Aftershocks of 2020: Trump DOJ ramps up prosecutions in protest crackdown

Five years after the national protests following the death of George Floyd, the Trump administration is wielding the lessons of that summer of unrest to justify a sweeping crackdown on anti-immigration raids and protests now roiling major cities. While Democratic…

Trump DOJ ramps up prosecutions of protesters after summer of 2020

Five years after the national protests following the death of George Floyd, the Trump administration is wielding the lessons of that summer of unrest to justify a sweeping crackdown on anti-immigration raids and protests now roiling major cities. While Democratic city officials in Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco push back against federal intervention, the Justice Department is rapidly filing federal charges and escalating prosecutions wi…

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Trump wanted to unleash the troops on George Floyd protests. Now the gloves are off

After his advisers steered him away from bloodshed in 2020, the president promises troops ‘everywhere’, Alex Woodward reports