WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – President Donald Trump was taken to a secure area late on Friday (May 29) as a condition “red” was declared at the White House amid violent protests outside the building sparked by the death of Mr George Floyd, a person familiar with the matter said.
It’s not clear whether the measure was repeated in the two subsequent nights of protest around the White House, but the protesters weren’t as close to the fence on those nights as they were on Friday.
Demonstrators skirmished with the US Secret Service in Lafayette Square late on Friday alongside an outer ring of temporary fencing set up along the edge of the park, leading to six arrests and “multiple” injuries among the agency’s personnel, the Secret Service said.
