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Monday 16 noveMber 2020

Violent clashes in D.C. after Trump backers' election protest

Continued from Front than the usual minor hic- Republican newly elected proached the area were it could spark conflict with
cups — "the most secure to the U.S. House. Marjo- harassed, doused with wa- anti-Trump demonstra-
People chanted "USA, USA" in American history," they rie Taylor Greene, who has ter and saw their MAGA tors, who have gathered
and "four more years," and said, repudiating Trump's expressed racist views and hats and pro-Trump flags near the White House in
many carried American efforts to undermine the in- support for QAnon conspir- snatched and burned, Black Lives Matter Plaza for
flags and signs to show their tegrity of the contest. acy theories, urged people amid cheers. As night fell, weeks. In preparation, po-
displeasure with the vote In Delray Beach, Florida, to march peacefully to- multiple police lines kept lice closed off wide swaths
tally and insistence that, as several hundred people ward the Supreme Court. the two sides apart. of downtown, where many
Trump has baselessly assert- marched, some carrying The marchers included Videos posted on so- stores and offices have
ed, fraud was the reason. signs reading "Count every members of the Proud cial media showed some been boarded up since
"I just want to keep up his vote" and "We cannot live Boys, a neo-fascist group demonstrators and coun- Election Day. Chris Rod-
spirits and let him know under a Marxist govern- known for street brawling terdemonstrators trading riguez, director of the city's
we support him," said one ment." In Lansing, Michigan, with ideological opponents shoves, punches and slaps. Homeland Security and
loyalist, Anthony Whittaker protesters gathered at the at political rallies. A man with a bullhorn yell- Emergency Management
of Winchester, Virginia. He Capitol to hear speakers Multiple confrontations ap- ing "Get out of here!" was Agency, said the police
was outside the Supreme cast doubt on results that peared later in the day as shoved and pushed to the were experienced at keep-
Court, where a few thou- showed Biden winning the small groups of Trump sup- street by a man who was ing the peace.
sand assembled after a state by more than 140,000 porters attempted to en- then surrounded by sev- The issues that Trump's
march along Pennsylvania votes. Phoenix police esti- ter the area around Black eral people and shoved campaign and its allies
Avenue from Freedom Pla- mated 1,500 people gath- Lives Matter Plaza, about and punched until he fell have pointed to are typical
za, near the White House. ered outside the Arizona a block from the White face first into the street. in every election: problems
A broad coalition of top Capitol to protest Biden's House, where several hun- Bloody and dazed, he was with signatures, secrecy en-
government and industry narrow victory in the state. dred anti-Trump demon- picked up and walked to a velopes and postal marks
officials has declared that Protesters in Salem, Ore- strators had gathered. police officer. The "Million on mail-in ballots, as well
the Nov. 3 voting and the gon, gathered at the Capi- In a pattern that kept MAGA March" was heav- as the potential for a small
following count unfolded tol. Among the speakers in repeating itself, those ily promoted on social me- number of ballots miscast
smoothly with no more Washington was a Georgia Trump supporters who ap- dia, raising concerns that or lost. q

Judge: DHS head didn’t have
authority to suspend DACA

Action for Childhood Ar-
rivals program, which
shields young people from
deportation. "Therefore,
the actions taken by pur-
ported Acting Secretar-
ies, who were not properly
in their roles according to
In this Sept. 23, 2020, file
photo, Department of the lawful order of succes-
Homeland Security acting sion, were taken without
Secretary Chad Wolf makes legal authority." Wolf is-
an opening statement at his sued a memorandum in
confirmation hearing before July effectively suspending
the Senate Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs DACA, pending review by
Committee on Capitol Hill in DHS. A month earlier, the
Washington. U.S. Supreme Court had
Associated Press ruled that President Donald
Trump failed to follow rule-
By DAVID PORTER making procedures when
Associated Press he tried to end the pro-
NEW YORK (AP) — A fed- gram, but the justices kept
eral judge in New York a window open for him to
ruled Saturday that Acting try again. About 650,000
Department of Homeland people are part of DACA,
Security Secretary Chad which allows young immi-
Wolf assumed his position grants who were brought
unlawfully, a determina- to the country as children
tion that invalidated Wolf's to legally work and shields
suspension of the Deferred them from deportation.q