According to lawyers, Trump cannot be blamed for the police actions taken to secure the president and his movement.
Stateside lawyers at the Department of Justice have asked a federal judge to dismiss the country’s former president To Donald Trump civil lawsuits related to last summer’s crackdown on a demonstration in the country’s capital, Washington.
They tell about it, among other things Washington Post magazine and news agency AP.
Police largely disbanded the peaceful demonstration, apparently to allow Trump to walk to the church near the White House after his speech. In front of the church, pictures were taken of him showing the Bible in his hand.
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Civil society organizations as well as individual protesters have accused Trump and senior officials of being behind the harsh disintegration of the protest.
Washington Post more than a thousand protesters had gathered in Lafayette Square at the beginning of last June.
The reason for the protest was the fight against racism and police violence. Black George Floyd was dead in late May in custody when police pressed him to his knees from the neck for about nine minutes.
Attorneys at the Department of Justice also appealed the dismissal of the lawsuits to the Justice Minister during the Trump administration William Barrin as well as for other officials.
Trump and officials, according to ministry lawyers, cannot be prosecuted for police actions taken to secure the president and his movement.
According to lawyers, lawsuits should be dismissed also because similar new violations are unlikely due to the change of president. According to the administration, the square has reopened, and Trump’s successor as president Joe Biden the administration does not share Trump’s alleged hostility to the anti-racism movement.
If with the same rhetoric, the NGO American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) could have justified even tougher extracts.
“Authorities could have used hard ammunition to clear the park, and no one could claim that constitutional rights had been violated,” a spokesman for the ACLU’s Washington branch Scott Michelman said according to the Washington Post.
Attorney at the Ministry of Justice David Cutlerin according to the police acted legally in protecting the president as he moved outside the White House and through an unchecked crowd at a time of social unrest in the country.
According to another attorney at the Department of Justice, the lawsuits do not clearly state what the federal authorities did to harm those concerned.
Federal Judge hearing the case Dabney Friedrich in turn, referred to concerns about the president’s security.
“It seems to me that the square had to be emptied before he (Trump) walked to church. Why wouldn’t it be reasonable, ”Friedrich inquired.
The judge is to decide at a later stage whether to dismiss the actions.
Lawyer representing the plaintiffs Randy Mastro for his part, he described the president’s security as the latest in a series of “changing explanations” with which the administration seeks to explain the actions in the square that has been used to hold demonstrations for decades.
“The action was so blatantly illegal and so blatantly unconstitutional that it needs to be corrected. We are here today to make sure nothing like this ever happens again in our country, ”said Mastro.
Trump emphasized in his speech in the White House garden a year ago in June that he was president of law and order and threatened to end protests against racism and police violence by bringing armed forces to the streets.
As the president spoke, the shouts of protesters and the sounds of tear gas firing echoed in the background as police dispersed a demonstration in front of the White House.
After the demonstration disbanded, Trump stepped into the church, stood in front of the building with the Bible in his hand, and said the United States is the finest country in the world.
According to the Washington Post, police used pamphlets, tear gas and horses against protesters in Lafayette Square.
Floydin death became a year this week. His death set off a wave of anti-racist Black Lives Matter protests that have spread from the United States to the rest of the world.
An ex-cop who pressed Floyd’s neck on his knee for more than nine minutes Derek Chauvin was found guilty in April of, among other things, second-degree murder. His sentence is due to be announced at the end of June. He can get up to 40 years in prison.
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