WASHINGTON DC (31 MAY 2021) Read the full article A year later, DC church leader looks back on the clearing of Lafayette Square
“It still feels surreal to me,” recalled Rev. Robert Fisher, church rector at St. John’s Episcopal on H Street Northwest, where the scene played out on the evening of June 1, 2020, just days after the death of George Floyd. “I could not believe what was taking place.”
Fisher said there’s still a lot of damage left to repair to the church’s nursery room and the building on a whole, totaling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“Rather than clear people out, … listen to people and … be open to what is being expressed, what is being cried out,” Fisher said. “That would’ve been the appropriate response at a time like that.”
lawyers for the Trump administration said their clients have immunity from litigation because they were performing their duties to create a secure space for Trump.
Lawyers for the Biden administration and the former officials said in addition to the litigation now being unnecessary, their clients have immunity because they were performing necessary law enforcement functions to secure a space for the president of the United States.
“Great job done by all. Overwhelming force. Domination,” Trump wrote the day after the square was cleared. The president also shared a letter on Twitter that referred to the protesters as “terrorists.”
