Lafayette Park near White House: A soapbox for social unrest

The Trump administration's use of smoke bombs and pepper balls to rout civil rights demonstrators from Lafayette Park near the White House has emboldened protesters and added a new chapter to the site's storied history as soapbox for social and political unrest. “I’m still going back to Lafayette Square because it is the epicenter of our democracy,” Poteet said.

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