The actions are meant to honor demonstrators who are urging changes in police practices after the killing in police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis, city officials said.

mayor clash over control of city streets.

John’s Church, close to where federal law enforcement forcefully cleared the street of largely peaceful protesters on Monday night just before Trump walked over and posed for news cameras, a Bible in his hand.

“There was a dispute this week about whose street it is, and Mayor Bowser wanted to make it abundantly clear whose street it is and honor the peaceful demonstrators who assembled Monday night,” said John Falcicchio, the mayor’s chief of staff.

The group Black Lives Matter DC reacted to the street painting with criticism of the mayor, saying she should decrease the budget for the D.C.

She said she also would like to see officers express more support for protests, which began a week ago in the District.

officials push back on federal presence.

In a letter Thursday, Bowser formally asked Trump to “withdraw all extraordinary federal law enforcement and military presence from Washington, D.C.”?

The federal and military presence on the streets had shrunk to almost nothing.

The mayor criticized unidentified federal law enforcement officials for patrolling the streets of her city and operating outside “established chains of commands.”.

mayor clash over control of city streets

officials push back on federal presence

mayor clash over control of streets