[Daily Mail] - DC Mayor Muriel Bowser commissioned a 'Black Lives Matter' mural down 16th Street, which leads to the White House, ahead of a planned weekend protest
- A portion of the street, where President Donald Trump had his photo-op outside St John's Church at Lafayette Square, has also been renamed 'Black Lives Matter Plaza'
- After the announcement that she would be evicting more than 1,200 National Guard troops on Saturday, from DC hotels, Trump blasted her as 'incompetent' on Twitter
- A protest on Saturday in the nation's capital over the death of George Floyd and police brutality against African Americans could draw more than one million people
- In preparation, tall black fences, between seven and nine feet, have sprung up around the perimeter of the White House as well as public Lafayette Square and 50-acre park, the Ellipse
- Many compared the new fencing to the wall Trump pledged to build on the US-Mexico land border
- Trump has referred to himself as a 'law-and-order' president and face criticism for calling on the military to defend DC against so-called rioters
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