Clashes turn violent between Trump supporters and counter-demonstrators

An anti-Trump demonstrator is arrested during clashes with Trump supporters

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Activists re-paint a portion of Black Lives Matter Plaza to read 'Defund the Police & Abolish'

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A scuffle breaks out between demonstrators as a man accused of being disrespectful enters the protest grounds

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Demonstrators face the White House with their hands in the air during a protest in the pouring rain

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After a confrontation with a National Park Service police vehicle on Interstate 395, demonstrators flee back towards an exit ramp

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A demonstrator pours water onto a fire set by other protestors on H Street, in front of the White House

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Smoke munitions are deployed by police as violence escalates in front of the White House

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A demonstrator is led away from the scene as they reel from the effects of pepper spray and tear gas

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Metropolitan Police Department officers attempt to hold back protestors while tension grows between an officer and protestor

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A protestor rallys others as FIrst Amendment activities gear up on the final night of the Republican Convention

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An ice cream man gives the thumbs up to demonstrators passing through downtown streets

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Days after the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a demonstrator in Washington, D.C. looks towards a line of federal police through a newly-erected fence around the White House

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A demonstrator on a bicycle swings a shirt over his head at the front of a march

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A Washington, D.C. Metropolitan police Officer exchanges a hand greeting with a demonstrator just outside of Black LIves Matter Plaza

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Demonstrators attempt to stop an FBI Police vehicle that approached and moved through the intersection that they were sitting in and blocking

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Members of The National Guard watch as demonstrators pass through Chinatown with their hands in the air

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A demonstrator jumps as he passes police officers during a protest in Washington, D.C.

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Demonstrators fight amongst themselves as someone tosses a can of spraypaint

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Medics care to a demonstrator on the curb after several fights broke out in front of the White House

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A demonstrator poses while a newspaper box burns

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In front of the White House, a woman wears a hat resembling the popular 'Make America Great Again' hats worn by Trump supporters

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Demonstrators brave the rain during a protest in the aftermath of George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police

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A woman raises her fist as she stands next to a new street sign designating the area of 16th Street, NW, in front of the White House as Black Lives Matter Plaza. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered the name change, in addition to having 'Black Lives Matter' painted by the city on the street

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A protestor exhales smoke as he leans against the fence around the White House on a hot June day