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FTP March ends in Defund MPD home demo against Councilmember Allen The scene outside Councilmember Allen's house as the FTP march culminated there The "Defund MPD" murel on 5th st NE in front of Councilmember Allen's home was painted the previous night , The march set out from Dupont Circle shortly after 7PM. Another will be on Saturday, June 27 agan from Dupont at 7PM , First target was the upscale Pisco Y Nazco restaurant, where protesters entered the establishment and read off a list of Black and Brown people murdered by police , Second major target was a Whole Foods on H st NE, called out for gentrifying neighborhoods and routinely calling the cops on Black youth and black homeless people	Police attempt to retake H st fails, protesters barricade and fortify It all began with a violent police assault to retake H st. Police were driven from this position when protesters marched around the block and came in behind them	Patriot Front (Nazis) shows up at Lafayette, flees in cars with covered license plates Patriot Front flees Colonial Parking at 20th and Penn with license plates covered on the first of three vehicles. All had covered plates Patriot Front had 8 people roaming near Black Lives Matter plaza. The racist stickers they put up were immediately destroyed , , , Here they look almost like the Proud Boys at NYC's Republican Club just before than infamous violent assault
Protesters again recover Black House Autonomous Zone from police Trump's wall, second version again being decorated in one section Cops wall off St John's church, site of Trump's infamous gas attack on peaceful protesters so he could cross H st to speak there , Bike cops ride into the St John's area , Bike cops walling off the Vermont and H area after a police-initiated incident there for the second night in a row	Duke Ellington Bridge blocked in protest for murdered Black women	Freedom Plaza occupied for defunding MPD
Black House Autonomous Zone changes hands 3 times: flashbangs, pepper spray and arrests late-night Front line at 16th and I in the evening Crane installing Jersey wall base for fence, may have been purpose of entire Tuesday police operation , The bike cops who made so much trouble later in the night , H street retaken , Fencing the pigs installed to protect the racist Andrew Jackson statue	Protesters cap Juneteenth by pulling down Confederate statue next to MPD HQ Statue of Confederate general (and possible KKK founding member) Albert Pike coming down right next to MPD (DC Police) headquarters Making ready to pull it down , Fireworks blaze on General Pike's neck and chest	Black Lives Matter repeatedly blocks I-395
Police beat and pepper spray after attempt to pull down Andrew Jackson statue, protesters deploy own shield wall Park cops used force and violence to keep protesters from pulling down that Andrew Jackson(author of Indian Removal Act) statue in Lafayette Sq Another view of Andrew Jackson in ropes , On the front line, just behind the shield wall that blocked further police advances and prevented incidents from escalating into stampedes , Shields at low ready after things stabilized a bit

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