The White House was temporarily locked down as hundreds of people gathered on Friday afternoon across the street in Lafayette Square Park. In tweets hours later, Trump praised the Secret Service officers who guard the White House as "very cool. Secret Service officers made six arrests, the statement said. "Some of the demonstrators were violent" and assaulted Secret Service personnel with bricks, bottles, fireworks and other objects, and an undisclosed number of Secret Service officers were injured, the statement said. Trump appeared to call his supporters to rally outside the executive mansion on Saturday evening, saying, "TONIGHT, I UNDERSTAND IS MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE???"

Source: bd News24 May 30, 2020 17:37 UTC