Washington (GNB)- Pro-Trump demonstrators, counter-protesters and police clashed in Washington, D.C., on Saturday evening after groups of the president’s supporters marched to protest the result of the 2020 election.
Large groups of “Stop the Steal” protesters and counter-protesters have gathered outside the Supreme Court and at Freedom Plaza to protest the presidential election results.
The president, his allies and his supporters have claimed that the 2020 election was tainted by widespread election fraud. However, there is no substantial evidence that voter fraud on this level occurred.
Videos and pictures posted to social media depicted what appeared to be groups of Proud Boys, a self-described “Western chauvinist” group, facing off against counter-protesters in Black Lives Matter Plaza. Members of the Proud Boys were dressed in bullet proof vests, according to The Washington Post.
The newspaper reported that people were throwing fire works, causing loud explosions while police i
At least six people were arrested Saturday, but none of those stemmed from COVID-19 regulations. D.C. police have not been enforcing mask rules or issuing fines to social distancing violators, according to the Post.
The escalation between groups in Washington comes one day after the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas seeking to overturn the results of the presidential election in the battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The justices ruled that the state did not have the legal right to litigate over how other states conduct their elections.
Trump expressed his discontent with the decision earlier Saturday morning say that the high court “let us down.”
Still, Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has indicated that the campaign will press on with additional legal battles to contest election results.
The Electoral College will vote on Monday to make Biden’s 2020 win official.
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