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Civil Rights leader @repjohnlewis visited 16th St NW outside of the White House - now Black Lives Matter Plaza - Sunday morning. His answer to @fox5dc on his response to Saturday’s massive BLM protests:
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- Senators @KamalaHarris @SenGillibrand and Mayor @PeteButtigieg are at the Homestead migrant child detention facility now. Buttigieg reached over to shake Harris' hand and said: Hey, how you doing? Congratulations on last night.
- #HappeningNow This is the early Saturday morning protest happening in DC’s Kalorama neighborhood. A tweet organizing the protest reads: “@ShutDown_DC will wake up Postmaster General (and Trump donor) Louis DeJoy at his Kalorama condo.” @USPS @fox5dc
00:00 - .@KamalaHarris asked her reaction to @JoeBiden recently saying he was not going to be as polite in the second debate, a comment aimed at Harris. "My mother raised me to be polite, and I intend to be polite," said Harris.
00:00 - Not done in VA, @DonaldJTrumpJr is speaking now at Heritage Baptist Church in Woodbridge. @wusa9 #Election2016
00:00 - The grandfather of Davon McNeal, the 11yo boy shot & killed in SE DC last night, cried, pleading for parents to step-up. Says his daughter, a Violence Interrupter who works with @trayonwhite held a July 4th event to watch the fireworks when MPD says a group started shooting.
00:00 - .@BetoORourke on the Midland/Odessa shooting from Fairfax Station, VA: “Not sure how many gunmen. Not sure how many people have been shot. Don’t know how many people have been killed ... but we do know this is f***** up. We do know - we do know that this has to stop.”
- Congressman John Lewis visited now Black Lives Matter Plz this AM. Told me on protests: ‘It’s very moving. Very moving. Impressive. I think the people in DC and around nation are sending a mightily powerful and strong message to the rest of the world that we will get there.’
- The invite of a lifetime, 40+ high schoolers across DC, MD & VA thought they were attending an Amazon engineering conference. Instead they were surprised with a $40k Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship & an @amazonnews paid internship. Watch @ACPSk12’s William Gomez-Palacios:
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- The Washington Monument & Jefferson in the snow this morning. @fox5dc
- .@WashingtonNFL tells @fox5dc Dwayne Haskins Jr. will be wearing a helmet with Davon McNeal’s name on it. Davon’s grandfather shared a pic of the helmet on FB. Davon, just 11yo, was shot & killed after a July 4th DC peace cookout. He dreamed of playing in the NFL.
- Replying to @RamirezReportsBelow is some of what David McKean posted of his son & wife. Maeve McKean, he wrote, was his everything. His son Gideon, David McKean also wrote, may have been 38yo. McKean says is 8yo son was deeply compassionate.
- Thousands peacefully marched in DC Saturday — the 9th straight day of #GeorgeFloydProtests in the DistrictNo arrests after massive DC protests Saturday, police say bit.ly/2AMmocp
