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DC Mayor Bowser Pushes Back on Trump to Control DC Streets

April Ryan
June 5, 2020

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And the battle is on! In in this corner…Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. In the opposing corner, President Donald Trump.

Mayor Bowser has requested that President Trump withdraw federal troops from the city and has renamed a block Black Lives Matter.

Click ▶️ to listen to AURN Washington Bureau Chief April Ryan’s White House Report:

I request that @realDonaldTrump withdraw all extraordinary federal law enforcement and military presence from our city. pic.twitter.com/AvaJfQ0mxP
— Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) June 5, 2020

“…I’m happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we’re going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demand didn’t force them to do it.” Dr Martin Luther King Jr #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/SNccbPXonQ
— Muriel Bowser #StayHomeDC (@MurielBowser) June 5, 2020

April Ryan has a unique vantage point as the only Black female reporter covering urban issues from the White House, a position she has held with AURN since the Clinton era. Her position as a White House Correspondent has afforded her heightened insight into the racial sensitivities, issues, and attendant political struggles of our nation. April has written three books; The Presidency in Black & White: My Close-Up View of Three Presidents and Race in America, At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White, and Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House. Twitter: @aprildryan

DC Mayor Bowser Pushes Back on Trump to Control DC Streets

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