Washington is bracing for a large protest Saturday, a continuation of days of demonstrations in the city and across the U.S. over the death of an African American man while in police custody.
The chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, Peter Newsham, told reporters Thursday that authorities expected thousands of protesters to descend on Washington for what “may be one of the largest that we’ve had in the city.”
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser sent a letter Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump asking him to “withdraw all extraordinary federal law…