demonstrators in Washington have attempted on Monday to bring down a statue, located in front of the White House, former president Andrew Jackson, who supported slavery, before being pushed back by the forces of law and order.
By the end of the day, the protesters crossed the security perimeter reinforced around the White House since the beginning of the wave of protests against the racism that has engulfed the country, and hung in long ropes to the statue of the seventh and controversial american president to try to drop it, without succeeding, according to images circulating on social networks. On one side of the statue, located on Lafayette Square, the word “killer” (” killer “) was written in black letters, has found an AFP journalist.
