{"id":47165,"date":"2022-04-13T14:40:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47165"},"modified":"2022-04-13T14:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:40:29","slug":"justice-civil-rights-groups-reach-settlement-on-lafayette-square-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47165","title":{"rendered":"Justice, civil rights groups reach settlement on Lafayette Square protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department and civil rights groups on Wednesday reached a settlement partially resolving a series of lawsuits following a 2020 protest outside the White House during which federal law enforcement violently dispersed demonstrators with tear gas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27359442.17183\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvam9lLWJpZGVuLz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBdf5db85c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27359442.17183\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvam9lLWJpZGVuLz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBdf5db85c&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1649968727471000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3mBfrCzY-cwM_3am684zLf\">Biden<\/a>\u00a0administration agreed to make changes to how the Secret Service and U.S. Park Police handle large protests after nearly two years of litigation that began while former President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27359442.17183\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvdHJ1bXAvP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB2551a9d5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27359442.17183\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wZW9wbGUvdHJ1bXAvP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB2551a9d5&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1649968727471000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3uaPcv4iYwSbMENAr95KBm\">Trump<\/a>\u00a0was in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department and civil rights&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47166,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47165\/revisions\/47166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}