Our reporters and photographers are on the ground at protests in cities across the country. Here’s what they’re seeing:
Hundreds of protesters in Times Square, including well over 100 doctors and medical personnel, are using the 7 p.m. cheer to applaud for Black Lives Matter protesters and the victims of police violence nationwide.
“We are members of a community that is being applauded every day at 7, there are advertisements here in Times Square thanking us,” one doctor told me. “We think it is more appropriate to use our voice to applaud people who are protesting right now.”
Less than two hours before Washington’s 7 p.m. curfew went into effect, American troops positioned military vehicles across the city. The crowd of protesters in Lafayette Square is at least twice the size from the day prior and swelling.
Following the arrival of the troops and the use of helicopters to suppress protesters Monday night—a tactic fitting for battles with insurgents but instead applied to American citizens—some in the crowd whispered that more soldiers were on the way.
