(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump again took on the protests that have broken out nationwide since the death of George Floyd. “We are now in the process of defeating the radical left: the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters,” he said in a July 4th speech in Washington. Groups of protesters and counter-protesters, occasionally colliding, gathered around the city’s landmarks peacefully, the Washington Post reported.
His remarks echoed those he gave at Mount Rushmore the night before, in which he said people attacking historical monuments are part of a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our s, and indoctrinate our children.”
In Baltimore, protesters brought down a Christopher Columbus statue near the Little Italy neighborhood, dragged it to the edge of the Inner Harbor before rolling it into the water, the Baltimore Sun reported. as fireworks went off around the city on the night of the Fourth of July.
The Cleveland Indians followed the Washington Redskins in saying they were prepared to engage “our community and appropriate stakeholders to determine the best path forward with regard to our team name.”
The Redskins said Friday they would “undergo a thorough review of the team’s name,” with Coach Ron Rivera telling the Washington Post on Saturday that he hopes the change could happen within two months. FedEx Corp. has asked the team, which plays at FedEx Field, to change the name after 87 investment firms and shareholders worth a collective $620 billion called on FedEx, Nike and PepsiCo to terminate their business relationships with the team unless it agrees to a renaming.
One of two people struck by a car that drove through a crowd of protesters on a closed highway in Seattle has died, the Associated Press reported. Police arrested the driver but were still determining the motive, the AP said.
The Supreme Court rejected a bid by Illinois Republicans to lift Governor J.B. Pritzker’s order to restrict gatherings to only 50 people, Dow Jones reported. The state’s Republican Party had planned to host an outdoor Independence Day picnic.
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