{"id":147803,"date":"2020-06-11T15:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/11\/george-floyd-protests-officer-bailed-as-protesters-topple-confederate-statue-in-virginia-live\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T15:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:59:59","slug":"george-floyd-protests-officer-bailed-as-protesters-topple-confederate-statue-in-virginia-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=147803","title":{"rendered":"George Floyd protests: officer bailed as protesters topple Confederate statue in Virginia – live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officer involved in George Floyd killing freed on bail, as statue of Confederate president toppled in Richmond, VirginiaThomas Lane posts $750,000 bailJefferson Davis statue toppled in RichmondUS has topped two million coronavirus casesSign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.55pm BST General Mark Milley\u2019s apology for participating in Trump\u2019s photo op makes it very likely that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff will soon be on the receiving end of a negative presidential tweet.The president is notoriously sensitive to having senior officials publicly distance themselves from him, and he was reportedly on the brink of firing Mark Esper last week after the defense secretary said he did not support Trump\u2019s proposal to send active-duty troops to states with George Floyd protests. 2.48pm BST Gen Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has apologized for participating in Trump\u2019s photo op at St John\u2019s Church last week, which took place moments after nearby peaceful protesters were removed using teargas.\u201cI should not have been there,\u201d Milley told the National Defense University in a prerecorded video commencement address. \u201cMy presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.\u201d Continue reading…
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Officer involved in George Floyd killing freed on bail, as statue of Confederate president toppled in Richmond, VirginiaThomas Lane posts $750,000 bailJefferson Davis statue toppled in RichmondUS has topped two million coronavirus casesSign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.55pm BST General Mark Milley\u2019s apology for participating in Trump\u2019s photo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}