Park Police chief says officers used ‘tremendous restraint’ removing Lafayette Square protesters 

President Donald Trump’s visit to a church near the White House on June 1 was not the motivation for clearing the area of peaceful protesters, the head of the US Park Police told Congress on Tuesday.

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