Cops Use Tear Gas, Flashbangs To Clear Crowd Near White House

Tear gas billows as demonstrators gather in Lafayette Park to protest the death of George Floyd, near the White House in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police clear demonstrators from Lafayette Park as they protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police stand in Lafayette Park as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Monday, near the White House in Washington. (Image: AP)

Tear gas floats in the air as a line of police move demonstrators away from St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House, as they gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Attorney General William Barr stands in Lafayette Park across from the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police stand in Lafayette Park as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police clear the area around Lafayette Park and the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Demonstrators write graffiti on the side of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit next to Lafayette Square park near the White House as they protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis. (Image: AP)

Police clear the area around Lafayette Park and the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police watch from Lafayette Park as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, near the White House in Washington. (Image: AP)

Demonstrators gather in Lafayette Park to protest the death of George Floyd, near the White House in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police clear the area around Lafayette Park and the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Uniformed US Secret Service police detain a protester in Lafayette Park across from the White House as demonstrators protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police stand in Lafayette Park as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police clear the area around Lafayette Park and the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Demonstrators stand on the frame of a burned-out structure that housed restrooms in Lafayette Park that was burned in a protest after the death of George Floyd, near the White House in Washington. (Image: AP)

Demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Lafayette Park near the White House in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police in Lafayette Park as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, near the White House in Washington. (Image: AP)

Uniformed US Secret Service police detain a protester in Lafayette Park across from the White House as demonstrators protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Attorney General William Barr stands in Lafayette Park across from the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police clear the area around Lafayette Park and the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police clear demonstrators from Lafayette Park as they protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police clear the area around Lafayette Park and the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)

Demonstrators gather in Lafayette Park to protest the death of George Floyd, near the White House in Washington. (Image: AP)

Police clear the area around Lafayette Park and the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd, in Washington. (Image: AP)