Nationwide protests in USA over Donald Trump’s controversial policies

Law enforcement officers clash with demonstrators during a protest in Los Angeles, California, on June 7. PIC/AFP

Protests and events against US President Donald Trump's controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to Medicaid for poor people were set to kick off on Thursday at more than 1600 locations around the country. The ‘Good Trouble Lives On' national day of action honours late congressman and rights leader John Lewis. Protests are expected along streets, at court houses and other public spaces, especially in Atlanta, and St Louis and Oakland in California, and Annapolis (Maryland).

(From left) FIFA President Gianni Infantino hands a Club World Cup winners' medal to US President Donald Trump, which the latter is accused of ‘pocketing sneakily'. PIC/GETTY IMAGES

Pushback against Trump has centred on deportations and immigration enforcement tactics. Recently, protesters engaged in a tense standoff as federal authorities conducted mass arrests at two Southern California marijuana farms. One farmworker died after falling from a roof during a chaotic raid. The raids followed Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles.

Honouring John Lewis

Lewis first was elected to Congress in 1986. He died in 2020 at the age of 80 following a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. He was the youngest and last survivor of the ‘Big Six' rights activists - a group led by Rev Martin Luther King Jr. In 1965, a 25-year-old Lewis led some 600 protesters in the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Lewis was beaten up by police, suffering a skull fracture.

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