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As political unrest triggered by the May 2020 police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis swept across the U.S., demonstrations and protests soon reached the nation's capital in Washington, D.C. In the first days of June, President Donald Trump and his administration were criticized for the use of tear gas (or similar substances) to disperse nonviolent protesters near the White House in order to allow Trump to engage in a photo-op, posing with a Bible in front of St. John's Church. In the days that followed, a photograph said to show troops guarding the Lincoln Memorial in Washington made the rounds of social media. Many viewers questioned whether the photograph was authentic and truly depicted what was described, or whether it was a fake or had been taken from a movie shoot or some type of military exhibition: In fact, the photograph was genuine and as described, capturing National Guard troops from the District of Columbia who had been deployed to protect the monument, as described by the Washington Post: This photograph, taken by Win McNamee, is captioned by distributor Getty Images as follows: Some critics were displeased with this use of military forces:
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