By Ted Johnson Many of the media images at Lafayette Square Park in Washington, D.C. on Sunday night were of fires, vandalism and looting, and reporters being shoved and struck by rubber bullets.
By the time that the White House turned off its exterior lights around midnight, the metaphors went flying and the impression may have been that the nation’s capital was in a kind of inferno.
It didn’t help that a photo of a large fire around the nearly Washington Monument circulated on social media. It was actually from the TV series Designated Survivor.
On Monday at noon, though, there was a momentary sense of calm at the focal point of the protests, at the intersection of H and 16th streets.
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