A COUNTRY DIVIDED
Jun 05, 2020
4 minutes
COMPILED BY JANE VOSTER
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UILDINGS up in flames,
B cars burning, shop windows smashed, city streets engulfed in a haze of tear gas and smoke, stun grenades and rubber bullets flying – to the outside eye
America looked like a warzone. And that’s exactly what it is.
But it’s not at war with another superpower – it’s at war with itself. From coast to coast, tens of thousands of Americans recently surged out onto the streets, taking their protest right up to the gates of the White House in Washington, DC.
And their message was clear: they’ve had enough.
Holed up in the mansion with an angry mob outside, President Donald Trump dismissed the protesters as “thugs”,
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