Jun 1: In a short speech, Trump warns that he will dispatch troops to restore order in states that don’t stamp out violence that has erupted across the country during protests over police brutality. “We are ending the riots and lawlessness that has spread throughout our country,” Trump says in the White House Rose Garden. Meanwhile, federal law enforcement officers use tear gas and flash grenades to disperse peaceful protesters at Lafayette Square across from the White House. President Trump then walks to the historic St. John’s Church, with a group of advisors following. He stands in front of the church, boarded up after a Sunday fire, and holds up a Bible for the photographers. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington said she was “outraged” that Trump used a Bible and a church, “without even asking us, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our church stands for.”George Floyd’s death is deemed a homicide.