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BY BRET J. SCHULTE,DENEEN L. BROWN,

ROBERT KLEMKOAND ANNIE GOWEN

TULSA — Tulsa was a city on edge Friday night, as Trump fans and protesters gathered in anticipa-tion of the president’s first cam-paign rally in months set for Saturday, raising fears of a vio-lent confrontation and a worsen-ing spread of the coronavirus as local cases spike.

Authorities set up a perimeter around the 19,000-seat BOK Cen-ter in downtown Tulsa, where those eager to see Trump started lining up at midweek. Businesses around the area boarded up their windows, and the mayor issued a state of emergency and set up a curfew out of concern that out-side groups were headed to town to raise trouble.

But the city announced it was

rescinding the safety measures after Trump tweeted:

“I just spoke to the highly respected Mayor of Tulsa, G.T. Bynum, who informed me there will be no curfew tonight or tomorrow for our many support-ers attending the #MAGA Rally,” Trump said. “Enjoy yourselves - thank you to Mayor Bynum!”

The surprise decision threw another dose of chaos into the mix, as Trump moved forward to stage a rally that was controver-sial on two fronts. Not only did it come in a racially torn city at a fraught moment, but it also flout-ed health guidelines that recom-mend against mass gatherings

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Tension grips Tulsa ahead of Trump rallyResidents worry about virus spreading

Recent protests, Juneteenth highlight city’s divide

Evelyn Hockstein For The Washington Post

Celebrating freedom, and demanding itDemonstrations took place nationwide Friday to mark the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth — June 19, 1865 — the day a military decree was announced in Galveston, Tex., informing thousands of enslaved people in the Confederate state that they were free. Below are scenes, clockwise from top, from events Friday at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, as well as in Dallas, Atlanta and Tulsa. More images, A10

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BY LORI ROZSA,CHELSEA JANES,RACHEL WEINER

AND JOEL ACHENBACH

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Max Par-sell hasn’t been wearing a mask during the coronavirus pandemic and doesn’t intend to start. It’s a matter of principle.

“Making individual decisions is the American way,” Parsell, a 29-year-old lineman for a power company, said as he picked up his lunch at a barbecue joint at a rural crossroads south of Jack-sonville. “I’ll social distance from you if you want, but I don’t want the government telling me I have to wear a mask.”

Parsell need not worry: Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has not made mask-wearing mandatory here in Florida. That’s in sharp con-trast with what’s happening more than 2,000 miles away in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday react-ed to rising ­caseloads by making ­mask-wearing mandatory.

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Mask schism:‘Submission muzzle’ or civic duty?

Juneteenth marked with protests, new resolveBY JUSTIN WM. MOYER,

PETULA DVORAKAND MICHAEL E. RUANE

Demonstrators spread across Washington on Friday to cele-brate the death of slavery 155 years ago and continue the na-tional street crusade against the racial oppression that pervades the country today.

On foot, by car and bicycle they came to march, pray, dance and vent in the third week of almost

daily demonstrations following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.

Students, teachers, military veterans and sports stars came to

protest poor education and health care for African Ameri-cans, as well as police brutality and institutional racism.

They brought umbrellas to block the rain, megaphones to be heard and horns to make music.

Jeremy Berheisel brought his black Audi A4, which was cov-ered with Black Lives Matter graf-fiti, and invited people to sign it.

Two go-go bands thundered from the back of a flatbed truck.

A man in a white loincloth

simulated the crucifixion of Jesus.By late evening, the marches

and speeches of the day near Lafayette Square had given way to music and laughter along U Street, making the protests feel more like a street festival.

People of all ages and races strolled around, listening to mu-sic, eating at barbecue tents and an ice cream kiosk, and buying T-shirts from the many vendors still on hand.

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Commemoration takes on added significance as a movement builds

BY ROBERT BARNES AND SEUNG MIN KIM

President Trump asked his Twitter followers: “Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?”

A definitive answer might be difficult without doses of truth serum. But it should be clear by now that at least five of the nine justices have trust issues with the president and his administra-tion.

Trump on Friday went from lambasting the “horrible & politi-cally charged” Supreme Court setback he suffered the day be-fore to labeling it a no-big-deal “request” for “enhanced papers.” His goal remains dismantling the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program pro-tecting undocumented immi-grants brought to the United States as children.

But what was unmistakable was that the president who has no patience for legal niceties has run into a Supreme Court that is all about them. For the second straight year, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has shown who gets the last word on that subject.

Advocate and critic alike note the similarities in Thursday’s

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Roberts foils Trump’s bent for cutting legal corners

Tulsa: Black leaders are outraged the city is hosting Trump’s rally. A7

Louisville: One officer in Breonna Taylor shooting will be fired. A5

U.S. response: Health experts abroad express alarm. A13

An outbreak prevented: Missouri health officials credit masks. A15

BY SHIBANI MAHTANIAND RACHEL CHEUNG

HONG KONG — China’s Commu-nist Party has haunted Leung’s family for generations.

Her father, Guo Yao, fled forced labor and the violent purges of the Cultural Revolution for a better life in Hong Kong, where he arrived with his wife in 1973 to find relative freedom and pros-perity.

Years later, as his family watched the ceremony marking

Hong Kong’s 1997 handover from Britain to China, his then-teenage daughter had a premonition.

“I thought to myself, maybe one day we will have to run away from the Chinese Communist Party again,” said Leung, now 36. “I just didn’t imagine it would be this soon.”

Now, 17 years after the death of her father — whose name means “glory to the nation” in Mandarin — Leung is preparing to flee Hong Kong. A new law approved by the Communist Party to take

effect this summer will allow China’s powerful state security agencies to operate in the territo-ry, paving the way for political purges and intimidation of gov-ernment critics by secret police. Officials are pushing to impose party propaganda in schools.

With their political freedoms deteriorating, nurses, lawyers, business people and other skilled workers are rushing to renew documents that could provide a pathway to citizenship in Britain,

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Fearing tyranny, Hong Kongers seek a way outBY SARAH ELLISON

On Monday, President Trump’s long-deferred pick to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media finally started work after a bruis-ing, two-year Senate confirma-tion battle.

By the end of Wednesday, Mi-chael Pack had achieved a clean sweep of the top offices of every division he oversees — including venerable news outlets like Voice of America and Radio Free Eu-rope.

The swift purge of former ap-pointees has increased the worry among Democrats and press free-dom advocates that the Trump administration is attempting to gain control over an independent but federally funded media orga-

nization with among the largest audiences in the world. On its own, the Voice of America deliv-ers television and radio programs to 236.6 million people — and in some countries dominated by state media, it is the only free and unshackled news source.

“USAGM’s role as an unbiased news organization is in jeopardy,” Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), who chairs the Foreign Affairs Com-mittee, said Wednesday in a state-ment. Pack, he added, “needs to

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Voice of America upheaval amplifies concern

Worries aired after Trump appointee fires heads of media outlets