Law enforcement removed a 43-year-old peace vigil outside the White House on Sunday following President Trump’s direct order to “take it down.”

The vigil, started in 1981 to promote nuclear disarmament, is believed to be the longest continuous anti-war protest in U.S. history.

The volunteer maintaining the memorial calls it a civil rights violation, saying officials wrongly labeled the 1st Amendment protest as a homeless encampment.

WASHINGTON — Law enforcement officials Sunday removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades after President Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clearing of homeless encampments in the nation’s capital.

Philipos Melaku-Bello, a volunteer who has manned the vigil for years, told the Associated Press tha

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