Over a dozen FBI agents were fired Friday, including ones photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in June 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd, according to the FBI Agents Association and news reports .

Some of the agents had been reassigned earlier this year, in what were widely seen as demotions, The Washington Post reported .

The agents were sent by President Trump and then-Attorney General Bill Barr to deter protesters from vandalizing federal property in Washington, D.C., in June 2020, according to the Post .

According to the DOJ watchdog's 2024 review of Barr's responses to the protests, FBI agents with the Washington Field Office expressed confusion over Barr's requests and said they were not trained on or equipped for responding to civil un

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