The White House has become a scene of protest on Election Day as demonstrators clash with police.
Authorities put up an "unscaleable" fence around the White House grounds overnight, anticipating fiery scenes.
Images from the ground show hundreds of protesters, many of them carrying Black Lives Matter signs.
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As well as police confronting protesters, different groups of civilians were filmed clashing as Secret Service agents watched on from strategic vantage points.
A number of people have been arrested.
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The protests follow months of rising tensions in the US, sparked by the death of Black citizen George Floyd during a police arrest in Minneapolis on May 25.
Waves of protest have swept the country since, re-prompted with unfortunate regularity by the deaths of other people of colour at police hands.
https://twitter.com/9NewsSyd/status/1323825511144034314?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwThe protests became a flashpoint issue in the Presidential contest.
Incumbent Donald Trump has blamed "Antifa" and the "far left" for the violence, and has taken a law-and-order stance.
Democrat rival Joe Biden has come down on the side of police reform, though he has stood clear of the "defund the police" cries from some protesters.
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