The agents' move in the 2020 demonstration was understood as a possible de-escalation tactic but Kash Patel's FBI appears to have seen it differently.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling with demonstrators during a 2020 protest in the wake of police killing of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter told CNN.

The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during protests over the killing of George Floyd nearly five years ago, according to a report.