MINNEAPOLIS (REUTERS, NYTIMES) - A 19-year-old protester in Detroit was shot dead on Friday during countrywide protests unleashed by the alleged murder of a black man in Minneapolis by a white police officer who had pinned him by the neck.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MINNEAPOLIS - A 19-year-old protester in Detroit was shot dead on Friday during countrywide protests unleashed by the alleged murder of a black man in Minneapolis by a white police officer who had pinned him by the neck.
In Minneapolis, protesters gathered near the Police Department's 5th Precinct the day after they had taken over another precinct and set it on fire. Unlike Thursday, the police did not abandon the precinct, even as shots were reportedly fired in the area. Several protesters were arrested for refusing to disperse, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said on Twitter.
"Watching what happened to George Floyd had people say, 'To hell with staying home'," he said."The idea that we would go in and break up those expressions of grief and rage was ridiculous." Officers retreated in vehicles just after 10pm Thursday local time as protesters stormed the building - smashing equipment, lighting fires and setting off fireworks, according to videos posted from the scene.
Crowds shut down Los Angeles freeways, clashed with the police in Dallas and defaced the CNN Centre in Atlanta, where mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms declared:"This is not how we change America."- A large crowd in Washington chanted outside the White House, prompting the Secret Service to temporarily lock down the building. Video on social media showed demonstrators knocking down barricades and spray-painting other buildings.
- Demonstrators in Los Angeles blocked the 110 Freeway, marching through downtown and around Staples Centre. Local television footage showed police officers clashing with a crowd suspected of vandalising a patrol car. By 9.30pm, LAPD had declared all of downtown to be an unlawful assembly and was warning residents of the loft districts to stay inside.
- Hundreds of protesters converged on Civic Centre Park in Denver, waving signs and chanting as Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come played over a loudspeaker. Some thrust fists in the air and scrawled messages on the ground in chalk, according to a news broadcast. Mr Floyd's relatives said in a statement that they were disappointed by the decision not to seek first-degree murder charges. Mr Floyd, who was black, died on Monday after pleading"I can't breathe" while Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd's neck, in an encounter that was captured on video.
"How can anyone watch that video and think it was anything less?" she said."Such blatant disregard for another living soul." The president gave his first extensive remarks on the protests later Friday at the White House, declaring that"we can't allow a situation like happened in Minneapolis to descend further into lawless anarchy and chaos. It's very important, I believe, to the family, to everybody, that the memory of George Floyd be a perfect memory".
Jay Clay, 19, an Atlanta resident and graphic designer, watched the protests from across a street with a mixture of curiosity and solidarity. As the protests went on, police officers in riot gear were gathering. By 9.30pm, tear gas canisters were launched, and a wave of protesters ran back toward the park.
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