Protests are continuing in American cities for a second night over this weekend. Watch as USA TODAY reports live as demonstrators react to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
As cities nationwide launched clean-up efforts and President Donald Trump called antifa a terrorist organization, pressure built for a special prosecutor as the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police continued to reverberate across the nation.
, a day after demonstrations turned violent and police used tear gas to dispel the crowds in Lafayette Park. “The depths of despair are enormous right now for black people in this country,” she said. “You pile on unchecked police violence and it makes for a perfect storm.”As cities where protests have erupted try to quell the demonstrations, several governors and mayors across the country have imposed or extended curfews Sunday in anticipation of another night of unrest. More than 20 cities have imposed some type of curfew. Minnesota Gov.
"They had to overlap," civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump told CBS's"Face the Nation.""And so that is going to be an interesting aspect to this case and hopefully upgrading these charges to first-degree murder because we believe he knew who George Floyd was." Trump tweeted congratulations to the Guard for the"great job they did immediately upon arriving in Minneapolis."
none of which were officer-involved, after a second night of violence raged through parts of downtown.
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