Looters raided an Amazon delivery van in broad daylight in Santa Monica, California. The city has imposed a curfew in response to the unrest following the death of George Floyd.
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A mourner cries as she visits a makeshift memorial for George Floyd on the corner of Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street, May 31, 2020, in Minneapolis.Brown addressed the rioters and looters directly, saying,"you disgraced the name of Mr. Floyd by your actions."Brown also addressed the late George Floyd directly, saying,"We are embarrassed by the cops in Minneapolis' use of force, asphyxiating you on the streets.
Newsham said the city is looking at federal statutes that might be used to prosecute some of those arrested. Law enforcement officers look on as a person protests near the White House against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd in Washington, May 30, 2020.More than 250 people were arrested during protests overnight Sunday in New York City, which included significant looting, vandalism and theft of luxury stores in SoHo in the early morning hours of Monday.A ransacked Coach store is shown in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, June 1, 2020.
A looted and destroyed shop is seen after a night of protest over the death of African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis on June 1, 2020 in Lower Manhattan in New York City."We're seeing a lot of outside and independent agitators connected with anarchist groups who are deliberately trying to provoke acts of violence," Deputy Police Commissioner John Miller said on Sunday.
The NYPD overall"showed restraint" as they worked to keep the peace and allow demonstrators to continue to protest on Sunday, the mayor said. "Not acceptable," the mayor said, stressing that there's "no situation where a police vehicle should drive into a crowd of protesters or New Yorkers."De Blasio also called for the officer who pulled a gun on a group of protesters to be fired.
"We are reviewing the video tapes, the audio tapes, all the evidence, and we will make a charging decision based on the facts that we can prove," he said.At a Sunday night news conference Ellison said he wanted to give people"a dose of reality." A crowd marches to protest the death of George Ford on the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River, May 31, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Carter said there are clearly people from outside the community that are coming in to join the protests, but the more important thing is how the acts of violence amid the demonstrations is taking the focus away from Floyd's death. George Floyd is pictured in an undated photo released by the office of Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump.9:13 a.m.: Miami-Dade County mayor wants to honor protesters who stopped potential looters
People attend a protest amid nationwide unrest following the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Miami, May 31, 2020."Anyone who can identify the people responsible for keeping the peace as they, themselves, properly exercised their right to assemble and protest, please reach out to the Mayor's office via social media on the Mayor's Facebook page Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez, or on Twitter @mayorgimenez," he said in a statement.
Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchison made the request to move him over concerns about the large number of people who could possibly be booked into Hennepin County Jail Sunday night, and concerns over COVID-19.1:40 a.m.: In several cities, protesters and police share a hug Video showed a Florida Highway Patrol trooper in Miami detach himself from a security line to offer a hug to a woman sitting on a motor scooter, who said,"I appreciate your patience" after troopers remained calm when protesters approached them.In New York City's Foley Square, a cheer went up among protesters when a group of NYPD officers took a knee in a show of solidarity.
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