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Shortly after 1 p.m., the Rev. Keion Jackson, 22, led a mile-long march of 300 protesters through Jersey City’s Greenville neighborhood.It was the city’s first protest since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis last week.
Protesters walked from Berry Lane Park to the police department’s Greenville Precinct. When the group reached the station, a line of officers wearing helmets and holding shields stood behind a metal barricade. Others stood on the steps in uniform but without protective gear. One signaled to Jackson, 22, to step behind the barricade to address the crowd. Jackson asked the crowd to remember that they were seeking justice for those “who have been lynched by folks in blue.” He added: “We are committed to seeking justice, but we have to do so in a peaceful manner. Why? Because we can’t be like them.” Mayor Steven Fulop was among the marchers. He reached out to organizers over the weekend to offer resources including assisting with traffic control. "We don’t see eye to eye on everything,” said James Shea, the city’s public safety director. “But there’s never a time when they can’t come speak to us or when we won’t support their right to express their viewpoint even if we disagree with them.”Store owner regrets that employee called 911 on George Floyd Mahmoud Abumayyaleh, who owns the Cup Foods store in South Minneapolis, expressed remorse that an employee called police last week on George Floyd.the news website TheGrioOne of Abumayyaleh’s employees suspected that Floyd paid for cigarettes with a counterfeit bill. That worker called the police, a decision Abumayyaleh said was in compliance with state policy. AbumayyalehThe site outside Cup Foods where Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin — who has since been fired and charged — knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes has become a memorial. A“We are deeply saddened and outraged by what happened to George Floyd in front of our store,” Abumayyaleh wrote in the Facebook post. “We support this protest and share in their anger.” The Cup Foods owner said he would donate to Floyd’s memorial service.Omaha bar owner who killed black protester won’t be charged, prosecutor says A white local business owner who shot and killed a 22-year old black protester in Omaha on Saturday won’t be charged because he was acting in self-defense, the country prosecutor announced Monday. Cellphone and surveillance videos compiled by investigators showed that James Scurlock was killed during a struggle with Jake Gardner, who owns The Hive and The Gatsby bars, after Gardner was tackled by Scurlock and others, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said during a news briefing. Showing some of the videos, Kleine called the shooting “senseless” but said Gardner was defending himself because he feared Scurlock was going to injure or kill him. “This individual, when he gave his statement, his version was, ‘I thought I had to do this because I thought I was going to get hurt or killed,’” Kleine said of Gardner. “That’s the question then: Is it justifiable use for force?” Kleine said the encounter began when Gardner’s 68-year-old father was shoved and Gardner approached the group Scurlock was in, demanding to find out who pushed his father. Kleine added he doesn’t believe Gardner was targeting Scurlock because of his race. “It might have been heated conversations but there was never any racial tone to the conversations,” Kleine said of the audio gathered from the shooting scene.Following the news that Gardner wasn’t charged, Scurlock’s family announced that they wanted a grand jury invoked. “What I want is justice, not a quick answer and this is a quick answer,” James Scurlock’s father, who shares the same name, told reporters in a news conference following Kleine’s briefing.New York City-area lawyers charged in molotov cocktail attack on police van NEW YORK — A federal judge in Brooklyn set bail Monday for two local lawyers charged in a molotov cocktail attack on a police van as prosecutors said the pair tried to arm other protesters with the makeshift incendiary devices. Bond was set at $250,000 apiece for the lawyers, Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, and home detention was ordered, but prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York are appealing the magistrate judge’s bail decision, saying Mattis and Rahman are dangers to the community. The two are among the hundreds who have been arrested in the city during the ongoing and often-violent protests over the Minneapolis death of George Floyd in police custody and other such incidents. According to court papers, NYPD officers caught Mattis and Rahman trying to flee after setting the marked police van ablaze early Saturday. The documents state that the two had toilet paper, a Bud Light can and “a liquid suspected to be gasoline in the vicinity of the passenger seat and a gasoline tank” in the back of the 2015 Chrysler minivan they were driving, which was registered in Mattis’s name. Rahman, who is alleged to have thrown the homemade device, tried to hand out explosive materials to others “so that those individuals could likewise use the incendiary devices in furtherance of more destruction and violence,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn.Another woman, Samantha Shader, was ordered held without bail by the judge. Shader is alleged to have thrown a molotov cocktail into an occupied police van late Friday in Crown Heights. Officials say the woman, from Upstate New York, was caught on video throwing the device and admitted to the crime.Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis police officer who used his knee to pin George Floyd’s neck to the ground, will have his first court appearance on June 8, according to Hennepin County District Court filings. Chauvin, who is white, faces charges of third-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Floyd, a black man whom he pinned to the pavement for nearly nine minutes, including for three minutes after Floyd lost consciousness. A preliminary report from the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office found that “the combined effects” of the police’s actions, underlying health conditions and potential drugs or alcohol in Floyd’s system “likely contributed” to his death. An independent autopsy commissioned by Floyd’s family and released Monday determined that his death was caused by “asphyxiation from sustained pressure.”Abigail Hauslohner and Julie TateA group of hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of downtown Washington on Monday afternoon, chanting “Black Lives Matter!” and slogans denouncing President Trump as they approached his hotel at 11th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. D.C. police officers on bicycles raced to the scene and positioned themselves in front of the Trump International Hotel. Protesters pressed up against a barrier, knelt down and yelled to police: “Kneel with us! Kneel with us!” A female African American officer who identified herself only as Officer Brown looked straight at the protesters, gripping her bicycle. When she took a knee, the crowd erupted in cheers. Within minutes, a row of at least three other officers — white and black — had knelt several yards away from her. Attention then turned to the more than a dozen other officers. “Officer, do you agree with us?” asked Leo West, a 20 year old college student from Takoma Park wearing a Black Lives Matter face mask. Suddenly the officer, an African American whose uniform gave his name as P.D. Harris, briefly sank to his knee. “You’re a good man, Officer,” West shouted. “All of you can do it. Be like Officer Harris.”But by now, Officer Harris was on his feet. “Do it again,” urged Edward Dana, a 24 year old University of D.C. student and employee of the department of disability services. When Harris refused, Dana became upset. Suddenly another protester he’d met just a few hours earlier intervened. “Let’s be cool,” said 22-year-old Tony Norris. “This man still has a family to get back to,” said Norris, who is African American. “He’ll take a knee when he needs to.”Officer Harris declined to give his full name or to comment. “I think you understand,” he said, still standing in front of the Trump Hotel.Cuomo: New York City curfew set for Monday night A curfew will take effect in New York City from 11 p.m. Monday to 5 a.m. Tuesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Monday afternoon in a radio interview discussing the protests there over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. The New York Police Department’s presence will also be doubled, putting 4,000 more officers on patrol, Cuomo said on Upstate New York’sNew York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted about the citywide curfew a short time later, noting that it was “for everyone’s safety.” The decision comes after several nights of rising tensions between protesters and police there and across the country. Dozens of large cities have set curfews, including Washington, Los Angeles and Miami. But de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea both had expressed hesitation over the effectiveness of such a measure. During a news briefing Monday, de Blasio said a curfew was “not a silver bullet.” In an interview Monday with NBC’s “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, Shea said a curfew would not address the escalating violence associated with the protests, which he has called “a mob.”June 1, 2020 at 4:44 PM EDTSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the country to listen to black Americans’ calls for equal justice in the wake of George Floyd’s death. But he also condemned the violence and destruction that has been seen in some cities in recent days. “One nation cannot deafen itself to the anger, pain or frustration of black Americans,” McConnell said in Senate floor remarks Monday afternoon. “Our nation needs to hear this. Yet over the last several days, citizens have watched with horror as cities across America have convulsed with looting, riots and destruction. … You do not advance peace by committing assault. You do not advance justice by inflicting injustice upon your neighbors." McConnell described the killings of Floyd and two other African Americans — Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and Breonna Taylor in Louisville — as part of a pattern of events that have left Americans “grieved and horrified." “To me, to a great many of my fellow Kentuckians, and to many outraged Americans, these disturbing events do not look like three isolated incidents,” McConnell said. “They look more like the latest chapter in our national struggle to make equal justice and equal protection of the law into facts of life for all Americans rather than contingencies that sometimes depend on the color of one’s skin.” McConnell said he was pleased that investigations were underway in all of the deaths. Of the Floyd case, he added, “In no world whatsoever should arresting a man for an alleged minor infraction involve a police officer putting his knee on a man’s neck while he cries out ‘I can’t breathe’ and then goes silent.”MTV, Comedy Central and other ViacomCBS cable properties will go dark for eight minutes and 46 seconds at 5 p.m. on Monday to honor George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. The length of time was chosen because it is how long Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd’s neck, according to a criminal complaint. The move will preempt a number of shows, including “Ridiculousness” on MTV and “The Office” on Comedy Central. Paramount Network, Pop, VH1, TV Land, CMT and Logo will also be among the networks going dark, according to Chris McCarthy, the executive who oversees the networks and is behind the move. A PSA video is also being created by the conglomerate to support Black Lives Matter, a ViacomCBS spokeswoman said, and will be aired on both broadcast and online outlets.Family’s independent autopsy concludes asphyxia caused George Floyd’s death An independent autopsy commissioned by George Floyd’s family determined the cause of his death was “asphyxiation from sustained pressure,” attorneys for the family announced Monday. No underlying medical conditions caused or contributed to Floyd’s death, medical examiner Michael Baden said at a news conference. He said Floyd did not respond to CPR or cardiac shock in the ambulance that transported him to the hospital.The findings differed from the results of the preliminary autopsy from the Hennepin County medical examiner, which found no evidence of traumatic asphyxia — deprivation of oxygen — or strangulation. The medical examiner concluded that Floyd’s death was caused by “the combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system.” Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the Floyds, said at the news conference that Floyd died outside the corner store. “The officers killed him based on a knee to his neck for almost nine minutes and two knees on his back, compressing his lungs,” Crump said. “The ambulance was his hearse.” Antonio Romanucci, co-counsel for the family, added that the weight of the other officers, Thomas Lane and J.A. Kueng, prevented blood from flowing into Floyd’s brain and air from entering his lungs. Crump said Floyd’s family wants Chauvin’s murder charge to be upgraded to a first-degree count and the other two officers to be prosecuted “to the fullest extent of the law.”June 1, 2020 at 3:44 PM EDTLONDON — Thousands of people took to the streets in Dublin, Ireland’s capital, again on Monday afternoon to express solidarity with protesters in the United States after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota a week ago. The march came one day after hundreds gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Dublin on Sunday while other cities across Europe. Over the weekend, crowds knelt outside the U.S. Embassy along the south bank of the River Thames in London chanting, “No justice, no peace,” while in the German capital, Berlin, an estimated 1,500 people marched to protest Floyd’s killing. The protesters in Dublin on Monday congregated outside the General Post Office and at the Spire monument, holding handmade signs that read “Black lives matter” and “I understand that I will never understand. However, I stand with you.” The Irish Times estimated that more than 5,000 people had joined the march to condemn police brutality in the United States and racism worldwide. Videos circulating on social media showed crowds chanting in unison, “What’s his name? George Floyd,” and “I can’t breathe” as protesters made their way along O’Connell Street and toward the U.S. Embassy., adding, “We’re sick of it now, so we’re here to protest, that’s it.” Irish Times reporter Sorcha Pollak described Monday’s protest as one of the largest she had witnessed in the capital in recent years.
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