One person shot and killed during Black Lives Matter protests in Austin, Texas as protesters clash with Seattle police over federal police dispatched to major cities
were sparked worldwide following the May killing of African-American George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes while detaining him.used stun grenades and pepper spray against protesters who set fire to construction trailers outside a youth jail, amid a wave of public anger over President Donald Trump's planned "surge" of federal agents into major cities.
The sounds of repeated small detonations rang out in the streets of the city in Washington state, and smoke rose from an area where demonstrators had set fire to trailers by a construction site for the youth detention facility.Police in riot gear faced off against the demonstrators, some of whom held up umbrellas against falling pellets of pepper spray.newspaper quoted police as saying 16 people were arrested on suspicion of assault against officers, obstruction and failure to disperse.
The latest spasm of violence came after police and federal agents fired tear gas and forcefully dispersed protesters further south in Portland early on Saturday, also in anger over Trump's heavily-criticised "surge" of security forces.
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