Amidst the cries for justice, the violent clashes with police, the burning of squad cars and the looting of businesses across the country, protesters like Arianna Evans took to the streets to denounce what they say have been years of racial injustice and brutality at the hands of law enforcement that
Outside the White House, where Secret Service agents battled with angry demonstrators to keep them from breaching the fence, Evans demanded justice over a megaphone. At the same time, she shouted down the more militant protesters bent on causing destruction and fueling the chaos that ignited with the death in Minneapolis of African American George Floyd and the viral images of a white police officer pressing his knee against the back of his neck as he cried out"I can't breathe.
“All we're asking for is to be able to do the same thing that you get to do every day and walk outside of your house and know that maybe without ... any other extenuating circumstances," Evans, who is African American, said referring to white people. “Someday, I'll have a black son, and maybe one day a white cop will see him, and be scared out in front of a store, and shoot him... This is a problem that we need to fix.
The National Guard has been activated in Washington, D.C., and 17 states: Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, Utah, North Dakota, California, Missouri, Virginia, Kansas, Illinois and Nevada. Demonstrations have also occurred beyond the United States in London and Hong Kong.
“Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda," Barr added."In many places it appears the violence is planned, organized and driven by anarchic and left extremist groups, far-left extremist groups using Antifa-like tactics, many of whom traveled from outside the state to promote the violence.”
He called on demonstrators to practice peaceful civil disobedience while calling for justice for Floyd and other African Americans whose deaths at the hands of U.S. police have resulted in the powder keg that is exploding in the streets of American cities.
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