MINNEAPOLIS -- Protests over the death of George Floyd and repeated police killings of black men grew Saturday from New York to Tulsa to Los Angeles, where police fired rubber bullets to scatter crowds and at least one police car burned, as governors in several states called in National Guard troops in the face of the rising unrest.
In Columbia, South Carolina, a television reporter for WIS-TV was injured by rocks thrown outside the main police station. Several hundred people participated in the demonstration, tearing down the American and state flags in front of the building. They also swarmed a police car, breaking its windows, The State reported.
Back in the city where the protests began, 29-year-old Sam Allkija said Saturday in Minneapolis that the damage seen in recent days is a manifestation of longstanding frustration and rage in the black community.Others echoed him: "Our country has a sickness. We have to be out here," said Brianna Petrisko, who was at lower Manhattan's Foley Square where most demonstrators were wearing masks amid the pandemic. "This is the only way we're going to be heard.
Hundreds of people were arrested Friday, and police used batons, rubber bullets and pepper spray to push back crowds in some cities. Many departments reported injured officers, while social media was awash in images of police using forceful tactics, throwing protesters to the ground, using bicycles as shields and trampling one protester while on horseback.
President Donald Trump stoked the anger, firing off a series of tweets criticizing Minnesota's response, ridiculing people who protested outside the White House and warning that if protesters had breached its fence they would "have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen."
Maybe you should note the location of this in the title, it doesn’t mitigate it but I was thinking “my God, is this in Toronto”?! It’s in Minneapolis.
Why haven’t these men been charged with murder?
finally coronavirus is over and moved back to normal world stuff 🙄
Good, it's about time people do something about this. Peaceful protests don't work anymore against police brutality and racism against black people, just look to colin Kaepernick for example. White people would only get angry at that so rioting seems to be the only solution
A lot of the damage is actually being done by White people setting up bricks and breaking windows. These people are white supremacy marchers trying to amp up the protests.
It's just crazy what's happening right now.
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Burning police cars is not protesting. These people are criminals.
Come on, they are just Hong Kong style protestors which U.S. and U.K. always support. Pelosi also said last year, Protest is a beautiful scene...
Don’t agree with violence. Don’t agree with destruction of property. Don’t agree with anarchists manipulating the situation. But this is happening for a reason.
This is rioting. Not protesting...
🤮 “hey I burned a thing and destroyed a car and Building. Which was A store front where people used to live above .... now they’re homeless... but it’s ok... my family lives 100 miles away so this doesn’t actually affect me... love protesting because internet told me to”
Protesters...eat shit CTV
The officer responsible has been arrested. This has nothing to do with “demanding justice”
'protesters'? Where?
So glad trump made America great again... Putin owes him a pat on the back
Capture these animals and release them back into the wild, maybe Africa?
Not protesters, domestic terrorists, criminals, antifa...
I remember 'protesting' teachers working to rule when I was in Junior High. We walked out of class, stood around for an hour or so, chanted some stuff and went back to class. I don't recall looting or setting fire to anything.
The cop was arrested and charged with murder. He will get his due process. What justice do they want? For him to be thrown to the mob and be ripped apart?
Protestors are pissed their peaceful protest has been hijacked by Soros thugs.
Pathetic
Police are disgusting pigs
This happened in Hong Kong. chinese government delt with this so softly. Us will sent army to kill these stupids
They are rioters. Once you destroy property, you are no longer a protester
The entire population is pissed - except for the elites who have run the country into the ground. amazon Walmart pay slave wages while keeping the bulk of the $$ for themselves. Something has to change.
Pravda...
This is a protest? More like an excuse to riot...
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Cleanup those streets, get bulldozers in an dump trucks
Nothing gains support for a cause like looting and arson.
At lot of them are reported as far-right extremists
And what did Canada do to fight against the illegal railway blockades? No one believes you CTV!
It appears Justins statements have enraged protesters in America. WHY WOULD HE DO THAT?
And the issue of the few filthy rich standing against the poor masses keeping enslaved blacks and whites alike is overshadowed yet again by another artificially constructed racial bs. Bravo society🤦♂️
The cop was arrested. Is this going to continue until the trial is over? This has zero to do with justice.
a shame this has happened, stealing, looting n killing off businesses that had nothing to do with this mans death, sad thing, black ppl will get the blame for this yet all races were there to support George Floyd's family, but all races went about it the wrong way not black ppl
Rioters
I think the protesting stopped when stores started getting robbed.
Get the military in there and stop this from happening these people should be caught and locked up black white green or purple I have no sympathy for these people at all
Thugs.
How is burning down the businesses and ruining the community a protest? How is this justice for George's death? stopracism
WHY Shit like this makes us all look bad. PEACEFUL protests.
I find it interesting that all these riots err protests are happening in Democratic & liberal cites.
Carpet bomb them with job applications,they'll leave.
So rioting thugs then.... NOT protesters
If they burned CTV's newsrooms and studios to the ground, do you think CTV would still call them protesters?
True protesters had nothing to do with burning a police car.
But burning police cars is burning your own cars. Where do you think Police got the money to buy these cars? Who ultimately paying for it?
These are terrorist
this is a country in collapse and with an agitator in charge
Antifa rioters. This no longer (or never did) has anything to do with George Floyd’s horrific demise.
, you keep calling them “protesters”... I don’t think it means what you think it means...
Disgusting and deplorable
🐂💩 this isn’t about justice for someone killed by police. 🙄
Protesters don’t burn cars or loot stores.
It should never be stereotyped as white and black. All are humans and I've known the most caring in both
“protestors” Hahahaha f*ck off
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