Demonstrators take part in a protest against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Washington June 5, 2020. — Reuters pic
Hundreds of arrests have been made in New York this week relating to the black rights protests that are sweeping the United States following the death of George Floyd. After protests on Sunday and Monday turned violent with widespread looting, New York’s mayor imposed a week of night-time curfews to try to keep demonstrators off the streets.
In a statement, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said his office “declines to prosecute these arrests in the interest of justice.”
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