MINNEAPOLIS - A 19-year-old protester in Detroit was shot dead on Friday during countrywide protests unleashed by the alleged murder of a black man in Minneapolis by a white police officer who had pinned him by the neck.
In Minneapolis, protesters gathered near the Police Department's 5th Precinct the day after they had taken over another precinct and set it on fire. Unlike Thursday, the police did not abandon the precinct, even as shots were reportedly fired in the area. Several protesters were arrested for refusing to disperse, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said on Twitter.
"Watching what happened to George Floyd had people say, 'To hell with staying home'," he said."The idea that we would go in and break up those expressions of grief and rage was ridiculous." Officers retreated in vehicles just after 10pm Thursday local time as protesters stormed the building - smashing equipment, lighting fires and setting off fireworks, according to videos posted from the scene.
Crowds shut down Los Angeles freeways, clashed with the police in Dallas and defaced the CNN Centre in Atlanta, where mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms declared:"This is not how we change America."- A large crowd in Washington chanted outside the White House, prompting the Secret Service to temporarily lock down the building. Video on social media showed demonstrators knocking down barricades and spray-painting other buildings.
- Demonstrators in Los Angeles blocked the 110 Freeway, marching through downtown and around Staples Centre. Local television footage showed police officers clashing with a crowd suspected of vandalising a patrol car. By 9.30pm, LAPD had declared all of downtown to be an unlawful assembly and was warning residents of the loft districts to stay inside.
- Hundreds of protesters converged on Civic Centre Park in Denver, waving signs and chanting as Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come played over a loudspeaker. Some thrust fists in the air and scrawled messages on the ground in chalk, according to a news broadcast. Mr Floyd's relatives said in a statement that they were disappointed by the decision not to seek first-degree murder charges. Mr Floyd, who was black, died on Monday after pleading"I can't breathe" while Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd's neck, in an encounter that was captured on video.
AhBoard How many people die in the protest in the US within a week time? And how many protesters die since 2019 in Hong Kong till now? O zero!!!
People are rioting and looting in cities mismanaged by corrupt democrat mayors who have used the police to surpress and kill minorities. Minneapolis, Louisville, Atlanta, NYC, DC, etc are all run my democrat mayors and the people are now revolting against the democrat party.
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