George Floyd protest live updates: DC protesters hit with tear gas

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Powerful moment in Los Angeles as several LAPD officers step forward to take a knee during protest outside police headquarters.

4 p.m.: NYC curfew to begin at 11 p.m.

More than 250 people were arrested during protests overnight Sunday in New York City, which included significant looting, vandalism and theft of luxury stores in the Soho neighborhood.A ransacked Coach store is shown in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, June 1, 2020.A passerby photographs a smashed Dolce and Gabbana store window in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, June 1, 2020.

A looted and destroyed shop is seen after a night of protest over the death of African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis on June 1, 2020 in Lower Manhattan in New York City."We're seeing a lot of outside and independent agitators connected with anarchist groups who are deliberately trying to provoke acts of violence," Deputy Police Commissioner John Miller said on Sunday.

The NYPD overall"showed restraint" as they worked to keep the peace and allow demonstrators to continue to protest on Sunday, the mayor said. "Not acceptable," the mayor said, stressing that there's "no situation where a police vehicle should drive into a crowd of protesters or New Yorkers."De Blasio also called for the officer who pulled a gun on a group of protesters to be fired.

Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen bumps elbows with a protester during a "Justice 4 Floyd" march, May 31, 2020, in Denver, Colorado."[I told him] I would stand with him and I would do the hard work with him moving forward," Pazen said."This is not acceptable. We cannot continue down this path. And if it means coming together and having those hard conversations, getting into some heavy lifts, then our commitment is to do that.

Floyd's family is calling for the arrest of the three other officers at the scene and for a first-degree murder charge for Derek Chauvin, the since-fired officer who pinned Floyd to the ground. Most of the injuries came from projectiles being thrown at officers; they were hit with bricks, urine bottles and petroleum-based substances, Sgt. Eduardo Delgado, spokesman for the Park Service, told ABC News.Police arrested 88 people related to the violent demonstrations Sunday night, Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham said. Of those, 44 were charged with felony rioting.

The additional forces will be unarmed and in a support role to U.S. Park police and that they will be equipped in protective riot gear, Clapper said. Police arrest people amid demonstrations and some ransacking in the aftermath of George Floyds death, May 31, 2020 in Santa Monica, California.Charges included looting, violating curfew, burglary and assault with a deadly weapon, officials said.

A U.S. National Guard soldier walks on patrol in the aftermath of George Floyds death after looting occurred in the area amid demonstrations, May 31, 2020, in Santa Monica, California. A mourner cries as she visits a makeshift memorial for George Floyd on the corner of Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street, May 31, 2020, in Minneapolis.

A crowd marches to protest the death of George Ford on the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River, May 31, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It does not appear that the truck driver headed toward the protesters intentionally, Harrington said. A protester reacts after being hit by pepper spray from police as their group of demonstrators are detained prior to arrest at a gas station on South Washington Street, May 31, 2020, in Minneapolis.Police officers take guard during a protest over the death of George Floyd, May 31, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

A demonstrator sits by her sign reading "Silence Promotes Violence" outside of the state capital building guarded by National Guards and State Patrol, May 31, 2020 in Saint Paul, Minnesota."I'm not prepared to announce anything at this moment," Ellison said, adding,"I will say that we are going to hold everybody accountable for what they did wrong and what they did that's illegal.

 

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I wouldn’t take a knee to BLM at gunpoint.

There’s another word for this: Extortion. Anytime someone coerces or forces you to do something, in exchange for your ceasing violence, that’s you submitting to a threat. Self-respecting cops didn’t play along. The spineless cops said OK.

It’s a show!

Jesus. They only did it so the cop could take a photo of it. This is pure copaganda

Is that a knee for solidarity or a reenactment of how George Floyd died? I just want to calibrate my emotions correctly. Keep this propaganda off our timelines BlackLivesMatter

This is just embarrassing.

Thank you for sharing this moment. It was very organic and heartfelt. We handle and facilitate hundreds of protests each year and fully support the right to protest peacefully. This was not a political statement but a moment of empathy to support peaceful protesters.

old trick ....used before in Cairo when the demonstrations were about to eat them

Police propaganda

Fucking photo op Don't get fooled

Cool. Now can you show the videos of them beating people, shooting people, tear gassing people, taunting people, and boxing people in while they peacefully protest? Thanks🙃

Not degrading this but the human behavior is no different than the mammalian behaviors. Animals in our wild kingdom put their heads down or turn or make no eye contact or get into submissive positions to ward off dominant animals.

P R O P A G A N D A!!! 🤡 ACAB

Don’t be fooled. These are tactics to placate us. These swine have no qualms attacking folks immediately after. There is no such thing as a good cop.

Where's Kaepernick7 ? 🤔

thank you so much for all the hard work to keep protecting us . all of us know that not all cops are bad.

I've never seen the LAPD bow to anyone let alone looters. Do they think they'll get them to respect cops now? Do you? They need to start massively handcuffing these people to bike racks in mass and arrest them later. Leave the freak show to the Hollywood pukes.

Too bad it didn’t last more then a few hours before the evil trouble makers came out.

what a farce

Yeah, fuck this. They'll gas y'all in a minute.

你能看这个视频吗……Steve15042708

Easily impressed

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