Tensions rise in U.S. cities after police shot; Trump pushes crackdown

Demonstrators smashed windows and looted stores in New York City late on Monday, including luxury retailers on Fifth Avenue, and set fire to a Los Angeles strip mall. Four officers were shot and wounded in St. Louis and one in Las Vegas who was critically wounded, authorities said.

The governor said he had offered the state’s mayors support from state police or 13,000 National Guard who are on standby and said that with a 38,000-strong police force, New York City should be able to address its unrest on its own. He said the president sought to blur the line between protesters with a legitimate cause and looters.

Lengyel said 18,000 Guard members were assisting local law enforcement in 29 states, a figure that was increasing.The violent U.S. protests were triggered by the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American who died after a white policeman pinned his neck under a knee for nearly nine minutes in Minneapolis on May 25.

Floyd’s death has reignited the explosive issue of excessive police force, especially against African Americans, and raised tensions on the front lines where officers have faced off against sometimes hostile crowds. A police officer was shot during protests in Las Vegas, police there said in a statement. Officers were injured in clashes elsewhere, including one who was in critical condition after being hit by a car in the Bronx, police said.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged in a speech on Tuesday to try to heal the racial divide in America and blasted Trump’s response to the protests.

Did Uncle Tom get cabin fever

No, they continue to RIOT.

Fake news!

they are not protesters, they are rioters and anarchist and terrorists.

The media is truly the enemy of the people.

Peaceful protest will get us no where. Slavery was ended by war. Nazi fascism was ended by war. Now it’s time to end racism by war!

Please differentiate between protesters and criminal looters, murderers and arsonists.

Fatherless/ horrible fathers created these Thugs, but media will never admit to that.

Show the rioters and looters. You know Trump was talking about violent criminals, not peaceful protesters.

It is time to see police for what they are, not better and not worse than the rest of us. We have to stop making them as being more special than the rest of us.

I dnt understand. What are they protesting against? Can anyone explain?

He’s not threatening protesters with force, you disingenuous hacks. He’s threatening the rioters.

Justice for george floyd

Why don't you report the fact that more whites are injured and killed in police interactions than blacks by more than a 50% margin. No mathematics semantics acrobatics

They don’t need police or military if it’s peaceful idiots.

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Almost 30 to 40 percent of Americans are not working and don't have much to do post Covid-19.

Protesting isn’t my thing, but after watching BunkerDon gassing of citizens. I would totally march on with them

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