Police officers in riot gear watch demonstrators as they chant outside of the White House on May 30 2020 during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. Picture: JOSE LUIS MAGANA/AFP
In the nation’s capital, hundreds of demonstrators assembled near the Justice Department headquarters shouting, “black lives matter.” Many later moved to the White House, where they faced off with shield-carrying police, some mounted on horseback. “We are under assault,” Walz, a first-term governor elected from Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, told a briefing on Saturday. “Order needs to be restored.”
Curfews were imposed in several major cities rocked by civil disturbances in recent days, including Atlanta, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Denver, Cincinnati, Portland, Oregon, and Louisville, Kentucky. Protests also flared on Saturday in Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, Salt Lake City and Cleveland. At dusk, as the curfew went into effect, police confronted some 500 protesters milling around a burnt-out bank and opened fire with teargas and plastic bullets, sending the crowd scurrying.
Floyd, who had worked security for Minneapolis nightclubs, had been suspected of trying to pass counterfeit money to buy cigarettes on Monday evening. Police said he was unarmed. A store employee who had called for help had told a police dispatcher that the suspect appeared to be intoxicated.
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