WASHINGTON — Leaders across the United States sought ways Tuesday to stem mounting unrest over police racism, from extending curfews to engaging protesters, as President Donald Trump faced wide
Demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd hold up placards near Lafayette park accross the White House on June 2, 2020 in Washington, DC. – Anti-racism protests have put several US cities under curfew to suppress rioting, following the death of George Floyd in police custody.
Floyd died after he was pinned for nearly nine minutes under the knee of a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, who ignored Floyd’s pleas for his life and had remained on the force despite multiple complaints. “A black face should not be a sentence to die, nor to be homeless, nor to be sick, nor to be underemployed, nor to be under-educated,” Garcetti told them.“We need a country that listens,” he said.In Washington, thousands returned to the streets Tuesday for a peaceful “Black Lives Matter” march and helicopters quickly hovered above them, following a night of low-flying choppers kicking up debris in scenes reminiscent of the US occupation of Iraq.
Joe Biden, Trump’s presumptive Democratic rival in November 3 elections, denounced the crackdown on peaceful protesters in Lafayette Park as an abuse of power and promised, if elected, to tackle the “systemic racism” in the country. The late pontiff “certainly would not condone the use of tear gas and other deterrents to silence, scatter or intimidate for a photo opportunity in front of a place of worship and peace,” Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said.German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called the anti-racism protests “understandable and more than legitimate.”
The curfew began Monday at 11.00 pm but New York was already suffering widespread looting, with rioters smashing storefronts on posh Fifth Avenue, pulling electronics from a Best Buy store and breaking into Macy’s, the department store known for its iconic Christmas displays.
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