{"id":26233,"date":"2020-05-29T00:41:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T19:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/violent-protests-rock-u-s-city-for-second-night\/"},"modified":"2020-05-29T00:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T19:11:01","slug":"violent-protests-rock-u-s-city-for-second-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26233","title":{"rendered":"Violent protests rock U.S. city for second night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Clashes broke out between police and protesters over the death of a black man in custody<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Demonstrators clashed with police, looted stores and set fires as a man was fatally shot during a second night of protests in the US city of Minneapolis Wednesday over the killing of a black man by a police officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police fired tear gas and formed a human barricade to keep protesters from climbing a fence surrounding the Third Precinct, where the officers accused of killing George Floyd worked before they were fired on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They pushed protesters back as the crowd grew, a day after firing rubber bullets and more tear gas on thousands of demonstrators angered by the latest death of an African-American at the hands of US law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minnesota state Governor Tim Walz urged people to leave the area around the precinct where several fires were burning, warning of the \u201cextremely dangerous situation\u201d in a tweet late Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country-wide outrage
Outrage has grown across the country at Floyd\u2019s death on Monday, fuelled in part by bystander cellphone video which shows him, handcuffed and in the custody of four white police officers, on the ground while one presses his knee into the victim\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump in a tweet called Floyd\u2019s death \u201csad and tragic\u201d, and all four officers have been fired, as prosecutors said they had called in the FBI to help investigate the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo cautioned protestors Wednesday to remain peaceful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An auto parts store across from the precinct had been set alight and a nearby Target was being looted, according to U.S. media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police continued to hold the crowds back from scaling a fence into the precinct\u2019s parking lot, where their cruisers contain guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the violence escalated, with more businesses looted, a man was shot near the protests and later died, police said. A person has been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protesters remained peaceful at two other locations in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the place where Floyd was first taken into custody, people chanted and carried placards and sent out bouquets were set out as tributes to Floyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calls for justice came from around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would like those officers to be charged with murder, because that\u2019s exactly what they did,\u201d Bridgett Floyd, the victim\u2019s sister, said on NBC television. \u201cThey murdered my brother\u2026 They should be in jail for murder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protesters marched on downtown Los Angeles and briefly blocked the 101 Freeway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some demonstrators smashed the windows of two police highway patrol cruisers, clambering on the hood of one of the vehicles. One of the protesters was injured when they fell off the vehicle as it sped away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail? If you had done it, or I had done it, we would be behind bars right now,\u201d said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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