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Shortly after 1 p.m., the Rev. Keion Jackson, 22, led a mile-long march of 300 protesters through Jersey City’s Greenville neighborhood.It was the city’s first protest since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis last week. Protesters walked from Berry Lane Park to the police department’s Greenville Precinct. When the group reached the station, a line of officers wearing helmets and holding shields stood behind a metal barricade. Others stood on the steps in uniform but without protective gear.
Mahmoud Abumayyaleh, who owns the Cup Foods store in South Minneapolis, expressed remorse that an employee called police last week on George Floyd.the news website TheGrioOne of Abumayyaleh’s employees suspected that Floyd paid for cigarettes with a counterfeit bill. That worker called the police, a decision Abumayyaleh said was in compliance with state policy.
“This individual, when he gave his statement, his version was, ‘I thought I had to do this because I thought I was going to get hurt or killed,’” Kleine said of Gardner. “That’s the question then: Is it justifiable use for force?” NEW YORK — A federal judge in Brooklyn set bail Monday for two local lawyers charged in a molotov cocktail attack on a police van as prosecutors said the pair tried to arm other protesters with the makeshift incendiary devices.
Shader is alleged to have thrown a molotov cocktail into an occupied police van late Friday in Crown Heights. Officials say the woman, from Upstate New York, was caught on video throwing the device and admitted to the crime.Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis police officer who used his knee to pin George Floyd’s neck to the ground, will have his first court appearance on June 8, according to Hennepin County District Court filings.
D.C. police officers on bicycles raced to the scene and positioned themselves in front of the Trump International Hotel. Protesters pressed up against a barrier, knelt down and yelled to police: “Kneel with us! Kneel with us!” Suddenly another protester he’d met just a few hours earlier intervened. “Let’s be cool,” said 22-year-old Tony Norris. “This man still has a family to get back to,” said Norris, who is African American. “He’ll take a knee when he needs to.”Officer Harris declined to give his full name or to comment. “I think you understand,” he said, still standing in front of the Trump Hotel.
During a news briefing Monday, de Blasio said a curfew was “not a silver bullet.” In an interview Monday with NBC’s “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, Shea said a curfew would not address the escalating violence associated with the protests, which he has called “a mob.”June 1, 2020 at 4:44 PM EDTSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the country to listen to black Americans’ calls for equal justice in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
McConnell said he was pleased that investigations were underway in all of the deaths. Of the Floyd case, he added, “In no world whatsoever should arresting a man for an alleged minor infraction involve a police officer putting his knee on a man’s neck while he cries out ‘I can’t breathe’ and then goes silent.”MTV, Comedy Central and other ViacomCBS cable properties will go dark for eight minutes and 46 seconds at 5 p.m. on Monday to honor George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement.
A PSA video is also being created by the conglomerate to support Black Lives Matter, a ViacomCBS spokeswoman said, and will be aired on both broadcast and online outlets.Family’s independent autopsy concludes asphyxia caused George Floyd’s death “The officers killed him based on a knee to his neck for almost nine minutes and two knees on his back, compressing his lungs,” Crump said. “The ambulance was his hearse.”
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