George Floyd: U.S. protests continue for seventh day; several officers shot
U.S. cities erupted in violence and destruction in a seventh straight night of unrest, with several police officers shot or run over, amid boasts andMonday night were punctuated by people smashing shop windows near Rockefeller Center and breaching the doors of Macy’s flagship store on 34th Street, littering the pavement with broken glass.
Demonstrations also broke out in such places as Philadelphia, where hundreds of protesters spilled onto a highway in the heart of the city; Atlanta, where police fired tear gas at demonstrators; and Nashville, where more than 60 National Guard members put down their riot shields at the request of peaceful protesters who had gathered in front of Tennessee’s Capitol to honor George Floyd.
Bystander Sean Jones, who watched as people ransacked luxury stores in New York over the weekend, said: “People are doing this so next time, before they think about trying to kill another black person, they’re going to be like, ’Damn, we don’t want them out here doing this ... again.’”at the spot where a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, put his knee on the handcuffed black man’s neck until he stopped breathing last week.
Chauvin has been charged with murder. Minnesota Atty. Gen. Keith Ellison said Tuesday that prosecutors were working as fast as they could to determine whether the three other officers at the scene should be charged, too. All four have been fired.rose to at least nine, including two people killed in a Chicago suburb.
Cities struggled to keep police in line and avoid instances of excessive force. The police chief in Louisville, Ky., was fired after a beloved restaurant owner was killed by police and National Guard members enforcing a curfew. In Richmond, Va., the police chief said officers who used tear gas on a group of peaceful protesters would be disciplined.An officer was shot shortly before midnight near the Circus Circus casino in Las Vegas. Police had no immediate word on the officer’s condition.
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