'Go home Jacob! Go home!' Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was booed out of a protest after he said he did not support abolishing the police department.
At a heated White House meeting last Monday morning, President Donald Trump said he wanted 10,000 troops in Washington, D.C., and other cities to quell that protests over police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death, according to a senior U.S. Department of Defense official.
A video of the incident on June 3 showed a crowd marching westbound on California Avenue toward Oak Street in Bakersfield, according to police. The protester, who was only identified as an adult male, was then seen moving northbound across the eastbound lanes when a vehicle struck him. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, center, speaks to demonstrators gathered on the newly named Black Lives Plaza during a peaceful protest against police brutality and racism, on June 6, 2020 in Washington.
"The reality is that we are the ones who have more power. We need to be the ones to make the change," she said.An estimated 20,000 people protested throughout the New York City, according to ABC New York stationProtests in Manhattan saw thousands march from Union Square to Washington Square, while in Brooklyn protests thousands marched over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan.
"The time is always right to do what's right," Miller said."It's 2020. Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jim Brown ... still fighting this fight, and it's up to us to keep it going." A man holds a photograph of Breonna Taylor on her birthday as he kneels with other protesters on Atlantic Avenue during a solidarity rally for George Floyd on Atlantic Avenue, June 5, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Taylor, a black woman, was fatally shot by police in her home in March.Once at the protest, the department recommends using noisemakers, drums or written signs to protest rather than shouting, which could possibly increase exposure.
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told the Associated Press on Friday that local officials were projecting between 100,000 and 200,000 protesters. The Floyd protests are the broadest in U.S. history -- and are spreading to white, small-town America, the data revealed.The NYPD arrested at least 40 people during largely peaceful protests Friday night.Hours after saying he hoped George Floyd was looking down"from heaven" and saying,"This is a great thing happening for our country," in regards to May's unemploymentThe video clip was from conservative radio host Glenn Beck.
She said he's a symbol"of the broken culture of black America today ... George Floyd was not a good person."A federal judge ruled Friday that the Denver Police Department must scale back its use of chemicals and projectiles in protests.
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