Cities across America are reeling from a weekend of unrest after widespread protests erupted after George Floyd died during an arrest in Minneapolis.
Cities across America are reeling from a weekend of unrest after widespread protests erupted after George Floyd died during an arrest in Minneapolis. The unarmed black man died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck despite cries from Floyd that he could not breathe.
Many local governments instituted curfews over the weekend in an effort to dissolve mass gatherings. Still, the protests continued into the early hours of Monday morning in some places.
CEOs and business leaders are largely voicing support for the demonstrators and calling for aggressive and intentional efforts to reduce socioeconomic inequalities.
This is CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news on the demonstrations gripping the U. S. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks.
10:09 a.m. ET — The neck restrained used by a former Minneapolis police officer to subdue a prone and handcuffed George Floyd is not uncommon for the city’s law enforcement. Since early 2015, Minneapolis Police Department officers have rendered people unconscious with neck restraints 44 times, an NBC News analysis found.
Experts told NBC that number appears to be unusually high.
Ed Obayashi, an attorney and the deputy sheriff in Plumas County, California, is a national use-of-force expert who trains and advises California police agencies, said neck restraints, in general, have «inherent life-threatening potential.»
«It’s common sense,» Obayashi said. «Any time you cut off someone’s airway or block blood flow to the brain, it can lead to serious injury or death as we have seen in so many of these tragedies.
