These are not « demonstrations »
According to most of the reports we’re seeing this morning, the violence, looting and arson abated somewhat last night in most of the cities. There were still large demonstrations and violations of curfew orders taking place, but any reduction in the violent mayhem is a welcome sign. The improvements are widely being credited to the arrests of the three other police officers involved in the death of George Floyd, but that’s obviously hard to verify.
Sadly, that doesn’t mean that all of the news was good. New York City saw yet another unprovoked attack on a police officer shortly before midnight. In Brooklyn, a suspect snuck up behind one NYPD officer and stabbed him in the neck. This drew more cops to the scene resulting in two more officers being injured before the attacker was shot by the police.
A confrontation in Brooklyn late Wednesday left one police officer stabbed in the neck, two officers with gunshot wounds to their hands and another man shot by police, the New York Police Department said.
The officers were taken to a hospital with wounds that were not expected to be life-threatening, the department said. The condition of the man shot by police was not immediately released.
