US police used flashbang grenades, pepper spray and tear gas as protestors marched in cities across the country amid a wave of public anger over Donald Trump’s…
US police used flashbang grenades, pepper spray and tear gas as protestors marched in cities across the country amid a wave of public anger over Donald Trump’s planned « surge » of federal agents into major metropolises.
The demonstrations against racism and police brutality — sparked by the death in Minneapolis of unarmed African-American George Floyd — come as the US president faces an increasingly tough battle for re-election, and is campaigning heavily on a platform of « law and order ».
The demonstrations against racism and police brutality come as the President Trump faces an increasingly tough battle for re-election, and is campaigning heavily on a platform of « law and order »
Jason Redmond, AFP
Protestors marched in Austin, Texas, as well as Louisville in Kentucky, New York, Omaha, California’s Oakland and Los Angeles, and Richmond in Virginia — where riot police fired chemical agents at a Black Lives Matter march, according to US media.
In Seattle the sounds of repeated small detonations rang out in some streets, and smoke rose from an area where demonstrators had set fire to trailers by a construction site for a youth detention facility, an AFP reporter observed.
Protesters slashed car tires and smashed trailer windows.
Police in riot gear faced off against the protestors, some holding umbrellas against falling pellets of pepper spray.
Police in Seattle faced off against protestors, some holding umbrellas against falling pellets of pepper spray
Jason Redmond, AFP
Late Saturday, Seattle Police said 45 people were arrested in connection with the demonstrations, which they designated a riot, according to the force’s official Twitter account.
