Thousands of protesters wearing face coverings surrounded the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct police station late Wednesday, about half a mile from where Floyd had been arrested.
Thousands of protesters fueled by anger took the streets of Minneapolis for the second night this week demanding justice for George Floyd, an unarmed black many who died in police custody.
Protesters clashed with riot police who used teargas in an effort to disperse crowds as businesses in downtown Minneapolis were burned and vandalized.
The violence erupted two days after a video showing former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck during an arrest that resulted in the latter’s death—and hours after Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called for Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to file criminal charges against Chauvin.
«I have wrestled with—more than anything else over the last 36 hours— one fundamental question: Why is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail,» Frey said to reporters on Wednesday.
