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Thousands Demonstrate in US Cities against Violent, Brutal, Racist Police


Sat 30 May 2020 | 04:13 PM
Ahmed Moamar

Thousands of US citizens demonstrated today in several American cities to protest the killing of a black man during his detention days ago.

The protesters gathered at the Barclays Center in New York as demonstrations spread across the United States to protest the killing of George Floyd, an African American.

Floyd died after a white officer knelt on his neck at Minneapolis city in Minnesota State.

Police arrested dozens of protesters in the massive demonstration rallied in the Brooklyn area.

A representative of the Minnesota State Prosecutor had said earlier that the authorities had arrested the police officer after three nights of violent protests that rocked the city of Minneapolis.

About a thousand people participated in a protest in the city of Atlanta that witnessed violence. Fire broke out in the city center near the headquarters of CNN News.

Hundreds of protesters in Minneapolis violated a curfew and flocked to the streets around a police station.

They set fire to the police station last night.

" Paul Selman, a 25-year-old black youngster, said "We are here because we, as a generation, know that things must change. "

In Detroit, hundreds joined a march against police brutality outside the city's public safety headquarters and chanted No justice, no peace. Similar protests erupted in Denver, Houston, and Louisville across various states of the country.

On the other hand, US police at Minneapolis, the local capital of Minnesota State, arrested yesterday a CNN correspondent, Omar Jimenez, during the live broadcast at the site of the protests against the killing of a black man named , George Floyd by white policeman, at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The victim showed his real identity to the officers and confirmed to them that he is at this place to carry out his work duties.

CNN News said that the police arrested the entire team, including the director and cameraman, as shown in the video clip taken by the cameraman while the officers arrested him and his colleagues.

Protests continue in many areas of the United States of America (USA) against the killing of George Floyd.

Police at Minneapolis fired pepper spray to the rioters who caused fires in a number of buildings in the region.

"CNN" America monitored the use of police batons in scenes described as chaotic to disperse the crowds near the headquarters of the police of Minneapolis.

Cops were seen pushing protesters who responded by throwing projectiles at police officers, while others fled the scene.

The protesters caused the outbreak of fires in at least five buildings in the area surrounding the Minneapolis police station as they protest the death of an unarmed brown skinned man during his arrest by the city police.

The death of the victim, George Floyd, this week, sparked protests across the USA, after a video clip of the dark-skinned man, (46 years old), handcuffed thrown to the floor.

All the four officers involved in the accident were expelled from the Minneapolis Police Department, but that did not stop them from facing criminal charges.