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Live Updates on George Floyd Protests: Tumult Grips U.S. Cities (tmn)
The arrest of hundreds of people and injuries of both officers and protesters came as thousands of protesters protested peacefully across the country, but as demonstrations also devolved into widespread looting overnight. Stores along some of Manhattan’s most prized shopping streets were ransacked, and broken glass littered Fifth Avenue. In Los Angeles, residents were warned overnight to avoid Hollywood because of looting “on foot and via caravans.”
Hundreds arrested in Santa Monica amid widespread looting (Sparky1)
The tension was palpable Sunday in Santa Monica. What started as a peaceful protest along Ocean Avenue devolved into chaos around 1 p.m., as looters smashed storefronts in the Santa Monica Place mall and other downtown businesses. Police said they made hundreds of arrests and that the National Guard had arrived to help.
Couples sitting and enjoying meals at recently opened restaurants looked stunned as cars dropped off people, many of them wearing masks and hoodies, who then broke into a pharmacy on 7th and Broadway. Several looters stormed inside and took handfuls of items.
Cincinnati sheriff deputies replace American flag at the Justice Center with ‘thin-blue-line’ flag (newsbuoy)
Cincinnati police were filmed replacing the American flag that hangs over the Justice Center in Ohio’s third-largest city. They then replaced it with the thin-blue-line flag, that was created to advocate for law-enforcement during Black Lives Matter Protests.
During the Charlottesville, Virginia riots, right-wing and white supremacist activists carried the thin-blue-line flag along with the Confederate flag to speak out against Black Lives Matter.
Violent protests are not the story. Police violence is. (tmn)
Yet if the anger and frustration from centuries of racial oppression causes a peaceful protest to become “violent” — and most of the reported attacks have been directed against property, not people, though one man was tragically killed in Detroit — suddenly that other kind of violence becomes the dominant story so far as political leaders are concerned, a disruption to the natural order that must be corrected. The systemic racism that has led to so many black lives being cut short becomes secondary.
But it shouldn’t, because that’s the real problem America must grapple with. Otherwise, sooner or later, this will all happen again.
Before Trump vows to end ‘lawlessness,’ federal officers confront protesters outside White House (tmn)
As they did, the law enforcement officers began advancing. With shields that said “military police,” they stood in a line, shoulder to shoulder, and moved forward every few minutes. When they knelt — as officers across the country have been doing to show solidarity with demonstrators — the crowd cheered. But protesters soon realized they were kneeling only to put on gas masks.
Police brutality is a public health crisis (tmn)
Many racial and ethnic minorities, Yearby and Mohapatra write, have been classified as “essential workers,” and are unable to work from home, leave their job, or access paid sick leave. They live in denser housing and more often polluted communities than whites — a result of years of racist housing policy that puts them at greater risk during a pandemic. And when they do get sick, their access to health care is often limited (as is their ability to pay for it).
‘None Of This Is True’: Protests Become Fertile Ground for Online Disinformation (tmn)
The image quickly went viral on Twitter, not unlike a number of other rumors that spread during moments of uncertainty and chaos over the weekend, and which showed how the intense polarization of the current moment is fertile ground for online disinformation campaigns.
A CNN reporter was accused by some protesters of being a D.C. police officer in disguise, forcing the network to clarify that he was one of their journalists on the ground.
Two autopsies both find George Floyd died by homicide, but differ on some key details (tmn)
But the report released later Monday by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office said Floyd died of “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression.” The manner of death was ruled homicide, but the office noted that “is not a legal determination of culpability or intent.” A preliminary autopsy report cited earlier by prosecutors said the county medical examiner’s review “revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.”
US Law Enforcement Are Deliberately Targeting Journalists During George Floyd Protests (tmn)
Although in some incidents it is possible the journalists were hit or affected accidentally, in the majority of the cases we have recorded the journalists are clearly identifiable as press, and it is clear that they are being deliberately targeted. This pattern of violence against journalists is replicated in several cities, but appears most intense in Minneapolis.
A selection of these incidents can be found below.
UN Humanitarian: Ten crises to remember as the world battles COVID-19 (tmn)
Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous countries on earth to be a humanitarian, with 41 deaths, 65 injuries and 75 abductions of humanitarian personnel in 2019. Despite these risks, the humanitarian community reached more than 90 per cent of the country’s districts with some level of assistance in 2019. This year, humanitarian organizations aim to assist more than 7 million people with emergency, protection or recovery assistance, requiring $733 million. So far, the appeal is just 5 per cent funded.
Is America’s Pandemic Waning or Raging? Yes (jdargis)
Understanding the coronavirus’s spread depends on where in America one is standing: New cases are on a small but steady decline over all, to about 21,000 a day from more than 30,000 at its April peak, a somewhat encouraging sign that the pandemic is waning in the United States.
The demolition went ahead on May 24 despite a seven-year battle by the local custodians of the land, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura People, to protect the site.
“We pay our respects to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura People (PKKP),” Rio Tinto Iron Ore CEO Chris Salisbury said in a statement released Sunday.
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