Across the United States of America, protests have continued to erupt over the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Crowds took to the streets in the city after former officer Derek Chauvin was charged with murder over the death of Floyd, a black man who was handcuffed and pleaded for air as an officer pressed his knee on his neck.
The protests has degenerated into chaos, as many used the opportunity to loot and burn down buildings.
The protests have now reached all corners of America with break-off demonstrations springing up across states including New York, Kentucky, Texas, Georgia as the arrest of the white cop who knelt on Floyd’s neck has done little to quell the anger over his death.
In New York City, shocking footage showed an NYPD officer hurling a female protester to the ground in Brooklyn, while officers defended a police precinct amid fears it would be torched.
The White House was forced to go into temporary lockdown as protesters tried to scale the walls, battled with Secret Service agents and burned American flags outside the executive residence.
Chaos exploded in Atlanta as demonstrators stormed and destroyed the CNN headquarters and fired a smoke bomb at cops trying to form a barrier to keep them out.
A law enforcement officer has been killed and another injured after they were shot during protests over the death of George Floyd in California.
The shootings took place in the northern Californian city of Oakland after around 7,500 protesters took to the streets in protest at the death of Mr Floyd at the hands of a police officer.
“Two Federal Protective Services officers stationed at the Oakland Down Town Federal Building suffered gunshot wounds. Unfortunately, one succumbed to his injury,” the Oakland police department said.
A19-year-old protester was shot dead in Detroit last night, while soldiers in North Carolina and in New York were ordered to be ready to move in within four hours and troops in Colorado and Kansas within 24 hours.
Police said the man was killed after shots were fired at a crowd of people near Detroit’s Greektown entertainment district last night with dozens of protesters out on the streets, but officers were not involved in the shooting.
The suspect pulled up to the crowd in a Dodge Durango and fired shots at around 11.30pm, and the man was pronounced dead in hospital. No details about who fired the shots were immediately available, police said.
Overnight, President Donald Trump commented on a tweet by Former Democrats for Trump about how Minneapolis was ruled by Democrats, saying: ‘Time for a change! #2020’, which was retweeted more than 25,000 times.
Protests flared late into the night in many U.S. cities over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died after being pinned down on his neck by a white police officer in Minneapolis https://t.co/PhsXaaFBgx pic.twitter.com/ehcySGCJwf
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 30, 2020
INSANE VIDEO: What started as peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd, devolved Friday night into violent clashes with police in #DTLA https://t.co/l8KzBkEAOh pic.twitter.com/bgjjuHOO0P
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Protests and riots happening all over the country after the death of George Floyd. pic.twitter.com/bnyb6nH4r0
— Katherine Bauer (@bauer_katherine) May 30, 2020
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