WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump was arranged to meet his leading law enforcement officer behind closed doors on Monday as cities across the country awoke from a smoldering weekend of violent demonstrations over race and policing in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Chaotic presentations from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles swelled from tranquil demonstrations – stimulated by the death of a black male, George Floyd, in Minneapolis cops custody last Monday – into scenes of violence that drew National Guard troops in a minimum of 15 states and Washington.
Lots of cities across the United States faced curfews at a level not seen considering that the riots following the 1968 assassination of civil liberties activist Martin Luther King Jr. as fires burned near the White Home and stores were robbed in New York City and other major cities.
Floyd’s death is the latest in a string of comparable occurrences including unarmed black men in the last few years that has raised a protest over extreme police and racism, and