As demonstrations versus cops killings and inequality extended into their 5th night in cities throughout the U.S., law enforcement officers got ready to go to battle with their own residents. And in many cases, cops brutality was on complete display screen.
It was a weekend of violence in between American authorities and the citizenry. Over the course of several days of protests– triggered by the authorities killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other deaths and instances of injustice– major cities burned as protesters blasted authorities and the government.
The authoritarian reaction to those demonstrations was frequently vicious.
Linda Tirado, a freelance author in Minneapolis, states she’s “completely blind” in her left eye after supposedly being hit by a rubber bullet or tracer round fired by authorities on Friday. Tirado said she ‘d determined herself as press however was shot with a projectile anyhow.
Reports and videos have actually emerged from all over the country of cops shooting so-called “less-lethal” rounds at protesters, pushing them to the ground or otherwise beating them, and using other means of force.
On Saturday, the reports were likewise dire.
In Louisville, Kentucky– where individuals have actually taken to the streets in memory of Breonna Taylor, the 26- year-old former EMT shot and killed by officers serving a warrant at her house– reporters published video of officers apparently seizing and ruining water stores held by protesters.
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