This is in spite of the fact that Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer seen in a video with his knee on Floyd's neck was arrested and charged with third degree murder and manslaughter on Friday.
Now, calls for his other three colleagues, Tou Thoa, JK Kueng and Thomas Lane who were also there on Monday to face the music become louder and more strident.
Now, calls for his other three colleagues, Tou Thoa, JK Kueng and Thomas Lane who were also there on Monday to face the music become louder and more strident.
Minneapolis folks are not at all happy.
The protests not only keep up but they have escalated all across the US – engulfing more than 30 cities including Sacramento, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Indianapolis, Indiana; Des Moines, Iowa; Boston, Massachusetts; and Las Vegas, Nevada.
They are not just fuelled by outrage over Floyd’s needless death but also years of police violence against African Americans.
The protests not only keep up but they have escalated all across the US – engulfing more than 30 cities including Sacramento, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Indianapolis, Indiana; Des Moines, Iowa; Boston, Massachusetts; and Las Vegas, Nevada.
They are not just fuelled by outrage over Floyd’s needless death but also years of police violence against African Americans.
Even Washington DC is not spared and the White House on Friday went into partial lockdown for an hour or so. At one point, Donald Trump even warned protesters that they would be met with "vicious dogs" and "ominous weapons" if they breached the White House perimeter!
As one 19-year-old protester in Houston, Texas told the Associated Press: "My question is how many more, how many more? I just want to live in a future where we all live in harmony and we're not oppressed".
I have no doubt that refrain has been heard multiple times over the years – but the truth is, black lives don’t matter! Even a non-black person like me can see that!
When you look at the photos of the protests in the US, you can’t help but be reminded of Hong Kong!
The one stark difference is that Trump called American protesters/rioters “thugs” – but in Hong Kong, the Western media portrayed this same category of people, “heroes”!
On Friday, the US president (right) declared "we can't allow" the demonstrations "to descend further into lawless anarchy and chaos". On Saturday, Trump reiterated that he will not allow mob violence to rule.
And yet, in Hong Kong, his goons funded, instigated and incited protests-that-descended-into-riots – and if that’s not enough, he wants to punish HKSAR for not giving space to the anarchists to rampage at will.
In the US, state troopers and National Guardsmen have been deployed on the streets in addition to the local police – and even the Pentagon on Friday reportedly took the rare step of ordering the Army to put active-duty US military police units on the ready.
Contrast that with Hong Kong, where only the Hong Kong Police are involved in containing the protests/riots there. Thus far, Chinese soldiers have not intervened.