Protests Are Not Ending Anytime Soon

The #GeorgeFloyd protests are persisting. They're not ending anytime soon.

In fact, few corners of the country are untouched in the unrest – from demonstrators setting fires inside Reno's city hall in Nevada and police launching tear gas at rock-throwing protesters in Fargo, North Dakota, to demonstrators being clubbed in the face and legs by Los Angeles, California police officers and two police vehicles ramming into a group of unarmed protestors in Brooklyn, New York.

It does appear that things are going from bad to worse. 

At least 25 cities across 16 states had imposed overnight curfews – they included Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Seattle, Miami, Cleveland, Columbus, Portland, Milwaukee and Salt Lake City. 

Governors activated their state national guards in Colorado, California, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. 

And the upheaval again came to Donald Trump’s doorstep on Saturday as protesters clashed with the Secret Service and police outside the White House for the second successive day.

Police have made more than 1,400 arrests around the country during the protests, according to an AP tally, although the number is likely to be higher. 

Reporters are also not spared. Many faced assault and arrest while reporting on the widespread protests as they were unfolding. 

Molly Hennessy-Fiske, a Los Angeles Times journalist reporting outside the fifth police precinct in Minneapolis, said she was standing with about a dozen journalists when Minnesota state patrol “fired teargas canisters on us at point-blank range”. 

Ryan Faircloth, a reporter for the Star Tribune, said officers blew out his car window with some kind of rubber bullet. “The glass shattered into my face and body. I’m bleeding from the side of my face and down my left arm”, he wrote. 

Michael Anthony Adams, a Vice News reporter tweeted a video that captured him repeatedly shouting that he was press and showing his media ID before he was thrown to the ground, held down and pepper sprayed in the face by police. 

MSNBC journalist Ali Velshi said he was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet. “State police supported by national guard fired unprovoked into an entirely peaceful rally”, he said.

It appears that America is going berserk! 

And #GeorgeFloyd is making its way abroad too. 

The Minneapolis murder has pushed people to march against racism – in cities such as London, UK; Berlin, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Toronto, Canada – in solidarity with US protesters. 

#BlackLivesMatter #NoJusticeNoPeace