The protests occurred during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and amid the 2020 U.S. presidential election season. [4] Among the losses was Minnehaha Commons, an under-construction, $30 million redevelopment project for 189 units of affordable housing, which was destroyed by fire after being torched on May 27. Many have stated that the current unrest is due to the current political and cultural system of overlooking, ignoring and oppression of Black Americans, calling it a racial reckoning. [183] By June 21, at least 20 people had suffered serious eye injuries. Officers called for an ambulance." [62][63], Although the police report stated that medical services were requested prior to the time Floyd was placed in handcuffs,[64] according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Emergency Medical Services arrived at the scene six minutes after getting the call. The protests reached into every corner of the United States and touched nearly every strand of society. The reports repeatedly blamed police departments for escalating violence instead of taming it. [164] In The Nation, Jeet Heer also called the actions unconstitutional and wrote that "The deployment of unidentified federal officers is particularly dangerous in... Portland and elsewhere in America, because it could easily lead to right-wing militias' impersonating legal authorities and kidnapping citizens. The Chicago police response on the night of May 29, when hundreds of people marched through the streets, “was marked by poor coordination, inconsistency, and confusion,” the city’s Office of Inspector General found. [117] During the first week of June, the encrypted messaging app was downloaded over five times more than it had been during the week prior to the death of George Floyd. By then, Floyd's death had resulted in one of the largest civil rights protest movements in recent decades, and the Minneapolis–Saint Paul region had experienced a prolonged series of protests and intermittent unrest over issues of police brutality and racial injustice. MPD Officers Thomas K. Lane and J. Alexander Kueng arrived with their body cameras turned on. [300] BLM activists in London are calling for the removal of 60 statues of historical figures like Prime Ministers Charles Grey and William Gladstone, Horatio Nelson, Sir Francis Drake, King Charles II of England, Oliver Cromwell and Christopher Columbus. The Black Lives Matter movement has been protesting the unfair treatment of black people - including by the police and other authorities since 2013 - long before the … [410], A protest march in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020, "Black Lives Fucking Matter", "A.C.A.B. [265] State governments have, since June, announced budget cuts to police departments as well as increased funding to other public safety measures. [49], In 2014, the shooting of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri resulted in local protests and unrest while the death of Eric Garner in New York City resulted in numerous national protests. Senior law enforcement officers in Cleveland developed plans to manage a large protest but did not share the details with patrol supervisors. [292][293] BLM activist Shaun King tweeted that statues, murals, and stained glass windows depicting a white Jesus should be removed. [254], A week into the protests, The Washington Post stated that the current situation suggests that the status quo was undergoing a shock, with the article stating "the past days have suggested that something is changing. Black Lives Matter banner painted on road leading to White House ... George Floyd protests … [321][322], A week-long tour began July 28 in which a hologram of Floyd was projected on a monument to be removed, thereby "replacing" the monument with Floyd. [45][46] George Floyd Square occupation protest organizers, who had transformed the street intersection where Floyd died into an "autonomous zone" adored with public art, said they would continue to protest. [274][275] Later estimates projected damages to be upwards of $500 million. [140] Cotton later said he was using "no quarter" in a colloquial sense, but Mark Zaid and Tom Nichols responded that the legal definition of the term is a war crime. [306], On June 12, the city council in Hamilton, New Zealand removed the statue of Captain John Hamilton, a British officer who was killed during the New Zealand Wars in 1864. [398][399][400][401], Epidemiologists and other researchers attributed this to the location of the demonstrations outdoors (where the virus is less likely to spread as compared to indoors);[398][400] because many protesters wore masks;[400] and because persons who demonstrated made up a small portion of the overall U.S. population (about 6% of adults). The reports are strikingly similar, a point made by the Indianapolis review, which said that officers’ responses “were not dissimilar to what appears to have occurred in cities around the country.” Of the outside reviews, only the police department in Baltimore was credited with handling protests relatively well. By midday, people had gathered by the thousands and set up a makeshift memorial. 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But activists in Indianapolis told reviewers they wanted an acknowledgment by the department that systemic racism exists. Several protesters tore down the statue of the third President of the United States and wrote: "slave owner" and "George Floyd" in spray paint at its white marble base. As Castells (2015) states, this type of activism is “usually triggered by a spark of indignation either related to a specific event or a peak of disgust with the actions of the rulers. [95][94] When Minneapolis city officials attempted to negotiate the re-opening of the intersection in August 2020, protesters demanded that before removing cement barricades the city meet a list of 24 demands,[96] which included holding the trial for the four officers at the scene of Floyd's death. In places like Indianapolis and Philadelphia, reviewers found, the actions of the officers seemed to make things worse. In Denver, officers used similar “less lethal” weapons against people who yelled about officers’ behavior. It's time to disband them and reimagine public safety in Minneapolis. Nationally, at least eight people were blinded after being hit with police projectiles. [171] The police responded that such tactics are necessary to prevent vandalism and arson, and that police officers themselves have been assaulted with thrown rocks and water bottles. June 11 Black Lives Matter protests. Experts say prosecutors have a long road ahead. [297][298] The Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial and the statue of General Casimir Pulaski were vandalized during the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C.[299] On June 7, the statue of Edward Colston was toppled and thrown into Bristol Harbour by demonstrators during the George Floyd protests in the United Kingdom. [37] Nevertheless, arson, vandalism, and looting between May 26 and June 8 were tabulated to have caused $1–2 billion in insured damages nationally—the highest recorded damage from civil disorder in U.S. history, "eclipsing the record set in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who beat Rodney King. [129], To mark what would have been Floyd's 47th birthday, groups across the US staged events[130] and celebrities paid tribute to him. In city after city, the reports are a damning indictment of police forces that were poorly trained, heavily militarized and stunningly unprepared for the possibility that large numbers of people would surge into the streets, moved by the graphic images of Mr. Floyd’s death under a police officer’s knee. This is what you do with your privilege. [72] Shortly after, the official post-mortem declared Floyd's death a homicide. Dallas officials said the department had trouble figuring out how to get water to officers on the front lines. A report from the New York City Department of Investigation noted that most officers had not been adequately trained for policing protests. [311], Soon afterwards, the DOJ announced the arrest and charging of a man who was not only allegedly seen on video climbing up onto the Jackson statue and affixing a rope that was then used to try to pull the statue down, but had on June 20 helped destroy Gaetano Trentanove's 1901 Albert Pike Memorial statue near Washington's Judiciary Square by pulling it from its base and setting it on fire. [378], Firearms retailers surveyed by National Shooting Sports Foundation in May estimated that 40% of their sales came from first-time gun buyers, 40% of those first-time gun buyers were women, a relatively high rate for that demographic group. [217] In some cases, these displays of solidarity, such as police kneeling, have been recognized as occurring moments before police teargassed crowds or inflicted violence on them. "[262] On July 3, The Washington Post said that "the Black Lives Matter protests following the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks focused the world's attention on racial inequities, structural racism and implicit bias. [351] The streaming service HBO Max temporarily pulled the film Gone with the Wind until video that explains and condemns the film's racist depictions could be produced to accompany it. [171] These incidents have provoked "growing concern that aggressive law enforcement tactics intended to impose order were instead inflaming tensions". A bystander then protests that the police were preventing Floyd from breathing, urging them to "get him off the ground ... You could have put him in the car by now. Lawyers Note That's a War Crime", "Mass. In no just society would it take this to hold police accountable for their actions, but injustice is rife in America. "[185], There have been accusations of various extremist groups using the cover of the protests to foment general unrest in the United States. PPS officials said they recognize that the act is part of a larger and very important national conversation. Foster identified with the boogaloo movement and had expressed anti-racist, libertarian, and anti-police views in his Facebook posts. [407][408] Trump later said he was not advocating violence, noting that the tweet could be read as either a threat or a statement of fact and that he intended for it to be read as "a combination of both". As protesters took to the streets in cities across the U.S. in the aftermath of the police killing of George … a false claim about a communications blackout during protests in Washington, D.C. 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