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Curfew to go into effect for New York City from 11pm to 5am Floyd’s family calls for peaceful protests Pressure grows for other three officers to face charges Minneapolis police chief: all four officers ‘complicit’ in death Obama shares advice on how to make protests ‘a turning point’ Angry Trump calls for tougher approach against […] More
Facebook employees are staging a rebellion over Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to act against Donald Trump, expressing their dissatisfaction with their boss on social media in a rare public display of dissent and, in some cases, staging a “virtual” walkout. Disagreement came from employees at all levels of the company, including some senior staff. Particular criticism […] More
The Guardian view on the death of George Floyd: a turning point? Editorial The nationwide protests following the brutal suffocation of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis could be a defining moment in America’s racial politics ‘The sheer scale of the protests over Floyd’s killing – breaking curfews and defying national guard troops, over six […] More
Poor Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate. He currently holds no political office and can’t even circulate in public. In contrast with his Republican rival, US President Donald Trump, he is a mere spectator of the news. Worse, with a raging pandemic now complemented by nationwide violent protests over yet another act of police […] More
T he word “violence” is going to be used a lot to describe the events in US cities over the weekend and all this week. So it’s going to be important to be clear about who is violent and what violence is. Property destruction and harming human beings are profoundly different actions, and with a […] More
Fires light up Washington DC on third night of protests Trump fled to bunker as protests over raged outside White House ‘He is a destroyer’: how the protests left Donald Trump exposed Rage and anguish: how the US papers have covered the protests Get a fresh perspective on America – sign up to our First […] More
Play Video 0:50 A truck driver is in custody after driving into a throng of protesters on a closed interstate near Minneapolis. He was beaten by protesters before police arrived. It did not appear that any marchers were struck by the truck as it moved through the crowd on the westbound lanes of Interstate 35, honking. The freeway […] More
‘He is a destroyer’: how the George Floyd protests left Donald Trump exposed As cities reel under protest and violence, Black Lives Matter leaders say the president has failed his country George Floyd protests: live coverage Robert Reich: the Trump presidency is over Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House on […] More
