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Play Video 0:43 Washington police appeared to charge at an Australian news cameraman live on air as the crew attempted to report on the George Floyd protests in the US capital on Tuesday. Outrage over the death of Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a white officer knelt on his neck for several […] More
Racism, protest and a dangerous president Readers respond to the widespread US protests that started with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and Donald Trump’s inflammatory language A makeshift memorial in honour of George Floyd, an African American man who was killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photograph: Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Re Richard Wolffe’s […] More
Play Video 2:13 Joe Biden has addressed the killing of George Floyd and the protests that his death has sparked. During a speech in Philadelphia, the Democratic presidential candidate said Floyd’s last words, ‘I can’t breathe’, were a ‘wake-up call for our nation’. Biden also sought to draw a clear distinction between himself and Donald Trump, saying […] More
E very few years, being black becomes a macabre spectacle. What is usually a complicated private identity becomes a public one. A black man is killed by a white police officer in the United States, and suddenly the world is attuned to your race. Suddenly, the world is trying to help. It’s trying to amplify […] More
Trump has reached the ‘mad emperor’ stage, and it’s terrifying to behold Richard Wolffe He incites violence from the safety of a bunker, then orders peaceful people tear-gassed for the sake of a surreal photo op Donald Trump holds a Bible for a photo outside St John’s church across Lafayette Park from the White House […] More
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
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
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
