BREAKING: Active duty troops stationed just outside of Washington D.C., have been ordered to return to their home bases at Fort Bragg and Fort Drum.
2:20 p.m.: Minneapolis temporarily bans police using chokeholds
Going forward, the Minneapolis Police Chief will have to authorize the use of crowd control weapons, including chemical agents such as tear gas. "This is a moment in time where we can totally change how our police department operates," Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said."We cannot fail."Active duty troops stationed just outside of Washington D.C., have been ordered to return to their home bases at Fort Bragg and Fort Drum.
"We’re speaking of a man who was brutally killed by an act of needless violence and by a larger tide of injustice that has metastasized on this president’s watch as he’s moved to split us based on race and religion, ethnicity," Biden added."George Floyd's last words, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, have echoed all across this nation and quite frankly around the world.
by police in Buffalo, New York, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York James Kennedy said the officers involved have been suspended pending further investigation. President Donald Trump talks about a U.S. jobs report amid the coronavirus disease pandemic as he addresses a news conference as Vice President Mike Pence listens in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, June 5, 2020.In a last-minute news conference to discuss this morning's job report, President Trump said he hoped Floyd was"looking down" from heaven"and saying, 'This is a great thing happening for our country.
"Even though we say that phrase words matter and words do matter, actions matter more and that's what we have to achieve," he said. He also promised increased transparency. Pence on Thursday met with a group of black conservative leaders, a White House official said. He shared a photo of the meeting on his Twitter account, saying he was grateful to"hear their insights about how we can move our Nation forward in the wake of the tragic death of George Floyd and the protests and rioting that have ensued."
Large yellow letters in support of the Black Live Matter movement are painted on 16th street, just blocks from the White House, June 5, 2020, in Washington, D.C.Bowser said she has ended the state of emergency in the nation's capital due to the demonstrations. In a break from the previous night's practice in which police issued an hour of warnings, officers Thursday night immediately began making arrests in the Bronx at 8 p.m. Three, a demonstration was organized by Decolonize This Place.For a second straight night, officials said there was little if any looting/vandalism and only minor injuries to just a few officers. However, Mayor Bill de Blasio was upset a delivery man was detained in the Upper West Side roundup.
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis?Majorities across racial groups, too, disapprove of the president's response to Floyd's death, with the sharpest rebuke of the president coming from blacks, with 90% disapproval, compared to 59% of whites and 74% of Hispanics.
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