Grief, outrage over George Floyd spread further across U. S.
AFTER a night of fire and fury across the Unites States, officials announced more curfews yesterday as police in many cities significantly increased their use of force and hundreds of people were arrested.
Police cars and government buildings were set aflame, windows shattered, stores ransacked and monuments vandalized, and authorities in riot gear fired pepper pellets, tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators who had amassed to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man killed at the hands of police.
As nationwide protests sparked by the death of a black man in police custody stretched into their sixth day, former and current government officials warned on Sunday the mass demonstrations could lead to new waves of coronavirus infections.
“There’s going to be a lot of issues coming out of what’s happened in the last week, but one of them is going to be that chains of transmission will have become lit from these gatherings,” former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation."
He noted that Minnesota, which has been hit hard by the pandemic, has seen an uptick in cases and hospitalizations in recent days.
At the weekend, Miami police surpassed every police of the world. When protestors came to attack them due to Floyd’s murder, they all went on their knees asking for forgiveness while crying. It was a strange sight seeing the police kneeling and begging the angry protesters.