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\nJune 2, 2020\/US-
\nPresident Donald Trump has threatened to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest in the US over the death of George Floyd-a black man in police custody.<\/p>\n
\nJune 2, 2020\/US-
\nPresident Donald Trump has threatened to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest in the US over the death of George Floyd-a black man in police custody.<\/p>\n
He said if cities and states failed to control the protests and “defend their residents” he would deploy the army and “quickly solve the problem for them”.<\/p>\n
Protests over the death of George Floyd have escalated over the past week.<\/p>\n
Four police meanwhile have been shot and injured in Missouri, in what the force says is a continuing incident.<\/p>\n
Hours earlier, in Washington DC, police cleared protesters from a nearby park with tear gas and rubber bullets as Mr Trump spoke at the White House.<\/p>\n
The president then crossed the park and posed next to a damaged church, provoking widespread criticism from those who accused him of aggressively targeting the peaceful demonstrators in aid of a photo opportunity.<\/p>\n
In New York, the iconic department store Macy’s was broken into and a Nike store was looted, while other shop fronts and bank windows were smashed. Several people were arrested. Curfew will begin in the city at 20:00 (midnight GMT).<\/p>\n
The protests began after a video showed Mr Floyd, 46, being arrested in Minneapolis on 25 May and a white police officer continuing to kneel on his neck even after he pleaded that he could not breathe.<\/p>\n
The officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with third-degree murder and will appear in court next week. Three other police officers have been fired.<\/p>\n
A post-mortem examination declared Mr Floyd’s death a homicide.<\/p>\n
What did Trump say?
\nThe president delivered a brief address from the White House Rose Garden, amid the sound of a nearby protest being dispersed.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump said “all Americans were rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death of George Floyd” but said his memory must not be “drowned out by an angry mob”.<\/p>\n
He described the scenes of looting and violence in the capital on Sunday as “a total disgrace” before pledging to bolster the city’s defences.<\/p>\n
“I’m dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults and the wanton destruction of property,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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