The demonstrators marched to Austin, in Texas, as in Louisville, Kentucky, to New York, Omaha, Oakland and Los Angeles in California, as well as to Richmond.
The tensions surrounding police violence do not fall in the United States. The police had to resort to grenades, dynamite, tear gas and pepper gas against the protesters who marched in several U.s. cities on Saturday against the racism and now the deployment of federal agents ordered by Donald Trump.
The protests against racism and police brutality occur at a time when the president, Donald Trump is facing a battle more difficult for his re-election and is leading a campaign under the theme of “law and order”.
A man shot and killed in Texas
The night of Saturday to Sunday was marked in several cities of the United States by new clashes, sometimes violent, between police and demonstrators protesting against racism and the deployment of federal agents ordered by Donald Trump.
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A man was shot and killed Saturday evening on the sidelines of an event in Austin, Texas. According to the local police, he was “probably armed with a rifle” when he approached the vehicle from the author of the fatal shots, who has been arrested and is cooperating with the authorities.
protests have been held across the country, Omaha, Oakland and Los Angeles, California, to New York by way of Louisville, in Kentucky, or Richmond, Virginia, where riot police reportedly fired gas to disperse a march of the movement Black Lives Matter, according to the american media.
sleepless Night in Seattle
The wave of anger history against the racism and brutality of the forces of law and order was triggered by the death, at the end of may in Minneapolis, the middle-aged black George Floyd under the knee of a white policeman.
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in Seattle, in Washington State (north-west), the night from Saturday to Sunday has been particularly eventful. The noise of the explosions echoed in some of the streets, and smoke rose from an area where demonstrators set fire to trailers on a construction site of a detention centre for minors. Some of the demonstrators tried to protect themselves from the pepper gas with umbrellas. The police of Seattle Times, has announced on Twitter that 45 people had been arrested during these “riots”.
The movement is growing in Portland
In parallel, clashes between protesters and police marked the night of Friday to Saturday in the city of Portland, Oregon (north-western), theatre for nearly two months of these gatherings. Demonstrators tried to bring down a barrier in front of the federal court.
the police have also replicated with abundant shots of tear gas and dispersed the crowd. The police confirmed that a man had been stabbed and that the suspect had been retained by the protesters before being arrested by the security forces. The movement is amplified to Portland when the federal police arrived in mid-July.
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In many videos published on social networks, we see these agents in paramilitary outfit, and without a badge visible for identification, use unmarked cars to detain protesters, stoking the embers of the dispute. An official investigation was opened on Thursday by the ministry of Justice on the very controversial subject of federal police officers on-site.
increased number of federal agents
The president Trump, that particular campaign to be re-elected in November, on the re-establishment of “order”, also announced Wednesday an expansion of federal agents in Chicago and other cities after a surge in crime and shootings.
Saturday, three people were slightly injured by firearms in the margins of an anti-racist demonstration in Louisville, in the State of Kentucky, have reported the american media. The police, however, referred to circumstances “accidental”.
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In this city, of the black activists of the group NFAC, heavily armed, protested against the death of Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed by police in march in his apartment. But the police was deployed to avoid any clash with counter-demonstrators whites a conservative group, also armed.
