{"id":208209,"date":"2020-06-02T17:40:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T17:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208209"},"modified":"2020-06-04T07:11:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:11:15","slug":"tensions-rise-in-u-s-cities-after-police-shot-trump-pushes-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208209","title":{"rendered":"Tensions rise in U.S. cities after police shot; Trump pushes crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Susan Heavey, Nathan Lane \u2013 Reuters June 2, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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A protester kicks in the window of a sherrif’s vehicle in ongoing unrest in Minneapolis on Monday. Despite engaging in such lawlessness, the vandal shows how thoroughly brainwashed he is. Note how he’s heeded advice about coronavirus and is dutifully wearing facemask and gloves<\/p><\/div>\n

President Donald Trump on Tuesday taunted state governors for not embracing his proposal to send in the U.S. military to quell unrest, hours after five officers were shot and wounded in an escalation of tensions between law enforcement and crowds protesting the killing of a black man in police custody.<\/span><\/p>\n

Demonstrators smashed windows and looted stores in New York City late on Monday, including luxury retailers on Fifth Avenue, and set fire to a Los Angeles strip mall. Four officers were shot and wounded in St. Louis and one in Las Vegas who was critically wounded, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has threatened to use the military to crack down on the unrest, now in a second week, and has derided local authorities, including U.S. governors, for their response to the violent protests.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNew York was lost to the looters, thugs, Radical Left, and all others forms of Lowlife & Scum. The Governor refuses to accept my offer of a dominating National Guard. NYC was ripped to pieces,\u201d tweeted Trump, a Republican, in a reference to New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has provided no evidence that leftists are behind the violence that has engulfed U.S. cities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cuomo said he was outraged by the violence and looting in New York City on Monday, and that the city\u2019s mayor and police force \u201cdid not do their job last night.\u201d He said he believed Mayor Bill de Blasio underestimated the scope of the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

The governor said he had offered the state\u2019s mayors support from state police or 13,000 National Guard who are on standby and said that with a 38,000-strong police force, New York City should be able to address its unrest on its own. He said the president sought to blur the line between protesters with a legitimate cause and looters.<\/span><\/p>\n

De Blasio poured cold water on the idea of bringing the National Guard to America\u2019s largest city. He said when forces not trained to handle New York City crowds intervene, \u201cstill with loaded weapons and under stress, horrible things happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The head of the National Guard, General Joseph Lengyel, said violence had decreased across the United States on Monday night, even as protest activity was sustained or increased. He said no Guard members were injured overnight.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lengyel said 18,000 Guard members were assisting local law enforcement in 29 states, a figure that was increasing.<\/span><\/p>\n

CLASHES WITH POLICE<\/h2>\n

The violent U.S. protests were triggered by the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American who died after a white policeman pinned his neck under a knee for nearly nine minutes in Minneapolis on May 25.<\/span><\/p>\n

Derek Chauvin, the 44-year-old Minneapolis police officer who planted his knee on Floyd\u2019s neck, has been charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Three other officers involved have not been charged.<\/span><\/p>\n

Floyd\u2019s death has reignited the explosive issue of excessive police force, especially against African Americans, and raised tensions on the front lines where officers have faced off against sometimes hostile crowds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four officers in St. Louis were shot late on Monday and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. An emotional St. Louis police commissioner, John Hayden, said about 200 protesters were looting and hurling fireworks and rocks at officers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey had officers with gas poured on them. What is going on? How can this be? Mr Floyd was killed somewhere else and they are tearing up cities all across the country,\u201d he told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n

A police officer was shot during protests in Las Vegas, police there said in a statement. Officers were injured in clashes elsewhere, including one who was in critical condition after being hit by a car in the Bronx, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The protests have escalated racial tensions in a politically divided country that has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, with African Americans accounting for a disproportionately high number of cases.<\/span><\/p>\n

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Tuesday told ABC News he is \u201cconsidering all charges\u201d against the officers involved in the Floyd case and that \u201call options are on the table.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump, who is seeking re-election in November, has condemned the killing of Floyd and promised justice, but he has vowed to take action to stop rightful protests from being hijacked by an \u201cangry mob,\u201d deploying thousands of armed soldiers and law enforcement in the U.S. capital and vowing to do the same elsewhere if mayors and governors fail to regain control.<\/span><\/p>\n

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged in a speech on Tuesday to try to heal the racial divide in America and blasted Trump\u2019s response to the protests.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dozens of cities are under curfews not seen since riots after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump is right to be focused on law and order. He wasn\u2019t hired to be the consoler-in-chief,\u201d said Jason Miller, who advised the Republican president\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

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