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The family of black George Floyd, who was killed in detention by police, has filed a lawsuit against the city government of Minneapolis, in which the incident occurred, reports the associated Press.
The claim was forwarded to the district court of the state of Minnesota and in addition to the authorities of the town calls as defendants are the four officers involved in the arrest of Floyd.
The trial of ex-police officers who participated in the arrest of an African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis, will begin in March next year, NBC television reported, citing Hennepin County judge Peter Cahill.
As the channel, the judge stated that "it remains to be seen" whether the trial of all four former police officers to pass at the same time, however, the first meeting will be held on 8 March 2021.
The inspector General of the U.S. air force began an investigation of possible irregularities in the use of reconnaissance aircraft to monitor the protests in Washington and Minneapolis, reports the New York Times.
According to the publication, a request for an investigation, apparently, came from congressmen concerned about the actions of the Pentagon. In their opinion, the use of reconnaissance aircraft to monitor the protests could violate the civil rights of mostly peaceful demonstrators who oppose police abuse against African Americans.
The shooting occurred in the American city of Albuquerque, new Mexico, during the protests against racism and police brutality after the murder of a police officer of African-American George Floyd, the victim is in serious condition, according to local police.
It is noted that law enforcement officers after the incident used "chemical irritants and stun grenades" to ensure the safety of police officers and the arrest of suspects in the shooting, who was taken into custody for questioning.
Unknown demolished a bronze monument to the third US President Thomas Jefferson in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, according to local television station KOIN-TV.
On Sunday afternoon next to the statue installed at the school of Jefferson, has gathered dozens of protesters. The rally was planned movement for the rights of blacks Black Lives Matter (BLM). The protesters wrote on the pedestal of the statue, the word "slave owner".
Unknown on Saturday desecrated the statue of the famous Italian journalist Indro Montanelli in Milan, dousing her in red paint and leaving a label of "rapist" and "racist", writes the Milanese newspaper Corriere della Sera.
Montanelli (1909-2001) was a prominent journalist, writer and historian. Most of his career he devoted work in the Corriere. In his youth he took part in the Italo-Ethiopian war, during which, according to his confession, according to local customs I bought a 12 year old girl and married her. After the war Montanelli said that he felt for her physical hostility and came into contact with her, according to the well known among his colleagues traditions that didn't stop criticism in its address. The experience of the war in Abyssinia finally changed his attitude toward the Mussolini regime, and after the Second world Montanelli made a name for himself in journalism, speaking with anti-Communist positions.
At least 36 people detained in Atlanta amid protests that erupted after the death of African-American Rashard Brooks, who received a gunshot wound from police, according to the StarTribune, with reference to the representative of the local police.
On Saturday in Atlanta the protests began due to the fact that the 27-year-old African American Rashard Brooks died, after the arrest on Friday was shot by police. As reported by the police, the police on Friday evening got a call from the complaints that the car in which slept the man, blocked part of the playgrounds at fast food restaurant Wendy's. They found that Brooks was drunk, and tried to detain him, but he grabbed one of the officers Taser and tried to escape. A police officer shot the man, Brooks died in a hospital after surgery. The chief of police of Atlanta Eric shields after the incident has resigned. The gunman police officer was fired and another officer involved in the arrest, Brooks was suspended from field work.
The leadership of the police of the city of Atlanta (us state of Georgia) has fired a police officer who on Friday during the arrest fatally shot African-American Rashard Brooks, told the Guardian referring to the representative of police.
The TV station notes that one police officer involved in the arrest of Brooks, was removed from operational work.
About seven thousand people in several cities of Australia taking part in demonstrations in support of refugees and the movement Black Lives Matter who are against the violence against black people, reports the Australian television and radio ABC.
Demonstrations and protests were held in Perth, Darwin, Rockhampton, Brisbane and Melbourne. The largest rally in support of Black Lives Matter was held in Perth – according to preliminary data, in it have taken part about 5 thousand people. Demonstrators wore masks and kept between the recommended distance. In Darwin to protest came about two thousand people. In Brisbane, to Express support for the imprisoned refugees, there were about 100 people in Melbourne about 20 people in Sydney is about 60.
A group of police officers in Minneapolis published an open letter condemning the actions of the former colleagues of Derek Shovina, accused in the murder of an African-American George Floyd, according to local newspaper the Star Tribune.
Law enforcement officers said they're aiming to work with people to regain their trust. According to them, expressed in a letter opinion finds widespread support in the police Department of Minneapolis, which has about 900 employees.
The chief of police of Minneapolis, Medaria of Arredondo apologized to the journalists, which was attacked by the police, among the victims was the correspondent of RIA Novosti, Mikhail Turgiev.
"There was a video of the use of rubber bullets and tear gas against journalists... the media must be protected," said Arredondo at a press conference, which was broadcast on local television in Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis PD will use the technology to track the violations reported by the chief of police of Medaria of Arredondo.
According to him, the reform of the police "would include a new system that will use real-time data to identify early warning signals about the abuse of cops".
The case of George Floyd even for the police of Minneapolis is exceptional, because usually the people here are killed for other reasons. About the roots of prejudice against the police people of colour, the problems of the entire system and how that can count the victims, RIA Novosti said attorney Paul Applebaum, who has 30 years represents in court the interests of citizens whose rights have been violated by the police.
According to him, he deals with cases of human rights violations, most of which relate to police misconduct.
Prosecutors have charged a resident of Minnesota in connection with the arson of a police station in Minneapolis, according to the website of the Ministry of justice.
Earlier it was reported that the American protesters in Minneapolis burned a police station. The rioters at first surrounded the building, and once gathered on the roof of the police tried to disperse the crowd stun grenades and tear gas, broke in and set fire to it. Guards were evacuated from the roof by helicopter, no one was hurt.
A group of Russian bikers have organized patrols of the district of Brighton beach in new York where the immigrants from the former Soviet Union, told RIA Novosti founder and President of the motorcycle club Bratva MC Konstantin Kotov.
Mass protests and riots swept many cities in the United States after the death of the African-American George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis. In new York for several days of continued unrest in Manhattan was ransacked many shops, a number of buildings have been subjected to vandalism. According to Kotova, on Brighton beach yet "big nothing, was small hooliganism".
In Seattle the crowd of protesters drove the car, then the driver got out of the car and opened fire. Injured at least one person told the Seattle Times.
In the city police Department said that a suspect was detained, the wounded was hospitalized. Other details being investigated.
The police of Montreal, the largest city of the canadian province of Quebec, used tear gas to disperse the protesters, writes the local edition of Montreal Gazette.
Earlier it was reported that on Sunday, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of cities in the canadian province of Quebec in the framework of protests against racism and police violence. A large crowd of people took to the streets of Central Montreal. Thousands of people staged similar protests in other cities of the province - in Quebec city and Sherbrooke.
Members of the city Council of Minneapolis has announced its intention to seek the dissolution of the city police Department, don't think of how it should look, what they were told RIA Novosti.
Previously, the vast majority of Council members supported this idea, which deprives the mayor of Minneapolis the opportunity to veto it.
Minneapolis city hall intends to disband the police Department, but he needs the support of the population, said Council member Jeremiah Allison.
However, Allison, who at the same time to my local attorney General, expressed concern that if Council members will not help the population, the force will just reversed their followers.
Police officer Derek Caven from Minneapolis for the first time will appear on Monday before the court for the use of strangulation in the apprehension of African-American George Floyd, from which he subsequently died.
Cavena accused of second-degree murder. This is intentional killing without the prior intent, when the intent was to cause physical harm while displaying complete indifference to human life.
Massive protests against racism because of death in the United States at the hands of police of African-American George Floyd were held in several cities of Spain.
The largest action took place in Madrid. It was attended by several dozen thousand people - not only immigrants from African countries but indigenous Spaniards, and white natives of the United States.
The United States, where in recent days there are mass riots, faced the consequences of those theses that have promoted themselves around the world, including the possibility of destabilization of the situation in other countries, said Sunday the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
According to her, the United States faced the consequences of those ideas and arguments that "they were promoting around the world: the possibility of instability, the possibility of playing on the internal contradictions that are the essence of any state and nation which need to be overcome on legal grounds."
Action in support of the movement against racism Black Lives Matter in Malmo, Sweden, last Thursday, ended with no arrests and injuries, according to Sveriges Radio.
The organizers received a permit Thursday to hold the event in the area of Malmo Ribersborg provided that participation in it will accept no more than 50 people. This limitation is due to the ban on the Assembly of groups of more than 50 people, issued by the Swedish Agency of health pandemic coronavirus. However, five minutes before the scheduled 18.00 start of the action police has taken the decision to crackdown, because the number of participants quickly exceeded.
Benjamin crump, the attorney for the family of the deceased in the Minneapolis African American George Floyd, drew attention to the earlier Chicago incident in which, according to media reports, police pulled a black woman out of the car, then pressed her knee to the neck.
The incident in Chicago happened a few days ago amid protests in several American cities because of the death of Floyd. He died in hospital after police Showin Derek pinned him with his knee the neck and kept him in this position for at least eight minutes.
Chief editor MIA "Russia today" Margarita Simonyan said that consults with lawyers about filing lawsuits in American police officers who attacked the journalists of the Agency in Minneapolis and Washington.
Police sprayed pepper gas in the face of the correspondent of RIA Novosti, Mikhail Turgiev on Sunday when he was covering the riots in Minneapolis, and on Monday at the White house in Washington fired rubber bullets at producer Sputnik Nicole Russel — in both cases the police acted deliberately, despite the fact that both were clearly presented by the journalists.
Residents of Minneapolis began collecting signatures for a petition to rename the street in honor of the deceased African-American George Floyd.
The petition is available on the website change.org June 4. During this time, a petition signed by over 17 thousand people.
Paris police did not allow the campaign against racism and demanding justice in the case of death in the U.S. African-American George Floyd at the American Embassy in Paris, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
On the eve of the action the police and gendarmes cordoned off entire area, where, in addition to the U.S. Embassy, there are other diplomatic missions, as well as the French interior Ministry and the residence of the President is the Elysee Palace. Pass through police cordons could only locals or journalists.
Several hundred people gathered in Parliament square in London to rally for the rights of blacks, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
The event is the third in a row and was planned in advance. On Wednesday March in London passed thousands of people on Saturday the number of participants is smaller, probably due to bad weather in London rain, followed by gusty winds and the temperature dropped to 12 degrees.
About 10 thousand people gathered for a rally against racism and in solidarity with American protesters in the centre of Berlin, told RIA Novosti in the city police.
The action began at 14.00 (15.00 GMT), but the Alexanderplatz square is already Packed with people. The call of the speaker "to keep a minimum distance of five feet", the participants met with laughter - if they will keep their distance, then the majority will have to go outside the square.
Police in the us state of Maryland have detained a man who was attacked by several youth activists who distributed leaflets calling for justice after the death of the African-American George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis, told the American TV channel ABC.
The incident in question, occurred on Monday, June 1. On the video, posted by the TV channel, you can see how the cyclist in the helmet coming up to one of the activists and the force starts to take something out of her hands, while another activist yells: "don't touch her!". The young man, removing what is happening on the video, also encourages a man to leave the activist in peace. After a man sits on a Bicycle, he begins to move straight towards the teenager, who is filming the incident, with the result that, apparently, the mobile phone, which had recorded the video drops on the grass.
Tens of thousands of people on Saturday gathered in Australia on the stock of the movement Black Lives Matter in connection with the death in the U.S. African-American George Floyd, reports channel ABC News.
Protests have already begun in Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney. In the last of the action gathered a few dozen thousand people, noted that the demonstration organizers and volunteers handed out to the participants of the mask and provide a disinfectant for the hands.
Two police officers in new York, is suspended from the service for the use of force against protesters, according to TV channel NBC, citing a statement by the chief of police of the city.
According to the channel, we are talking about two different incidents that were filmed. In the first case, a police officer pushed a woman who ended up falling to the ground. The second police pulled a protester with a mask and sprayed him in the face with pepper spray.
The Minneapolis after the death of the African-American George Floyd forbid the police to use choke holds, reported the Agency associated Press with reference to the proposals of the office of state human rights that intends to approve the city Council.
In addition, police officers will be required to report any cases of violence against citizens by their colleagues and intervene in such a situation, to stop the violence. If they do not, they will face serious disciplinary action.
The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey cried during the funeral of George Floyd.
The video can be seen as leaning on one knee of the mayor shaking because of the crying.
The Supreme court of New South Wales has banned scheduled for Saturday in Sydney of the action of the movement Black Lives Matter, as a high threat to the spread of coronavirus, reports channel 9 News.
Earlier the police of the Australian state appealed to the Supreme court to ban in the Sydney stock movement Black Lives Matter in connection with the death in the U.S. African-American George Floyd. The head of the state police, Mick fuller explained that the claims of the authorities to the organizers of the March are violation of sanitary norms adopted in the framework of the fight against coronavirus. He said that the prior action was begun with applications for 50 people, but then the number of participants increased to 10 thousand.
The members of the city Council of Minneapolis has announced plans to "dismantle" the city's Department of police, the employee accused of the murder of African American George Floyd.
The head of the Council Lisa Bender has confirmed these plans. "Yes, we dismantle the police Department of Minneapolis and replace it with the new revolutionary model of social security," she said on Twitter.
Three former officers involved in the case of the African-American George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis during the arrest on 25 may, accused of aiding and abetting murder, according to Fox News channel.
Earlier it was reported that at the crime scene were four police officers - Thomas lane, Alexander Kuang, Tu Tao, and Derek Caven who have been detained and accused of the murder of Floyd. They were soon dismissed from the force.
The Governor of Minnesota Tim now has extended for two days curfew in Minneapolis, where for a week of continuing unrest over the death of an African-American George Floyd.
As the Governor reported on Twitter, curfew will operate Wednesday and Thursday from 22.00 4.00 local time (behind Moscow for 8 hours). Thus restrictive measures in the city, introduced last Thursday, will last for a week.
The government of the U.S. state of Minnesota believe that the truck driver who drove into a crowd in Minneapolis, acted unintentionally, reports channel ABC.
Earlier it was reported that the truck drove through a crowd of protesters in Minneapolis, demonstrating because of the death of an African-American George Floyd after detention by the police. The footage shown by CNN, is seen as the first crowd of protesters stands in the middle of the road, and then begins to diverge in the hand due to the fact that they moved the truck. After the car stopped, the protesters began to surround him and tried to get inside. None of the protesters was injured.
African American George Floyd of Minneapolis, whose death was the occasion for large protests in the United States, died from suffocation as a result of murder, stated in the official conclusion of forensic medical examination.
In a press release of the medical examiner Hennepin County (Minnesota) in the cause of death is listed as "stop cardio-pulmonary activities as a result of compression and strangulation of the neck" by the police.
A resident of the state of Illinois is accused of distributing explosives at protests in Minneapolis, according to NBC Chicago, citing court documents.
According to the channel, Matthew Rupert came from Illinois to Minneapolis, where he gave protesters explosives and urged to throw them at police. He broadcast the events live to Facebook, according to the documents.
Bogdan Vechirko rammed a crowd of rebellious Americans in Minneapolis on a truck, served in the armed forces and was an ardent fan of Donald trump, says "Strenia".
Bogdan Vechirko lives in the town of Otsego, near Minneapolis, he's 35, and he works for a local freight company. The man actively supports the Republicans and President of the trump, last year and the year before three times sacrificed at 100-115 dollars of both the party and the Committee "Make America great again".
The official representative of the UN Secretary General Stefan Dujarric, commenting on the incident with the correspondent of RIA Novosti, the victims in Minneapolis, said that "all these cases should be investigated".
Sunday, may 31, the correspondent of RIA Novosti, Mikhail Turgiev covering the protests in Minneapolis, was attacked by the police - he was sprayed in the face with tear gas after he produced a press card and identified himself as the employee of the press. Similarly, the police cost with a nearby group of American channel VICE.
American journalist Michael Bohm commented on the statement of national security Advisor to ex-US President Barack Obama, Susan rice about the Russian involvement in the unrest in America.
According to him, the "Russian trace" in these events is unlikely.
The number of people arrested during protests in Minneapolis, which began because of the death of an African-American George Floyd rose to 481, reported in a Twitter management of public safety of Minnesota.
"From Sunday to Monday morning was made 276 arrests Total number of arrests since the establishment of the interagency command center on Friday is 481", - stated in the message.
A column of protesters from several hundred people and about three dozen vehicles, in spite of the curfew, passed through the American suburbs of Minneapolis and reached the intersection near which the incident occurred with the African American George Floyd, who died as a result of the actions of the police, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
In the American Minneapolis on Sunday, the day after the harsh crackdown of demonstrators by the police and National guard continue a peaceful protest.
The driver of the truck drove into the crowd in American Minneapolis, charged with assault, according to CNN.
Earlier it was reported that the truck drove through a crowd of protesters in Minneapolis, demonstrating because of the death of an African-American George Floyd after detention by the police.
As CNN reports, the participation of Russian agents in the ongoing all-American pogrom "quite likely".
The day before, when the same channel produced a story where one of the experts suggested taking part in the riots of "Russian agents" on it specifically mocked in his Twitter personally, Donald trump.
Minneapolis for the first time after several days of protests and riots begins with small steps to return to normal life, although the confidence in safety among the citizens yet.
On the eve of the police forces and the National guard of the United States for the first time in a few days prevented the outbreak in the city the night of mass protests, riots and arson. Achieved this with rubber bullets, tear gas and the harassment of protesters, as well as those that would apply it to all indiscriminately.
TV presenter Yevgeny Popov criticized the us human rights organization Human Rights Watch for the difference in assessment of the situation with human rights in Russia and the United States.
In his telegram channel, the journalist has noticed that on the website of non-governmental organizations there is no news about the riots in the United States, however, published "treatises about Russia".
Protesters in Minneapolis for the third consecutive day break curfew and take to the streets, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
A group of about 200 people first gathered and blocked a major highway, but were caught in a pincer movement by the police. After application of means of restraint, the people left the road and headed into town.
Police arrested the driver of the truck drove into the crowd in American Minneapolis, said the public security city in Twitter.
Earlier it was reported that the truck drove through a crowd of protesters in Minneapolis, demonstrating because of the death of an African-American George Floyd after detention by the police.
The truck drove through a crowd of protesters in Minneapolis who brought to the demonstration because of the death of an African-American George Floyd after police detention, according to local television station KSTP.
The footage shown by the channel, is seen as the first crowd of protesters stands in the middle of the road and then starts to diverge in the hand due to the fact that they moved the truck. After the car stopped, the protesters began to surround him and tried to get inside.
The Russian Embassy in Washington sent the state Department a note of protest because of the incident with the correspondent of RIA Novosti, the Agency said the head of the Embassy Anatoly Antonov.
The diplomat noted that the Russian journalist who was with him, other employees of American media was subjected to unacceptable treatment by the local police.
The American residents of Minneapolis with Sunday morning came the infamous lake street, where there was most fire, to restore order, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
Riots erupted in Minneapolis and several other cities after the death of the African-American George Floyd at the hands of the police.
Minnesota Governor Tim now apologized to journalists who had been detained or attacked the police in the night on Sunday.
A number of journalists reported assaults by police in Minneapolis on Sunday night. Several journalists were injured by rubber bullets, others from tear gas. Among those who attacked the police, were the correspondents of CBS, NBC, VICE, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Los Angeles Times. The injured correspondent of RIA Novosti, which in the face was sprayed with tear gas.
The RIA Novosti correspondent Mikhail Turgiev that the Minneapolis police sprayed pepper spray in the face, said he feels fine.
"All right, the burning was gone, eyesight was not injured," he said.
In new York city can ignite another scandal – in the course of the protest, one of the officers tore the mask from demonstrators raised their hands, and purposefully sprayed pepper spray in his face, video of the incident hit the net.
The footage shows how a black man raised his hands up. One of the officers approaches him, rips off his mask and sprays the aerosol.
MIA "Russia today" demands from US authorities investigate the actions of the police using tear gas against the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
Last night in Minneapolis, the police deliberately fired tear gas against the correspondent of RIA Novosti in USA Michael Turgiev, despite the fact that he showed them the certificate of the press representative.
Pandemic coronavirus contributed to increased scale of unrest in the U.S. resulting from the death of the African-American George Floyd after the arrest, she worsened the situation of black people in the country, said the Director of the Institute of USA and Canada studies Valery Garbuzov.
As the expert noted, in the US, the line of separation along ethnic lines and tensions had always existed, the authorities are trying to extinguish, but from time to time manifested such outbreaks. He stressed that social problems - unemployment, crime, drug addiction, alcoholism is more of a problem the black community in the U.S. than white Americans.
Moscow considers the targeted spraying of the Minneapolis police tear spray in the face of the correspondent of RIA Novosti as the manifestation of unwarranted cruelty, employee use of American law enforcement non-lethal weapons against mass media representatives upon presentation of their press card is unacceptable, said the foreign Ministry.
Previously RIA Novosti reported that the Minneapolis police deliberately fired tear spray against journalists - the crew of the TV channel VICE and RIA Novosti, Mikhail Turgiev after the dispersal of the protest action.
The Network published the footage, which depicted the use of tear gas by police officers from the Minneapolis against the media representative.
The correspondent of RIA Novosti news Agency confirmed that the video caught the incident with a member of the crew of the TV channel VICE.
A police officer was stabbed in the neck in Jacksonville (Florida, U.S.) during the riots in the city, he was hospitalized, reports News4JAX.
According to him, Sheriff Mike Williams said that during the protests, there have been attacks on other officers who have suffered from stones and bricks. Williams noted that there has been a lot of detentions, but did not specify the exact number of detainees.
Watching the burning American cities, it is impossible to escape the feeling that we see, if anything, mystical retribution for US actions in other countries.
Of course, the death of a black suspect at the hands of a white police officer is a tragedy, but there needs to be a totally transcendent level of naivety to consider the subsequent armed strife a kind of natural reaction to a particular injustice. It's much easier: in the United States before the election of the President and on the background of acute economic crisis occurred a phenomenon which is similar to the "heavenly hundred" is called "celestial black", and this became the trigger for massive and well-organized riots with violence and firearms.
The Minneapolis police deliberately fired tear spray against journalists, including the correspondent of RIA Novosti, Mikhail Turgiev, after the dispersal of the protest rally, reports correspondent.
The crew of TV channel VICE of four people and the Agency were on the territory of filling stations in the area of unrest. After crackdown on protesters, the soldiers of the national guard allowed the press to remain there. The police and the guards removed the cordon from the street and drove away. At the station there were journalists, owners of gas stations and helps to protect its people. Everyone was on the street within the fence.
The police used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse a protest in Minneapolis on Saturday, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
A few hundred people and about three dozen vehicles moving along lake street — the street that suffered the most during a series of riots that erupted after the death of a detainee by the police African-American George Floyd.
National guard units of Minnesota on Saturday night started to sweep the streets of Minneapolis, where earlier due to the unrest was the curfew, locals report in social networks.
In particular, the video that Twitter published user @TKerssen, seen as the go down the street some soldiers, who order everyone to go to their homes. Seeing that several people, including the author of the entry, not go inside, the soldiers make them a few shots, forcing those hiding in the house. Later it becomes clear that the shots were fired with bullets of paint.
Residents of the American city of Minneapolis on lake street street, which suffered from arson during the four days night of protests related to the death of an African-American George Floyd, preparing for the fifth night as a siege. The police, they do not expect, and unrest, they say, can not be avoided.
The death of the African-American George Floyd caused the riots in Minneapolis and other cities after the appearance of "viral" video of the arrest of Floyd. The video shows that the police tackled Floyd and handcuffed him, and one of the officers leaned a knee on the neck of the Floyd. The detainee first few times he says he can't breathe and then losing consciousness. Floyd was admitted to hospital and died in intensive care.
Protesters in Minneapolis for the second consecutive day ignoring the disposal of the authorities to impose a curfew, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
A large column of protesters on foot and in cars - took place on lake street, where in recent days, burned a large number of buildings.
The President of the United States Donald trump believes that if the National guard units involved in Minneapolis two days ago, it would have helped to avoid such damage in the riots.
The mayor of Minneapolis is a 38-year-old Democrat Jacob Frey, and informed the Republican President trump has subjected him to harsh criticism for actions during the riots. Minnesota Governor Tim now also represents the Democratic party.
Military helicopters appeared in the skies over Minneapolis on Sunday, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
Two helicopters patrolling the sky above the city, where the day held a peaceful protest in connection with the death of an African-American George Floyd. One of them is on the site of his murder, here gathered hundreds of people.
The problem of prejudice against the police of Minneapolis people of colour has long existed, and the situation when disgruntled people attacking and burning buildings, has been brewing for years, told RIA Novosti, the residents of the city.
Riots erupted in Minneapolis and several other cities after the death of the African-American George Floyd with the arrest by the police. After the riots, four police officers were fired and one of them was accused of murder by negligence.
A column of protesters for the murder of an African-American George Floyd, smashed a police van in new York, goes to the heart of Manhattan, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
They had previously stopped accompanying the convoy of a van and knocked it into the glass.
The US President Donald trump has promised to stop the riots.
"We cannot allow and will not allow a small group of criminals and vandals to destroy our city," said trump, speaking in Florida.
Night riots in Minneapolis leave ashes of a dozen buildings, the crowd looted shops and any establishment. People are trying to protect your business in different ways. Someone just closes all the Windows and door panels, someone is distributing leaflets with the words "Black lives matter", someone calls out to the conscience of words "On the second floor sleeping children." However, the Indian community does not believe in the efficacy of such methods. They told the RIA Novosti correspondent that they decided to defend their property themselves.
Riots erupted in Minneapolis and several other cities after the death of the African-American George Floyd at the hands of police during detention. After the riots, fired four police officers and one of them accused of manslaughter.
The action begins to unfold unexpectedly. Just half an hour away in Minneapolis, the city was absolutely empty, suddenly toward come across a black woman with visible difficulty pulling a box TV.
After a while people become more. Some carrying something and heading in the direction opposite to the one where in the night of Saturday, the protesters gather.
The family of the deceased in the Minneapolis African American George Floyd was not satisfied with the preliminary results of the autopsy, which was conducted by forensic scientists Hennepin district in Minnesota, said family lawyer Benjamin Kremp.
In a statement the lawyer said that in accordance with the preliminary results, the cause of death of Floyd was not suffocation, despite the fact that his neck was clamped for at least eight minutes, and probably a combination of the fact that he was detained, his health problems and probably the content of intoxicating substances in the body.
The US President Donald trump said that he was ready to send troops in the troubled Minneapolis, if asked by local authorities.
According to him, the military should be "tough, strong and respected".
The American Governor of Minnesota Tim now said that due to unrest in connection with the death of the African-American George Floyd of the national guard of Minnesota for the first time in its history will be fully mobilized.
"I instruct (major-General) Jenson fully mobilize the National guard. A measure which was not adopted never in all 164 year history of the national guard of Minnesota," said now in the press conference. The broadcast was led by NBC News.
The people who rioted in Minneapolis, don't live in it, said the mayor of the city of Jacob Frey.
According to him, the residents of Minneapolis are scared because of the riots that occur in the city.
Minneapolis police detained around 50 people during protests that gripped the city after the death of the African-American George Floyd, who died after harsh treatment by the police, according to the Department of public safety in Minnesota.
As stated by the representative of the Department of public safety Minnesota John Harrington, to keep order in the city help more than 2.5 thousand police officers. In addition, as said a representative of the National guard of the state John Jensen, to resurrection in the city are likely to be more than 1700 soldiers of the national guard.
Police in Los Angeles, California, declared an unlawful Assembly of people in the Central area of the city in connection with the death of an African-American George Floyd, who died during police detention in Minneapolis.
According to the statement of militiamen, the protesters are required to leave the venue of the action. Local shops also, according to the police, should be closed. Police urged residents to avoid the Central district of Los Angeles, including adjacent side streets and the freeway. As noted by CNN, citing the police during the protest two law enforcement officers were injured.
1 thousand soldiers of the National guard of the United States may be sent to the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, where continuing unrest, the statements of the commander of the national guard of Minnesota major General John Jensen.
Earlier, the national guard of Minnesota reported the arrival of 500 soldiers to the places of the riots in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The forces of the National guard and the police blocked a large group of protesters in the center of the fifth police precinct in Minneapolis, told RIA Novosti the volunteers providing first aid to victims.
According to him, the police surrounded a large group of people, from the cordon, reports of a shooting rubber bullets.
The Pentagon has ordered the army to lead a unit of us military police in readiness for deployment in Minneapolis, according to the associated Press, citing sources familiar with the situation.
According to sources, soldiers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort drama in new York, ordered to be ready to deploy within four hours, and the soldiers from Fort Carson in Colorado and Fort Riley in Kansas for 24 hours.
The national guard used tear gas to disperse protesters in the center of the fifth police precinct in Minneapolis, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
So they drove away people from the gas station, which could become the next object of arson.
Protesters in Minneapolis continue to hack and loot shops, the police are not interfering with, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
A wave of unrest takes place in the fifth district police station. Was burned on the eve of the third precinct, where he worked the police involved in the incident with the African American George Floyd, who was killed during the arrest.
Protests in Minneapolis continues in the night of Saturday, despite the previously imposed curfew, as well as present in the city, national guard forces, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
In one of the districts of the city gathered a crowd of several hundred people, some of them surrounded the African-American in a black suit and with a megaphone in hand, in which he shouts slogans in support of justice in the case of victim as a result of police detention of George Floyd.
Protesters around the fifth police precinct in Minneapolis in the United States following the defeat of the stores started setting fire to other buildings, reports from the scene the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
The fire started in the building of a large Bank Wells Fargo, whose office is across the street from the police station. Plywood panels, which closed the door on fire, smoke is also coming out of the broken Windows of the office.
Minneapolis city center is almost deserted: go rare cars, pedestrians less than the limitations due to the coronavirus. The first begins curfew, which was imposed on Friday after three days of mass night of unrest.
The cause of the disturbances was the death of African American George Floyd with the arrest by the police. One of the guards a few minutes standing knee Floyd in the neck. Charges of manslaughter were brought to him only a few days later. During this time the city burned dozens buildings, looted a large number of outlets. The state government has introduced the National guard.
Former Vice-President and the likely democratic nominee for the presidency, Joe Biden has demanded justice in the case of the death of an African-American George Floyd, who died in police custody in the us city of Minneapolis.
He was called to bring the "bad people from the police" accountable.
The head of Facebook mark Zuckerberg explained why his social network had not followed the example of Twitter and did not hide or remove the record of President Donald trump.
Earlier, the President of the United States wrote that can direct to Minneapolis soldiers of the National guard, if the mayor will not take control of the situation with the riots after the death of the African-American George Floyd at the hands of the police. The President said that "or very weak radical left mayor Jacob Frey will take action and take control of the town," or he would send the city the National guard and "make it right". Trump also wrote that "we take (the situation) under control, but when the looting starts, the shooting starts". Later on the social network Twitter has marked the message trump as violating the rules of the company about the glorification of violence. Tweet trump on Twitter is hidden, it can only be read by clicking on the administration website.
More than 200 buildings and premises broken into and ransacked or subjected to vandalism in the U.S. Minneapolis during the riots, estimated by the local newspaper the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
According to her, a number of buildings were seriously affected by flooding or fire. Some are completely destroyed because of fires.
The family of black George Floyd, who was killed during the arrest by the police in Minneapolis, requires to reclassify charges to the detainee the police on more serious, the statement said family members, which is published representing their attorney Ben crump.
Chavan was accused under two articles — murder of the third degree, that is negligence. The article "murder in the first degree" roughly corresponds to Russian phrase "felony murder".
Protests over the death of an African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis on Friday escalated into riots in several major U.S. cities, reports the associated Press.
Clashes of protesters with police, detention and acts of vandalism occurring in new York, Atlanta (GA), Albuquerque (new Mexico), Fontana, San Jose (California) and Houston (Texas).
Protest against violence by police officers held in downtown Washington at the White house, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
In the campaign, which is dedicated to the memory of George Floyd, who died after police detention in Minneapolis, attended by about 1,000 young people. About half of them African Americans. In hands they held posters with slogans "black Lives matter", "Stop the shooting", One of the slogans "I can't breathe", reproduces the words of George Floyd before his death.
The white house was briefly closed Friday evening because of the protests that erupted due to the death of an African-American to George Floyd at the hands of police, told the Fox News channel.
Pool of journalists who were outside the building, asked to go inside, then the entrance and exit were blocked. In the West wing of the White house, there were about a dozen journalists, said the TV channel.
The mayor adjacent to the Minneapolis downtown St. Paul, Melvin Carter announced the introduction of a curfew in connection with the unrest caused by the death of George Floyd.
Earlier, the mayor Jacob Frey announced at the Minneapolis curfew, which will operate Friday from 20.00 local time until 6: 00 on Saturday (from 14.00 to 04.00 GMT) and during the same hours in the night on Sunday. Violators of the curfew will be fined up to $ 1,000 or imprisonment for up to 90 days.
Another appeared in the Internet the video shows that African-American George Floyd, who died in police custody in the us city of Minneapolis, at the same time kept three policemen, not one, reports CNN.
The death of Floyd caused the riots in Minneapolis and other cities after the appearance of "viral" video for his detention. The record shows, as police pushed African American and handcuffed him, and one of the officers leaned a knee on his neck. The detainee first few times he says he can't breathe and then losing consciousness. Floyd was hospitalized, he died in intensive care.
The white house issued a response to the social network Twitter, according to which in the hidden tweet the administration of President Donald trump no violations.
Earlier, the President of the United States wrote that can send soldiers of the National guard to Minneapolis, where there was unrest, if the mayor can't get the situation under control. The President said that "or very weak radical left mayor Jacob Frey will take action and take control of the town," or he would send the city the National guard and "make it right". Trump also wrote that "we take (the situation) under control, but when the looting starts, the shooting starts".