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[Published: Tuesday June 02 2020]

 Trump threatens to send in military to quell protests

 
WASHINGTON, 02 June. - (ANA)  - US President Donald Trump has threatened to send in the military to crush civil unrest in the US over the death of a black man in police custody. The US president said if cities and states failed to control the protests he would deploy the army and “quickly solve the problem for them”.
 
The US has been rocked by a sixth day of violence as curfews in at least 40 cities fail to quell protests triggered by the death of George Floyd.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to streets across the country on Sunday amid growing anger over the killing of the unarmed African-American man by police in Minneapolis last week during an arrest over an alleged fake $20 bill. 
 
The killing of unarmed African-American man George Floyd by police has triggered the worst rioting seen in the US since the 1960s.
 
Floyd died last week after a police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest in Minnesota over an alleged fake $20 bill. Demonstrations, some of them violent, reached a crescendo this weekend.
 
• In the past six days, protests have taken place in 75 cities 
• Across the US, more than 4,400 people were arrested this weekend. Outside the White House, “police fired tear gas and stun grenades into a crowd of more than 1,000 chanting protesters”, the Associated Press reports.
• More than 5,000 members of the National Guard, the US military reserve, have been “activated” in at least 18 states
• Curfews have been imposed in 40 states, “but people have largely ignored them, leading to tense stand-offs”, says the BBC
• As Floyd’s death causes outrage in other countries, a protest in London’s Trafalgar Square yesterday saw 23 people arrested “for a series of offences including breaches to coronavirus legislation”, CNN reports.  - (ANA) -
 
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