On Sunday (31st) evening, my phone suddenly continued to vibrate. A curfew was issued Washington government my capital from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next day.
The African-American man, George Floyd (George Floyd), who was arrested by the police death, was the seat of the demonstration, federal government that led to widespread racial discrimination throughout the United States.
That afternoon, hundreds of demonstration gathered in front of the white house in faraway square, many homemade signs with the words "I can`t breathe "—— that was the last word Freud said before his death. An Asian demonstration holds the Chinese and English slogan "Black life is our life ".
Some people kneel on one knee, shouting "kneel on one knee (take a knee)"," stop killing black people ", expressing dissatisfaction with the police abuse of violence.
Kneeling on one knee is an iconic gesture of African-American civil rights in recent years. American football player Caponika (Colin Kaepernick) made it known to the United States. When he played the national anthem before the start of a 2016 game, he did not stand up protest. but knelt on one knee to show that he was referring to San Francisco ethnic conflict incident in which the african-american man woods (Mario Woods) was shot 20 times by the police and none of the officers involved was prosecute..
Not far from the White House, some Washington police also kneel on one knee, holding demonstration hand, immediately won applause and cheers. A number of U.S. cities have police kneeling on one knee, standing with demonstration, calling for transparent and fair enforcement.
This moment of harmony was fleeting, and after the night, the atmosphere turned sharply, and the conflict confrontation between demonstration and the police intensified. The orderly cry of the day was replaced by the sound of sirens and the sound oforns.
Cars parked on the roadside were set on fire, and some shops were vandalized and looted.
demonstration threw the American flag into the fire.
A number of demonstration threw stones or other objects at riot police.
Anti-riot police are outside the White House to keep demonstration from approaching. However, media reports say the president took refuge Trump Friday night in an emergency bunker for about an hour.
American media CNN website that night`s front page title is: fire and anger mat volume all over the United States.
Some demonstration have set fire to the city of Washington, destroyed roadside shops and even robbed them. Washington police arrested 88 people, half of them prosecute. on uprising charges
Organizational behavior experts say that when people see an unjust event, the moral system collapses, and they aggressively to defend what they understand.
When Americans saw videos of Freud unable to breathe, they saw not just the tragedy of Freud alone, but also & quot;& quot; Missouri youth Brown (Michael Brown), unarmed, shoot. by white police in 2014
One may also think of ghana (Eric Garner), New York peddler strangled by police, baltimore young gray (Freddie Gray), who was arrested and escorted to death, abley (Ahmaud Arbery), who was shoot three months ago jogging near georgia`s residence but was mistaken for a wanted man, and many tragedies in the long history of american police conflict.
A few days ago, American society had just begun a heated debate about what happened together in New York central Park.
An African-American man warned a white woman walking her dog to tie it up, but the woman called 911 and stressed that "an African-American" was threat her life.
American police are accused of having a high probability of crime against African Americans. Owing to a lack of social mobility, the proportion of police officers of African descent remains chronically low, making it difficult to reduce discriminatory law enforcement.
Critics accuse white women of using racial prejudice in the U.S. police to threat. African men
Washington police arrest dozens of demonstration.
Police used flash bombs to disperse demonstration crowd.
Freud`s death not only opened the scars of the police conflict never healed, but also intensified the social pressure brought by the new crown epidemic.
Tens of millions of americans lost their jobs during the epidemic, and hispanic and african-americans were hit harder by a economic cold wave than whites, according to a recent poll by reuters and Chicago university. As the gap between rich and poor widens, the Washington Think Tank Institute for Policy Research reports that while 22 million Americans lost their jobs in March, the wealth of domestic billionaires rose 10%.
Because of the uneven distribution of income and medical resources, the death rate of the new coronavirus in African Americans is on the high side. According to the CDC analysis, as of May 20,23% of the cases death newly-crowned pneumonia in the United States, the dead were African Americans, while African Americans accounted for only 13% of the United States population.
The demonstration of crowd gathering is difficult to maintain the social distance of epidemic prevention, and the national protest brings new challenges to American epidemic prevention.
demonstration set fire to the barricades.
Detectives and the National Guard set up protective barriers around the White House Sunday night, sending pepper bombs to force demonstration back. According to U.S. media reports, President Trump had sought refuge in the bunker for nearly an hour on Friday night.
On his Twitter, he warned that if demonstration broke through the barricades ,& quot; would meet them with the fiercest dogs and the fiercest weapons & quot;, yet, the Trump never made a public speech about a week-long national protest.
Two photo taken in Washington spread all over the world overnight, one on sunday night when the white house rarely put out all the lights and filled with smoke, and the other on Washington sky, showing the city center`s landmark Washington near the monument.
demonstration gathered outside the white house on sunday protest, some demonstration raised their hands and motioned unarmed.
I lived about a kilometer from the White House, and in the early hours of Monday morning, a curfew left almost no cars on the street, with only a few lights shining. From time to time outside the window came the roar of the helicopter, I could not hear the sound of the doors and windows of many shops two blocks away smashed.
My cell phone vibrated again early monday morning: friends in china sent messages and asked me for "the demonstration broke into the white house "," Washington the city broke down" and so on.
The fermenting American protest campaign, reported by Chinese state media, sparked a & quot; onlookers & quot;. on social media across the ocean A lot of people celebrate America`s "retribution ", satirizing its" double mark "on democracy and freedom. China`s state-run media, it has also been pointed out, have reported high-profile reports of U.S. demonstration, but have failed to monitor Chinese police brutality.
The basement of St. John`s, just a short distance from the white house, was set on fire. The church is a historic building built in 1816, where every incumbent president has served at least once.
A week after Freud`s death, an independent autopsy released on Monday revealed the cause of Freud`s death. Two policemen pressed on his back, one of them holding Freud`s neck on his knees, causing blood to flow to his head and the lungs to inhale air. Freud died of suffocation.
During monday, the atmosphere on Washington street was significantly more tense than it had been a few days ago, with sirens ringing and helicopter whistles ringing in the distance. In the weekend lucky to avoid a bullet in the city shops, have installed large plywood defense, plywood is said to be out of stock.
Washington Mayor announced that a curfew would be imposed again this and next night, and that it would begin at 7 p.m. an hour and a half before sunset. Although most parts of the city seem to be as usual, Washington is hiding a dark, restless surge. .
