久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

US pondering how to restore peace

By ZHAO HUANXIN in Washington | China Daily | Updated: 2020-06-03 07:53
Share
Share - WeChat
Protesters flee as police fire tear gas near the White House on Monday amid continuing demonstrations nationwide sparked by the death of a black man in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP

Trump says governors should 'dominate' streets amid protests

At 6:44 on Monday evening, about a quarter-hour before a curfew took effect in Washington, DC, two open-air events were being held simultaneously several hundred meters apart.

Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, United States President Donald Trump said the looting and violent protests following the death of George Floyd on May 25 were "acts of domestic terror". The unarmed Minneapolis black man died after a white policeman knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, though Floyd cried out that he couldn't breathe before he stopped moving.

Meanwhile, to prepare for the president's speech and one of his evening events, police under federal command were firing tear gas to disperse hundreds of peaceful protesters who had gathered in Lafayette Park directly north of the White House as protesters shouted "Hands up! Don't shoot!" and "Black lives matter". The sound of tear gas canisters exploding could be heard as Trump was speaking.

The scenes lay bare how the specter of racism, heightened by incidents of police brutality, is roiling the country, with a president intent on quickly solving a problem by bellicose rhetoric and aggressive actions, an approach that seems only to have added fuel to the fire.

Seven straight days of demonstrations, which in many cases escalated into looting, arson and vandalism, have swept the country since a video went viral of Floyd being held to the ground by a police officer kneeling on his neck on May 25.

Trump said he would mobilize "all available federal resources, civilian and military" to quell the protests, declaring himself the "president of law and order". Earlier in the day, during a teleconference, he told governors that "most of you are weak "and he urged governors nationwide to "dominate" the streets.

The Pentagon on Monday ordered an active-duty battalion of military police soldiers from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to deploy to the Washington, DC, area as the city braces for more violent demonstrations.

At least 26 states and the District of Columbia had activated 17,000 National Guard troops to assist local authorities in curbing civil unrest by Monday. More than 40 cities issued curfews, according to US media reports.

Many quarters of the nation's capital, which had just started to ease its "stay-at-home" restrictions on Friday, seemed to have been plunged into another "lockdown" on Monday.

1 2 3 Next   >>|
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 成人免费公开视频 | 一区二区三区不卡在线 | 日本天堂网址 | 操碰91 | 国产亚洲一区二区三区不卡 | 国产在线不卡视频 | 二区国产| 欧美在线a级高清 | 国产一级久久免费特黄 | 怡红院亚洲红怡院天堂麻豆 | 亚洲精品毛片久久久久久久 | 日本www视频在线观看 | a亚洲天堂| 成人亚洲视频在线观看 | www国产精品| 手机国产精品一区二区 | 久久亚洲国产午夜精品理论片 | 手机看片1024久久精品你懂的 | 九九九免费视频 | 在线观看精品视频一区二区三区 | 六月伊人| 最近中文字幕精彩视频 | 91成人午夜性a一级毛片 | 免费高清欧美一区二区视频 | 国产真实女人一级毛片 | 三级中文字幕 | 国产成人精品午夜视频' | 国产成人91 | 国产三级欧美 | 亚洲女人网 | 美女网站色免费 | 久久这里只有精品免费视频 | 久久99精品久久久久久秒播放器 | 喷潮白浆直流在线播放 | yy毛片 | 国产不卡视频在线观看 | 欧美高h视频| 99热播 | 国产伦码精品一区二区三区 | 国产精品手机视频一区二区 | 91久久99久91天天拍拍 |