The curfew decreed Monday in New York will be extended until June 7, announced Tuesday the Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio after a series of looting, while refusing to deploy the National Guard in the American economic capital as claimed. by Donald Trump.
This exceptional measure will be in effect from 8 to 5 p.m., the mayor said, after the heart of Manhattan and parts of the Bronx were the scene of many looting scenes Monday night, the first day of the curfew. .
Many businesses have been vandalized, including the iconic Macy’s department store.
“Intruders entered the store, (..) the police intervened and at this stage the damage is limited,” told AFP a spokesperson for the channel.
In view of these images widely relayed on social networks, President Donald Trump, who when he lived in New York lived on 5th Avenue, very close to certain targeted stores on Monday, in a tweet called on the city to “act quickly” and to “call the National Guard”.
Several cities across the country have already called in these soldiers for reinforcements after protests against police brutality against black Americans that have set the country ablaze for a week, after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white policeman in Minneapolis.
But Mr. de Blasio estimated that the city had “no need” thanks to its more than 36,000 police officers, the largest municipal police force in the country, better prepared according to him for this kind of situation.
“We will take measures immediately to restore order and calm,” he said. “I know we’re going to get over this, we’re going to have a few tough days, but we’re going to get there.”
The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, for his part considered “inexcusable” the looting of Monday evening, and considered that the mayor and the police had “not done their job”.
“I think the mayor is underestimating the extent and duration of the problem, I don’t think they used enough police officers to respond to it,” Cuomo said at a press briefing, whose relations with the mayor are notoriously difficult.
The governor, however, refused to impose a deployment of the National Guard in New York, stressing that this would involve suspending the mayor and that this would only “make the situation worse”.
The New York curfew came into effect at 11 p.m. on Monday and now begins at 8 p.m.
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