Thousands of people marched through the Brooklyn and Manhattan neighborhoods of New York on Monday, June 1 to denounce racism and police violence. This protest movement was born the day after the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man suffocated by a white police officer during a brutal arrest in Minneapolis.
The demonstration was peppered with vandalism and looting; brand name stores, such as Nike or Michael Kors on 5th Avenue, or electronics or Lego stores on other major streets of Midtown were looted in the early evening, before a cover came into effect. unprecedented fire from 23:00 local (03:00 GMT), noted AFP journalists.
The American economic capital is thus following in the footsteps of some forty other cities, which have imposed curfews in the face of the riots that have set the country ablaze.
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