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A police spokesman for that city in the state of Minnesota confirmed that the third police station, located near the place where Floyd died, was evacuated “in the interests of personnel safety”. The incident occurred shortly after 22:00 on Thursday (05:00 today in Lisbon).
In a video released online, a group of people enter the building, triggering fire alarms and sprinklers used to fight flames.
The city of the state of Minnesota also registered three dozen fires in other places and the looting of several stores, most of them near the place where Floyd died. In a shopping center in front of the third police station, the windows of almost every store were shattered, with protesters throwing mannequins from a looted store into a burning car, in scenes of violence that multiplied in other parts of the city.
Democrat Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, has already given orders to activate the National Guard to respond to protests and has declared a State of Emergency in Minneapolis, St. Paul and surrounding areas, according to the The Guardian.
The governor clarifies that he supports peaceful protests but, “unfortunately, some individuals have been involved in illegal and dangerous activities, including arson, riots, looting and damage to public and private property”.
US President Donald Trump has already responded to the third night of protests in Minneapolis on Twitter, saying the army is ready to intervene – and has called Protestants “outcasts”. [Thugs].
Dozens of businesses in Minneapolis capped shop windows on Thursday in an effort to prevent looting, with the Target chain announcing the temporary closure of two dozen stores in the area. Local authorities closed most transport last Sunday for security reasons.
Protests against the death of George Floyd, which entered the third consecutive day, have also spread to St. Paul, the capital of the state of Minnesota, with police trying to prevent looting of stores and firefighters being called in to fight fires. .
On Thursday night, in St. Paul, clouds of smoke hung in the air, while the police, armed with batons and gas masks, watched over protesters on the city’s largest shopping street. Security forces tried to prevent protesters from looting a Target warehouse, with many broken windows on record.
The protests have also spread to other parts of the country. In New York, despite the covid-19 epidemic, protesters organized public gatherings on Thursday, in some cases with police clashes. In Denver, protesters blocked traffic in the city center.
George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American, died on Monday night in Minneapolis after a violent police intervention, whose images went viral. Floyd was arrested on suspicion of trying to pay with a fake $ 20 bill in a supermarket. In a video shot by passersby and released on social media, it is possible to see one of the agents press Floyd’s neck with his knee for several minutes.
The police claimed that the man resisted arrest, but new images, captured by the cameras of the restaurant in front of which the arrest took place, showed Floyd to be driven to the police vehicle, handcuffed behind his back and offering no resistance.
The four policemen involved have been fired and local and federal authorities are investigating the incident, but there have been no charges yet.
On Thursday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michele Bachelet, condemned the case, calling on the authorities to take “serious steps” to end these deaths of African Americans.
“This was the latest in a long series of deaths by unarmed African-Americans by American police and self-punishment (…). The American authorities must take serious measures to end these deaths and ensure that justice is done when they occur, ”said Michele Bachelet in a statement.
(Article updated at 07:44)
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