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Demonstration in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020
Riots in Minneapolis on May 28, 2020
A looted supermarket in Minneapolis in late May 2020

The protests following George Floyd's death were sparked by the police killing of the unarmed African American George Floyd during a police operation on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis . The protests are directed against police violence and structural racism and were held under the motto " Black Lives Matter ". They covered all major cities in the United States and took place worldwide. In the United States, some protests were accompanied by violent unrest, in which numerous shops were damaged, looted and set on fire. As a result of the riots, curfews were imposed in 40 cities and the National Guard was used to support the police in 23 states . During the protests, there were further cases of police violence criticized as disproportionate, including against journalists. Several people died. Amnesty International documented in a report "multiple and serious human rights violations" by the police.

background

Protests until June 8, 2020

At the beginning of July 2020, investigations came to the result that around 15 to 26 million, or at least 7 million, demonstrators had participated in the more than 4,700 demonstrations since May 26. For the period examined, this corresponds to around 140 protests per day. There were forms of protest in about 40% of all counties . Accordingly, the numbers exceeded those of the Women's March on Washington 2017 and it could be the largest protests in US history to date. At the height of the protests on June 6, 2020, half a million people gathered in almost 550 locations. The largest demonstrations took place peacefully in Washington, DC , Los Angeles , Houston, as well as in the states of Illinois and New York . There were also events in more than 250 locations for the June thenth , which always began on June 19.

Protests under the motto Black Lives Matter have been going on since 2013 and the movement behind it with its numerous organizers is seen as one reason that there were protests in so many places in the USA as a result of the death of George Floyd. Compared to the civil rights movement protests in the 1960s, a high percentage of the white population took part in 2020.

course

Rally after the killing of George Floyd against racism and police violence at the US embassy in Berlin on May 30, 2020.

26.-29. May 2020

Protesters in Minneapolis on May 28th
Minnesota State Patrol riot police with Humvees in the background
A burning building on May 29th in Minneapolis
Looters break into a shop in Saint Paul, Minnesota

On May 26, 2020, there were spontaneous, extensive demonstrations against police violence in Minneapolis. Many of the demonstrators carried placards with the words "I can't breathe!" And chanted chants with these words, which since the death of Eric Garner in 2014 had become a kind of slogan against racially motivated police violence.

Protests in Minneapolis followed in the days after May 26, which took on violent forms in the south of the city. Department stores were ransacked and buildings set on fire, including the police station where the four dismissed police officers worked. Then the governor of the US state Minnesota, Tim Walz , mobilized the National Guard . He declared a state of emergency in Minneapolis and surrounding areas on May 28, 2020 . The protests, demonstrations and riots spread to New York City , Denver , Chicago , Columbus and Oakland , among others . Several people were killed. Individual members of the anti-state boogaloo movement mingled with the demonstrators.

May 30, 2020

Demonstration on May 30, 2020 at Grand Army Plaza, New York

In Detroit, a 21-year-old protester was shot dead by strangers in downtown Detroit. The Detroit Police Department said strangers drove up in a Dodge Durango and shot arbitrarily into the crowd of a legitimate demonstration. The man was hit and died.

May 31, 2020

For the night of May 31 , curfews were imposed in 25 cities, including Nashville , Los Angeles , Chicago and Philadelphia , and the National Guard was activated in Washington, DC . Protests and looting of shops continued in many cities on May 31. However, it also happened that demonstrators posted themselves in front of shops to protect them from looting. A tanker truck drove into a crowd in Minneapolis . Apparently people were not harmed. In Seattle, a driver drove into the demonstration and fired a shot that injured a participant.

There were several reports and videos of sometimes excessive violence and street battles in which several people were injured. President Trump was in the White House shelter for about an hour .

June 1, 2020

President Trump in front of St. John's , after the forecourt was forcibly cleared

As of June 1, 2020, nearly 20,000 National Guard personnel in 23 states had been deployed in the United States. For the first time since Floyd's death, US President Donald Trump made a statement. He had previously threatened to shoot arsonists via Twitter , whereupon Twitter provided this tweet with a warning of violent content. In a video conference, Trump described the US governors as "laughing stock all over the world" because they were not cracking down hard enough. They would have to "create an overpowering enforcement presence until the violence is overcome", otherwise he would use the US military "and quickly solve the problem for them".

In his speech, Trump condemned Floyd's death, but also the violence on the streets. For them he blamed “professional anarchists ” and the “ Antifa ” (which he classified as a terrorist organization ) and referred briefly to the second amendment to the constitution , which guarantees US arms possession. Some observers saw it as a sign to Trump's right-wing voters to arm themselves against the protesters. He also announced that if necessary military units would be deployed domestically. He was referring to the Insurrection Act of 1807 on the use of military units if the states cannot establish security and order themselves. After his speech, he went to the nearby church of St. John's Episcopal Church , which had been damaged by fire the day before, for a photo opportunity in which he posed with the Bible . The way there, together with the peaceful demonstration in front of the White House, had been cleared by military police using tear gas . Later, both Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chief of Staff Mark Milley distanced themselves from the photo op, as well as the demands for a domestic military operation. Esper stressed that the US was not in a situation that required military intervention.

2nd June 2020

Demonstration in downtown Los Angeles , looking down 1st Street

On June 2, 2020, protests took place in numerous cities in all states. Several stores were looted in the New York Bronx . In the course of this, four firearms were injured in St. Louis , Missouri, according to the local police. A 21-year-old protester in Indianapolis, Indiana was hit in the face by police irritant gas and lost an eye.

An international protest was launched virtually. Internet users posted black pictures with hashtags like #blacklivesmatter or #blackouttuesday .

In Washington DC, a National Guard military helicopter hovered low over a crowd, presumably to disperse them. The responsible commander and Secretary of Defense Esper then announced an investigation into the incident.

June 3-8, 2020

Washington DC was a center of the protests. At the same time, a second memorial service was held in George Floyd's birthplace, Fayetteville , North Carolina . The governor of North Carolina had ordered mourning flags in honor of George Floyd . The White House had also been fortified. On June 4th, the Washington DC night curfew expired. The protests not only took place in large cities, but also reached American towns.

In the capital Washington, DC , a street visible from afar was painted with the words “Black Lives Matter” and the square in front of the White House was renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza .

In Seattle , the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone ("CHAZ") was declared an autonomous area after the police withdrew .

Some (former) Republican Party leaders , including ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell , Trump's ex-Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis , George W. Bush and Republican Senator Mitt Romney have now distanced themselves from Donald Trump and his renewed presidential candidacy. Romney also took part in the demonstrations on Sunday 7 June with a Christian group of around 1000 people.

Riots

The protests were accompanied by violent clashes. In the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul alone, around 500 shops were targeted, and several dozen buildings were set on fire and burned down. In many other US metropolises, such as New York , Los Angeles , Atlanta , Miami and Dallas , there was violence and shop looting. In Los Angeles, 2,700 people were arrested and 66 police cars were damaged, seven of which were set on fire. In addition, people were arrested in several places for throwing or possessing Molotov cocktails . According to estimates by the Anderson Economic Group , the damage caused by the unrest from May 29 to June 3 in the 20 largest US metropolitan areas amounts to at least $ 400 million. This is the second highest damage caused by violent excesses in US history, only the riots in Los Angeles in 1992 caused more costs .

Role of the police

Attacks on the press

During the protests at several locations in the USA, representatives of the press were prevented from doing their work, in some cases arrested or the target of direct coercion . According to the British daily The Guardian , there were 148 cases in which media representatives were arrested or attacked by police between May 26 and June 2, and the medium also reports more than 300 violations of the freedom of the press, which is constitutionally protected in the USA . Several journalists were injured by rubber bullets , batons or shields , some of them during live reports . Reporters Without Borders criticizes the fact that the free work of the press has been disrupted by both police and violent demonstrators. In most cases, the violence was perpetrated by the police. Christian Mihr of Reporters Without Borders sees the violence as a direct result of US President Trump's hostile rhetoric against the press. Various states also expressed diplomatic criticism of the actions of the US police, including the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas .

For example, CNN journalist Omar Jimenez and his camera crew were arrested during a live broadcast during a demonstration in Minneapolis on the morning of May 29, although they had identified themselves as members of the press to police. They were released after about an hour. On the evening of the same day, a camera team was targeted by a police officer with a non-lethal weapon (allegedly Pepperballs ) while reporting on protests in Louisville . The photographer Linda Tirado was also hit in the eye by a rubber bullet in Minneapolis and went blind on one side. On June 1, a team of reporters from an Australian news channel was attacked by police officers. Prime Minister Scott Morrison directed the Australian Embassy in the US to investigate the case. Two Deutsche Welle teams were also attacked by the police, whereupon Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas expressed concern and also called for an investigation.

On the website pressfreedomtracker.us operated by the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) and the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ), 34 attacks on journalists and five arrests of journalists have been documented as part of the protests so far (as of June 2). According to a spokesman for the FPF, there were over 100 attacks on journalists on the weekend of May 29th to 31st. Carlos Martinez de la Serna from the CPJ sees the militarization of the police as a cause of their violent conduct.

Incidents

Numerous participants in the nationwide protests reported attacks by the emergency services. Amnesty International documented “multiple and serious human rights violations against protesters of the Black Lives Matter movement, rescue personnel, media workers and legal observers” by the police in the USA in May and June 2020. In 13 cities across the country, there have been at least six incidents in which security forces used batons and 13 cases in which foam or rubber bullets were fired. In numerous cases, the human rights organization criticized the unnecessary use of tear gas and pepper spray as the first choice means to disperse large groups of peaceful protesters: 89 cases of targeted tear gas use in the cities of 34 states, and 21 cases of unlawful use of pepper spray in 15 states and in Washington, DC

A video from Buffalo shows 75-year-old Martin Gugino approaching a group of police officers during a curfew, being pushed back by them, losing his balance and hitting his head on the ground. Gugino remained unconscious on the ground with an obvious head injury while police officers moved on beside him without assistance. A short time later he was taken care of by a paramedic. He was then admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital. Two police officers were suspended after the incident. US President Donald Trump spread conspiracy theories on Twitter about the case.

On May 30 and 31, 2020, Minnesota State Patrol officers and officers stabbed tires on parked cars in Minneapolis in two different locations. Many of the cars belonged to journalists.

In Brooklyn, New York City, two patrol cars drove into a crowd.

On June 2, 2020, the unarmed Sean Monterrosa was shot dead from a police car in Vallejo , California. He knelt with his hands raised above his head. The police had been called for a looting.

On the other hand, expressions of solidarity with the protests by police officers were also reported across the country.

Use of federal officials

In the face of violent clashes, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ostensibly to protect federal institutions, deploys its own officers who are not under the authority of the city or state police. These are members of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit , a special unit for fighting organized crime of the United States Customs and Border Protection . DHS officials used tear gas outside the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland on July 12, 2020 . After kicking a tear gas canister, 26-year-old Donavan LaBella was hit by a bullet fired by a federal official and seriously injured in the face. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler criticized the incident and expressed concern that it could contribute to an escalation of the situation. He sees the deployment of federal officials as an “attack on democracy”. Wheeler also stated that he neither needed nor wanted help from federal officials in his city.

The actions of federal officials in camouflage suits who arrested people on the street and removed them in civilian vehicles also caused criticism. The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi , called this practice "kidnappings". The DHS confirmed that people had been taken into custody in this way and designated them as suspects of bodily harm and damage to federal property. US Senator Jeff Merkley criticized the practice and said that it was a practice of more authoritarian governments to use civil vehicles against former demonstrators. The civil rights organization ACLU announced a lawsuit against the measures. Ellen Rosenblum , Attorney General of Oregon, is calling for this operation to be banned and has filed a lawsuit in federal court. Observers suspect a deliberate escalation in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election in the United States .

Deaths

Several people were killed in connection with the demonstrations and riots after the death of George Floyd. The fatalities were demonstrators, police officers and alleged looters.

May 2020

May 27th
  • A man named Calvin Horton Jr. was shot dead while ransacking a shop in Minneapolis . The police arrested a 58-year-old shopkeeper as a suspect. According to police, the shopkeeper Horton is said to have been among the looters and therefore shot him.
28th of May
  • A pawn shop was set on fire in Minneapolis. Almost two months later a body with burn injuries was found in the ruins of the building after a tip.
May 29th
  • In Detroit , a man was shot dead in his car near a demonstration.
  • In Oakland , federal police officer David Patrick Underwood , who was assigned to protect a federal court , was shot dead from a car and a colleague of the victim was shot. The police arrested Steven Carrillo, whom they attributed to the Boogaloo movement, as a suspect . The US Department of Homeland Security classified the attack as a case of domestic terrorism.
30th May
  • In St. Louis , a man died after being run over by a trailer of a FedEx truck that police said the driver had fled a mob.
  • In Omaha , 22-year-old protester James Scurlock was shot dead outside a bar. Its owner had dealt with a group of demonstrators and eventually fired multiple shots, one of which hit Scurlock in the collarbone, killing him. Two days later, authorities announced that the bar owner would not be charged for shooting in self-defense . On June 3, the authorities decided to have this decision examined by a grand jury .
31. May
  • In Kansas City , 50-year-old Marvin Francois was shot dead by robbers while he was about to pick up his son from a protest.
  • In Riverside, 22-year-old Myqwon Blanchard was shot dead by an unknown gunman while looting a shopping mall .
  • In Chicago , 32-year-old John Tiggs is shot dead during looting.

June 2020

June 1st
  • In Louisville , local restaurateur David McAtee was killed by police in an exchange of fire. Police chief Steve Conrad was fired that same day because the officers involved did not wear body cameras or had not activated them. On June 2, police stated that video footage from a surveillance camera showed that McAtee had fired a pistol. Whether these shots were aimed at the police remains part of the ongoing investigation.
  • In Indianapolis , 18-year-old Dorian Murell was shot dead after a protest. The 29-year-old Tyler Newby then turned himself in as the shooter. Newby said after a conversation about a found tear gas canister, a physical altercation developed in which he was knocked to the ground and then defended himself with his gun. Companions of the killed deny a physical argument.
  • Two people were shot dead in riots and protests in Davenport . 22-year-old Italia Marie Kelly was shot while leaving a protest. The 23-year-old Marquis M. Tousant was fatally wounded when a police vehicle was shot at, which also wounded a police officer.
  • In a riot in Cicero , a suburb of Chicago, two people were shot dead: 28-year-old Jose Gutierrez and 27-year-old Victor Cazares.
  • In Las Vegas , police shot and killed a man named Jorge Gomez who was said to have grabbed a gun in the midst of protesters. In another incident in the city, police officer Shay Mikalonis was shot deadly when he was trying to arrest suspects with other police officers. Mikalonis has been paralyzed from the neck down since the incident.
2th of June
  • In Philadelphia , a looter was shot dead by the owner while attempting to break into a gun shop.
  • Sean Monterrosa, 22, was shot dead during rioting in Vallejo because police believed the hammer he was carrying was a gun.
  • Former police officer David Dorn was shot dead in St. Louis trying to protect an acquaintance's pawn shop from looters.
3rd of June
  • Robert Forbes, 50, was hit by a car and fatally injured during a protest on a motorway in the Bakersfield community . Eyewitnesses reported that the car had previously accelerated and criticize the police investigation into the incident.
June 27th
  • In Louisville , 27-year-old Tyler Gerth was shot dead by another protester while protesting in Jefferson Square Park. The suspect protester had camped on site, was known by the other demonstrators for his quick temper and has a criminal record in connection with rioting.

July 2020

July 4th
  • Summer Taylor, 24, was hit by a car while protesting on a stretch of freeway near Seattle and died of injuries a short time later. 32-year-old Diaz Love was also caught in the incident and seriously injured. The police identified the 27-year-old African American Dawit Kelete as a suspect. Kelete's lawyer characterized the incident as an accident.
  • In Atlanta, strangers fired shots at a car as it tried to circumvent barricades that had been placed on the street near the place where Rayshard Brooks died . Eight-year-old Secoriea Turner is fatally hit.
July 25th
  • 28-year-old Garrett Foster was shot dead from a car during a protest in Austin . The driver drove into the demonstration beforehand. Foster was carrying a gun when he died, which is legal in Texas.

Social context

Racism Discussion

Protesters with the slogan I can't breathe

Floyd's pleading words "I can not breathe" ( " I can not breathe ") became the battle cry and slogan of the demonstrators. The RND points out that the words would probably also express the attitude to life of many black Americans. The case compounded allegations of racism against the police as it stood in line with other controversial police operations in which Black Americans were killed. The most famous among them were Michael Brown , Tamir Race , Philando Castile , Freddy Gray and Breonna Taylor . According to the Frankfurter Rundschau , around 1000 members of minorities die each year as a result of police violence in the USA. In most cases there are no video recordings and "very rarely" police officers are prosecuted.

Situation in the USA

The protests take place in a difficult political, social and economic situation for the United States. Since February / March 2020, the USA has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic , which killed more than 100,000 people in the country. The pandemic sparked an economic crisis. More than 40 million Americans registered as unemployed. Minorities in the USA are particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 crisis. Due to the interplay of skin color and socio-economic disadvantage, an above-average number of people in these population groups are ill. Low incomes, resulting in poor access to medical care and cramped living quarters contributed to the spread. Many African Americans are economically forced to go to work despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Columnist Adam Serwer in Atlantic Magazine described the predictable images of statistics as part of the "racial treaty" in America. Serwer speaks of a "supplement to the social contract". In America it was secretly agreed that the Afro-American minority did not participate in society to the same extent as the white majority. At first, President Trump completely ignored the virus, then he wanted to stage himself as a crisis manager and it is now clear that it is mainly the poorer and blacker population that is affected.

Observers see the “ law-and-order ” announcements and polarization by President Donald Trump in connection with the presidential election in November . Trump's management in the COVID-19 crisis has not increased its prospects for a second term, according to surveys. So he is now trying to make a name for himself among his electorate as a tough president.

Risk of COVID-19 spread

Protesters wearing face masks and spatial distancing in Los Angeles on June 6, 2020.

Health experts and public health authorities, as well as US states and cities, warn that the mass protests could cause SARS-CoV-2 infections to spread or rise again faster . In a later examination of the number of infections and the places with protests, no statistical connection could be established.

False reports and disinformation

In the social media numerous circulated false reports about the protests; it was alleged that an activist lost a handbook for protests against racist police violence, The Antifa Manual , during a riot in Oregon . The papers show that the riot was planned and funded by billionaire George Soros . There was nothing in the paper about the current protests, however; instead, there is talk of building a “ New World Order ” or “World Government”. The Antifa should gradually take power over the next 100 years, the media would be infiltrated and an "Operation Truth" began. This alleged handbook, based on the anti-Semitic pamphlet of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which unites numerous right-wing extremist conspiracy allegations, is obviously a fake , as it had been circulating on the Internet months earlier and users on Reddit had already discussed it in 2019. Fake accounts were also used, posing as anti-fascist groups. In addition, the allegation ( refuted by US fact- checkers) emerged that protesters could be hired from an agency.

The protests were also used for propaganda purposes by foreigners . Hu Xijin , editor-in-chief of the state-run Chinese daily Global Times , spread rumors on social media that activists from the Hong Kong democracy movement were behind the violence on the US streets. Referring to the Tian'anmen massacre , he wrote on Twitter after the military was dispatched to the United States and the police were fired there: "The United States is proving the importance of China restoring order in 1989." He did announced that order in China was much more damaged than it is today in the USA. This is classified by the dpa as a reaction to the fact that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with survivors of the massacre in Washington.

Reactions abroad

Dealing with the protests led to criticism from abroad. Protests took place worldwide despite the restrictions imposed by the measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic . While the violent death of George Floyd formed the occasion, these demonstrations were mainly under the mottos Black Lives Matter and No Justice No Peace and were directed against racism, police violence and in several countries such as the United Kingdom and Belgium against their own unprocessed colonial history . It has been demonstrated in Berlin, London, Copenhagen, Paris, and São Paulo, for example. In many cases there were iconoclastic acts against controversial monuments in honor of historical figures associated with slavery and colonialism .

Germany

25,000 people will demonstrate on June 6, 2020 on Munich's Königsplatz

On June 6, 2020, people demonstrated against racism in many German cities, up to 25,000 in Munich, according to police, and around 15,000 in Berlin . On June 7, 2020 there were again many demonstrations against racism and violence worldwide and also in several German cities. Up to 14,000 people came together in two demonstrations in Hamburg . In Dusseldorf around 20,000 participants took part in the demonstrations. Around 15,000 people demonstrated in Leipzig .

Chancellor Angela Merkel said what now ...? , the death of the African American George Floyd was "something very, very terrible". Racism is a terrible thing; It has existed at all times, “but unfortunately we also have it.” She also said: “And now let's go to our own front door and hope that there are enough people in the United States who are simply peaceful Promote demonstrations. "

The Baden-Württemberg demography officer Thaddäus Kunzmann expressed criticism of the “current demonstrations against racism and police violence” . Kunzmann wrote in June 2020 on his private Facebook account that there was no problem with police violence in Germany and that George Floyd was a "violent criminal". This led to multiple criticism of Kunzmann and calls for resignation.

Austria

Black Lives Matter Vienna , June 4th, 2020

In Vienna on June 4, 2020 around 50,000 people protested against racism and police violence at the Black Lives Matter Vienna demonstration.According to press reports, it was one of the largest demonstrations in Vienna in recent years. The following day, around 9,000 participants took part in a protest in front of the US embassy in Vienna. Several thousand people attended further demonstrations in Graz, Innsbruck and Klagenfurt.

Other European countries

Belgium

In Antwerp , due to the demonstrations and protests, the authorities removed the statue of the former King Leopold II. Due to the brutal Belgian colonial rule in the Congo in the 19th and 20th centuries, the memory of the then monarch has been controversial for a long time, but the narrative held and continues of the supposed philanthropist Leopold, who brought civilization to Africa, stubbornly. From the beginning of the protests in Belgium several statues and busts of Leopold II had been smeared. Belgian politicians demanded that the Royal Museum for Central Africa near Brussels emphasize the dark colonial history. How the colonial-historical legacy should be dealt with is being discussed for the first time in society as a whole. The petition "Réparons l'Histoire" ( Let's fix history ) demands that all Leopold II monuments in Belgium be removed. A petition specifically about the removal of the statues in Brussels was able to collect 50,000 signatures in a very short time. A petition demanding the removal of the Leopold II bust from the University of Mons has already been successful. A counter-petition by the associations "Union royale belgo-africaine" ( Royal Association of Belgian Africa ) and "Mémoires du Congo" ( Congo memories ) branded the actions against Leopold II as "the destruction of the nation" and the number of 10 million deaths as " Fake News, ”broadcast by English-speaking historians; see: Congo horror . Those responsible for education have decided that the colonial era will be part of history lessons in the future.

France

There were major protests in France , among other things due to the fact that police violence is also a problem in France. In addition, activists of the French police also accuse structural racism, harassment of minorities and violence. The protests also brought to mind the case of Adama Traoré , who died in police custody in 2016.

In addition, as a result of the reporting, a case became known in which a man died under circumstances similar to George Floyd. Accordingly, after his arrest, Cédric Chouviat was pushed to the ground by several police officers and said seven times within a short time that he would suffocate. Chouviat suffered a heart attack when he was arrested and died in hospital two days later. An autopsy revealed that he suffocated after breaking his larynx .

Italy

In June 2020, the statue of the journalist Indro Montanelli was smeared in Milan .

Netherlands

Around 10,000 people demonstrated in Amsterdam .

United Kingdom

Thousands demonstrated in London on June 6, 2020. The police arrested 29 people. Around 10,000 people demonstrated in Bristol on June 7, 2020. Twelve of them overturned a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston and threw it into the dock. The political reactions to this were controversial. Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the acts of violence as a “betrayal” of the aims propagated by the demonstrators, while the Mayor of Bristol, for example, stated that he did not consider the removal of the statue a loss. Mayor Marvin Rees has Jamaican roots and justified his statement: “As an elected politician, I cannot support property damage and unrest like this”. But the statue of a slave trader in the middle of the city was never anything other than a "personal affront" for him. The British Home Secretary Priti Patel called the action "deeply shameful", "vandalism" and a "completely unacceptable act" in Sky News. Protesters in Oxford called for the statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed .

Outside of Europe

Canada

In Ottawa , thousands demonstrated at the Canadian Parliament building on Parliament Hill . Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended and knelt in silence for minutes in front of the demonstrators.

Reactions from China, Hong Kong and Iran

The People's Republic of China accused the USA of double standards after it had repeatedly criticized China's harsh handling of the mass protests in Hong Kong that had been going on since 2019 and denounced the systematic human rights violations in the country . Now the US is also affected by unrest and Trump is in favor of strict action against the protests, including a domestic deployment of the military. Carrie Lam , the head of government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region , who is said to be loyal to Beijing and where protests and violent clashes between demonstrators and the police had repeatedly occurred for several years , made a similar statement . The spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry , Zhao Lijian , stressed initially, the current situation demonstrate Then he asked the question, "the seriousness of racial discrimination and violent law enforcement by the police and the urgency for the United States to address that." "Why the name: USA calls these black-clad rebels and supporters of Hong Kong independence as 'heroes' and 'champions', but does it refer to its own people who act against racial discrimination as thugs? "

A similar argumentative procedure in the form of a return coach could also be observed by the government of Iran , which had also been criticized several times by the USA for human rights crimes and its dealings with Protestants.

Some commentators see these statements by China and Iran as an attempt to divert attention from the authoritarian approach to their own people. In addition to Iran, the Syrian MP Fares Schebabi and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also expressed their views . Thomas Seibert wrote in the Augsburger Allgemeine : “Civil rights and democracy - that is what the USA likes to demand from the states in the Middle East. But now they can turn the tables and pillory America as a hypocrite. "

See also

Web links

Commons : Protests after the death of George Floyd  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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