Protests against police violence have led to some changes after eleven days of demonstrations.
In Minneapolis, where George Floyd’s death sparked rallies, a curfew was lifted, and the city voted to ban police chokeholds. Multiple media outlets report over 1,000 people gathered outside the office of the state Attorney General that’s leading the case into Geroge Floyd’s death.
In Washington, DC, news outlets are saying the National Guard was ordered to disarm.
However, police in New York City continued to arrest protesters and a Twitter video shows officers shoving a reporter.
Cops hit a man with batons and shove a reporter after arrests on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn. Wild pic.twitter.com/BLNvZ1iV7I
— Zach Williams (@ZachReports) June 6, 2020
Demonstrators marched in Toronto, reacting to the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet. Protesters there and in other cities also marked what would have been Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday on Friday. She died in an attempted drug bust after police entered her Louisville, Kentucky apartment in March.
After a memorial for George Floyd in Minneapolis on Thursday, the Sherrif of Hoke County, North Carolina announced a second public viewing and public memorial is scheduled for today. It’s being held in Raeford, N.C., where Floyd was born. Sherrif Hubert Peterkin posted on social media that no protesting will be allowed at the event.
