The President of the United States, Donald Trump, appeared on Monday night from the White House to make a statement about the serious racial unrest that has been going on for days in the country. Protests at the death of a white George Floyd, black police officer have sparked the largest wave of street rampage since the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King in 1968.

Trump has appeared to ask the governors of the various states to "take control of the streets" and stop the protesters. Previously he had already called them "idiots" for not achieving it. For its part, the White House has decided to "mobilize all available civilian and military resources." In practice, he has said that "thousands of armed soldiers" will take to the streets of Washington.

Furthermore, the President has declared that all acts of protest will be considered as "internal terrorism" and has described them as a great "dishonor". Precisely, minutes before his statement, the police had repelled the protesters who were gathered in front of the White House with tear gas. When he has finished his speech, the President has left on foot amid a large police display.

Trump had been reproached for not making official statements in the wake of these protests, which are leaving looting and destruction in numerous cities across the country. In Los Angeles alone, this Sunday the Police arrested 1,200 people, according to France Presse.

Several cities have already extended the curfew. In New York, for example, a total curfew has been enacted for the first time in 77 years. In Washington, where it has been in effect since seven o'clock in the afternoon, Trump has warned that it should be respected. And in his speech he added a message for "cities that do not control" the situation: "I will deploy the United States military and they will quickly solve the problem on their own. "

The protests, far from appeasing, worsen after learning that two autopsies, the official and the one commissioned by Floyd's family, contradict the official version of the authorities about his death.

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