• African American suffocated, Minneapolis burning and burning. The mayor: "Send the National Guard"
  • Usa, video shock: African American stopped by agents dies suffocated
  • After exonerating the agent who suffocated Eric Garner, the protest exploded in New York: 30 arrests
  • #ICantBreathe: "I don't breathe"

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May 29, 2020

The demonstrators and rioters in the square are "vandals" and again, as a warning: "When the looting begins, you start shooting". So did Donald Trump after the third night of violence and clashes in Minneapolis triggered by the killing by the police of George Floyd. In a message posted on Twitter, the American president said he spoke to the governor of Minnesota, Tim Waltz, and told him that "the army is with him to the end". The US president has spared no criticism of the mayor of Minneapolis: he speaks of "total lack of leadership". "Either the very weak far left mayor - said Trump - brings the city under control or I will send the National Guard".

"These offenders dishonor the memory of George Floyd and I will not allow this to happen - added the president - I just spoke with Governor Tim Walz and told him that the military is with him".

Concordant press sources and images and videos released on social networks have documented the raid of demonstrators in shopping centers, the fire of parked cars and the use of tear gas on the street. Also in Minneapolis, a police station was allegedly occupied, while the National Guard was deployed in the city.

Floyd was a 46-year-old African American citizen. The death after being arrested by the police and the violence, documented in a video in which the man, stuck on the ground by an agent, repeats: "I can't breathe".

Street protests took place in other cities in the United States last night, from New York to San Francisco, from Chicago to Denver.

The mayor of Minneapolis: "What we see in these hours
is unacceptable " "What we have seen in the last hours and in the last two nights in terms of looting is unacceptable". This was how the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, expressed himself during a press conference amidst the ongoing tensions. "Our communities - he said in the declarations reported by the CNN - cannot tolerate it and will not tolerate it".

Frey, proclaimed a 72-hour state of emergency in the city of Minnesota. During the press conference, the mayor said Minneapolis has asked the Minnesota government and the National Guard for help in trying to "" keep the situation under control. "

George Floyd's death
"Leave me, I can't breathe ....". These are the last dramatic words of an African American killed by a police officer who suffocated him, blocking him on the ground and pressing his neck with one knee. An episode reminiscent of another similar and sadly known case, that of New Yorker Eric Garner in 2014. This time the scene of the tragedy was Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the whole sequence was filmed by a passer-by in a video shock that is now shaking the USA. According to the first reconstructions, some agents have been alerted to the presence of a suspicious man sitting in a car and who appeared to be under the influence of drugs. The policemen who arrived on the spot ordered him to get off but the man began to offer resistance. The agents then blocked him on the ground and, while trying to handcuff him, one of them held his neck down with one knee. "Please I can't breathe," he hears in the video. The man implores the agents several times but in vain, even if visibly suffering. When the ambulance arrives, it is too late. The man will die shortly thereafter. The police have launched an investigation and the agents have been suspended. They also wore body-cams. "What I saw is terrible. That man shouldn't have died. Being a black man in America shouldn't be a death sentence," was the anger of Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey. The four policemen involved in the affair were subsequently fired. The mayor of Minneapolis has made it known. "This is the right decision," he said.