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  • USA Police accused of murdering George Floyd's murder, after another night of riots in Minneapolis

A young man has died in Detroit tonight, shot while participating in protests over the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, an event that is generating altercations in more and more cities in the United States. According to police sources citing US media, a 19-year-old man was shot during the protests and authorities are searching for the assailant .

The event occurred shortly before midnight on Friday when an individual in a vehicle fired multiple shots at a group of people protesting Floyd's death before escaping. The young man was taken to a city hospital, where his death was confirmed. Detroit Police are investigating the event and collecting data to locate the suspect.

George Floyd , 40, died last Monday when he was arrested on suspicion of trying to use a fake $ 20 bill at a supermarket. In videos recorded by passers-by, one of the four officers who participated in the arrest is seen, and who were later expelled from the body, subjecting Floyd to the ground, climbing on him and pressing his knee on his neck for several minutes , without heed her pleas that she cannot breathe.

The protests spread

Since then, the riots over Floyd's death have spread to different cities in the United States, but have not been alleviated in Minneapolis, where they originated, with the imposed curfew or with the arrest and prosecution of the agent directly involved.

Hundreds of people gathered in various parts of the country, such as in front of the White House, in Washington , but also in New York , Dallas , Houston , the victim's hometown, or Las Vegas , Des Moines , Memphis and Portland . In Atlanta , police cars were burned. In the city of Minnesota the curfew took effect on Friday night. Police launched tear gas against hundreds of protesters who defied the order.

The family of Georges Floyd , 46, whom President Donald Trump reported calling, hailed the Police arrest as a first step "on the road to justice," but considered it "late and insufficient." "We want a charge of willful manslaughter, and we want to see the other (implicated) officers arrested," the family said in a statement.

"We have been colliding for too long. We are dying , brother, with someone's knee around our neck when we did nothing (...). So that's it, we are done. We are done. We are done. I mean, We're already dead, so we might as well die for the good cause, right? "a Minneapolis protester who only wanted to be identified by his first name, Chicago, told AFP.

Officer " Derek Chauvin has been charged by the prosecutor's office ... with murder and involuntary manslaughter," prosecutor Mike Freeman told reporters. Chauvin is one of four officers fired from the police force after the video showing Floyd's arrest Monday was released.

Police wife divorces

Following his arrest and prosecution for the death of George Floyd during his arrest last Monday, his wife has announced that he is divorcing. Chauvin is the white police officer who, as seen in videos recorded by passers-by, keeps Floyd subdued on the ground, climbing on him and with his knee on his neck for several minutes, without attending to his pleas that he cannot breathe, until that an ambulance arrives and takes him away with no signs of life.

An attorney for the firm Sekula Law Offices, which represents Kellie Chauvin, released a statement tonight in which she says that her representative, "devastated" by the death of the African American , announces that she has decided to "dissolve her marriage." "Tonight, I spoke to Kellie Chauvin and her family. She is devastated by the death of Mr. Floyd and her greatest sympathies go to her family, her loved ones and all those who are suffering from this tragedy," reads the statement.

"Although Mrs. Chauvin does not have children from her current marriage, she respectfully requests that her children, parents and her entire family have security and privacy at this difficult time," he added.

Before the announcement of his wife's divorce, a former Minnesota beauty queen, the commissioner of the state Department of Public Safety, John Harrington, announced that Chauvin , 44, had been arrested by criminal police personnel.

After which, Hennepin (Minnesota) County Prosecutor Mike Freeman revealed that he had brought charges of murder and reckless manslaughter against the former officer, who was expelled from the police along with the other three colleagues who participated in the events. .

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