US President Donald Trump has accused the left-wing anti-fascist "Antiva" movement of being behind the ongoing protests in several US states for the fourth consecutive day, stressing that he would classify it as a "terrorist organization."
The resurgence of the movement of "Antiva" in the United States is linked to events that occurred after President Trump's coming to power after she had been inactive for many years.
The Al-Jazeera correspondent in Washington stated that the protests against the background of the killing of African American citizen George Floyd at the hands of policemen in the city of Minneapolis, are still continuing in several regions throughout the country.
The US National Guard has deployed 5,000 troops from its forces and air forces in 15 states, in addition to the capital, Washington.
Several American cities have witnessed a curfew, including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, in an attempt to stop the violent protests that broke out and spread about 30 American cities.
dead and wounded
On Sunday, clashes between police and demonstrators resulted in the death of five people and the injury of others, four of them in the city of Minneapolis and the fifth dead in the city of Indianapolis.
Two of the Reuters television crew were also injured by rubber bullets, when police entered an area where about 500 protesters had started after the curfew began in Minneapolis.
Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz announced the extension of the curfew until six o'clock in the morning, Monday, noting that the ban imposed at night on Friday and Saturday helped security forces target those seeking harm.
Waltz announced the arrest of a number of people who caused harm during the protests, and seized weapons, knives and drugs, saying that "bad individuals" violate the ranks of peaceful demonstrators.
Internal terrorism
On the other hand, the US Attorney General, William Barr, stated that the violence incited and carried out by the "Antiva" group and other similar groups is "internal terrorism, and it will be dealt with accordingly."
Barr said violent extremist elements have been hijacked - by the riots in many American cities - the voices of legitimate peaceful protests, and that groups of extremists and external agitators are exploiting the situation to work on their separate, violent and extremist agenda.
For his part, US presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday called on protesters not to resort to violence to protest the "brutality" of police practices.
Biden said in a statement that "protesting against such brutal practices is right and necessary, but burning and causing pointless destruction are not. We are a nation in pain, but we must not let this pain destroy us."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also said that what was seen in the video of the arrest of George Floyd was a murder and execution on the air, noting that other police personnel appearing in the video would have been considered in various circumstances to be complicit in the crime.
Pelosi, in an interview with the American "ABC" station, expressed her concern about the third degree murder charge of the policeman involved.
Solidarity rallies
Externally, the German capital Berlin witnessed a demonstration condemning the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minnesota.
The British capital, London, witnessed a similar demonstration, during which the demonstrators demanded an end to the police attacks on black people in the United States.
The demonstrators declared their support for the protesters' demands in the demonstrations taking place in several American cities. The demonstration came despite the measures taken by the British government to combat the outbreak of the Corona virus.
In Brazil, dozens of Brazilian activists in downtown Sao Paulo organized demonstrations against racism, against what they called fascist rule in the world, and raised slogans in support of demonstrations in the United States.
Activists had called on social media to gather to oppose what they described as police racist measures against black people in the United States and Brazil, likening the rule of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his actions to the rule of US President Donald Trump.
It is noteworthy that, as of Sunday morning, the violence that followed the killing of the African American citizen, George Floyd, had declared a state of emergency in 25 American cities of 16 states, and arrested nearly 1,400 people in 17 cities.