George Floyd. 4000 arrests and three other victims. The solidarity agents with the protest increase

• Case Floyd. Gunfight between police and protesters in Louisville, Kentucky: one dead
• Death Floyd, scuffles in the White House. Trump brought to the bunker. Agents use stun grenades
• Floyd: punch raised in the crowd, the aces of basketball and US football parade in Minneapolis
• Death Floyd, Minneapolis vandalized the home of the accused agent. Protests across America
• Photos of protests over Floyd's death in dozens of American cities
• Minneapolis. Trucks on the crowd of protesters during the protests over Floyd's death
• Floyd dies, 1,400 arrests for protests. Trump: media committed to fomenting hatred and anarchy
• Clashes over the murder of George Floyd. Trump will not use the National Guard
• The "systemic racism" behind the clashes over the death of George Floyd

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Around fifty Secret Service agents were injured in the clashes on the night between Sunday and Monday near the White House, during the demonstrations for George Floyd, the African American who died in police custody.

Violent clashes that prompted Secret Service agents to move Donald Trump to the underground White House bunker, as happened on Friday evening. Several Washington landmarks have also been scarred with lettering at the National Mall.

All this happened shortly before the curfew came into effect in the American capital, a measure also adopted by other cities in the United States.  

Meanwhile, the American media report other victims . A man was killed in Louisville during the protests. According to ABC and CBS reports, the man died after the police and the Kentucky National Guard "fired back" to disperse the crowd. Louisville police chief Steve Conrad does not clarify who fired the fatal shot. The authorities have not yet released information on the victim.

Two people were killed and an agent was injured in a shootout in Davenport, Iowa, also during protests over George Floyd's death. Local police chief Paul Sikorski reported in a press conference that three officers were ambushed while on patrol and that several gunshots hit their car and one of them, who however is not in life-threatening, he was injured. The police then arrested several people who fled the scene in a car.

Sikorski added that police responded to dozens of incidents in the city in which gunshots were fired and that four people were shot in total. Davenport Mayor Mike Mateson has announced that he will introduce a curfew for tonight and will ask Governor Kim Reynolds to mobilize the National Guard.

About 4,000 people have been arrested so far in the protests of the past few days, reports CNN.

The news of the last hours does not only tell of police brutality. Some police officers and officers joined the demonstrators in solidarity. Sometimes bending over one knee - an act of popular protest in the American sports world to denounce racial inequities - as two agents in New York did, staying in a circle while reading the names of other African Americans killed by the police. In Michigan, a sheriff marched with the demonstrators, as well as the chief of police from Norfolk, Virginia. Also some agents on their knees in front of the White House. Other cases have occurred in Miami and Santa Cruz. Episodes that happened a few hours after the march of basketball and American football stars took to the streets with the protesters in Minneapolis. Marching, with his fist raised to Tommie Smith.

"We are here for you": Sheriff joins the march for Floyd
"The only reason we are here is to make sure your voice is heard: that's all." So Chris Swanson, the sheriff from Flint Town, Michigan, addresses the demonstrators on the street in Minneapolis, demonstrating their solidarity. Unarmed, without helmet and without truncheon, with a dark shirt and the yellow writing 'Sheriff', Swanson appears in a video shot by those present and posted on social media: "Do not even think for a second that all the police in the country are like him" , he assures referring to the agent who pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for long minutes, killing him. "We are here to help people, not to do meaningless things," he adds as he beats the five cones protesters inviting them to "make a parade, not a protest." "Cops love people. Tell us what we can do for you," he asks. The crowd replies acclaiming him and starting to articulate: "Walk with us !, Walk with us!", "Walk with us! Walk with us!". Swanson does not have it repeated twice and joins the march of dozens of people.

The Minnesota Department of Public Security has confirmed that it has taken the tanker driver into custody who yesterday threatened to overwhelm thousands of protesters protesting on Interstate 35W in Minneapolis. DPS commissioner John Harrington reports that none of the protesters were seriously injured, estimating the presence of 5-6 thousand people on the bridge when the truck darted through the crowd. According to Harrington, the vehicle was already on the highway before the accident, despite having been closed 40 minutes earlier and protective barriers had been installed: "It was one of the most dangerous things I have ever seen". The driver, dragged out of the vehicle and attacked by demonstrators, was initially transported to Hennepin Healthcare with minor injuries and is now in the Hennepin County prison. In some videos of the accident, demonstrators are seen trying to protect the man from the beating, intervening between him and the crowd.

In New York, a massive protest against the death of George Floyd. Thousands of people took to the streets, particularly in Manhattan and Brooklyn. A few tense moments have already been recorded and a car was burned near Union Square. 

The 25-year old daughter of the mayor of New York, Chiara De Blasio, was also arrested on Saturday night in a protest in Manhattan. The New York Post writes it. The girl ended up in handcuffs after police declared a gathering between 12th Street and Broadway illegal, where riots broke out and security forces cars were burned. Two lawyers were arrested for a molotov attack on a police car over the weekend in New York.

Two members of a Reuters TV crew were hit by rubber bullets and a photographer's camera was destroyed in Minneapolis last night as attacks on reporters covering the conflict in U.S. cities intensify. The video by cameraman Julio-Cesar Chavez shows a police officer who is directly targeting him while the police shoot rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas to disperse about 500 demonstrators in the southwest of the city. A CNN correspondent and his team were arrested on live television and while protesters and police were clashing. Reporter Kaitlin Rust of Louisville, Kentucky local station WAVE News shouted live: "They're shooting at me! They're shooting at me! ! " while she and her team are hit by the local police with coloring bullets.