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01 June 2020At five o'clock, Italian time, a curfew has come into effect in Washingtojn and other cities in the United States, just before thousands of people had gathered outside the White House to protest the death of George Floyd. The building is armored by the secret service and the national guard. Reported some scuffles and the use of tear gas and stinging sprays by police officers. In Lafayette square the demonstrators lit a large bonfire. Already on Friday evening the secret service agents had brought President Donald Trump into an underground bunker in the White House for almost an hour, when the protest raged in front of the presidency. The New York Times writes it.

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.

The chronicles do 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.