Headlines: Another unarmed African American killed by police
People demonstrate against the police assassination of Andre Hill in Columbus, Ohio, which has sparked a new wave of outrage against racial injustice and police brutality.
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The violent death of Andre Maurice Hill, killed by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio, receives wide coverage in the press.
The websites of major newspapers and American television stations all publish the video recorded with the police officer's on-board camera.
The footage shows how Andre Hill comes out of the garage of a house that is not his, walks towards the policeman, he holds a cell phone in his left hand.
A few seconds later, the policeman shoots Hill, who collapses.
The policeman who fired, Adam Coy, will wait like his colleague for several minutes before approaching the victim who was then alive and later died in the hospital.
According to
CNN
, an internal investigation has been launched in view of the dismissal of the police officer.
The city's police chief, Thomas Quinlan, said he was upset by what happened to Andre Hill
.
“For her family, there is nothing to celebrate this Christmas, she has lost a very important person.
And that it's a Columbus police officer responsible for it breaks my heart ”.
After the death of Andre Hill, neighbors spontaneously gathered.
The local newspaper,
The Colombus Dispatch
, publishes photos of this gesture of solidarity with the family.
On the signs we can read:
Black Lives Matter
(black lives matter) but also
Justice for Andre Hill (
justice for Andre Hill).
A neighbor explains to the journalist:
“We have never been to a 'Black Lives Matter' demonstration.
But there we had no choice but to come here ”.
In Georgia, donations are flowing to Democratic candidates
In Georgia, the campaign for the two Senate seats (on which the majority of the upper house will depend) is in full swing, with less than two weeks of the election, scheduled for January 6.
And already at this stage we can say that she broke a record.
According to the
Politico
news site
, one of the two Democratic candidates, Jon Ossof, was able to raise more than $ 100 million to finance his election, unprecedented in the history of senatorial campaigns.
Most of that tidy sum he spent on television advertising.
Politico
points out that donations have poured in from all over the country, through social media, and that it was very often with small sums that people supported Jon Ossof.
Between them, the Democratic candidates got more money than their Republican rivals, "
which gives them an advantage in buying TV spots,"
according to
Politico.
Donald Trump
"plays with fire"
The North American press is widely reporting on the stimulus package approved by Congress, which awaits the president's signature.
In two days the government aid that allows millions of Americans to survive during this health crisis expires.
President Donald Trump, who left for Florida to spend the end of the year holidays, still refuses to sign the text.
A position strongly criticized by the editorial writer of the
Houston Chronicle
who implores Donald Trump to approve without further delay the stimulus plan of 900 billion dollars.
"Sign the bill, sign it now,
" headlines the Texas newspaper, while acknowledging that the text is not perfect.
"But then why have you waited until the last moment to raise objections"
, wonders the
Houston Chronicle.
"The president was aware of the negotiations and could have expressed his point of view earlier."
But by threatening not to sign the text, he is playing with fire, estimates the newspaper.
Small businesses need this financial support, as do the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs to the pandemic.
“The president's behavior is just not reasonable,”
concludes the
Houston Chronicle
.
Direction Latin America, where the vaccination against Covid-19 began last Wednesday
Mexico and Costa Rica were the first countries to start vaccination on Thursday.
It's a “miracle” to have the vaccine, exclaimed Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, quoted by
El Sol de Mexico
.
The newspaper that publishes, like others, the testimony of Maria Irene, 59, the Mexican nurse who received the first injection.
“
I was a little nervous but I'm very happy.
This is my best Christmas present,
”she said
.
"And in addition the vaccine gives me this protection which allows me to work with patients suffering from covid-19".
This Friday it is Chile which begins to vaccinate its population, followed by Argentina, the only country on the American continent to have received the Russian vaccine Sputnik V, underlines the Mexican newspaper
El Universal
.
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