The protests across the nation over the death of George Floyd are fueling fears in U.S. cities that the demonstrations could exacerbate the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak, which has disproportionally ravaged minority populations.
Two police officers were injured Saturday when protesters began throwing bricks and other objects during a George Floyd protest in downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
A rioter in Seattle, Washington, looted a cheesecake from the city’s Cheesecake Factory restaurant, local news media confirmed.
Chicago authorities raised the city’s iconic river bridges in the city’s downtown loop during protests and riots on Saturday to slow the flow of people walking into the city.
One man was shot and killed and 61 protesters were arrested in downtown Detroit after tensions escalated between protesters and police officers over the riots concerning George Floyd’s death.
Bail has been set for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the man filmed with his knee on George Floyd’s neck while he was handcuffed and face down on the street and subsequently died, at $500,000, according to charging documents.
Members of an Army Immediate Response Force part of the 82nd Airborne Division have been told to be ready to respond to riots.
A man reportedly died Saturday after he was dragged by a FedEx truck in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, during a night of protests and riots.
Friday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) acknowledged the outbreak of violence around the country, allegedly a result of George Lloyd’s death while in the custody of Minneapolis police, should be condemned.
Protesters and rioters took tumbles during Friday evening’s protests around the country, videos captured and posted online reveal.
President Donald Trump on Friday urged Minnesota voters to vote out Democrats, as riots continued in reaction to the death of George Floyd.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms (D) excoriated those causing violence in Georgia’s capital city as protests turned to riots, stating that rioters are “disgracing” their city and “the life of George Floyd and every other person who has been killed in this country.”
Swarms of protesters took to the streets of Washington, DC, to protest the death of George Floyd, swarming the Treasury building, climbing on walls, and graffitiing the building as civil unrest permeated the nation’s capital on Friday evening.
CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta were vandalized by rioters on Friday, including the smashing of windows and graffitiing of the company’s sign.
Protesters lit several American flags on fire on Friday evening in front of the White House in Washington, DC, where they protested the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Monday.
While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) confidently boasts that the security law it intends to impose on Hong Kong will stabilize the city and win applause from business leaders, some corporations are making plans to flee before the last shred of Hong Kong’s autonomy is destroyed.
Protesters recited a Marxist chant on Friday in Washington, D.C., where they demonstrated over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Chinese propagandists quickly jumped on the Minneapolis riots to score political points against the United States, comparing the riots to the Hong Kong protests and behaving as if China has a lighter touch when dealing with civil unrest than President Donald Trump because Trump said in a tweet that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
As conditions are deteriorating in Minneapolis, MN, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi is on the ground, offering viewers a glimpse of the situation as it unfolds.
Rioters in Minneapolis breached the city police department’s third precinct and set fires, according to numerous eyewitness accounts.
The Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on Tuesday noted a social media post from China’s state-run Global Times that in turn quoted the Hong Kong police condemning a demonstration against pro-Beijing legislation as “illegal activities.”
China’s state-run Global Times went to bat for the heavy-handed “national security law” Beijing is preparing to impose on Hong Kong with a slew of editorials on Monday and Tuesday, denouncing criticism as fear-mongering and predicting Hong Kong would welcome the stability provided by a massive crackdown on protesters.
Thousands of protesters filled the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to denounce Beijing’s plan to impose a draconian national security law, neutralizing the Hong Kong legislature and potentially setting up a brutal crackdown on all future dissent.
The National People’s Congress (NPC), the rubber-stamp legislature of the Chinese Communist Party, received a draft copy on Friday of the security law Beijing is planning to impose on Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong stock market was rocked by a massive sell-off on Friday after the Chinese Communist government in Beijing declared its intention to bypass the Hong Kong legislature and impose a draconian security law to shut down the protest movement. That single act effectively ended the island’s limited autonomy in the eyes of many residents and concerned international observers.
The Chinese Communist Party’s sham legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), is reportedly preparing to bypass the Hong Kong legislature (which is looking more than a little shamtastic these days itself) and impose a set of national security laws that could crush the Hong Kong protest movement and hollow out what remains of the island’s limited autonomy.
A brawl erupted in the Hong Kong legislature, commonly known as LegCo, on Monday when pro-Beijing lawmakers installed one of their own as House Committee chair.
A gym in Camden County, New Jersey, was met with protests as it reopened in defiance of the state orders that shut down nonessential businesses to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, according to videos of the incident.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) announced on Friday that 12 more counties will be allowed to begin reopening next week, May 22 — a move that still leaves 18 counties remaining under stringent lockdown orders until June 4.
Demonstrators are gathering in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Friday to protest what many have described as Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) “draconian” lockdown orders, preventing several counties from reopening their economies.
An attendee of Thursday’s Reopen Minnesota protest outside of the governor’s mansion said he does not have an income due to the extended shutdown orders and said it is time to allow Americans to make “adult decisions,” adding, “it’s not healthy for me to be at home.”
Police threatened an 18-year-old woman with arrest, reportedly for lying, after she accused Hong Kong police officers of raping her at the height of last year’s protests.
Demonstrators held a sing-along at Hong Kong’s Admiralty Mall on Friday, defying a heavy police presence to call for independence and fly their banner of “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Time.”
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday demanded a “jump in production” from his country’s threadbare economy to stave off the effects of U.S. sanctions, which he compared to the Wuhan coronavirus.
Police arrested dozens of Dutch anti-lockdown protesters in The Hague on the 75th anniversary of Liberation Day, a holiday in the Netherlands celebrating the end of the occupation by Nazi Germany.
China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO), the top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) political office in Hong Kong, on Wednesday condemned pro-democracy demonstrators as a “political virus” that “must be eliminated” before Hong Kong can return to prosperity.
A Wisconsin man joined the ranks of what some reports say are many people nationwide snitching on those in their communities for not following arbitrary orders of wearing masks in public and social distancing.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) accused Michigan protesters last week of depicting “some of the worst racism” in America’s history.
A café opened for dine-in service Friday in El Dorado County, California, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shelter-in-place orders.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) accused protesters of spreading the coronavirus at a demonstration against his state’s stay-at-home orders in Huntington Beach, California, on Friday.
