A protest in Minneapolis over the dying of a black man in police custody turned violent Tuesday evening, with demonstrators clashing with police and trashing a precinct constructing, reviews mentioned.
A number of hundred demonstrators at about 6 p.m. splintered off from a primarily peaceable afternoon rally and marched to town’s third Precinct to protest the dying of George Floyd, WCCO-TV reported.
Floyd was seen on viral video being pinned down by a white Minneapolis police officer, yelling, “I can’t breathe” earlier than he died.
The group focused the precinct as a result of it’s believed the 4 Minneapolis cops concerned in George’s arrest — who’ve all since been fired — labored there, the report mentioned.
Unruly protesters spray-painted the precinct, tossed rocks on the constructing’s home windows and vandalized at the least one patrol automotive, in response to Fox 9 footage.
“Break that shit,” one protester may very well be heard, as others cheer.
“It’s actual ugly,” an unidentified protester informed WCCO. “The police have to know that that is the local weather they’ve created, that is the local weather they created.”
Police in riot gear arrived and fired tear fuel on the protesters, who took goal on the officers with rocks, water bottles and different objects, the report mentioned.
The FBI and Minnesota state authorities are investigating Floyd’s dying.