2020-06-03 10:04:29, , Yahoo News
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Washington (AFP) – Protesters defied curfews across the United States as leaders scrambled to stem anger over police racism while President Donald Trump rejected criticism over his use of force to break up a peaceful rally.
Standoffs between police and demonstrators stretched into the night in cities from New York to Los Angeles over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man whose killing has brought once-in-a-generation protests to the nation for the past week.
People liked my walk."- 'Despicable looters' -Joe Biden, Trump's presumptive Democratic rival in November elections, denounced the crackdown as an abuse of power and promised, if elected, to tackle the "systemic racism" in the country."
In the same place on Monday, federal police had abruptly opened tear gas and fired rubber bullets to break up a non-violent protest, clearing a path for Trump to stroll outside for a photo-op at a historic church damaged the previous night.
Today is… about George Floyd's family — we want them to know that George did not die in vain," Mayor Sylvester Turner told an estimated 60,000 people.A tearful Roxie Washington, the mother of Floyd's six-year-old daughter, told a news conference she wanted "justice for him because he was good."
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the United States, Mayor Sylvester Turner, protests, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC
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