Tag: protests

• Monday, June 15th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Brasilia locks out federal buildings to prevent pro-Bolsonaro protestors trying to invade them

  

  The governor of the federal district in which Brazil’s capital Brasilia is located closed the area around the presidential palace, ministries, Supreme Court and Congress on Sunday to keep right-wing supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro from gathering there.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:23 UTC

  Washington DC mayor wants active-military sent by Trump out of the city

  

  Thousands of National Guard troops and federal officers in riot gear and masks ringed the White House and monuments in the U.S. capital this week, evoking comparisons to an occupying force. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday said she wants most of them out of her district of 700,000 residents. But her powers are limited.

• Thursday, June 4th 2020 - 18:31 UTC

  Defense Secretary rejects Trump's Insurrection Act do deploy active duty forces to respond to civil unrest

  

  Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday that he does not support invoking the Insurrection Act, a law from 1807 that would allow President Donald Trump to deploy active-duty U.S. troops to respond to civil unrest in cities across the country.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 12:20 UTC

  President Trump also manages to infuriate religious leaders

  

  United States religious leaders on Tuesday castigated Donald Trump for posing in front of a church holding a Bible after peaceful protesters were violently cleared from the surrounding area.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Thousands demonstrate before the US Capitol yelling “silence is violence”

  

  Thousands of demonstrators took to a knee in the grass outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, chanting “silence is violence” and “no justice, no peace,” just before a government-imposed curfew as rallies against police brutality swelled in major cities.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  New York upmarket retailers' shops in central Manhattan raided by looters

  

  New York was under a curfew that would last until early Tuesday morning, officials said, after looters raided stores in central Manhattan, targeting some of the city's top retailers.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Oil prices fall because of concerns about extended rioting in major US cities

  

  Oil prices fell due to concerns about riots in major US cities that could staunch demand after trading higher on optimism that OPEC would extend or enhance production cuts at a meeting in June.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Violence and arson across major US cities on a sixth night of protests

  

  Violence has erupted in cities across the US on the sixth night of protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd. Curfews have been imposed in nearly 40 cities, but people have largely ignored them, leading to tense stand-offs. There are unconfirmed rumors of five deaths because of the rioting and clashes.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 07:49 UTC

  Washington DC mayor and Secret Service, contradict Trump's tweets

  

  US President Donald Trump said demonstrators protesting the death of a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck would have been “greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen.”

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Minneapolis in flames following violent night protests, despite deployment of troops

  

  The Minneapolis police officer accused of killing an unarmed African American man was arrested and charged with murder on Friday as authorities sought to restore peace after three nights of violent protests left parts of the city in flames.