‘We’re sick of it’: Anger over George Floyd’s death shatters dozens of U.S. cities
Cars and
businesses were torched, the words “I can’t breathe” were spray-painted
all over buildings, a fire in a trash bin burned near the gates of the
White House, and tens of thousands marched peacefully through city
streets to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck until he stopped breathing.
businesses were torched, the words “I can’t breathe” were spray-painted
all over buildings, a fire in a trash bin burned near the gates of the
White House, and tens of thousands marched peacefully through city
streets to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck until he stopped breathing.
His death is one of a litany of racial tragedies that have thrown the country into chaos amid the coronavirus
pandemic that has left millions out of work and killed more than
100,000 people in the U.S., including disproportionate numbers of Black
people.