In addition to New York, more than 40 cities under curfew • 26 states have activated the National Guard, and even President Trump is forced to go down to the bunker • The world's strongest power has trouble waking up after George Floyd's nightmare • Trump for governors: "Take control of protesters, You are too weak "

• Demonstrator in Denver, Colorado

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The US storm over George Floyd's assassination does not subside and some protests across the country have surfaced in violence. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that it was 11 p.m. Local) The city will be under a general curfew by 5 p.m., and that thousands more police will be sent to the streets.

New Yorkers: I've spoken with @NYGovCuomo and for everyone's safety we have decided to implement a citywide curfew in New York City tonight. It will take effect at 11pm and be lifted at 5am tomorrow morning.

- Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) June 1, 2020

Two people were killed in Davenport, Iowa, and a police officer was injured. In Louisville, Kentucky, an exchange of gunfire between police and protesters developed, and one of the shooters was killed.

In Minneapolis, where Floyd was strangled to death by a police officer, a semitrailer driver was arrested after apparently attempting to run over a group of protesters blocking the road. The driver accelerated his vehicle toward the thousands of protesters as they knelt to indicate a moment of silence. Luckily, they managed to escape and authorities claimed there were no casualties.

As a rule, hundreds of people have been arrested and right now, 26 states have exerted National Guard forces in an effort to control the riots, with no fewer than 17,000 soldiers participating in the effort. However, the protests continued in full force, including in New York and Los Angeles.

In the meantime, the results of Floyd's autopsy performed by independent pathologists were obtained. The findings showed that, contrary to police claims, Floyd did indeed die from a suffocation caused by a lack of blood supply to the brain due to police actions.

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At the same time, yesterday it became clear that on Friday, while thousands were demonstrating in front of the White House, Secret Service officials led President Donald Trump to an underground facility for a period of time to protect him. For his part, Trump spoke to governors from all over the United States yesterday, calling them to "control" protests. "It's a protest movement, and if we don't restrain it, it will be worse," the president insisted. "The movement is only successful when you are weak, and most of you are weak."

Meanwhile, thousands of people overflowed the streets of Bryan, Texas, including one of George Floyd's children, Quincy Mason Floyd. Mason praised local protesters for the existence of quiet protests, saying "violence is not the solution."

June Hersh, USA

New York: The Big Apple enters the Great Curfew

Protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, put the Jewish community in a helpless state, torn between two extremes to which it continues. On the one hand, the Jewish community is largely liberal and progressive, and as such, is expected to support unreservedly in the protests over Floyd's death.

On the other hand, the Jewish community has become accustomed, and, more specifically, in the age of social justice, to admit, sometimes even apologize, for its privileges. Most Jews, unlike other minorities in the United States, are perceived by the general population as whites for all that implicates. The community is torn between wanting to support, cautioning not to try or abduct the protest. It is also threatened, like other communities, by the violence that erupted. In several cities across the US. Looting and destruction have become routine in recent weeks in cities such as Minneapolis, Atlanta and even New York.

Many shops, especially in the conflict areas, seal their shop windows with planks, and police vehicles burn almost every night. The Jewish community, which wants, and rightly, to support African Americans in their just fight against racism, finds itself helpless and frightened by images of a blazing fire in Union Square and desecrated synagogues in California, and has difficulty responding so that it does not appear to support it.

At the same time, the governor of New York and the mayor of New York announced that as of yesterday evening (local time) the city will be under a general curfew until 5 am, and that thousands more police officers will be sent to the streets.

But even within all this, there is no argument that the protest is justified. Racism still exists in many parts of American society. Let us not let the shocking images of the harsh violence in the US forget about the bottom line, black Americans deserve justice, and their right to demand it.

Take care of yours

Los Angeles: Organized crime caught a ride on the protest

This week was supposed to look completely different. After 11 weeks under the Corona closure, on Friday, green light for private business owners in Los Angeles was gradually opened.

But instead of opening the shop doors and starting the restoration, the small hours of the night before Sunday morning business owners spent putting wooden slabs and barriers on the showcases and entrances, fearing looters.

Police forces said that 80 percent of the protests go through peace. The other 20 percent are those who take a ride on the giant squads and go on a rampage. By Saturday noon, the matter seemed to be in control, and the municipality announced it would address the plunder cases in Downtown and impose a curfew on this area only. But then everything turned around.

In the evening I went for a walk in my neighborhood in the heart of the city, and the tension was in the air. Cars galloping with sirens and screams in the police condemnation, mobiles rushing in different directions and shops suddenly closing their gates. The curfew was extended to the entire city and the citizens were urged not to leave their homes. Violence increased, looting intensified, police vehicles and businesses were set on fire.

The head echoes the historic memory of the riots in the city 28 years ago following the acquittal of the four police officers accused of beating Rodney King until they nearly caused his death. So it was a race war, the blacks released their rage. This time it is an organized crime sponsored by the protest.

They moved quickly from Downtown to West Hollywood, to Fairfax, where many Jewish and Israeli stores turned out to be attractive destinations for looters. They began breaking into luxury shops on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, and police forces fought them with tear gas and rubber bullets. But the looting did not stop.

After 500 first-day arrests, a full curfew was announced across the province yesterday, and fear is mounting.

Sparkling Hollywood has become the Wild West. Street violence is the real movie. Most of the day watching television is accompanied by the soundtrack from the outside of police sirens, firefighters and helicopters. Bad movie.

Uncle Caspi

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Last weekend, Las Vegas, the sin city, was scheduled to reopen after the closing months. On Saturday, a party was scheduled to take place in the Neonopolis shopping and events complex in the city, on the occasion of the reopening of the Strip and other recreation areas in the city after two and a half months. The well-known karaoke bar had already prepared everything, and despite the fact that it was officially opened, I and many others could not attend - because instead of parties there were demonstrations, and the potential spenders (including me and my friends) were dealing with tear gas and did not fake songs for fun.

Instead of a Las Vegas opening party, the city found itself in a riot. Most businesses on the city's main business street opted not to open, although officially they could. They were just scared. There was one brave pizzeria that opened its doors, and people sat there, watching the riots as they ate pizza.

Hordes of people crowded into the county detention facility, and one of the detainees there even "participated" in his riot by lying down and turning on the light in his cell, causing a roar of joy in the crowd. The protesters, who took the water bottles placed there to quench their thirst, later threw them at the police.

At one point there were also explosions from the facility, and we all escaped at the height of speed for fear it was gunshots. The protesters encountered a wall of police, and I feared that an outrage would erupt. Eventually, someone with a megaphone informed everyone to make a U-turn and return to where the rally came from.

But even there they encountered a police wall. One African-American woman started yelling at a policeman. "You have to be on that side of the barricade," she shouted. Above them a glass bottle was thrown, but a police officer shoved him to the floor and he smashed.

John Katilomitis, a journalist at the Las Vegas Review Journal