Damascus-Sana
The widespread and continuous protests for the third day in a row were not the only spark that the African-American citizen George Floyd was murdered by an American police officer. The boiling point was exacerbated with riot police using various types of methods to suppress protesters and arrest them as a journalist from CNN. “The newsletter for its coverage of protests is a development that has caused Americans to question the unprecedented truth about their alleged liberties.
The phrase "I cannot breathe," Floyd said while he breathed himself under the feet of a white officer in the American police a few days ago, appeared to apply to freedom of the press and expression of opinion that the United States has long boasted about and raised its slogan as the riot police did not exclude a network crew. CNN repressed it and arrested him during his direct coverage of the protests against the killing of Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in a move denounced by the news network as "an arrest for the press and freedom of opinion."
The questions raised by the arrest of the CNN crew did not need answers. The reporter who was taken live by handcuffs named Omar Jimenez, a black American citizen and works for a news network known for his criticism of the policy of US President Donald Trump and his recent hatred of it.
Parallel to the protests that are expanding to include American cities other than Minneapolis, Trump's reaction to the demonstrators demanding justice in the murder of Floyd has raised new questions about the apartheid approach that surfaces from time to time. The tweets he posted on Twitter carried explicit threats to kill the protesters. He described them as "thugs".
Trump's tweet sparked strong criticism from Twitter, which put the glorification of violence in its headline as the site said that his Twitter violated the basic Twitter rules, but he would not remove it in order to inform its fans.
Trump's threats to the protesters were not empty. Today, the US National Guard deployed 500 of its personnel in Minneapolis to suppress the ongoing protests, while the images of destruction and burning fire coming from the city seem like a Hollywood movie scene whose end is open to all possibilities, especially after the arrest of the CNN crew. “To prevent him from reporting what is going on and Americans realize that their freedoms are on a hot plate.
Basem Kanoon