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Video footage circulated by activists on social media revealed that American military helicopters circled at a low altitude to disperse the protesters who took to the streets to protest against the killing of George Floyd in the Chinatown district in Washington, DC, last night.
Fox News reported that the video clips showed US Army Black Hawk and Lakota helicopters flying at low altitudes in a show of force to disperse the crowds that violated the curfew imposed in the city last night.
Witnesses said that the helicopters were flying at a very low altitude, as dirt and dust scattered the streets, torn tree branches and destroyed the facades of some shops.
Last night, US President Donald Trump renewed, in a brief statement, his threats to use the maximum force against protesters participating in the anti-racist demonstrations of the American police, which spread across cities after the murder of Floyd at the hands of the police, vowing that he would end the protests and send thousands of heavily armed soldiers and law enforcement forces to end the violence In the capital and other cities.
Demonstrations against police brutality and denouncing the murder of Floyd, who breathed his last after a white policeman kneeled on his neck for nine minutes in the city of Minneapolis, and an official autopsy concluded that death was a homicide by suffocation.
A curfew was imposed in dozens of American cities and at levels not seen in the country since the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 and the National Guard deployed in 23 states and the capital Washington, where authorities arrested more than four thousand people since the 26 of last month, a day after Floyd was killed While two demonstrators were killed and three others were wounded by police bullets in Louisville yesterday and Indiana Police the day before yesterday.