Washington-Sana
US President Donald Trump renewed his threats to use extreme force against protesters participating in anti-racist demonstrations that have plagued various cities after the murder of George Floyd, an African-American, suffocated by the police.
Trump vowed in a brief statement in the White House flower garden yesterday reported by Reuters to end the protests in major American cities, noting that he would send thousands of heavily armed soldiers and law enforcement forces to end violence in the capital and other cities if the mayors and rulers could not regain control of the streets and refused to call the guards the National.
He said: "Mayors and governors must impose a large presence of law enforcement forces until the violence is suppressed ... If a city or state refuses to take the necessary steps to defend the lives and property of its residents, I will deploy the US military and quickly solve the problem."
He added that a curfew, starting at seven o'clock EST, would be implemented firmly.
US police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters near the White House during Trump's speech yesterday, and Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst said that law enforcement forces, including riding horses, fended off the protesters in Lafayette Park on the opposite side of the White House, while a high-ranking military official said it had Relocation of a group of US military personnel to the Washington DC metropolitan area was put on high alert.
The source pointed to the full involvement of the National Guard forces in the Columbia Circle, which hosts the capital, Washington. Military police and engineering units were also mobilized in the region and sending members of the National Guard forces from 5 states to Washington to reinforce its units there.
The official said that US Secretary of Defense Mark Esber, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Millie, and Attorney General William Barr followed developments yesterday evening from the Justice Department headquarters.
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.
The curfew was imposed in dozens of American cities, at levels not seen in the country since the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, and the National Guard was deployed in 23 states and the capital Washington.
The authorities have also arrested more than four thousand people since the 26 of last month, a day after Floyd was killed, while two protesters were killed and three others were wounded by police bullets in Louisville yesterday and Indiana Police the day before yesterday.
Many affirm that Trump, who is seeking another term in the November 3 elections, is largely responsible for stirring up conflict, ethnic tension and racism with his statements against immigrants and minorities while he is supposed to unite the nation and address key issues.