Washington-Sana
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the streets of major American cities today for the eighth consecutive day of escalating protests in an expression of anger over the killing of George Floyd, an African American, by the police during his arrest.
According to Reuters, mass demonstrations took place in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Atlanta and New York, as well as in Washington, DC, near the park that the protesters evacuated yesterday to clear the way for President Donald Trump to walk from the White House to a nearby church to take a picture.
Demonstrators kneeled outside the Capitol, chanting "the silence is violence" and "no justice .. no peace" and police officers met them with repression and abuse before the government imposed the curfew.
The crowd remained in Lafayette Park and beyond after the nightfall despite the curfew and Trump's pledges to address what he described as "bandits" and "thugs" using the National Guard and even the army when necessary, in defiance of all calls made by mayors, strict curfews and other measures aimed at To stop the protests.
In New York, after the curfew began, thousands of protesters marched from the Barclays Center toward the Brooklyn Bridge as police helicopters hovered over them.
Hundreds of protesters filled Hollywood street in Los Angeles, and others gathered in front of the city's police headquarters.
Los Angeles was the scene of violent riots in the spring of 1992 after four officers accused of beating the black driver Rodney King were acquitted. The events killed more than 60 people and caused damage estimated at $ 1 billion.
For its part, and in an attempt to pressure and intimidate the protesters, the US Department of Defense transferred about 1,600 military forces to the Washington, DC area, because of the protests sweeping the country.
Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoffman said in a statement that the forces were "on high alert", claiming that they were "not involved in the defense support of civilian authority operations".
In a related context, a Reuters / Ipsos poll showed that most Americans sympathize with the ongoing protests in their country.
The poll was conducted on Monday and Tuesday and showed that 64 percent of Americans sympathize with those who are protesting at the moment, explaining that more than 55 percent of Americans disagree with Trump's handling of the protests, including 40 percent who say they strongly reject this.
To that, the government of the Gambia called for a transparent investigation into the killing of one of its citizens by American police bullets in Georgia state last Friday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Gambia said in a statement that it had asked its embassy in Washington, DC, to communicate with the relevant US authorities, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to demand a transparent and objective investigation into the killing of its citizen, Momodou Lamine Sesay, by US police bullets.
And most American cities are witnessing ongoing massive protests against the violence of the security forces and racism sparked by the killing of Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25.