New York-SANA
The American police arrested more than nine thousand people during the protests that broke out more than a week ago against the background of the killing of George Floyd, an African American, by a police officer in the state of Minnesota.
The Associated Press reported that the American police arrested 2.7 thousand people in Los Angeles and about 1.5 thousand people in New York State, and hundreds of people were arrested in Dallas, Houston and Philadelphia.
The protests began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a video showed Floyd struggling to breathe while a white policeman squeezed his knee to the neck until he breathed and several police officers helped him carry out the crime.
After the expansion of the protests, US President Donald Trump threatened to use unlimited military force to suppress them, while the American police killed ten people during the demonstrations that included about 140 American cities.