Washington - Sana
Protests renewed in the vicinity of the White House in the American capital, Washington and other features of the United States of America, to condemn and reject the racism and repression of the American police, which was embodied in the murder of African-American George Floyd, which revealed a deep rift and a situation of widespread inequality in American society.
According to Agence France-Presse, thousands of protesters flocked to the White House and other landmarks and symbols in the US states at a time when the Washington DC police imposed a wide security cordon around the American presidential headquarters, fortifying it with an additional barrier of iron networks.
In front of the obstacles imposed by the police, the protesters gathered condemning the police actions and some of them hung pictures of its victims Floyd and other African-Americans who died as a result of the police violence.
Participants in this gathering expressed their hope that "Floyd's case constitutes a turning point in American history," noting that the murder of his father unleashed a wave of civil protests at the US level that the United States had not seen before since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 by a white man. .
The agency pointed to expectations that Washington will witness the largest protests, especially near the memorial of former US President Lincoln, where protesters intend to go towards the monument of the anti-apartheid in the United States Martin Luther King Jr.
Demonstrations will also take place in New York, Miami and the city of Minneapolis, which witnessed a brutal murder of Floyd by a US police officer on the twenty-fifth of last month.
Today's demonstrations coincide with a honoring ceremony for Floyd scheduled in Riverford, North Carolina, where the victim was born, following a first ceremony in Minneapolis.
Floyd's death and subsequent protests come in the midst of the Corona Virus pandemic, whose figures show higher mortality rates for African Americans, and have shown that they are more likely to be out of work than white Americans.
In its turn, and in a new challenge to US President Donald Trump, Washington Mayor Muriel Bawser changed the name of the area outside the White House to the name “Black Life is Important” and unveiled a giant mural bearing this name and sent a message through its page on the social networking site Twitter calling on Trump to “withdraw All the police and military forces deployed exceptionally from the city. ”
Trump had earlier launched an unprecedented attack on the mayor of Washington, accusing it of inefficiency and qualification to run a city as important as Washington.
The murder of African-American Floyd turned into an issue of public opinion and broad solidarity in a number of Western and international countries and mentioned the cases of racial discrimination existing in these Western countries. In the Australian city of Sydney, indigenous protesters organized a protest movement under the slogan "black lives are important."
In the British capital, London, thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the parliament headquarters, holding banners reclaiming the slogan "black lives matter", calling for mobilization campaigns against all brutal and racist acts in the world, chanting slogans saying that "the United Kingdom is not innocent of racist appearances."