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George Floyd protests: anti-racism demonstrations enter second week – live George Floyd protests: anti-racism demonstrations enter second week – live
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Peaceful protests sweep US as calls for racial justice reach new heightsPeaceful protests sweep US as calls for racial justice reach new heights
George Floyd’s killing and the subsequent protests continue to be a powerful catalyst for conversations about race around the world. This morning in the UK, former Liverpool and England football John Barnes told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday that structural racism in Britain was just as bad as in the US.
“[The UK] hasn’t got a problem like the US in terms of our policemen killing black people on the streets as we saw with George Floyd,” Barnes said. “However, in terms of the disenfranchisement of the inner cities, in terms of the black community not being given access to healthcare and so forth, jobs, housing, it’s exactly the same.”
He said that people should be “equally as outraged” about structural inequalities as individual incidents: “What we are witnessing in the US, which has outraged people, is the visible face of racism and the visible face of racism in terms of footballers being abused, the George Floyd situation and the police, it is an obvious and easy thing to be outraged about. We should be equally as outraged about the fact that our young blacks in inner cities aren’t given an education, they aren’t given housing and job promotion possibilities.”
“They were 48 minutes of mayhem that shook the republic,” writes my colleague David Smith of US president Donald Trump’s photo-op at St John’s church in Washington DC, in a piece published today.“They were 48 minutes of mayhem that shook the republic,” writes my colleague David Smith of US president Donald Trump’s photo-op at St John’s church in Washington DC, in a piece published today.
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Hello, welcome to our live coverage of the ongoing protests against racism and police brutality in the US and around the world, now into their second week since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May.Hello, welcome to our live coverage of the ongoing protests against racism and police brutality in the US and around the world, now into their second week since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May.
On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets, in big cities and small towns, from coast to coast, marking one of the the largest and widest mobilisations yet.On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets, in big cities and small towns, from coast to coast, marking one of the the largest and widest mobilisations yet.
You can read our wrap of the day here:You can read our wrap of the day here:
The demonstrations have continued into the early morning in some places on the west coast including in Seattle, one of the few cities to witness clashes between police and protesters on Saturday. Officers are reported to have fired stun grenades to disperse protesters and say they were targeted with rocks, bottles and improvised explosives. Journalists at the scene say there is an uneasy standoff between the two lines now but no violent flare ups.The demonstrations have continued into the early morning in some places on the west coast including in Seattle, one of the few cities to witness clashes between police and protesters on Saturday. Officers are reported to have fired stun grenades to disperse protesters and say they were targeted with rocks, bottles and improvised explosives. Journalists at the scene say there is an uneasy standoff between the two lines now but no violent flare ups.