Live updates: Protesters defy curfews, but violent clashes with police subside
Police, protesters face off on Manhattan Bridge
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A blockade of police officers stopped hundreds of protesters from exiting the Manhattan Bridge on June 2. (The Washington Post)
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June 4, 2020 at 12:24 a.m. GMT+10
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After a week of increasingly violent unrest in the United States, peace largely prevailed on Tuesday night. Brutal clashes between police and the public seemed to subside, and there were only sporadic reports of looting and other mayhem across the nation.
Still, the night was filled with tension in major cities where tens of thousands of protesters defied curfews to express outrage over racism and police brutality following the death of yet another a black man in police custody.
In Washington, which has been swarmed by a federal force, officers near the White House sprayed an irritant and fired pepper balls at protesters, who responded with shouts and fireworks. A similar late-night scene played out in Portland, Ore.
In Los Angeles, demonstrators massed outside the mayor’s residence and demanded the firing of the city’s police chief. And in New York, which is under curfew for the first time in 77 years, hundreds of protesters walked across the Manhattan Bridge and were met by a police blockade.
Here are some significant developments:
President Trump disputed multiple reports that Secret Service agents rushed him to an underground bunker as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the White House on Friday night, asserting he went down earlier in the day “more for an inspection.”
In his first public remarks on the U.S. protests, Pope Francis urged people not to “tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form” and called for “national reconciliation and peace.”
The monument to a notorious Philadelphia mayor and top cop, which became a flash point of the city’s protests, was quietly removed from its perch outside a government building before the sun rose Wednesday.
The mother of George Floyd’s daughter said she explained his death by telling the 6-year-old that her father couldn’t breathe.
Former president Barack Obama is scheduled Wednesday to make his first on-camera comments about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the nationwide protests that have occurred in its aftermath.
[Have you participated in protests following George Floyd’s death? Share your experience with The Post.]
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