President Donald Trump has threatened to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest in the US over the death of a black man in police custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said if cities and states failed to control the protests and \u201cdefend their residents\u201d he would deploy the army and \u201cquickly solve the problem for them\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Protests over the death of George Floyd have escalated over the past week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Four police meanwhile were shot and injured on Monday night during unrest in St Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police chief Colonel John Hayden Junior told reporters \u201csome coward fired shots at officers and now we have four in hospital. Thank God they\u2019re alive,\u201d before becoming overcome with emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, dozens of major cities have imposed overnight curfews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In New York, the iconic department store Macy\u2019s was broken into and a Nike store was looted, while other shop fronts and bank windows were smashed. Several people were arrested. Curfew in the city will resume at 20:00 (midnight GMT) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The protests began after a video showed Mr Floyd, 46, being arrested in Minneapolis on 25 May and a white police officer continuing to kneel on his neck even after he pleaded that he could not breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with third-degree murder and will appear in court next week. Three other police officers have been fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Floyd case has reignited deep-seated anger over police killings of black Americans and racism. It follows the high-profile cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York and others that have driven the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For many, the outrage also reflects years of frustration over socio-economic inequality and discrimination, not least in Minneapolis itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The president delivered a brief address from the White House Rose Garden, amid the sound of a nearby protest being dispersed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Trump said \u201call Americans were rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death of George Floyd\u201d but said his memory must not be \u201cdrowned out by an angry mob\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He described the scenes of looting and violence in the capital on Sunday as \u201ca total disgrace\u201d before pledging to bolster the city\u2019s defences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults and the wanton destruction of property,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source:BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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