Police have been tight-lipped about exactly what they’re investigating and what they’ve uncovered so far.
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In Washington, on the fourth night of protests, several hundred protesters who had marched two miles to Union Station accepted without complaint the news from organizers and police that they could not march on the Capitol without a permit.
The same week, sniper Micah Xavier Johnson killed five police officers at a Black Lives Matter rally in Dallas.
I hope they don’t calm down; I hope they keep fighting to be heard, because black lives do matter and they always have.
His rampage, during a Black Lives Matter protest, followed the police-shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn., a St. Paul suburb.
Late Sunday and into Monday morning, nearly 50 protesters were bundled into the back of police vans in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Dallas community’s “unity is reflective of who we are as Americans” during these trying times, said Obama, speaking on Sunday in Madrid.
Authorities said 50 protesters were arrested on the Minnesota interstate and 52 others later on a street near the governor’s mansion, the site of most of the protests since Castile was shot on Wednesday. The same study revealed blacks commit a disproportionate number of crimes (eight times the number of homicides as whites and Hispanics combined) that explains the discrepancy.
The fast-moving events left Louisiana’s Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) asking for prayers for his state and the country at a late-afternoon news conference.
Gautreaux however said that one officer was injured late Saturday.
Seeking to restore calm, President Barack Obama, scheduled to speak in Dallas at an inter-faith memorial service on Tuesday, cautioned protesters against casting all police as racially biased. “One of my brothers got beaten up by a police officer and his eye got shattered when I was in high school so that’s had a huge impact on me since then up until now”.
Most of the protests Saturday night into Sunday were peaceful.
During a phone interview with The New York Times following his release, Mckesson said he believed his arrest was unlawful and just another one of the police force’s mass arrests meant to instill fear in protesters.
He also strongly condemned the shootings of police officers in Dallas during what started out as a peaceful protest.
He said police found bomb-making materials and a journal at the shooter’s home that suggested he’d been practicing detonations and appeared ready to take aim at larger targets.
“He just basically lied to us, playing games, laughing at us, singing, asking how many did he get and that he wanted to kill some more”, Brown said. “To do harm to others is disgusting”, Johnson said.
At one point earlier, Johnson, apparently wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police, wrote the letters “rb” in his blood on a wall at the community college where he had holed up.
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Giuliani said he understands that police officers can act improperly and the reasons why the black community may distrust police, but added that he believed the American people were getting the “wrong impression” on the issue because of a continued focus on the Black Lives Matter movement.
