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George Floyd: the assassination that ignites America!

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The death of George Floyd, an African-American killed by a police officer during his arrest in Minneapolis on May 25, becomes the issue of the next American presidential elections.“Minnesota residents have a right to safety,” US President Donald Trump tweeted on May 29. Words that resonate like a political campaign for the President of the United States candidate for re-election. The death of African-American George Floyd on May 25, who died following an arrest by four police officers from Minneapolis (Minnesota), has become a political issue.  “When the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you ! “wrote Donald Trump. A statement that sounds like an incitement to shoot, said historian and professor at Sciences Po Paris, Pap Ndiaye, at the microphone of "France info", yesterday. “There, we have an American president who also excites and plays, it seems, the electoral campaign, by wanting to mobilize part of his supporters in the name of order, in the name of maintaining o...

Report from the heart of a “Black Lives Matter” demonstration in Los Angeles!

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After the murder of George Floyd, America was set ablaze, as in Los Angeles, the scene of violent riots. Story. By Jacky Goldberg, Los Angeles Correspondent. A strange screeching sound, followed by a loud bang and the hooting of car alarms brought residents out of their homes on Sunday, June 1, despite the curfew introduced in Los Angeles for the second consecutive night, in order to prevent riots.  All the neighbors on this usually quiet street, in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, found themselves on their front steps, wondering what had caused such a noise.  Two days that the city is screaming, that the police sirens, helicopter rounds and other fireworks constantly resound, of which a few smart guys seem to have built up endless stocks so that their crackling never stops.   But this time it's different, everyone felt it.   In the sky,   a plume of white smoke creeps between the slender silhouettes of the palm trees, a few hundred meters away.   What ...

Black Lives Matter: a new police blunder outrages the United States!

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Three months after the death of Georges Floyd, which sparked a historic protest movement against racism and police violence, a new blunder by the American police which occurred on Sunday August 23, in Wisconsin, rekindles the anger of Americans." No justice, no peace ! Since Kenosha City police shot multiple times in the back of a black man, now in serious condition, on Sunday, protests have escalated.    As with George Floyd , a black man in his forties who died of asphyxiation on May 25 under the knee of a white police officer, the arrest of Jacob Blake was filmed by a witness. The video, shot with a cellphone, shows the 29-year-old African-American father being followed by two police officers with their weapons drawn as he drives around his car. As he opens his door and tries to get into the driver's seat, an officer grabs his white tank top and opens fire. The recording suggests seven shots, hitting Jacob Blake in the back. According to reports from relatives to local medi...