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Arson [ 1] Social media activism. Wikimedia Commons has media related to George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C.. Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, experienced a series of protests and riots following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Some of the events involved violence, looting, and destruction.
Police form line in the street during protests in D.C. on the night of May 31. Several fires were lit during protests in Washington on the night of May 31, including one in the basement of Ashburton House, the parish house of St. John's Episcopal Church. [4] The fire was isolated to the church nursery and quickly extinguished by firefighters.
The march and all-day rally on the Mall culminated a week of protests throughout the city, including a "March Against Death" from Arlington National Cemetery past the White House to the U.S. Capitol led by pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Rev. William Sloane Coffin of Yale. 1970 – April 4 Victory March
April 4–8, 1968: Washington, D.C., riots: Following the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, a four-day period of violent civil unrest erupted near the intersection of 14th and U Streets NW. Approximately 200 stores had their windows broken and 150 stores were looted, most of them emptied.
1991 – 1991 Washington, DC riot, Mount Pleasant riot, May 5–9, Washington, D.C. 1991 – Overtown, Miami, June 28, Riot in the heavily Black section of Overtown against Cuban Americans. Miami, Florida; 1991 – Crown Heights riot, August 1991, Brooklyn, New York; 1992 – 1992 Los Angeles riots, April–May 1992, Los Angeles, California
In the District of Columbia on May 30, 2020, a Fox News crew was attacked outside the White House by a group of protesters while reporting on the scene. [219] The crew was chased for several hundred meters until the police intervened. [202] A news reporter was struck in the head with a bottle during overnight riots in Birmingham, Alabama on May ...
This is a list of protests and unrest in the United States related to the murder of George Floyd. The protests began in Minneapolis on May 26, 2020, the day after George Floyd, an African-American man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin during a police arrest. On June 6, an estimated half a million people joined protests in 550 places across the ...
August 4, 2024 at 6:25 PM. Rioters set fire and broke into hotels used to shelter asylum seekers in northern England on Sunday, as the country grapples with the worst social unrest it has seen in ...