You wouldn't get this kind of thing in Boyle. Chris O'Dowd posted a video on Twitter last night of his street in LA with fires burning on another night of protesting and riots spread across the cities of the United States of America. This follows the death earlier in the week of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minnesota.
Corner of my street 5 minutes ago. Apologies for the dodgy camera work pic.twitter.com/Y7xQ6lYFce
— chris o'dowd (@BigBoyler) May 31, 2020
It turns out O'Dowd's bins were helping burn those fires.
Turns out our wheelie bins ended up in that blaze. #HotMess
— chris o'dowd (@BigBoyler) May 31, 2020
In Chicago, actor John Cusack was also on the scene of disturbances, and had his bike attacked by police!
Cops didn’t like me filming the burning car so they came at me with batons. Hitting my bike.
Ahhm here’s the audio pic.twitter.com/tfaOoVCw5v”— John Cusack (@johncusack) May 31, 2020
These were some of the peace officers - who gently tuned up my bike with their batons- pic.twitter.com/atMf8VaV6l
— John Cusack (@johncusack) May 31, 2020
This is certainly a scary situation for all American cities at the moment with protests getting larger, more widespread, and angrier every day and police reaction getting all the more irrational.
Yesterday, a spate of police action across the country was filmed and shared on social media. In New York, a police car purposely rammed into a group of protesters, while in Memphis, the National Guard raided a residential street like they were playing Call of Duty, shooting paint guns at people standing outside their own homes.
Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/bW48imyt55
— Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020
This is video of an NYPD car driving into a group of protestors.
THIS IS VIDEO OF AN NYPD CAR DRIVING INTO PROTESTORS. pic.twitter.com/lbjLHFae6n— Adam B. Vary (@adambvary) May 31, 2020
NYPD hitting a protestor with a car door in BK. Wow it’s almost like this isn’t really about protecting the public. pic.twitter.com/9DTIv1QYe9
— Zeeshan Aleem (@ZeeshanAleem) May 30, 2020
After incidents over the last couple of days, including this one, the press covering the protests were not immune to police overreaction again yesterday with several incidents.
Police just raided the gas station we were sheltering at. After shouting press multiple times and raising my press card in the air, I was thrown to the ground. Then another cop came up and peppered sprayed me in the face while I was being held down. pic.twitter.com/23EkZIMAFC
— Michael Anthony Adams (@MichaelAdams317) May 31, 2020
It's unlikely there will be let up in the riots today. Last night there were disturbing reports that white supremacist groups were infiltrating the protests to escalate things and invoke a race war. Disturbing.
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