Teargas fired outside White House as Trump threatens to deploy military – live

George Floyd’s death a homicide, county medical examiner saysFamily autopsy points to homicide by asphyxiationCurfew to go into effect for New York City from 11pm to 5amFloyd’s family calls for peaceful protestsPressure grows for other three officers to face chargesMinneapolis police chief: all four officers ‘complicit’ in deathGet a fresh perspective on America – sign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.55am BST Maine is one of the whitest states in the US, but protests against police violence have been growing there, last night and again today.On Sunday, the Associated Press reported that a racially diverse crowd of about 300 people in Portland had marched, blocked traffic and vandalized police headquarters to protest George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. Tonight, journalist Karen Turner shared footage of another protest in Portland, saying it was the biggest crowd she had seen yet. biggest crowd ive seen so far in portland, maine tonight pic.twitter.com/H4W8nBIXmu“Hands up, don’t shoot” pic.twitter.com/9UwdXSyivYProtesters chanting their way through downtown. One police car escorting the way. pic.twitter.com/Ng6GbbK63U 2.44am BST A federal judge has agreed to release on bail two lawyers accused of throwing a molotov cocktail into a police van during protests in Manhattan on Friday night. Urooj Rahman, 31, and Colinford Mattis, 32, were approved for release on Monday, each on a $250,000 bond, according to local media reports. They are expected to be confined to their homes as they await trial. Prosecutors had strongly argued against their release on bail. “We don’t believe this is the time to be releasing a bomb thrower into the community,” one prosecutor said of Rahman, according to a Pix11 local news report. Continue reading…
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