American army transports 1,600 soldiers to Washington DC

SANAA, June 3 (YPA) – Thousands demonstrated in the streets of Washington, DC, on Tuesday for the eighth consecutive night of protests over the killing of a black man during his detention, in defiance of mayors’ appeals, a strict curfew and other measures aimed at stopping protests.
Mass rallies took place in Washington, DC, near the park, which protesters evacuated on Monday, to clear the way for President Donald Trump to walk from the White House to a nearby church to take a picture.
Although marches of solidarity with American George Floyd and other victims of police brutality are mostly peaceful during the day, some crowds commit riots, vandalism, burning and looting every night. Five police officers were shot in two cities on Monday evening.
Demonstrators knee outside the Capitol building on Tuesday chanting, chanting “Silence is violence” and “No justice, no peace”, as police officers confronted them before the government imposed the curfew.
The crowd remained in Lafayette Park and beyond after the nightfall, despite the curfew and Trump’s pledges to address what he described as “bandits” and “thugs”, using the National Guard and even the army when necessary.
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that it had moved about 1,600 military forces to the Washington DC metropolitan area.
On Tuesday, the head of the US National Guard said that 18,000 guards are helping law enforcement in 29 states, according to Reuters.
Floyd breathed after a white policeman remained kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes on May 25 in the city of Minneapolis, rekindling the case of police brutality against African Americans five months before the presidential election.