President Donald Trump celebrated America as “the most exceptional nation in the history of the world” in a Fourth of July commemoration before a soggy, cheering crowd of spectators. He spoke on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial Thursday. (July 4) AP, AP
Jacobs reported from New York, Spolar reported from Shanksville, Pa., and Witte reported from Washington. Jada Yuan in New York, Marissa J. Lang in Arlington, Va., Kurt Shillinger in Boston, Miranda Green in Yorba Linda, Calif., Shibani Mahtani in Hong Kong, Karla Adam in London, and Amy B Wang, Timothy Bella, Caroline Anders and Joel Achenbach in Washington contributed to this report.
At a news briefing Sunday, Birx explained the process this way: Her task force initially reviewed the work of 12 models. “Then we went back to the drawing board over the last week or two, and worked from the ground up, utilizing actual reporting of cases,” Birx said. “It’s the way we built the HIV model, the TB model, the malaria model. And when we finished, the other group that was working in parallel — which we didn’t know about,” referring to the IHME group.
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El mandatario de Corea del Norte, Kim Jong Un, prometió que su país “demostrará su fortaleza a Estados Unidos” y nunca negociará sus programas armamentísticos, tras asistir al lanzamiento de prueba de su primer misil intercontinental. La cadena chilena Falabella puso en marcha un programa piloto de emisión de tarjetas de crédito en al menos siete tiendas Soriana, lo que marca su entrada al mercado mexicano, dijo su gerente general, Sandro Solari.
1. Kim Jong-un insulta y se niega a negociar con EU
El líder norcoreano, Kim Jong Un, prometió que su país “demostrará su fortaleza a Estados Unidos” y nunca negociará sus programas armamentísticos, tras asistir al lanzamiento de prueba de su primer misil intercontinental.
Su firme postura sugiere que el país podría estar preparando más ensayos, en los esfuerzos norcoreanos para perfeccionar un misil nuclear capaz de atacar en cualquier lugar de Estados Unidos.
El misil intercontinental probado el 4 de julio, capaz de transportar una bomba nuclear pesada, fue un “regalo” a los “bastardos estadounidenses” por el Día de la Independencia, dijo el líder norcoreano citado por la agencia KCNA.
Kim Jong-un insulta y se niega a negociar con EU. Ver nota.
2. Refinaremos sólo la gasolina que sea rentable: Pemex TRI
Pemex mantendrá el volumen de importación de gasolinas por arriba de los 500,000 barriles diarios en lo que resta del año, ya que como empresa productiva del Estado no se enfocará más en incrementar la producción local de combustibles, sino en que cada barril de petróleo que ingresa al sistema nacional de refinación otorgue rentabilidad tras su transformación.
Así lo explicó el director general de Pemex Transformación Industrial (TRI), Carlos Murrieta Cummings. Si bien el promedio de importación de gasolinas en los primeros cinco meses del año (de 503,000 barriles diarios) fue superior al del mismo lapso del año anterior, éste disminuyó en comparación con los últimos cinco meses del 2016, en que se alcanzaron los máximos históricos en este rubro, con compras promedio de más de 564,00 barriles por día.
Refinaremos sólo la gasolina que sea rentable: Pemex TRI. Ver nota.
3. Endeudamiento de estados registra monto histórico
En lo que va del año ya suman 21 entidades federativas las que contrajeron financiamientos y obligaciones inscritos en el Registro Público Único por 51,495.2 millones de pesos, que significó un aumento de 478.8% a tasa anual.
Este monto de deuda es el más elevado, para un mismo periodo, desde 1989, año hasta donde llega la información de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP).
Siendo deudor u obligado, los gobiernos estatales fueron los que solicitaron la mayor parte de los financiamientos, 42 de los 61 inscritos, por un total de 50,026.2 millones de pesos, mientras que las obligaciones contratadas por 19 municipios ascendieron a 1,469.1 millones.
Endeudamiento de estados registra monto histórico. Ver nota.
4. Tiendas Soriana ya expiden tarjetas de Falabella
La chilena, Falabella, puso en marcha un programa piloto de emisión de tarjetas de crédito en al menos siete tiendas Soriana, lo que marca su entrada al mercado mexicano.
El gerente general Corporativo de Grupo Falabella, Sandro Solari, resaltó que entrar a México se trata de una “tremenda oportunidad”, por la cantidad de habitantes que existen en el país y su nivel de bancarización.
Tiendas Soriana ya expiden tarjetas de Falabella. Ver nota.
Illinois governor JB Pritzker granted more than 11,000 pardons for low-level marijuana convictions on Tuesday, describing the step as a first wave of thousands of such expungements anticipated under the state’s new marijuana legalization law.
The expungement process is a key part of the law, which takes effect on Wednesday and makes Illinois the 11th state to legalize marijuana for people 21 or older. Lawmakers said they wanted to repair some of the damage caused by efforts to combat sale and use of the drug, particularly in minority communities.
Pritzker, a Democrat, announced the pardons at a church on Chicago’s South Side. He said clearing the misdemeanor offenses from individuals’ records would make it easier for them to get jobs, housing and financial aid for college.
Officials estimate 116,000 convictions for possession of 30g or less of marijuana are eligible for pardons under the new law.
“We are ending the 50-year-long war on cannabis,” Pritzker said. “We are restoring rights to many tens of thousands of Illinoisans. We are bringing regulation and safety to a previously unsafe and illegal market. And we are creating a new industry that puts equity at its very core.”
Other states that have begun permitting marijuana’s sale and use created procedures to expunge minor drug offenses, but Illinois officials wanted the process to be almost automatic for people with non-violent marijuana arrests or convictions on their records.
“We know that black Illinois residents are far more likely to be arrested and convicted for marijuana possession than whites,“ said Ben Ruddell, criminal justice policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. “This is a good step forward as we begin the legal sales of recreational marijuana.”
Pritzker’s office said 92 of 102 counties were represented among the pardons announced.
“The 11,017 pardons that Governor Pritzker is granting today are thousands of lives forever changed – and hundreds of thousands more will be changed in the coming months,“ said Toi Hutchinson, a former state senator now an adviser to Pritzker on marijuana policy.
“Those who were unfairly targeted by discriminatory drug laws can finally get ahead and build a new future for themselves and their families.”
People who have been convicted of offenses involving more than 30g of marijuana in Illinois can file court petitions to clear those records. Local prosecutors and legal aid organizations also can take that step. State officials estimate 34,000 records are eligible.
Illinois regulators said 34 dispensaries have been issued licenses to sell recreational marijuana but not all plan to participate immediately. Industry leaders have warned consumers to expect long lines and potential shortages.
“This is day one of the end of prohibition,” said Kelly Cassidy, a Chicago Democrat who sponsored the legislation in the House. “This is not a finished product on day one.”
Cassidy noted that the Illinois law ensures that the needs of patients who depend on marijuana for medical use will be met. She says advocates have acknowledged since the beginning that supply will be an issue at first.
More than 1,000 marines have surrendered in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, Russia has claimed.
Russia’s defense ministry says exactly 1,026 marines, including 162 officers, have waved the white flag as President Vladimir Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine.
Mariupol, which has been in Russia’s crosshairs for weeks, has seen the bloodiest fighting yet since Russian forces launched an unprovoked attack on the country Feb. 24.
Pro-Russian troops ride an armored personnel carrier during the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the outskirts of the southern port city of Mariupol on April 12, 2022.REUTERS
Despite Russia’s claim, a top adviser to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the marines — part of Ukraine’s 36th Marine Brigade — have broken through to connect with the Sea of Azov port and that Mariupol is still standing.
Oleksiy Arestovych said on Facebook that the city’s defense system has increased and strengthened.
Russia is now said to be shifting its main focus on the Sea of Azov port — the biggest target in the eastern Donbas region. If captured, it would be the first major city to fall since the war began.
Its capture would help secure a land passage between separatist-held eastern areas and Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014.
If Russian forces seize the Azovstal industrial district, Mariupol will become the first city to fall to Russia since the invasion began. AFP via Getty Images
“In the town of Mariupol, near the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works, as a result of successful offensives by Russian armed forces and Donetsk People’s Republic militia units, 1,026 Ukrainian soldiers of the 36th Marine Brigade voluntarily laid down arms and surrendered,” the ministry said in a statement.
The surrender has not been officially confirmed.
On Monday, a post on the Ukrainian marine brigade’s Facebook page had said the unit was preparing for a final battle in Mariupol that would end in death or capture as its troops had run out of ammunition.
“Today will probably be the ultimate battle, as there is no ammo left,” said the post. “Beyond that: hand to hand fighting. Beyond that, for some death, for others capture.”
Some Ukrainian officials said at the time that the post may have been fake, and that troops were still holding out.
The Russian defense ministry said 151 wounded Ukrainian soldiers were treated on the spot and taken to Mariupol’s city hospital.
Ukraine claims thousands of people have been trapped in Mariupol without access to food or water. AFP via Getty Images
Earlier on Wednesday, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who says his forces are playing a major role in Russia’s battle for Mariupol — a linchpin between Russian-held areas to the west and east — claimed that more than 1,000 Ukrainian marines had surrendered.
He urged remaining forces holed up in the Azovstal steel mill to surrender.
Mariupol’s city council said it is impossible to examine the area because of enemy fire. It added that the city’s civilian population had minimal contact with an unspecified poison but that Ukrainian soldiers had come into closer contact and were being observed for possible symptoms.
Zelensky said Monday night that Russia could resort to chemical weapons as it massed troops in the eastern Donbas region for a new assault on Mariupol. He did not say if they actually had been used.
Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler had a strong message for President Donald Trump after a man was shot and killed in Portland amid clashes between Black Lives Matter protesters and a pro-Trump caravan on Saturday.
“Do you seriously wonder, Mr. President, why this is the first time in decades that America has seen this level of violence?” Wheeler said at a news conference on Sunday. “It’s you who have created the hate and the division.”
Wheeler lashed out at Trump for his rhetoric, saying the caravan was “supported and energized by the president himself.”
“I’d appreciate that the president either supports us or he stays the hell out of the way,” Wheeler said.
Portland police said the group, made up of hundreds of cars and trucks, traveled for several hours throughout the city. It was organized by supporters of Trump in an apparent show of force and an attempt to counter the Black Lives Matter protests that have been ongoing in Oregon’s biggest city for months.
Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell also said on Sunday that there were some skirmishes between rally goers and counter demonstrators and that police made several arrests.
Police said it is unclear if the shooting was connected to the protests. They are still piecing together what happened, but Lovell said the vehicle caravan had already cleared the area when the shooting took place.
Lovell said he didn’t know if the shooting was politically motivated.
Portland has seen sustained protests since the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis in May.
During a wave of Black Lives Matter protests that have swept the country since Floyd’s death, Trump has attacked Democratically controlled cities and their leaders.
Wheeler, who is also Portland’s police commissioner, has also been criticized by demonstrators for his leadership of the city’s law enforcement.
Trump called Portland “a mess” in a tweet Monday morning.
“If this joke of a mayor doesn’t clean it up, we will go in and do it for them!” he added.
The president had earlier called for federal law enforcement to be sent to Portland to restore order, but Wheeler has publicly declined that offer.
On Sunday, he denounced the violence, saying “the tragedy of last night cannot be repeated” and calling on Portlanders to “pull together.”
Wheeler has also asked anyone planning to come to Portland “to seek retribution” to stay out of the city and help authorities deescalate the situation.
Saturday’s clashes came days after Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was accused of having opened fire Tuesday during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, killing two people. Demonstrators in Kenosha were protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, which was captured on video.
El Instituto Uruguayo de Meteorología (Inumet) emitió a las 13:40 horas del viernes una advertencia amarilla para todo el país por tormentas puntualmente intensas que comenzó a regir en las primeras horas de este domingo.
Según el Informe Meteorológico Especial, las tormentas estarán acompañadas de precipitaciones (con volúmenes entre 20 a 50 mm en seis horas, 50 a 100 mm en 24 horas) actividad eléctrica, ocasionales granizadas y algunas rachas de viento fuerte (60 a 75 km/h).
La zona afectada es todo el país, “principalmente departamentos del Norte y litoral Oeste”.
Para este domingo y madrugada del lunes 6 se prevé el desplazamiento de un frente frío sobre nuestro país con tormentas asociadas.
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El meteorólogo Diego Vázquez Melo, titular de la empresa Hardsun, dijo que este fin de semana se esperan tormentas fuertes y precipitaciones abundantes, con rachas de viento intensas. Hay posibilidades que que ocurran chaparrones de granizo, de corta duración y con efectos muy localizados.
Estos fenómenos ocurrirían principalmente en la mitad Oeste del país, desde la noche de este sábado hasta la noche del domingo.
Habrá rachas de vientos fuertes desde la noche de este viernes hasta la tarde del domingo en todo el país, que irán de los 51 km/h a los 61 km/h, y con ocasionales rachas de temporal de 62 km/h a 74 km/h.
El meteorólogo advirtió sobre posibles inundaciones, cortes de rutas, daños en arbolado, cables y techos livianos.
A Taylor University freshman and a recent grad share their perspectives on Mike Pence chosen to give commencement address. Jenna Watson, jenna.watson@indystar.com
UPLAND, Ind. — Dozens of graduates and faculty at Taylor University walked out of graduation exercises Saturday morning minutes before the introduction of Vice President Mike Pence, who delivered the Christian liberal arts school’s commencement address.
In caps and gowns, the students and faculty rose and quietly walked down the aisle and out of the auditorium in the Kesler Student Activities Center at Taylor.
Most of Taylor’s graduating class remained seated for the vice president, who received a standing ovation after the planned walkout.
Pence used the commencement address to urge a religious resolve among the Christian school’s graduates and faculty.
“Throughout most of our American history it’s been pretty easy to call yourself a Christian, but things are different now,” Pence said. “Lately, it’s become acceptable, even fashionable, to malign traditional Christian beliefs.”
He devoted other parts of his address to the Trump administration’s message on the state of the economy, the nation’s number of job openings and its low unemployment rate.
The day was exciting for graduate Emmanuel Boateng: “I know that on campus the emotions range from very positive to not very positive. No one dreams that way. But despite our differences, the whole entire campus has come to celebrate together.”
Graduate Laura Rathburn was one of the students who took a different view. Prior to the ceremony, she said she planned to walk out in protest of Pence as speaker.
Rathburn had decorated the top of her graduation cap in rainbow colors and put a message on top that said, “Ally Visible For Those Who Can’t Be.” Rathburn said she was disappointed in Taylor’s decision to involve Pence in the ceremony.
“I thought it was a really inappropriate decision. I think his presence makes it difficult for everyone at Taylor to feel welcomed,” she said.
Some graduates and faculty members wore stickers on their robes and hats that said, “We are Taylor too” in protest of Pence’s presence. The stickers were made by faculty in the school’s social work department.
Pence is the first U.S. executive branch official to speak at the small Christian school of about 2,500. Four hundred and ninety-four women and men graduated Saturday.
Pence’s appearance at Taylor’s spring commencement elicited strong reactions among the university’s faculty, students and alumni ahead of Saturday’s graduation ceremony.
Some critics told IndyStar they would not be opposed to the former Indiana governor speaking at the school under different circumstances. Many stressed their opposition had nothing to do with Pence being a Christian, per se.
Rather, they said, it was the university’s lack of faculty or student input, concerns that his presence endorses a specific political or religious view or the matter of Pence’s affiliation with President Donald Trump, who some say doesn’t represent the Christian values central to the university’s mission.
Amid the mixed feelings within the Taylor community, however, several people interviewed by IndyStar during the weeks leading up to his address said the controversy at the school was probably overblown.
Pence has had a busy commencement schedule this spring, having spoken last Saturday at another Christian school, Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, where he warned graduates to “be ready” to face intolerance of their faith from Hollywood, the media and the secular left.
US paratroopers walk back after jumping over Le Mont-Saint-Michel, north-western France on May 18, 2019, less than three weeks before the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. In what remains the biggest amphibious assault in history, some 156,000 Allied personnel landed in France on June 6, 1944. An estimated 10,000 Allied troops were left dead, wounded or missing, while Nazi Germany lost between 4,000 and 9,000 troops, and thousands of French civilians were killed. The 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings will fall on June 6, 2019. Damien Meyer, AFP/Getty Images
Seen between two rows of devotees, a young girl lies prostrate while taking part in the ‘Three Step, One Bow’ ritual as part of Vesak Day celebrations at the Bukit Gombak Stadium in Singapore on May 18, 2019. The birth of Buddha is commemorated as Vesak Day, or Buddha Jayanti, and celebrated by Buddhist devotees as a public holiday in Singapore and other Asian countries such as Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. Wallace Woon, EPA-EFE
Buddhist monks pray at Borobudur temple during celebrations for Vesak Day on May 18, 2019 in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. Buddhists in Indonesia celebrate Vesak at the Borobudur temple annually, which makes it the most visited tourist attraction in Indonesia. It is observed during the full moon in May or June, with the ceremony centered at three Buddhist temples by walking from Mendut to Pawon and ending at Borobudur. The stages of life of Buddhism’s founder, Gautama Buddha, which are celebrated at Vesak are his birth, enlightenment to Nirvana, and his passing (Parinirvana). Ulet Ifansasti, Getty Images
Published: 17:08 EDT, 29 September 2019 | Updated: 21:58 EDT, 29 September 2019
A 28-year-old man jumped off a skywalk attraction at the Grand Canyon and fell 500- to 800-feet to his death, say rescuers who are now searching for his body.
Authorities said the man had climbed over a safety barrier at the Grand Canyon Skywalk on Saturday. The man’s name was not released.
He had been a tourist who visiting to the popular attraction on the Hualapai reservation outside Grand Canyon National Park and jumped around 4.30pm.
A 28-year-old man jumped off a skywalk at the Grand Canyon (pictured above) and fell 500- to 800-feet to his death, say rescuers who are now searching for his body
Authorities said the man had climbed over a safety barrier at the Grand Canyon Skywalk on Saturday. Skywalk, opened in 2007, is picture above
The horseshoe-shaped glass walkway (shown above) juts about 70 feet over the canyon overlooking the Colorado River
A Grand Canyon West spokesman says a body recovery effort began Sunday morning.
Skywalk opened in 2007.
The horseshoe-shaped glass walkway juts about 70 feet over the canyon overlooking the Colorado River.
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But his exceptions to the conservative line, while far less numerous, were often striking. Rebutting his party in 2010, he and a dozen other Republican senators helped ratify a strategic arms reduction treaty negotiated by the Obama administration with Russia. It cut in half the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers on both sides.
Mr. Isakson, normally a reserved Republican, was often at odds with Mr. Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign, especially over his refusal to distance himself from the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
As the nation paid tribute to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his national holiday in 2018, members of the King family gathered at his Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and denounced Mr. Trump, who had often used what were widely regarded as racist slurs and who, only days earlier, had reportedly used shocking terms to describe Haiti and African countries.
Mr. Isakson, in a statement, called it a day to “honor and remember the leadership and wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose legacy continues to make a positive difference in the lives of many people in our state and around the world.” As for Mr. Trump’s comments on Haiti and African nations, he said: “That is not the kind of statement the leader of the free world ought to make, and he ought to be ashamed of himself.”
In March 2019, seven months after Senator John McCain died, Mr. Trump was still mounting posthumous attacks on the Arizona maverick, who had been a Navy pilot and prisoner of war for five years in Vietnam. Before a military audience in Lima, Ohio, Mr. Trump, who had never served in the military, blamed him for “a war in the Middle East that McCain pushed too hard.”
“It’s deplorable what he said,” Mr. Isakson told Georgia Public Broadcasting. “It will be deplorable seven months from now if he says it again, and I will continue to speak out.”
The mayor of Minneapolis asked the state National Guard to move in after protests over the death of George Floyd escalated Wednesday night with a fatal shooting, widespread looting, fires and the police deployment of tear gas.
“I cannot risk the safety of innocent people and so that is what I’ve been sworn to uphold and that is what I am dedicated to do,” Mayor Jacob Frey told NBC affiliate KARE. “We can have both things. We can have peaceful demonstrations, but I also have to ensure the safety of everyone in the city.”
The second night of demonstrations near the site of Floyd’s death began peacefully but grew violent as the night went on. Gov. Tim Walz late Wednesday called it an “extremely dangerous situation” and urged residents to leave the area.
Frey pleaded with residents for calm.
“I’m imploring our city, imploring our community, imploring every one of us to keep the peace. Let’s honor George Floyd’s memory,” Frey told KARE11 in a phone interview.
One person was in custody in the shooting death near the site of the protests, police said. Officers responded to a report of a stabbing at 9:05 p.m. and found a man who wasn’t breathing lying on the sidewalk, police said in a statement Thursday morning.
The unidentified victim was rushed to Hennepin County Medical Center. At the hospital, it was discovered the victim had been shot.
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Multiple fires were reported, and several businesses were looted. Minneapolis police were assisted by officers from nearby St. Paul, state police and metro transit police.
Beyond the shooting, there were no known injuries to protesters or police, and no additional arrests, Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder said at a news conference early Thursday.
“Tonight was a different night of protesting than it was just the night before,” Elder said.
A reporter for NBC affiliate KARE11 of Minneapolis who was livestreaming the protest reported that an AutoZone and Target had been looted. A Cub Foods and a Dollar Tree also showed signs of damage and looting.
A man poses for photos in front of a fire at an AutoZone in Minneapolis on Wednesday night.Carlos Gonzalez / Star Tribune via AP
Video showed the AutoZone with broken windows and spray paint. One bystander was warning people against damaging the business, saying it had nothing to do with Floyd’s death.
A fire broke out at the AutoZone, a fire department official confirmed Wednesday night.
“Initially … it was just being looted, but at some point, a fire started,” Ricardo Lopez, a journalist for the Minnesota Reformer news organization, told KARE11, adding he wasn’t sure how it began.
Protesters set other fires in the street.
Early Thursday, a reporter from The Minneapolis Star Tribune tweeted images of a housing complex construction site that appeared fully engulfed in flames and video of a liquor store that was trashed with shattered glass and boxes littering the sidewalk.
Elder, the police spokesman, confirmed “a large fire from an apartment building that is under construction” but he did not have a count of how many fires were burning early Thursday.
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo told the local FOX 9 TV station that he ordered the use of tear gas after violence and looting. He said that he is committed to protecting the rights of people to demonstrate and most did so peacefully, but there have been groups committing criminal acts.
Arradondo made a call for peace and patience to let investigations play out Wednesday night.
“Justice historically has never come to fruition through some of the acts that we’re seeing tonight, whether it’s the looting, whether it’s the damage of property and other things,” Arradondo said in the FOX interview.
Protesters also gathered Wednesday evening at the suburban home of the officer seen kneeling on Floyd’s neck as well as the Minneapolis home of Mike Freeman, the Hennepin County prosecutor who would make a charging decision in the case. No violence was reported in those protests.
Hundreds of protesters also gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, NBC Los Angeles reported. At times, the demonstrators blocked traffic on the 101 freeway.
Some surrounded two California Highway Patrol vehicles and damaged them.
CHP said when it attempted to disperse a crowd on the freeway, “they were immediately surrounded” and someone broke the rear window of a patrol car with a skateboard.
A CHP officer tried to leave, and a protester jumped on the car’s hood before jumping off into the roadway, officials said. That person is said to have suffered moderate injuries.
A second CHP patrol vehicle stopped to help that man but that vehicle was also surrounded and had its rear window shattered and that officer also left, the CHP said.
His detainment was captured on video, and he can be heard pleading with the officer, “Please, please, please, I can’t breathe.”
The four police officers involved in Floyd’s detainment, which stemmed from a report of a forgery, were fired Tuesday. The officer seen with his knee on Floyd has been identified as Derek Chauvin.
Minneapolis police identified the other officers as Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng.
Demonstrators help a man who was sitting on a police car and injured by falling onto the ground during a protest to demand justice for George Floyd in downtown Los Angeles on May 27, 2020.Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP
The Minneapolis mayor on Wednesday called for charges to be filed against Chauvin. Police had said Floyd resisted arrest, but Frey said “I saw nothing that would signal that this kind of force was necessary.”
His death is being investigated by the FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Please, Minneapolis, we cannot let tragedy beget more tragedy.
The area along Lake has become unsafe. We are asking for your help in keeping the peace tonight. https://t.co/kRZuWGJY29
Video of Floyd’s death has sparked outrage, including from the apparent Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, who tweeted about it on Tuesday and on Wednesday called it a “tragic reminder that this was not an isolated incident, but a part of an ingrained systemic cycle of injustice that still exists in this country.”
President Donald Trump also weighed in on Wednesday. “My heart goes out to George’s family and friends. Justice will be served!” he tweeted.
Bridgett Floyd, Floyd’s sister, said on NBC’s “TODAY” show Wednesday morning that she wants all of the officers at the scene to be charged with murder.
“They murdered my brother. He was crying for help,” she said.
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The Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, which represents the department’s 800-plus rank-and file officers, asked the public not to rush to judgment before all video can be reviewed and a medical examiner’s report released.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Protesters gathered again Sunday all over Myanmar, a day after security forces shot dead two people at a demonstration in the country’s second biggest city. A funeral was also held for a young woman killed earlier by police.
Mya Thwet Thwet Khine was the first confirmed death among the many thousands who have taken to the streets to protest the Feb. 1 coup that toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The woman was shot on Feb. 9, two days before her 20th birthday, at a protest in the capital Nayptitaw, and died Friday.
About 1,000 people in cars and bikes gathered Sunday morning at the hospital where her body was held amid tight security, with even the victim’s grandparents who had traveled from Yangon, five hours away, denied entry. When her body was released, a long motorized procession began a drive to the cemetery.
In Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, about 1,000 demonstrators honored the woman under an elevated roadway.
“I want to say through the media to the dictator and his associates, we are peaceful demonstrators,” said protester Min Htet Naing. “Stop the genocide! Stop using lethal weapons!”
Another large protest took place in Mandalay, where police shot dead two people on Saturday near a dockyard as security forces were trying to force workers to load a boat. The workers, like railway workers and truckers and many civil servants, have been taking part in a civil disobedience campaign against the junta.
Shooting broke out after neighborhood residents rushed to the Yadanabon dock to try to assist the workers in their resistance. One of the victims, described as a teenage boy, was shot in the head and died immediately, while another was shot in the chest and died en route to a hospital.
Several other serious injuries were also reported. Witness accounts and photos of bullet casings indicated that the security forces used live ammunition, in addition to rubber bullets, water cannons and slingshots.
The new deaths drew quick and strong reaction from the international community.
“The shooting of peaceful protesters in is beyond the pale,” said British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Twitter. “We will consider further action, with our international partners, against those crushing democracy & choking dissent.”
Britain last week froze assets of and imposed travel bans on three top Myanmar generals, adding to already existing targeted sanctions.
Singapore, which together with Myanmar is part of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, issued a statement condemning the use of lethal force as “inexcusable.”
Urging “utmost restraint” on the part of security forces, it warned that “if the situation continues to escalate, there will be serious adverse consequences for Myanmar and the region.”
Another shooting death took place Saturday night in Yangon in unclear circumstances. According to several accounts on social media, including a live broadcast that showed the body, the victim was a man who was acting as a volunteer guard for a neighborhood watch group. Such groups were established because of fears that authorities were using criminals released from prison to spread panic and fear by setting fires and committing violent acts.
Another live broadcast on Facebook showed the wife of actor Lu Min describing to neighbors how her husband was arrested and taken away from their home shortly after midnight. He was one of six high-profile people in the entertainment industry charged last week with inciting civil servants to stop work and join the protest movement, which he and the others have publicly championed.
On Sunday, Facebook announced it took down the page run by the Myanmar military information unit “for repeated violations of our community standards prohibiting incitement of violence and coordinating harm.” It had already taken down other accounts linked to the military.
The junta took power after detaining Suu Kyi and preventing Parliament from convening, saying elections last November were tainted by voting irregularities. The election outcome, in which Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party won by a landslide, was affirmed by an election commission that has since been replaced by the military. The junta says it will hold new elections in a year’s time.
The coup was a major setback to Myanmar’s transition to democracy after 50 years of army rule that began with a 1962 coup. Suu Kyi came to power after her party won a 2015 election, but the generals retained substantial power under the constitution, which was adopted under a military regime.
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