Grand Rapids, Mich. (tiempolatin.com) .- Several demonstrators were arrested for walking in the streets of the city center during the protest against police brutality.
The protesters commemorated the death of George Floyd, who was brutally killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when a police officer murdered him with a knee on his neck, while he was arrested.
The demonstration was at all times peaceful with protesters walking through the downtown streets and shouting slogans against the police brutality that ended Floyd’s life.
One of the organizers who identified herself as Allie, said that Floyd could have been any of us, adding that Floyd’s murder is one of many that have been happening over the years, decades and centuries, and his death is the straw that broke the camel’s hump.
Unfortunately, Allie was one of the people arrested by Grand Rapids police for walking the streets of downtown.
Floyd’s death at the hands of the police sparked dozens of protests of repudiation across the nation, and hundreds of protesters were arrested across the country.
In Grand Rapids last summer there were riots in the center of the city due to the death of Floyd with a balance of dozens of broken windows of various businesses, the next day the national guard appeared in the town at the risk of a second demonstration .
Today began the trial against the policeman who killed Floyd, putting his knee on the neck of the African American until causing suffocation and ultimately death during eight minutes of agony filmed by a person passing by the scene of the incident.
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill in Minneapolis, Minnesota postponed the trial Monday against Derek Chauvin, responsible for Floyd’s death, after an appeals court ordered him to reconsider the decision to drop the third murder charge. degree against Chauvin.
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