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A wave of protests erupted overnight, with the police firing tear gas and rubber bullets as people set buildings on fire.<\/p>\n

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The Justice Department said it had made a federal investigation into Mr. Floyd\u2019s death a \u201ctop priority\u201d and has assigned experienced prosecutors and investigators to the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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A destructive wave of protests erupted across South Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd, with the police firing tear gas and rubber bullets as people set buildings on fire and looted stores.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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A destructive wave of protests erupted across South Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd, with the police firing tear gas and rubber bullets as people set buildings on fire and looted stores.<\/span>Credit<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stores were set alight and officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets.<\/h2>\n

A wave of protests erupted across South Minneapolis overnight and into Thursday, with the police firing tear gas and rubber bullets as people set buildings on fire and looted stores days after George Floyd<\/a>, an African-American man, died in police custody<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ash was falling Thursday morning at a shopping center on Lake Street, where the recently renovated Target had been defaced and looted. A nearly completed apartment development across the street had been burned to its concrete lower floor. Other commercial structures were also badly damaged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Floyd\u2019s death also spurred protests in Memphis<\/a> and Los Angeles<\/a>, where law enforcement officials faced off with people blocking the 101 Freeway downtown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Floyd, 46, died on Monday after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a white police officer who pressed his knee on Mr. Floyd\u2019s neck for several minutes. A video of the arrest, in which he is heard pleading \u201cI can\u2019t breathe,\u201d spread widely online, and was followed by protests in Minneapolis and around the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey executed my brother in broad daylight,\u201d Philonise Floyd told CNN on Thursday morning, breaking down in tears. \u201cI am just tired of seeing black people dying.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Four officers involved in the arrest were fired from the Minneapolis Police Department, and the F.B.I. joined the investigation into the death of Mr. Floyd, a resident of St. Louis Park, Minn. On Wednesday, Minneapolis\u2019s mayor called for the police officer who had pressed his knee to Mr. Floyd\u2019s neck to be arrested and charged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Justice Department said in a statement on Thursday morning<\/a> that it had made a federal investigation into Mr. Floyd\u2019s death a \u201ctop priority\u201d and has assigned experienced prosecutors and investigators to the case. The department \u201curges calm as investigators methodically continue to gather facts,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As night fell on Wednesday, people filled the streets near the Third Precinct headquarters, and soon fires lit up the sky. Images on television and social media showed at least one business, an auto-parts store, ablaze and people carrying goods from another store that had been vandalized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported<\/a> that a Target and Cub Foods store anchoring the corner of East Lake Street and Hiawatha Avenue were looted, as were several small businesses, including a liquor store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As dawn broke on Thursday, fires were still smoldering as lines of police officers in riot gear stood off against people who were still out on the streets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There was also fatal shooting near the protests.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Unlike the first night of protests in Minneapolis on Tuesday, when thousands gathered peacefully, the police reported looting and multiple fires beginning Wednesday afternoon and stretching into Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The police said that a fatal shooting in the protest area appeared to be related to the looting of a pawnshop where the store owner fired shots. A man was wounded and taken to a hospital, where he died, according to the police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cTonight was a different night of protesting than it was just the night before,\u201d said John Elder, a police spokesman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mayor Jacob Frey pleaded on Twitter for people to stay at home. \u201cPlease, please Minneapolis,\u201d he wrote, \u201cwe cannot let tragedy beget more tragedy. Please, help us keep the peace. Stay safe and evacuate the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The violence came at the end of what had been a tense period.<\/p>\n

Protesters began gathering Wednesday afternoon outside the Third Precinct headquarters, but by early evening, officers were trying to disperse the crowds using flash-bang grenades and tear gas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Floyd\u2019s family and the mayor have called for charges against the officers involved in his arrest.<\/h2>\n

Mr. Floyd\u2019s death \u2014 and the recent killing of Ahmaud Arbery<\/a>, a 25-year-old African-American man who was chased and fatally shot by two white men in Georgia \u2014 has prompted comparisons to other killings of black Americans, including Eric Garner<\/a> and Michael Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The episode was seen as part of a broader pattern of devastating encounters between African-Americans and law enforcement denounced by civil rights leaders. It has laid bare tensions between members of the local community and the 800-plus police force in Minneapolis, a divide mirrored in other communities across the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Minneapolis Police Department on Wednesday identified the fired officers as Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng. The mayor said that the dismissals were not enough, calling for criminal charges against the officer who was recorded with his knee on Mr. Floyd\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve wrestled with, more than anything else over the last 36 hours, one fundamental question: Why is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail?\u201d Mr. Frey said in a news briefing. \u201cIf you had done it, or I had done it, we would be behind bars right now. And I cannot come up with a good answer to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Floyd\u2019s sister, Bridgett Floyd, called for justice on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like for those officers to be charged with murder because that\u2019s exactly what they did,\u201d Ms. Floyd said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Other members of the Floyd family, appearing on \u201cThis Morning\u201d on CBS<\/a>, said that protests were not enough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t want the protests to be for just show,\u201d said Tara Brown, Mr. Floyd\u2019s cousin, who appeared with two of Mr. Floyd\u2019s brothers. \u201cI want to see action.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis was clearly murder,\u201d she added. \u201cWe want to see them arrested; we want to see them charged; we want to see them convicted for what they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Video footage of an officer pressing his knee into Mr. Floyd\u2019s neck spurred the protests.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Video Shows Arrested Man Telling Police He Can\u2019t Breathe<\/h2>\n

A bystander\u2019s video in Minneapolis shows a police officer with his knee on a man\u2019s neck during an arrest. The man died a \u201cshort time\u201d later, the police said.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Arrested man: [moaning] \u201cWhat you trying to say?\u201d Police officer: \u201cRelax.\u201d Arrested man: \u201cMan, I can\u2019t breathe \u2014 my face \u2014\u201d [inaudible] Police officer: \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d Arrested man: \u201cI can\u2019t breathe!\u201d Bystander 1: \u201cHow long you all got to hold him down?\u201d Unidentified speaker: \u201cDon\u2019t do drugs, kids \u2014\u201d Bystander 2: \u201cThis ain\u2019t about drugs, bro.\u201d [inaudible conversation] Bystander 2: \u201cHe is human, bro.\u201d Bystander 1: \u201cHis nose \u2014\u201d Bystander 2: \u201c \u2014 right now bro, you know it\u2019s broken. You can\u2019t even look at me like a man because you a bum, bro. He\u2019s not even resisting arrest right now, bro.\u201d Bystander 1: \u201cHis nose is bleeding.\u201d Bystander 3: He\u2019s passed out!\u201d Bystander 2: \u201cYou [expletive] stopping his breathing, right now, bro. You think that\u2019s cool? You think that\u2019s cool? What is that? What do you think that is? You say \u2014 you call what he\u2019s doing, OK?\u201d Police officer: \u201cGet back!\u201d Bystander 2: \u201cYou\u2019re calling what he\u2019s doing OK. You call what he\u2019s doing OK, bro?\u201d Police officer: \u201cOnly firefighters \u2014\u201d Bystander 4: \u201cYes, I am from Minneapolis.\u201d Bystander 2: \u201cBro, you, you, you call \u2014 you think that\u2019s OK? Check his pulse!\u201d Bystander 4: \u201cThe fact that you guys aren\u2019t checking his pulse, and doing compressions if he needs them, you guys are on \u2014\u201d Bystander 1: \u201cOh my God!\u201d [inaudible] Bystander 4: \u201cOK, yeah, and I have your name tag.\u201d Bystander 5: \u201cFreedom of speech.\u201d [shouting] Bystander 2: \u201cDon\u2019t touch me!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Minneapolis police said they had been investigating an accusation of forgery on Monday in the southern part of the city when they confronted a man who was sitting on a blue car and was later identified as Mr. Floyd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe was ordered to step from his car,\u201d the Police Department said in a statement on Monday. \u201cAfter he got out, he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Video footage from nearby security cameras and bystanders did not show any attempt by Mr. Floyd to resist officers. Instead, it showed him begging for his life as he lay handcuffed on the ground, one officer grinding a knee into his neck while three others stood by.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The city\u2019s Police Department has received many excessive force complaints, especially from black residents.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Excessive force complaints against Minneapolis officers have become commonplace, especially by African-American residents. One of the officers involved in Mr. Floyd\u2019s death, Officer Chauvin<\/a>, 44, had several complaints<\/a> filed against him, three of which led to reprimands for his language and tone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Chauvin shot a man who was trying to grab an officer\u2019s gun in 2008, according to The Pioneer Press<\/a>. He was also present at two other shootings, one of them fatal, but it was unclear if he fired his weapon in those cases, according to Communities United Against Police Brutality, a local organization advocating police reform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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African-Americans account for about 20 percent of the city\u2019s population, but they are more likely to be pulled over, arrested and have force used against them than white residents, Police Department data shows. And black people accounted for more than 60 percent of the victims in Minneapolis police shootings from late 2009 through May 2019, data shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The tension between the community and the 800-plus-officer force has unfolded in a predominantly white and progressive metropolis, where the white mayor openly discusses systemic racism, the police chief is a black man who embraces a community-oriented approach and residents elected two black transgender people<\/a> to a City Council that has taken aggressive action to curb racial segregation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet there is a deep rift between the city\u2019s police force \u2014 which also is predominantly white \u2014 and the community, one that seems to grow larger with each killing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reporting was contributed by Marc Santora, Matt Furber, Audra D.S. Burch and John Eligon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n

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