"Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said Wednesday that he does not think the current state of unrest in American cities warrants the deployment of active-duty troops to confront protesters, just days after President Trump said he was considering use of the Insurrection Act to do exactly that. In a Pentagon news conference, Mr. Esper said ordering active-duty troops to police American cities should be a 'last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations.' He said that, for now, this was not warranted. About 1,600 airborne troops and military police have been ordered to be positioned outside the capital, officials said Tuesday night. Officials said that Mr. Trump had discussed the invoking the Insurrection Act, but had been dissuaded by Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Attorney General William P. Barr. ..."
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"Video of George Floyd’s last conscious moments horrified the nation, spurring protests that have led to curfews and National Guard interventions in many large cities. But for the black community in Minneapolis — where Mr. Floyd died after an officer pressed a knee into his neck for 8 minutes 46 seconds — seeing the police use some measure of force is disturbingly common. About 20 percent of Minneapolis’s population of 430,000 is black. But when the police get physical — with kicks, neck holds, punches, shoves, takedowns, Mace, Tasers or other forms of muscle — nearly 60 percent of the time the person subject to that force is black. And that is according to the city’s own figures. ..."
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Protesters and activists move along 5th Ave. Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in New York City. George Floyd Protests...
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