Protests against police brutality continue across US

Protests against police brutality and racial inequality continue across the United States following George Floyd’s death at the hands of white police in Minneapolis.

About 60,000 people participated in a "march of silence" on Friday across the state of Washington on the US West Coast including in the state’s largest city of Seattle.

Massive crowds marched in the rain and some businesses temporarily closed in response to a call from Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County to launch a statewide general strike.

The goal of the silent march was “to honor lives lost and send a powerful message that Washingtonians no longer tolerate the racism that is built into so many of our institutions,” Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County said on its website.

Protest organizers have demands for the city, county and state that include cutting the Seattle police department’s budget by at least $100 million and declaring racism a public health crisis.

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This week, protesters in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood set up a protest center dubbed “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” following the exit of police, which was agreed upon by demonstrators and the city's police department.

Police largely left the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct in the Capitol Hill neighborhood after chaotic demonstrations last week, when officers tear-gassed protesters and some demonstrators threw objects at them.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan told President Donald Trump on Thursday to "go back to your bunker", escalating a feud after Trump threatened to intervene over the city’s police-free autonomous zone.

The mayor was referring to reports that Trump was rushed to a secure area in the White House by Secret Service agents as demonstrations against racism and police brutality reached the president's residence.

Trump sparked the spat when he threatened to intervene in the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.”

Protests have been held across the US for nearly three weeks in response to the killing of Floyd, who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes in Minneapolis on May 25.

A video of the incident shows the now fired and arrested Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck as the 46-year-old was in handcuffs. "Please, please, I cannot breathe," Floyd can be heard in the video as Chauvin continues to kneel on his neck.

His death has reignited long-felt anger over police killings of African-Americans and unleashed a nationwide wave of civil unrest unlike any seen in the United States since Martin Luther King Jr's 1968 assassination.

The police killing of Floyd launched a anti-racism movement in the West and is forcing Europeans to re-examine their colonial histories and even question their national identities.

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