AP tally: Arrests at widespread US protests hit 10,000

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PHOENIX (AP) — More than 10,000 people have been arrested in protests decrying racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death, according to an Associated Press tally of known arrests across the U.S.

The count has grown by the hundreds each day as protesters spilled into the streets and encountered a heavy police presence and curfews that give law enforcement stepped-up arrest powers.

Los Angeles has had more than a quarter of the national arrests, followed by New York, Dallas and Philadelphia. Many of the arrests have been for low-level offenses such as curfew violations and failure to disperse. Hundreds were arrested on burglary and looting charges.


As cities were engulfed in unrest last week, politicians claimed that the majority of the protesters were outside agitators, including a contention by Minnesota’s governor that 80 percent of the participants in the demonstrations were from out of state.

The arrests in Minneapolis during a frenzied weekend tell a different story. In a nearly 24-hour period from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon, 41 of the 52 people cited with protest-related arrests had Minnesota driver’s licenses, according to the Hennepin County sheriff. .............................

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New Orleans police clash with protesters after a largely peaceful protest march, on top of the bridge on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, days following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (Chris Granger/The Advocate via AP)

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1. And yet there are perhaps a dozen white domestic terrorists cuffed and booked?

There was relatively early in all this an awareness on some levels that there were white nationalist militia acting as provocateurs to the violence shown against police, buildings damaged, and fires set. Several were prominently arrested here and there. But the MSM has repeatedly fed us the view that the people were responsible for instigating the worst of the riots. There has been little in the press follow-up coverage to the excessive force used by police. The stories relating instances of white nationalist activities have faded from view, as they seem to have from police awareness.

I fear that the 5-second headline based media is quickly washing away the background stories which will illuminate the depth and context of the issues.