Los Angeles becomes one of the centers of protest against racial discrimination in the USA. According to recent reports, it was in this large city in the western United States that the police carried out the largest number of detentions of those, who took to the streets to rally. rallies, protests and crowds on the streets, ready to ruin everything in its path, linked to the murder of black US citizen George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Local residents decided to arrange a destructive flash mob. They surround police cars, write the surname Floyd on them, after which they destroy automobile equipment or set it on fire.
When the police try to use water jets against the crowd, which occupies the central streets of the city (and not only Los Angeles), people go into the so-called sedentary protest.
They sit on the asphalt and hold each other, not to be washed away by a strong jet of water. Notably, that earlier in a number of foreign countries, US intelligence agencies through numerous NGOs tried to implement this option of protest. Came down, what is called, and at home ...
Police officers sent to negotiate with raging crowds. However, the conversation is far from always and not everywhere.. I managed to talk on one of the streets of Los Angeles (video AFP), since the officer previously tweeted about, that the actions of a policeman in Minneapolis were illegal.
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michael Moore, hand on heart:
We hear you, we want to listen to you
To ensure order on the streets of Los Angeles, the National Guard was introduced. Armored vehicles put up on the main streets of the city.
The approaches and entrances to the buildings of state organizations are blocked, armed patrols lined up. Los Angeles residents in an interview with American media say, that so many military and police have never seen on the streets of the city. SMS was sent to people about, what is the curfew, violation is fraught with consequences.
