Updated June 1st, 2020 at 22:56 IST
Clean-up in downtown NY after Floyd protest
New York's mayor said Monday he was considering putting the nation's biggest city under curfew after nights of destruction followed three days of largely peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd.
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New York's mayor said Monday he was considering putting the nation's biggest city under curfew after nights of destruction followed three days of largely peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, had previously rejected imposing a curfew, as many other cities across the US have done to try to curb violence that erupted amid demonstrations over Floyd's May 25 death, police brutality and racial injustice.
The deliberations came as workers swept up broken glass outside luxury stores in Manhattan's chic SoHo neighbourhood, where people smashed windows and plundered shops overnight during a night of unrest that led to scores of arrests.
Groups of people rampaged down the sidewalks in SoHo and other neighbourhoods, including Union Square, breaking into boutiques and electronics stores that had been shuttered for over two months because of the coronavirus.
A 21-year-old man was shot in the neighbourhood just after midnight and was taken to a hospital, police said.
They said his injuries were not life-threatening.
(Representative Image) (Image Credit Pixabay)
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Published June 1st, 2020 at 22:56 IST
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