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Officials urge Floyd protesters to get coronavirus tests

Continued from Front tional Guard troops from
South Carolina were seen
He mandated that protes- checking out of their hotel
ters wear masks, and he Sunday shortly before Pre-
came with boxes of them. sident Donald Trump twee-
He also asked the group ted he was giving the or-
to try to maintain social der to withdraw them from
distancing but acknow- the nation’s capital.
ledged “it’s kind of hard in The D.C. mayor had called
a protest.” on Trump last week to wit-
Attendees also were offe- hdraw outside forces amid
red free coronavirus tests days of largely peaceful
at one church. rallies after he ordered
“COVID-19 hit the inner guard troops to “domina-
city harder than anybody te” the streets.
else,” Watts said. “And so At the newly renamed
we have to be very care- Black Lives Matter Plaza
ful. We’re the only ones in near the White House,
a pandemic within a pan- protesters posed with the
demic.” Brooklyn resident street sign and the yellow
Celeste Douglas attended block lettering painted on
her third protest in the past the pavement by the city.
week and said she’ll conti- Protesters rally near the edge of Times Square in New York, Sunday, June 7, 2020. As ice cream truck jingles
nue until legislation is pas- Associated Press mixed with protest chats,
sed on budgets for police the district’s Metropolitan
and education. City prepared to enter its protesters, the fewest ar- the globe. Floyd’s body Police Department patrol-
“I want to tell my children first phase of reopening rests, the fewest problems arrived in Texas for a third led in place of federal law
when they ask when this after virus shutdowns. Up and that convinced me it and final memorial service, enforcement officers and
stuff started to change, I to 400,000 people are ex- was time for the curfew to said Houston Police Chief National Guard troops.
want to tell them I was a pected to head back to go away. I have no inten- Art Acevedo. A viewing On Saturday, a small group
part of it,” Douglas said, the workplace Monday, tion of bringing it back.” is planned for Monday in of demonstrators toppled
acknowledging being ner- with many using a subway Chicago Mayor Lori Light- Houston, followed by a ser- a statue of a Confederate
vous in a crowd during a system that most New Yor- foot also lifted the city’s vice and burial Tuesday in general in Richmond, Virgi-
pandemic but also plan- kers have avoided since curfew, reopened down- suburban Pearland. nia, the former capital of
ning to be tested. March to keep away from town train stations and al- The 46-year-old out-of- the Confederacy. Virginia
Catherine Corien, a crowds. lowed full bus service to work bouncer died after Gov. Ralph Northam has
60-year-old dental hy- Mayor Bill de Blasio lifted resume following days of a Minneapolis police of- pledged to remove a sta-
gienist in Brooklyn, said the city’s 8 p.m. curfew largely calm protests. ficer pressed his knee into tue of Gen. Robert E. Lee
fear of catching the virus imposed for the Floyd pro- Cities imposed curfews his neck for several minu- after days of Floyd pro-
prevented her from par- tests. The police pulled amid last week’s spasms tes even after he stopped tests. Protesters in Bristol,
ticipating until Sunday. back on enforcing the cur- of arson, assaults and responding. His death has England , tore down a sta-
She finally ventured out few Saturday as thousands smash-and-grab raids on drawn new attention to tue of Edward Colston, a
and stood near the back, turned out. businesses. Recent U.S. the treatment of African 17th century slave trader,
wearing a mask and kee- “Last night was the best by protests have been overw- Americans by police and and pushed it into the har-
ping some distance from far,” de Blasio said. “We helmingly peaceful, as the criminal justice system. bor of the port city in sout-
other protesters. New York had the biggest number of were rallies held around In Washington, D.C., Na- hwestern England.q

Democrats' legislation would overhaul police accountability

By LISA MASCARO CNN's "State of the Union," that have come under criti-
AP Congressional Corre- speaking after massive pro- cism, especially as more
spondent tests set off by the death of and more police violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dem- George Floyd and other Af- is captured on cell phone
ocrats are proposing to rican Americans involving video and shared widely
overhaul legal protections the police. across the nation, and the
for police, create a na- She said t he package world.
tional database of exces- from House and Senate The draft document said
sive-force episodes and Democrats will be bolder the proposed legislation
ban police choke holds in than any law enforcement would revise the federal
legislation coming Monday changes of the past de- criminal police misconduct
in response to the deaths cade. "It is time for police statute to make it easier
of black Americans at the culture in many depart- to prosecute officers who
hands of law enforcement, ments to change," she said. are involved in misconduct
according to a draft out- "And we believe that the "knowingly or with reckless
line obtained by The Asso- legislation will make a ma- disregard." With the U.S. Capitol and Washington Monument in the distance,
ciated Press. jor step forward in that di- The legislation would seek a man stands at the edge of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting
"We're in a real moment in rection." to provide greater over- Pool at sunrise, Sunday, June 7, 2020, in Washington.
our country," Rep. Karen The Justice in Policing Act sight and transparency of Associated Press
Bass, D-Ca., chairwoman confronts several aspects police behavior in several the Justice Department potential misconduct and
of the Congressional Black of law enforcement ac- ways. For one, it would to conduct "pattern and help states conduct inde-
Caucus, said Sunday on countability and practices grant subpoena power to practice" investigations of pendent investigations.q