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Continued from Front Mr. Brooks for resisting ar-
The firing of Rolfe and the rest. But the question is: Are
quick release of the vid- there other protocols that
eos to the public could go police could have taken?"
a long way toward easing "And people will ask the
tensions in the city, said question, had he been
Andy Harvey, a veteran white and pulled onto the
law enforcement officer side of the road to take a
who is now a police chief nap and sleep it off, would
in Ennis, Texas, and the au- they have given him a ride
thor of books and training home?"
curriculum on community The Wendy's was set
policing. aflame at one point Satur-
"Transparency today is a day night, although the fire
whole different ball game. was out before midnight.
It's what the community Atlanta police said Sunday
expects," Harvey said. "We that 36 people had been
have to always be open arrested in connection with
about the good, the bad the protests, but gave no ports on social media "that tore down a bust of a slave confront bias in their own
and the ugly. Not just the further details. A makeshift a person in the crowd may owner Saturday who left countries on Sunday. The
good. I think it actually memorial had been erect- have been struck by the part of his fortune to New demonstrations also posed
builds trust and confidence ed outside the restaurant vehicle." Orleans' schools and then a challenge to policies in-
when we're open about Sunday morning. Spokespersons for the de- took the remains to the tended to limit crowds to
the ugly as well." Meanwhile, the rapidly un- partment did not immedi- Mississippi River and rolled prevent the spread of the
The Georgia Bureau of In- folding movement to take ately respond to an email it down the banks into the coronavirus.
vestigation said that Brooks, down Confederate statues seeking comment Sunday. water. In Milan, Italy, protesters
who was seen on body in the U.S. grew over the In Philadelphia, a group of And in Tahlequah, Oklaho- scrawled ''rapist'' and ''rac-
camera video sleeping in weekend. about 100 people, some ma, the Cherokee Nation's ist'' in Italian on the statue of
a car blocking the Wendy's In Richmond, Virginia, a po- carrying guns and baseball principal chief watched as a late Italian journalist who
drive thru, failed a sobriety lice SUV drove up on a curb bats, gathered around a two Confederate monu- had acknowledged hav-
test and was shot in a strug- and struck multiple protest- statue of Christopher Co- ments were removed that ing had a 12-year-old Er-
gle over a police Taser. ers who were blocking the lumbus in Philadelphia on were placed in its tribal itrean bride while stationed
Cedrick Alexander, the for- vehicle's path during a Saturday, saying they in- headquarters nearly a cen- in the Italian colony on the
mer public safety director demonstration Saturday tended to protect it from tury ago by the Daughters horn of Africa in the 1930s.
of Dekalb County, Georgia, night at the Robert E. Lee vandals amid recent pro- of the Confederacy. The statue of Indro Mon-
who now works as a police statue, which has become tests. "It would be over my Also Saturday, members tanelli, inside a Milan park
consultant, said the shoot- a gathering place for racial dead body before they of the Clemson Univer- that bears his name, has
ing will undoubtedly lead justice demonstrations. No got to this statue," Anthony sity football team led hun- been a flashpoint in Italy's
to questions about how of- one appeared to be seri- Ruggiero, 41, told The Phil- dreds of demonstrators Black Lives Matter protests.
ficers might have defused ously injured, according to adelphia Inquirer. "This is a on the school's campus in In Germany, protesters in
the situation. the Richmond Times-Dis- part of history." South Carolina. The march Berlin on Sunday formed 5
"Here's a man who took patch. Mayor Jim Kenney con- came a day after Clemson ½-mile (9-kilometer) chain
it upon himself to pull off In messages posted on Twit- demned the "groups of trustees voted to rename in a message against rac-
the road to take a nap," ter early Sunday morning, armed individuals 'protect- its honors college, strip- ism, among a range of
Alexander said. Could the Richmond Police De- ing'" the statue in a Twitter ping from the program the other causes. Demonstra-
they have given him a ride partment said police were post on Sunday. name of former vice presi- tors were linked by colored
home, could they have investigating the incident, Meanwhile, three people dent and slavery propo- ribbons, forming what or-
called him an Uber, and including what it called "a were charged in the van- nent John C. Calhoun. ganizers called a "ribbon
let him sleep it off later, possible assault" on an offi- dalism of a Christopher Meanwhile, European of solidarity" that stretched
as opposed to arresting cer who was inside the ve- Columbus statue in Provi- protesters sought to show southeast from the Bran-
him? Now that does not hicle. The department said dence, Rhode Island. solidarity with their Ameri- denburg Gate to the Neu-
in any kind of way excuse it was also investigating re- Protesters in New Orleans can counterparts and to koelln neighborhood.q

Floridians mark Trump's birthday with flotillas, caravans

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. election effort. carts are the vehicles of
(AP) — Trump supporters The Palm Beach Post re- choice for many residents,
in Florida were celebrat- ports that an anti-Trump Trump supporters were
ing the president's birthday caravan also was riding holding a golf-cart parade
Sunday with caravans, flo- through the county Sun- in honor of the president,
tillas and parades through- day to protest racism and who is turning 74.
out his adopted homes- call for police reforms. Speaking to West Point
tate. Pro-Trump flotillas also graduates on Saturday,
In Palm Beach County — were planned for Fort Lau- Trump said his birthday co-
home of President Donald derdale, Miami, the Florida incided with the 245th an-
Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort Keys, Tampa, Pensacola niversary of the U.S. Army's
— separate caravans of and Jacksonville — where founding. "Unrelated, go-
trucks, motorcycles and Trump is slated to be re- ing to be my birthday also,"
boats were riding along nominated for a second Trump said. "I don't know
highways and the inter- term at the end of August. if that happened by acci-
coastal waterway at vari- Hundreds of boats idle through downtown on the St. Johns River In The Villages, a massive dent. Did that happen by
ous times in the morning. during a rally Sunday, June 14, 2020, in Jacksonville, Fla., cel- Republican-friendly retire- accident, please? But it's a
The organizers were part of ebrating President Donald Trump's birthday. ment community north- great day because of that
the president's Florida re- Associated Press west of Orlando where golf Army birthday."q