"Stop killing us, eat the rich"

How America rebels against police arbitrariness. Photo gallery

On May 25, in Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA), police officer Derek Shven killed African American George Floyd during the detention. Shven pressed Floyd’s neck knee to the ground and continued to crush, not paying attention to the replicas of the detainee: "I can’t breathe." The 46-year-old African American recently lost his job due to the pandemia of the Covid-19 and was suspected of trying to pay a fake 20-dollar bill.

The death of Floyd provoked a new wave of protests by Black Lives Matter (“Black Life is also important”) first in Minnesota, and then throughout the country. Demonstrators take to the streets in New York, in the district of Colombia, in California and even in quiet provinces. The protest is different everywhere. Now, not only slogans against racial discrimination are used, but also radical anti -capitalist ones like “eat rich”. Peaceful demonstrations, sedentary actions, arson of municipal buildings, skirmishes with the police, the introduction of the National Guard, the cruelty of the security forces and vandalism in the gallery of "New".