At least five people were killed, and about four thousand and four hundred were detained in protests in most American cities for more than six days, after the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the police, according to the New York Times news site.
The newspaper confirmed that most of the deaths occurred in the cities of Detroit and Indianapolis, and the police leadership denied any of its members were involved in these incidents.
"The cause of these deaths is not yet clear," Indianapolis police spokesman Michael Hewitt said in a press statement. "There is no way to link these deaths - at the moment - with any kind of protests or anything, we do not know if they are separate incidents or not," he added.
Social media pioneers in the United States traded video clips of a policeman raising a firearm against protesters in Manhattan, New York, and he did not appear to have shot him.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across the country - Sunday - as the unrest from Philadelphia to Los Angeles overshadowed peaceful demonstrations against police killing blacks.
Hundreds of protesters have gathered around the White House in Washington, DC, since Saturday evening, chanting slogans such as "Justice for Floyd", "No peace without justice", "I cannot breathe" and "Black lives matter."
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Thousands of National Guard soldiers, imposed a curfew in Washington, and closed mass transit systems to slow down the movement of protesters, but this did little to prevent chaos in many cities.
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