NCC briefing: Provincial travel permitted for students and teachers

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Students, teachers and other school staff who must travel to other provinces to get to their respective institutions of learning will be permitted to travel between provincial borders throughout the Level 3 lockdown alert phase. 

Speaking at the National Command Council (NCC) briefing on the afternoon of Thursday 28 May, days before the advent of the latest phase of restrictions, Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said that some members of the academic community had to travel across borders on a day basis and would be permitted to do so. 

District, provincial travel permitted for schools

She said that given that many people have to make daily trips across borders to get to school, they would be given the green light to do so. 

“Given that schools will open in phased approach, we will also open travel in between provinces and districts for pupils, students and teaching staff.”

Dlamini-Zuma said that persons travelling for purposes of starting work; moving to a new residence; or caring for an immediate family member would also be permitted on the condition that those people have the relevant permits handy.

The reopening of schools will be done gradually, with other learning groups arriving back in the classroom in batches over the next six weeks.

Education minister under fire  

Students in Grades 7 and 12 are expected back in the classroom on 1 June, but many have said that it is too early for them to return. 

One SA Movement leader Mmusi Maimane has led the charge for the decision to be reversed, but with days to go and Dlamini Zuma giving no indication of a U-turn, it seems like his petition has fallen on deaf ears. 

Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga came under fire on Thursday after visiting a handful of schools in the Gauteng Province, with many saying that she has not sufficiently gauged the degree to which schools are unprepared for reopening. 

The majority of concerns surround rural and underprivileged schools where water security is scarce and students may not be able to adequately sanitise and wash their hands while at school. 



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Bar Bans Customers From Wearing Masks During Pandemic

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Mask-wearing customers have been banned from entering a bar in Texas amid the coronavirus pandemic, local news outlets reported this week.

A sign posted outside the Liberty Tree Tavern in Elgin, 25 miles east of Austin, reads:

Due to our concern for our customers, if they FEEL (not think), that they need to wear a mask, they should stay home until they FEEL that it’s safe to be in public without one. Sorry, No Mask Allowed.

Kevin Smith, the bar’s co-owner, said the anti-mask rule was “a pushback against the wannabe snitch patrols and the contact tracers they’re gonna hire.”

“This is still rural Texas,” Smith told NBC affiliate KXAN in an interview that aired Tuesday.

One local resident described the ban as “a risk” and “foolish.”

Countered another: “I’m a stage 4 cancer survivor. I’ve been through a lot worse.” 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends people wear cloth face coverings “in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.” 

Smith said the bar was adhering to Texas social distancing guidelines, like limiting capacity to 25% and making customers maintain a distance of six feet.

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Elgin, with a population of 10,000, had 52 confirmed coronavirus cases. 

Most of the city lies in Bastrop County, where there have been around 190 cases and two deaths. Statewide, the virus has sickened more than 57,000 people and killed 1,562. 

The nationwide death toll from the pandemic topped 100,000 on Thursday. The U.S. has had more than 1.7 million confirmed cases, the most in the world.

The issue of wearing masks has become increasingly politicized in recent weeks, although a HuffPost/YouGov poll suggests most people do not have a problem with it.

President Donald Trump’s refusal to follow the CDC guidance has, for some, turned the face mask into a culture war symbol. Trump mocked Joe Biden for wearing a face mask over Memorial Day weekend and belittled a reporter for wearing one at a White House news conference. Biden was following Delaware’s state rules.



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Police conclude Dominic Cummings’ castle trip possible ‘minor breach’

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Police will not take further action against Boris Johnson aide over allegations he broke coronavirus lockdown rules.

LONDON — Boris Johnson’s top aide’s drive from his parents’ property in Durham to Barnard Castle might have constituted a “minor breach” of lockdown regulations “that would have warranted police intervention,” a police investigation concluded Thursday.

After examining the circumstances surrounding Dominic Cummings’ journey to the tourist spot on April 12 with his wife and son, Durham Constabulary said in a statement that police view this incident as minor since there was “no apparent breach of social distancing.”

The statement said police will not take retrospective action against him since this would amount to treating Cummings differently from other people.

At a press conference Monday, Cummings said he drove nearly 48 kilometers to Barnard Castle to test his eye sight after recovering from a suspected case of COVID-19 in order to ensure it was safe for him to drive back to London and return to work.

Cummings had driven to a property on his father’s farm in late March in order to self-isolate near family in case he and his wife needed childcare support after they both fell ill. This stay was not judged by police to have breached the law, though the statement makes clear police are not concerned with possible breaches of the government’s guidance to stay at home.

The police report said: “Had a Durham Constabulary police officer stopped Mr Cummings driving to or from Barnard Castle, the officer would have spoken to him, and, having established the facts, likely advised Mr Cummings to return to the address in Durham, providing advice on the dangers of traveling during the pandemic crisis. Had this advice been accepted by Mr Cummings, no enforcement action would have been taken.”

The statement added officers had not seen evidence suggesting the aide took an alleged second trip to Durham on April 19, something Cummings has denied.

A Downing Street spokesman said: “The police have made clear they are taking no action against Mr Cummings over his self-isolation and that going to Durham did not breach the regulations. The prime minister has said he believes Mr Cummings behaved reasonably and legally given all the circumstances and he regards this issue as closed.”



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40.8 Million Out Of Work In The Past 10 Weeks, 26% Of Labor Force

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A Seattle barber shop remains closed because of the coronavirus outbreak on May 19. Last week, an additional 2.1 million people filed for unemployment benefits around the country.

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A Seattle barber shop remains closed because of the coronavirus outbreak on May 19. Last week, an additional 2.1 million people filed for unemployment benefits around the country.

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More than 1 in 4 U.S. workers have lost their jobs since the coronavirus crisis shut down much of the economy in March.

Just last week, another 2.1 million people filed for unemployment benefits, the Labor Department said Thursday. That brings the total for the past 10 weeks to 40.8 million, which represents 26% of the civilian labor force in April.

Employment dropped steeply in most areas of the country in recent weeks, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday. A Fed survey found that “employment continued to fall sharply in retail and in leisure and hospitality sectors.”

For Many, $600 Jobless Benefit Makes It Hard To Return To Work

“Contacts cited challenges in bringing employees back to work, including workers’ health concerns, limited access to childcare, and generous unemployment insurance benefits,” the Fed said in its Beige Book survey.

Signs of an ailing job market are everywhere:

  • Boeing is cutting more than 12,000 jobs after the sudden drop in air travel hit the airplane manufacturing giant hard.
  • A number of major retailers, including J.C. Penney, Neiman Marcus and J. Crew, have filed for bankruptcy.
  • With tax revenues dwindling, cities large and small are facing deep budget deficits, forcing them to furlough municipal workers. Nearly 1 million government workers were laid off in April alone. 
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But some workers around the country are also beginning to return to their jobs as many states move to reopen their economies. Disney World and other Florida theme parks have announced plans to reopen in the next few weeks. In California, stores ordered closed since March 19 have been cleared to reopen under guidelines that recommend employee screenings, face coverings and social distancing.

And Amazon announced Thursday that it’s offering full-time jobs to 125,000 of the 175,000 temporary employees it hired during the pandemic.

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More Than 40 Million Americans Have Sought Jobless Aid Amid Pandemic

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 2.1 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, a sign that companies are still slashing jobs in the face of a deep recession even as more businesses reopen and rehire some laid-off employees.

About 41 million people have now applied for aid since the virus outbreak intensified in March, though not all of them are still unemployed. The Labor Department’s report Thursday includes a count of all the people now receiving unemployment aid: 21 million. That is a rough measure of the number of unemployed Americans.

The national jobless rate was 14.7% in April, the highest since the Great Depression, and many economists expect it will near 20% in May.

States are gradually restarting their economies by letting some businesses — from gyms, retail shops and restaurants to hair and nail salons — reopen with some restrictions. As some of these employers, including automakers, have recalled a portion of their laid-off employees, the number of people receiving unemployment benefits has fallen.

First-time applications for unemployment aid, though still high by historical standards, have now fallen for eight straight weeks. In addition to those who applied last week, an additional 1.2 million applied under a new program for self-employed and gig workers, who are eligible for jobless aid for the first time. These figures aren’t adjusted for seasonal variations, so the government doesn’t include them in the overall data.

Analysts are monitoring incoming economic data to gauge how consumers are responding as many retail establishments gradually reopen. Jobs won’t return in any significant way as long as Americans remain slow to resume spending at their previous levels.

Data from Chase Bank credit and debit cards shows that consumers have slowly increased their spending since the government distributed stimulus checks in mid-April. Consumer spending had plunged 40% in March compared with a year earlier but has since rebounded to 20% below year-ago levels.

Most of that increase has occurred in online shopping, which has recovered to pre-virus levels after having tumbled about 20%. But offline spending, which makes up the vast majority of consumer spending, is still down 35% from a year ago, according to Chase, after having plummeted 50% at its lowest point.

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The U.S. government is set to sketch its latest picture Thursday of the layoffs that have left tens of millions of people unemployed but have slowed as states increasingly allow businesses to reopen.

Even with companies calling some laid-off employees back to work, millions more likely filed for unemployment benefits last week after nearly 39 million sought aid in the previous nine weeks as the coronavirus paralyzed the economy.

The pace of layoffs has declined for seven straight weeks, a sign that the cratering of the job market may have bottomed out. By historical standards, though, the number of weekly applications remains enormous.

The job cuts reflect an economy that was seized by the worst downturn since the Great Depression after the virus forced the widespread shutdown of businesses. The economy is thought to be shrinking in the April-June quarter at an annual rate approaching 40%. That would be, by far, the worst quarterly contraction on record.



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U Of Minnesota Cuts Ties With Minneapolis PD After George Floyd Death

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Outraged at the death of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer pinned him by the neck, University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel on Wednesday said the school would sever some security arrangements with the city police department.

The university will no longer contract with the Minneapolis Police Department for added enforcement at large events such as football games and concerts, Gabel said, per CBS Minnesota. And it will cease using city police for K-9 bomb detection and other specialized services.

“Our hearts are broken after watching the appalling video capturing the actions of Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officers against George Floyd leading to his tragic death,” Gabel said in a letter to students, staff and faculty. “As a community, we are outraged and grief-stricken. I do not have the words to fully express my pain and anger and I know that many in our community share those feelings, but also fear for their own safety. This will not stand.”



University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel, pictured at a 2018 football game, said of the Minneapolis PD’s actions: “This will not stand.”

The move was not a total disengagement with the police department, however.

“We have a responsibility to uphold our values and a duty to honor them,” Gabel wrote. “We will limit our collaboration with the MPD to joint patrols and investigations that directly enhance the safety of our community or that allow us to investigate and apprehend those who put our students, faculty, and staff at risk.”

Protests raged for a second day over the death of Floyd, a Black man in handcuffs who was seen in bystander video being held face-down on the street as a white officer kneeled on his neck. Floyd could be heard saying he could not breathe. He later died.

The mayor denounced the police conduct and four officers were fired the next day. The mayor and protesters say cops should face criminal charges.

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‘No UK police action’ against Boris Johnson aide after possible ‘minor’ lockdown breach

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British police have determined the prime minister’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings might have committed “a minor breach” of coronavirus lockdown rules when he drove to Barnard Castle but will face no further action.

Durham Constabulary have issued a statement to say they had examined the circumstances and they will take no further action.

“On March 27 2020, Dominic Cummings drove to Durham to self-isolate in a property owned by his father.

“Durham Constabulary does not consider that by locating himself at his father’s premises, Mr Cummings committed an offence contrary to regulation six of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020. (We are concerned here with breaches of the regulations, not the general Government guidance to “stay at home”.)

“On April 12 2020, Mr Cummings drove approximately 26 miles from his father’s property to Barnard Castle with his wife and son. He stated on May 25 2020 that the purpose of this drive was to test his resilience to drive to London the following day, including whether his eyesight was sufficiently recovered, his period of self-isolation having ended.

“Durham Constabulary have examined the circumstances surrounding the journey to Barnard Castle (including ANPR, witness evidence and a review of Mr Cummings’ press conference on May 25 2020) and have concluded that there might have been a minor breach of the regulations that would have warranted police intervention. Durham Constabulary view this as minor because there was no apparent breach of social distancing.”

Boris Johnson is standing by his senior aide despite the Durham Police findings.

A Number 10 spokesman said: “The police have made clear they are taking no action against Mr Cummings over his self-isolation and that going to Durham did not breach the regulations.

“The Prime Minister has said he believes Mr Cummings behaved reasonably and legally given all the circumstances, and he regards this issue as closed.”

Number 10 spokesman said: “The police have made clear they are taking no action against Mr Cummings over his self-isolation and that going to Durham did not breach the regulations.

“The Prime Minister has said he believes Mr Cummings behaved reasonably and legally given all the circumstances, and he regards this issue as closed.”

Chief Advisor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings returns home after making a statement inside 10 Downing Street on May 25, 2020 in London, England. On March 31st 2020 Downing Street confirmed to journalists that Dominic Cummings was self-isolating with COVID-19 symptoms at his home in North London. Durham police have confirmed that he was actually hundreds of miles away at his parent’s house in the city. (Peter Summers/Getty Images)
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Berlin seeks sanctions against Russian hackers over Bundestag cyberattack

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Chancellor Angela Merkel told parliamentarians that she had “hard evidence” that Russia was responsible for an “outrageous” cyberattack on the Bundestag | Pool photo by Henning Schacht/Getty Images

Germany’s foreign ministry on Thursday summoned the Russian ambassador over a 2015 cyberattack on the German parliament, saying that Berlin would press for sanctions against those responsible for the hack.

The move came about two weeks after Chancellor Angela Merkel told parliamentarians that she had “hard evidence” that Russia was responsible for an “outrageous” cyberattack on the Bundestag in the spring of 2015, which reportedly caused the theft of more than 16 gigabytes of data, including confidential emails from lawmakers.

A foreign ministry spokesperson said that Russian citizen Dmitry Badin is “strongly suspected of being responsible for the hacking attack,” adding that “there are strong indications that he was a member of the GRU military intelligence service at the time of the attack.”

The German federal prosecutor issued an arrest warrant against Badin earlier this month.

According to the spokesperson, the foreign ministry had summoned Russia’s ambassador to Germany, Sergej Netschajew, to inform him that Berlin would raise the issue at EU level to seek Europe-wide sanctions targeted at Badin and others responsible for the attacks.

EU countries last year agreed on a regime that allows the bloc to slap sanctions on cyber attackers, including travel bans and asset freezes. It’s part of a broader use of diplomatic tools to deter cyberattacks on EU countries.

So far, the EU has not disclosed any sanctions linked to cyberattacks. The German suggestion would be the first of its kind.

“This would be unprecedented for the EU cyber sanction tool,” said Lukasz Olejnik, a cybersecurity researcher and consultant. “We would see an interesting test of the [EU’s package of measures to deter cyberattacks], specifically on consensus finding,” he said. EU member countries need to agree on sanctions unanimously.

National cybersecurity experts are scheduled to meet in Brussels next Wednesday, in the first meeting that could take place physically since the start of lockdown measures in Europe.



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Taking the tide of opportunity to save our oceans

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Taking the tide of opportunity to save our oceans

So, the human world was stopped on its axis not by war, asteroid or cybercrime, but by a microscopic bug to which as yet we have no answer.

That we can be so wholly exposed by an act of nature, albeit inspired by our own actions, should now mentally arm us in the fight against the gathering storm of the climate crisis.

No doubt fossil fuels are returning, power stations firing up around the world as lockdowns ease. But there is a growing clamour for this to be the start of a new era.

The United Nations special envoy for the Ocean, Peter Thomson, in his accompanying article, writes: “If there were ever a tide in human affairs that should be taken, this is it.” A return to the old ways simply resumes a deadly course, he argues.

It is a timely exhortation drawn from the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar, where Brutus says to Cassius: 

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, 

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune…” 

Brutus is actually talking about the ideal time to strike in battle, but the message is clear: first recognise, and then seize the opportunity.

Brutus’s stoic philosophy emanated from ancient Greece in the third century BC. This ancient thinking emphasised the inevitability of the laws of nature and saw the success of humanity bound up in understanding and following those laws. 

Science now accepts we have been overstepping the boundaries of nature’s rules, and the consequences have been calamitous. From a zoonotic pandemic which is killing hundreds of thousands from every walk of life, to extreme weather and crashing biodiversity, with dire consequences for millions, if not billions.

Fast-track solutions

The problem is how to harness the will for change, especially in the calendar voids wrought by COVID-19, postponing critical climate and biodiversity conferences. But things are moving. 

This coming week from June 1, the Virtual Oceans Dialogue will fill the space left by the UN Ocean Conference that was slated to take place in Lisbon, Portugal, focusing on how the ocean can be part of the solution in helping the global economy recover from the pandemic. 

Half the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) is dependent on nature, according to the World Economic Forum and more than 3 billion people rely on the ocean for their livelihoods.

The Dialogues have been designed for communities around the world to connect and exchange ideas.

Thomson says it is all about the road we must now travel: how we advance into sustainable food systems, build resilient cities, execute a rapid transition into renewable energy and protect our oceans, which provide us with every second breath of oxygen that we breathe.

“If we love our children, and theirs,” Thomson said, “if we love this planet, if we love life itself, then staying true to that course is the ultimate obligation.” 

Otherwise, as Brutus knew, the outlook is grim:

“There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a sea we are now afloat,

And we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.”

Your environment round-up

1. Clean energy cars: French President Emmanuel Macron wants France to produce a million clean energy cars by 2025, making it Europe’s top producer.

2. Fifty billion years worth: That is how much cumulative evolutionary history scientists fear could be lost as humans push wildlife to the brink and “weird and wonderful” animals slide silently toward extinction.

3. Qatar’s birdlife is thriving: Watch stunning images of the skies darkening as cormorants come home to roost.

4. Cop26 delayed: The crucial climate summit will be postponed until November 2021 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

5. ‘A plague’: India is dealing with its worst invasion of desert locusts in more than a quarter of a century.

The final word

We must take these currents while they serve, for through the fog of sadness, trauma and sacrifice this pandemic has brought upon us, we catch glimpses of the ways ahead. The joys of birdsong and the tolling bells of logic tell us to take the one that leads to a blue-green future.

Peter Thomson, UN Special Envoy for the Ocean & co-chair of Friends of Ocean Action

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‘Stop killing black people’: George Floyd’s death sparks protests in Minneapolis, Memphis, LA

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‘Stop killing black people’: George Floyd’s death sparks protests in Minneapolis, Memphis, LA

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Demonstrators gather on the corner where George Floyd died after being pinned to the ground by a police officer.

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Protesters clashed with police in Minneapolis. They chanted for justice in Memphis. They stopped freeway traffic in Los Angeles.

The death of George Floyd continued to ripple across the U.S. on Wednesday night as the calls became louder for the arrest of the white police officer who knelt on his neck for several minutes in a horrifying video that spread across social media this week.

Meanwhile on Thursday, Ben Crump, attorney for Floyd’s family, warned any instigators of violence in the Minneapolis protests: “We don’t need that. We need people focused on getting justice,” he said.

He is calling for an independent autopsy, saying he doesn’t trust the city of Minneapolis. “They offered him no humanity while keeping his knee on his neck. Members of the public were the only ones trying to de-escalate the situation. Not the police,” Crump told CNN on Thursday.

“Keeping the knee on the neck for over 8 minutes – that is unconscionable.”

George Floyd’s death: Another wound for Minneapolis’ black community

While hundreds of protesters took to the streets, police chiefs from coast to coast expressed their outrage with Floyd’s death.

“Do not defend the undefendable, attempt to justify the unjustifiable or excuse the inexcusable,” Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina said on Twitter. “George Floyd should be alive today.”

“The lack of compassion, use of excessive force, or going beyond the scope of the law, doesn’t just tarnish our badge – it tears at the very fabric of race relations in this country,” Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said in a statement posted to Twitter.

Minneapolis: Police, protesters clash; looters raid Target, Dollar Tree, other stores

Protests in Minneapolis devolved into chaos on Wednesday night. Reports of fires came from around the city and videos of looters inside of stores quickly spread on social media. Several people shared video of people taking products from a local Target. 

A Cub Foods, a Dollar Tree and an AutoZone store also showed signs of damage and looting, and windows of businesses in nearby strip malls were reported to be smashed out.

At least one person was killed. Police spokesman John Elder told USA TODAY that the department was investigating a homicide near the area where a reporter from the Star Tribune newspaper tweeted that a looter had been shot and killed by a pawn shop owner.

One person was in custody early Thursday, the Star Tribune reported, but police wouldn’t confirm if the victim was a looter.

“The facts of what led up to the shooting are still being sorted out. We are truly in the infancy of this investigation,” Elder said.

As the protests stretched into the evening, Police Chief Medaria Arradondo urged calm. In an interview with KMSP-TV, he noted the internal investigation as well as the FBI’s investigation of Floyd’s death and said they offer a chance at justice.

“Justice historically has never come to fruition through some of the acts we’re seeing tonight, whether it’s the looting, the damage to property or other things,” he said.

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Memphis: George Floyd’s death was ‘nail in the unfortunate coffin for America’

A silent demonstration to protest the death of Floyd, as well as Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, turned into verbal confrontations with Memphis police and counter-protesters.

The rally began with about 40 people holding signs reading “Black Lives Matter,” “Stop killing black people” and “Silence is violence.” Protesters were largely silent, with occasional chants of “no justice, no peace” and the names of black men and women who had been killed by police officers.

Passing drivers — and one ambulance — honked in support and waved or gave thumbs-up.

Opinion: Video of George Floyd pinned by Minneapolis cops is shocking but not surprising

Within an hour, however, the protesters were met by two counter-protesters, who identified themselves as members of the Facebook group Confederate 901.

Theryn C. Bond, a prominent local activist and former Memphis City Council candidate, confronted the counter-protesters, who occasionally jeered at the crowd to “go out for a jog” — a reference to Aubrey’s slaying.

“I was so impressed to see so many white allies,” Bond said. “Because sometimes we think, ‘Everybody doesn’t get it.’ And I think with the recent murder of George Floyd by police… I think this was the proverbial nail in the unfortunate coffin for America to really understand what we mean when we say, ‘Black Lives Matter.'”

Floyd’s death this week is the latest in a string of violence against black people. Taylor was shot and killed in her Kentucky home by officers executing a “no-knock” search warrant, while Arbery was shot and killed while jogging after being pursued by two white men who later said they thought he was a burglary suspect.

Floyd’s death this week is the latest in a string of violence against black people. Taylor was shot and killed in her Kentucky home by officers executing a “no-knock” search warrant, while Arbery was shot and killed while jogging after being pursued by two white men who later said they thought he was a burglary suspect.

Los Angeles: Protesters block 101 freeway, smash windows of California Highway Patrol cruisers

Hundreds of people protesting Floyd’s death while in police custody blocked a Los Angeles freeway and shattered windows of California Highway Patrol cruisers in a rally organized by Black Lives Matter.

Demonstrators gathered in the late afternoon on downtown streets and, eventually, dozens of them moved onto U.S. 101 despite police efforts to keep them from walking into the lanes.

‘A very sad event’: President Donald Trump to receive ‘full report’ on Minneapolis death of George Floyd

When a CHP patrol car arrived, demonstrators surrounded it. The car’s window was smashed and it jerked forward and moved away with several protesters who had jumped onto the hood. Television news footage showed one man finally hopping or jumping from the side of the moving car and then flopping onto the ground.

A second CHP car arrived and was attacked, with one demonstrator hurling what appeared to be a wooden skateboard through the back window before it moved off.

At its rally’s peak, hundreds of people gathered outside the Los Angeles County Hall of Justice. The demonstration was mostly peaceful and no arrests were immediately made, Los Angeles police Officer Mike Lopez said.

Contributing: Corinne S. Kennedy, Micaela A. Watts and Samuel Hardiman, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.); The Associated Press.

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