US protests for second night over police killing of black man

Demonstrators clashed with police and set a store alight during a second night of protests in the U.S. city of Minneapolis on May 27 over the killing of a black man by an officer who held him to the ground with a knee on his neck.

Police fired tear gas and formed a human barricade to keep protesters from climbing a fence surrounding the Third Precinct, where the officers accused of killing George Floyd worked before they were fired on May 26.

They pushed protesters back as the crowd grew, a day after firing rubber bullets and more tear gas on thousands of demonstrators angered by the latest death of an African-American at the hands of U.S. law enforcement.

Outrage has grown across the country at Floyd's death Monday, fuelled in part by bystander cellphone video which shows him, handcuffed and in the custody of four white police officers, on the ground while one presses his knee into the victim's neck.

President Donald Trump in a tweet called Floyd's death "sad and tragic", and all four officers have been fired, as prosecutors said they had called in the FBI to help investigate the case, which could involve a federal felony civil rights violation.

Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo cautioned protestors on May 27 to remain peaceful.
But by 10:00 pm (0300 GMT Thursday) an auto parts store across from the precinct had been set alight and a nearby Target was being looted, according to U.S. media.

Police continued to hold the crowds back from scaling a fence into the precinct's parking lot, where their cruisers contain guns.

Protesters remained peaceful at two other locations in the city.

At the place where Floyd was first taken into custody by the officers people chanted and barbecued, carried...

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