Daily US Times: Several videos of police brutality have shocked the US as the videos emerged during protests over the death of African American George Floyd.
Two officers were suspended in Buffalo, New York State after they were seen shoving an elderly white man to the ground.
Police brutality was captured on video in New York City where officers were seen roughly handling demonstrators as they ran away. The reports come hours after a memorial for Floyd in Minneapolis, the city where he died at the hands of police.
Bystanders captured the killing of George Floyd and it quickly went viral online. The video caused outrage and sparked a wave of protests against racial discrimination and police treatment of African Americans in cities across the United States and the world.
Over the past eight days, the vast majority of demonstrations have been peaceful but some have descended into rioting and violence, with curfews imposed in a number of cities.
At one protest, security forces in Washington DC fired smoke bombs and pepper balls to disperse demonstrators outside the White House, allowing President Donald Trump to walk to a nearby church for a photo opportunity.
On Thursday, civil rights group the America Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in the response of the security forces, accusing the president, the attorney general and others of violating the constitutional rights of protesters.
ACLU official Scott Michelman, said: “When the nation’s top law enforcement officer becomes complicit in the tactics of an autocrat, it chills protected speech for all of us.”
In a separate development, police in Arizona released details of the killing of another African American, Dion Johnson, in Phoenix on 25 May, the same day as Floyd.
A police statement said, Johnson was shot dead by state troopers after being found “passed out in the driver’s seat” of a car which was partially blocking traffic.
Police said: “During the trooper’s contact with the suspect, there was a struggle and the trooper fired his service weapon striking the suspect.”
What do the videos show?
The video captured in Buffalo shows a 75-year-old man approach police officers enforcing a curfew. They then move forward, pushing him back and causing him to fall over and hit his head.
Blood is seen pouring from his ear after he lies on the ground.
He was then taken away in an ambulance and was later found to have suffered a severe head injury.
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