At least 23 police officers were injured in past several days during ongoing protests against racism and police brutality in London sparked by George Floyd’s murder in US’ Minneapolis city in late May, Jo Edwards, a police superintendent, said.
There are at least 1,827,206 cases of coronavirus in the United States and at least 106,028 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
US President Donald Trump on Monday said that all Americans are rightly ‘sickened by the brutal death’ of George Floyd and his administration is fully committed to providing justice to George and his family.
Manchester United’s Paul Pogba on Monday paid tribute to George Floyd, stressing that violent acts of racism can no longer be tolerated and they have to stop.
Expressing solidarity with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign, star West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has alleged that he faced racist remarks during his career and cricket is not free of the menace.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino urged the football community to eradicate the menace of racism for once and all.
“I wouldn’t say that I am concerned about discrimination, human rights or security, but obviously we take this very, very seriously and we’ve taken appropriate measures,” espn.in quoted Infantino as saying.
“Not right to connect with racism before probe ends. I said this in context of attacks in the United States too,” Swaraj said while speaking on the issue in Lok Sabha.
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