Unparalleled civil unrest continued for a sixth consecutive night, sweeping across at least 75 US cities, as demonstrators have gone on decrying the death of black American George Floyd at the hands of the police.
As a new wave of protests marked Sunday, Washington DC's historic St. John's Episcopal Church, which was opened in 1816, was set ablaze, with orange flames rising up into the air.
In Boston, Massachusetts, protesters were seen clashing with police during the Sunday demonstrations, while in Philadelphia officials shut down whole parts of the city after peaceful daytime protests spilled into sheer chaos with arson and large-scale looting at night.
In New York, using a fire extinguisher and creating a human chain, a group of protesters stopped looters from entering a closed business, a Tory Burch store. The civil unrest has resulted in mass lootings and arson across the US in the past few days. In some snapshots and videos circulated online, New York Police Department officers could be seen clashing with protesters on Sunday night, chasing them and flinging them to the ground.
Thousands of National Guard troops patrolled major US cities in 15 states and Washington DC, with at least 40 cities introducing curfews to disperse the enraged crowds.
Demonstrations were held outside the US as well, with hundreds gathering in protest over Floyd’s brutal killing on Trafalgar Square in London on Sunday afternoon.
After civil unrest and protests, Derek Chauvin, who suffocated Floyd to death while arresting him, has been charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter and he along with the three other officers who were present at the scene have been fired from the force.