More than 10,000 people have been arrested in anti-police-brutality protests across the US since George Floyd's death
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Sinéad Baker
Jun 4, 2020, 15:51 IST
A protester faces riot policemen in Raleigh, North Carolina, on May 31, 2020.Jonathan Drake/Reuters
More than 10,000 people have been arrested in the anti police-brutality protests taking place across the US, according to a tally from The Associated Press.
Most arrests were for low-level offenses like violating curfews, but hundreds were for more serious offenses like looting, the AP reported.
The protests began in response to the death of George Floyd while being subdued by police on May 25.
Los Angeles has more than a quarter of the arrests in the country, according to the AP.
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More than 10,000 people have been arrested across the US in anti police-brutality protests sparked by the death of George Floyd last week, according to a tally from The Associated Press.
Many arrests have been over low-level offenses, like violating the curfews put in place by cities across the country, according to the AP.
But hundreds have also been arrested on charges of burglary and looting, the AP reported.
The Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said that these curfews "give police too much discretion over whom to arrest."
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The AP also reported that it is not clear how many people who were arrested were brought to jails. Its tally includes arrests up until Wednesday evening.
The AP reported that Los Angeles has more than a quarter of the arrests in the country.
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Police Chief Michel Moore said on Tuesday that most arrests were made over curfew violations or a failure to disperse, with the rest made over violence like looting or assaulting police officers.
The Guardian reported that police used a University of California, Los Angeles, baseball stadium to process those who had been arrested, likely due to the sheer number of people detained.
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