(UTV | COLOMBO) – A medical examiner in Atlanta, Georgia, has declared the death of an African-American man to be homicide after he was shot in an encounter with police.
Rayshard Brooks died while fleeing from two white police officers in a restaurant car park late on Friday.
Protests erupted after his death, weeks after another black man, George Floyd, was killed in custody in Minneapolis.
Atlanta’s police chief quit and the police officer suspected of shooting Mr Brooks was fired.
Following his death, the Wendy’s drive-through restaurant where he was stopped was set on fire on Saturday.
Thousands of people joined Black Lives Matter protests across the US at the weekend.
In Chicago, a statue of the first US President, George Washington, was spray-painted with the words “slave owner”.
Washington was an active slave holder for 56 years, but spoke frequently of his desire to end the practice. He was the only founding father and commander-in-chief to liberate his slaves – he owned more than 300 – when he died in 1799.
Crowds also gathered again in Washington DC near the White House while in Los Angeles, a large number of LGBT protesters marched with rainbow flags to denounce what they said was police brutality, racism and transphobia.
And anger over the killing of Mr Floyd, who died as a police officer held his knee on his neck on 25 May, fuelled new protests over the weekend in the UK. (BBC)
