AP Tally: Arrests at Widespread US Protests Hit 10,000

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AP Tally: Arrests at Widespread US Protests Hit 10,000
By Associated Press
June 04, 2020 08:27 AM

PHOENIX, ARIZONA - More than 10,000 people have been arrested in protests decrying racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death, according to an Associated Press tally of known arrests across the U.S.

The count has grown by the hundreds each day as protesters spilled into the streets and encountered a heavy police presence and curfews that give law enforcement stepped-up arrest powers. 

Los Angeles has had more than a quarter of the national arrests, followed by New York, Dallas and Philadelphia. Many of the arrests have been for low-level offenses such as curfew violations and failure to disperse. Hundreds were arrested on burglary and looting charges.

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For people who read only headlines, this is incitement by headline.  VOA is playing with words by lumping all arrests as "protestors."  Then people who arrested for busting curfew, etc. the article calls them "low level" crimes.  Knowing you are busting curfew, to me, is a major crime since you are looking for trouble.  When I was in the Navy, our home port was in the Philippines where there was a curfew of midnight which was serious enough to possibly get you shot.