Esper said the Insurrection Act, which would allow Trump to use active-duty military for law enforcement in containing street protests, should be invoked in the United States “only in the most urgent and dire of situations.” He declared, “We are not in one of those situations now.”
The Transportation Department said it would suspend passenger flights of four Chinese airlines to and from the United States starting June 16.
Two Southern Nevada governments on Wednesday followed different courses on a proposal to ban backpacks, purses, luggage and other containers that can conceal dangerous materials at protests.
Clark County recorded 78 new COVID-19 cases and nine additional deaths in the preceding day, according to data posted Wednesday by the Southern Nevada Health District.
By Wednesday morning, arrests had grown to more than 9,000 nationwide since the vandalism, arson and shootings erupted around the U.S. in reaction to George Floyd’s death May 25.
The 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew will remain in effect until further notice, Mayor Hillary Schieve said in a statement released about 5 p.m.
The president and the Republican National Committee had been demanding that the convention be allowed to move forward with a full crowd and no face coverings.
An 8 p.m. curfew didn’t stop thousands of defiant demonstrators from marching through the streets of New York City throughout the night Tuesday, though some of the rampant destruction seen over the past few nights was quelled.
The Clark County Commission approved the funds to support the economic recovery of 2,800-plus local small businesses battered by statewide closures.
Gov. Steve Sisolak said Tuesday the Nevada National Guard would be deployed to Las Vegas to assist police, one day after an officer was shot in the head on the Strip during a protest turned violent.
Thousands of French protesters defied a virus-related police ban and rallied Tuesday against racial injustice and heavy-handed police tactics, as global outrage over what happened to George Floyd in the United States kindled frustrations across borders and continents.
As cities around the U.S. witnessed a seventh straight night of both peaceful demonstrations and bursts of theft, vandalism and attacks on police, the president amplified his hard-line calls of a day earlier, in which he threatened to send in the military to restore order if governors didn’t do it.
The latest on the May 25 death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck:
The scene was jarring: Police violently broke up a peaceful and legal protest by several thousands in Lafayette Park across from the White House ahead of a speech in the Rose Garden by President Donald Trump.
Legal experts say the president does indeed have the authority under the Insurrection Act of 1807 to dispatch the military in states that are unable to put down an insurrection or are defying federal law.
