Protesters in the US have had a 'visceral reaction' to Donald Trump's staged photo opportunity outside a church near the White House, one protest organiser says.
Minutes later he carried out a stage-managed walk to the nearby St John's Episcopal Church and held up a copy of the Bible before returning to the White House.
Mr Sampson lives in Jacksonville, Florida and helped organise a protest there on Saturday night as well as sister protests in more than 25 cities around the country.These include the release of police body cam footage in officer-related shootings — something Mr Sampson said had never happened in Jacksonville — as well as changes to give citizens oversight of local police departments.Mr Sampson led the protest march in Jacksonville on Saturday.
The white officer who was filmed kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck before he died has since been charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. "We've seen that in the past couple of days in regards to the rhetoric, not only from the White House, but even in Jacksonville locally," he said.
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