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Virginia Beach: On May 31, a protest in Virginia Beach started out peacefully, but ended in violence and vandalism as protesters smashed windows and looted shops on the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. At least 48 businesses sustained around $300,000 worth of damage. Police sprayed tear gas on protesters and made 19 arrests. [75]
I never thought I would live to see the kind of damage and destruction that has been inflicted on Richmond, and we need to end this now." [75] On June 16, 2020, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam said he did not support the protesters demands to defund state police, and offered additional reforms instead, which was met with widespread criticism. [76]
This map displays cities with George Floyd protests with more than 100 participants. The map data is stored in Wikimedia Commons to work around software issues with the amount of data when stored locally. There is a master map data file containing all protests and jurisdiction-specific map files containing protests only within a region.
Current President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump were crowned victors in the Virginia primary election Tuesday, as the nation continues its slow and steady march toward rematch of the ...
As pro-Palestinian protests have erupted on college campuses nationwide, protesters — including students and faculty — continue to be arrested since the first demonstrators were detained at ...
Protests started in the first hours after police released bodycam footage of Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating.
At least 50 cities in Virginia reported protests and demonstrations beginning May 28. In Richmond , there were major protests since May 28, with clashes with police, defacing of Confederate monuments and a curfew declared on May 31, with tear gas being used by the police on demonstrators on June 1.
Protests over the plan to remove the statue morphed into the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen ...