because of the protests and unrest that swept US cities after the high profile death of an African-American George Floyd, of new York city government decided to introduce from Monday evening to Tuesday morning curfew, reports TASS.
“new Yorkers, I spoke with the Governor of the state of new York Andrew Cuomo, we have decided for security to type in the city of new York tonight curfew. It will come into force at 23:00 and will be lifted tomorrow at 05:00”, – wrote in his Twitter mayor bill de Blasio.
the city will have doubled the number of police officers, especially in the southern part of Manhattan and Northern Brooklyn, where in recent days there were riots.
Recall that the reason for mass unrest was the tough actions of the police in Minnesota that resulted from suffocation is dead black George Floyd. Only in new York for participating in the riots were detained more than 250 people, seven guards were injured, 11 police cars were damaged.
