Meanwhile, many of the protesters that peacefully marched down Broad Street earlier in the day dispersed after a tense standoff with a police barricade on the corner of Broad Street and Olney Avenue. “Mommy’s back.” Amid the pandemonium, a line of bicycle cops remained posted about a block away, watching but doing nothing to intervene. “I don’t even trust these cops,” LaMont Wilson, 25, of Northeast Philadelphia, said while waiting for the traffic to clear. Thousands of marchers moved from Center City to I-676, fanning out across the highway and completely blocking both sides just before 5 p.m.The protestors have now completely blocked the highway. Upon his exit cops pummeled him to the ground and arrested him. Peaceful protests on Saturday and Sunday over the police involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis gave way to violence and vandalism in Philadelphia and across the country. As crowd of demonstrators in Philadelphia grew, Jamial Hankinson, 50, became emotional while holding a sign proclaiming “I am an angry black woman!” “We have every right to be angry because we live in fear, we raise our children in fear,” the mother of two said. “My whole family has been fighting for racial equality for three generations. Take a knee. Police guard the statue of former Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo as protesters marched in Center City on Saturday, May 30, 2020. Philadelphia students can contact teachers, administrators, or others at their schools for support during this “extremely painful week,” City Schools Superintendent William R. Hite said Monday. It was not immediately clear where the Guard will be deployed in Philadelphia but some military vehicles and armed troops were at City Hall after daylight. We need to establish a Commonwealth that absolutely is fair and decent and equal to every single Pennsylvanian...At the same time we cannot live with the basic necessities being taken out of circulation so we need to deescalate the violence.” Wolf wouldn’t comment on how Philadelphia police have been handling the protests. But, he said, he doesn’t understand why it is so hard to reform policing so that deaths like George Floyd’s don’t happen. “That’s not true. Meanwhile, trolleys will run with limited service from 30th Street into West and Southwest Philadelphia. The city has not said if it will impose a curfew Tuesday, which is primary day in Pennsylvania, though District Attorney Larry Kranser said people voting will not be in violation of any potential curfew. https://www.nytimes.com/.../philadelphia-tear-gas-george-floyd-protests.html Despite slavery having been long abolished, “we still see a black man basically murdered right before our eyes.
He implored students to continue following social distancing and curfew guidelines as the district gets ready to celebrate the end of the school year and the class of 2020. There were cops outside the Municipal Services Building as the crowd converged on the statue, but none appeared to be immediately around the statue itself. But he wasn’t satisfied. Thick smoke billowed around City Hall as police cars burned and fireworks were set off around the burning cars Saturday. Mayor Jim Kenney speaks during a news conference at the city's Emergency Operations Center about protests in Philadelphia against the death of George Floyd on Saturday, May 30, 2020. The city-wide curfew goes until 6 a.m. Tuesday. Thousands also demonstrated peacefully, demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who died after a white officer pressed a knee into his neck. Protesters gather at police headquarters on Monday, as protests continue in the city following the death of George Floyd days ago in Minneapolis. “This emergency declaration will help Philadelphia access resources and police support from other jurisdictions, including other states, as we manage the impact of this weekend’s demonstrations,” Kenney said. The National Guard in Upper Darby on Monday, June 1, 2020, a day after looting on the 69th Street corridor.