The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures.

The death of black Minnesotan George Floyd, and a white officer’s arrest on murder charges, have inflamed unrest in yet another American confrontation about policing and race.

Protesters broke into the store Sunday night in demonstrations against the death of George Floyd, a black man of Minneapolis, in police custody.

The victim: George Floyd was a 46-year-old black man from Houston, where he leaves a six-year-old daughter.

Floyd moved to Minneapolis five years ago to start a new life, working as a bouncer at a Salvation Army outlet and a Latin music club until he was laid off when the pandemic hit and Minnesota instituted a stay-at-home order.

Another nightclub job put him in proximity (though possibly not direct contact) with the man later accused of killing him: Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer who moonlighted as a security guard.

Memorial Day holiday, when a grocery-store employee called the police on Mr.

Chauvin was one of the officers who responded.

The officers: Mr.

Chauvin and three other officers present at the incident – Thomas Lane, J.

Floyd’s death to denounce anti-black racism and police brutality.

The slogans of these protests – “I can’t breathe,” “black lives matter” – evoked a long history of similar police-related killings of black men, such as 2014′s deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

As the protests continued to grow and spread to cities around the United States, they took a more destructive turn on May 28, when some Minneapolis protesters stormed a police precinct station and set it on fire.

The unrest comes at an especially perilous time in the COVID-19 pandemic, which has infected and killed more people in the United States than any other country, and which is disproportionately killing black Americans compared with white Americans.

But while hard-hit states like New York are beginning to see the decline of their initial caseloads, others, like Minnesota, have not yet reached their peaks.

Mass gatherings like the protests threaten to disrupt that.

President Donald Trump has inflamed the protests by calling them “thugs,” threatening to send in the military and suggesting in one tweet that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” an infamous phrase used in the 1960s by segregationist presidential candidate George Wallace and a Florida police chief who threatened a violent crackdown on civil-rights protests.

He blamed “both sides” for violence between white supremacists and left-wing counter protesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 and has called some immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border rapists

In Toronto, demonstrators have demanded answers in the May 27 death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old black woman who fell from an apartment balcony while police officers were nearby

Her mother, Claudette Beals-Clayton, had called police to defuse an argument between her son and Ms

Toronto’s police chief has asked Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit to expedite its investigation into her death

protests have triggered a flood of donations to Mr

Floyd’s family and to black-led social justice organizations in the Minneapolis area, such as the Black Visions Collective and Reclaim the Block

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