THIRD YEAR WORDBUILDING AUGUST 3
Police and protesters have clashed for a second night in the US city of Minneapolis after an
&[ARM]
harmless black man died in police custody.
Tear gas was fired by police, while&
&[PROTEST]&threw rocks and sprayed graffiti. There was also looting and&
&[VANDAL]with some&
&[BUSY]&close to the incident being destroyed by fire.
George Floyd, 46, died on Monday and video showed him gasping for breath as a white
policeman&
[KNEEL]
on his neck.
Four police officers have been fired, with the mayor saying that being black "should not be a&
&[DIE]
sentence".
The&
&[NEW]&clashes on Wednesday came just hours after the city's mayor called for criminal charges
to be brought against the policeman who was filmed holding Mr Floyd.
The incident
&[ECHO]&the case of Eric Garner, who was placed in a police chokehold in New York in 2014.
His demise became a rallying call against police&
&[BRUTE]&and was a driving force in the Black Lives Matter movement.
How have the protests&
&[FOLD]?
They began in the afternoon on Tuesday, when hundreds of people came to the intersection
where the&
&[APPAL]&incident had taken place.
The crowd grew into the thousands as the evening went on, and there was a standoff outside the
police station where officers formed a human&
&[BAR]&to prevent protesters gaining entry.
