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May 31, 2020

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** Protests erupt in Richmond, Manassas ([link removed])
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By LAURA VOZZELLA AND TOM JACKMAN, Washington Post (Metered Paywall - 3 articles a month)

Large crowds gathered in Richmond and Manassas on Saturday night, joining the growing list of demonstrations across the nation over the killing of George Floyd. Hundreds marched toward the Capitol chanting “Black Lives Matter,” while others splintered off to set fires, break into a store and cause damage. Some protesters crashed into a Boost Mobile store. A fire started in a dumpster quickly spread to a high-rise building on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. It was unclear if the building was occupied.
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** A second night of outrage erupts in Virginia ([link removed])
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By NED OLIVER, Virginia Mercury

Protesters outraged by the death of George Floyd took to the streets in cities around Virginia for the second night in a row Saturday. In Richmond, police responded with teargas, flashbang grenades and rubber bullets as a large crowd approached the city’s police headquarters, where the night before protesters had broken windows and burned a police car. When protesters reached the Capitol, some members of the crowd ripped down a make-shift barricade, hurling bottles and traffic cones at a line of officers blocking the entrance with riot shields before leaving the area as a mass of state police officers approached.
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** Second night of Richmond protest over killing of George Floyd reaches Confederate monuments ([link removed])
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By EDUARDO ACEVEDO AND HANNAH EASON, Commonwealth Times

Hundreds gathered in downtown Richmond on Saturday for a second night of protests, which sparked nationwide after the death of a black man in police custody. The demonstration brought vandalism to Confederate statues and local businesses. Multiple businesses near VCU, including Whole Foods, CVS and Verizon on West Broad Street, were vandalized and graffitied during the protest.
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** Protestors in the Manassas area disperse; several businesses damaged ([link removed])
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By STAFF REPORT, Inside NOVA (Metered Paywall)

What started as a peaceful protest in the Manassas area Saturday evening turned into a violent clash with demonstrators throwing rocks, bricks and bottles at police late into the night. By 12:30 a.m., the protest had mostly broken up, leaving two state troopers injured - one struck in the head with a brick and the other injured by a rock thrown at his leg, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said. The trooper struck in the head suffered only minor injuries thanks to her riot helmet.
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** Daughters of Confederacy headquarters on fire, 2 Capitol Police offers injured ([link removed])
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By SABRINA MORENO, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Access to this article limited to subscribers)

3 a.m. update: An apartment building at 309 W. Broad St. was on fire as protesters still marched through the streets of Richmond. As the fire department arrived on the scene, protesters wouldn't let them through. Police rushed in with tear gas to clear the area and let the fire fighters through. While the fire department worked on putting out the fire, protesters rolled a burning trash can onto Broad Street.
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** Black Lives Matter protest shuts down Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel for nearly an hour Friday night ([link removed])
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By JESSICA NOLTE, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)

Local activists from Black Lives Matter 757 shut down Interstate 64 on Friday night protesting the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white Minnesota police officer knelt on his neck. “This is a message that it’s not open season on African Americans and black and brown people in the United States of America,” said Aubrey Japharii Jones, president of Black Lives Matter 757. “This is our time to take back our community.”
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** Fredericksburg marchers join nationwide call for justice for George Floyd ([link removed])
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By JAMES SCOTT BARON, Free Lance-Star (Metered Paywall - 10 articles a month)

Punnammal Gross said she had planned to graduate high school on Saturday in a small, quiet celebration at home with her parents, but the 18-year-old Stafford County resident put that event on hold for something she felt would make a bigger impact on the world she lives in. Gross chose to spend the morning with hundreds of others in a march of solidarity for George Floyd and his family. “He looked like someone in my family,” said Gross. “It just really hurt, and I wish that he was still here.”
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** Hundreds gather in Norfolk on Saturday to march over George Floyd’s death ([link removed])
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By SALEEN MARTIN, Virginian-Pilot (Metered Paywall - 2 articles a month)

Raymond Brothers spent Friday night standing side-by-side with Black Lives Matter 757 supporters in downtown Norfolk, protesting in response to the death of George Floyd. Saturday afternoon, Brothers did it again. He and hundreds of supporters gathered about 1 p.m. at the Police Operations Center in Norfolk on E. Virginia Beach Boulevard.
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** Peaceful protest held in downtown Lynchburg ([link removed])
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By AMY TRENT, News & Advance (Metered Paywall - 18 articles a month)

Protesters in Lynchburg peacefully marched through the streets of downtown Lynchburg on Saturday morning, walking from Lynchburg Community Market up the stairs of Monument Terrace to the front steps of the Lynchburg Police Department. About 100 protesters waved “Black Lives Matter” signs and chanted to bring attention to the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis early last week.
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** Marchers decry brutality, call for equality during Charlottesville protest ([link removed])
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By BRYAN MCKENZIE, Daily Progress (Metered Paywall - 25 articles a month)

Sad and angry, sick and tired, hundreds of people fueled by the deaths of African Americans across the country at the hands of police, marched on the Charlottesville Police Department Saturday on foot and in cars. Some carried signs. Some pushed baby carriages. Nearly all wore face masks as they took up four blocks of downtown Charlottesville, lining East Market Street from Ninth to Fifth Streets Northeast while drivers slowly cruised the street with signs on their cars, their hazard lights flashing and horns blowing.
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** 4 protesters arrested during standoff with police in riot gear Friday night in Hampton ([link removed])
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By JESSICA NOLTE AND MATT JONES, Daily Press (Metered Paywall - 1 article a month)

Protesters and police officers faced off on West Mercury Boulevard for nearly four hours Friday night into Saturday morning. The standoff — with more than two dozen police officers in riot gear and dozens of protesters — shut down the roadway near Power Plant Parkway. “That could have been your son!” a protester yelled at a black police officer standing in riot gear.
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** Urging change, Staunton protesters hold Justice for George Floyd rally ([link removed])
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By PATRICK HITE, News Leader (Metered Paywall - 3 to 4 articles a month)

George Hunter is one of the founders of the Shenandoah Valley Juneteenth celebration held annually at Montgomery Hall Park. The event is a celebration of the end of slavery, but Hunter said too many black people in the United States today don't feel like they're truly free. "It feels like we're still in bondage," the Fishersville man said Saturday night about the black experience in America.
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** Over 300 Gather Friday In Harrisonburg's Court Square For Peaceful Protest ([link removed])
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By IAN MUNRO, Daily News Record (Metered Paywall - 5 articles a month)

On Friday evening, over 300 people gathered in Harrisonburg’s Court Square for a peaceful protest against police brutality in the wake of an African American’s death related to conduct by law enforcement....The event was organized by Stan Maclin, head of the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center, who led the evening, to a crowd of people, almost all of them wearing masks. Many carried signs. “We’re going to have to learn how to work together and quit harboring hatred in our hearts,” Maclin said to the crowd.
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** Demonstrators rally, march in Roanoke following George Floyd's death ([link removed])
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By CASEY FABRIS, Roanoke Times (Metered Paywall - 18 articles a month)

Nationwide protests sparked by the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police in Minneapolis reached Roanoke on Saturday. Following a rally at Washington Park organized by the local Black Lives Matter chapter, hundreds of demonstrators marched toward the police station on Campbell Avenue. Police set up barricades along the street, although the crowd managed to inch closer to the department’s offices. It was unclear if police allowed protesters to progress or if they pushed their way through.
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** Dan River Region leaders say violent riots not a solution ([link removed])
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By CALEB AYERS, Danville Register & Bee

After the killing of an African American man this week in Minneapolis evoked riots that rocked cities across the nation, Hampton Wilkins, president of Wilkins & Co. Realtors in Danville, sent his longtime friend Danville Mayor Alonzo Jones a text message about how he wants to help the community unite and move forward. “I have an idea for you and me to make a statement to the citizens of Danville,” he wrote in a text he shared with the Register & Bee. “It is about our special relationship, an old white man and our black mayor standing together side-by-side, an example of how things should be.”​
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** “It’s not fair”: Business owners clean up after Friday night protests ([link removed])
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By A.J. NWOKO, WWBT

In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, violent protests like those in Minneapolis spilled into the Richmond on Broad Street. The protests which started off with peaceful marching without warning transitioned to acts of vandalism and destruction to local business, property. By morning the smoking remains of a GRTC pulse bus drew in crowds of onlookers who were at a loss for words “It’s not fair, it’s not fair if you feel sympathy for someone this is not the way you react,” Moe Armin said.
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** Windows shattered, fires set during second night of riots in Richmond ([link removed])
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By MATTHEW FULTZ, WTVR

Hundreds of protesters marched down Broad Street in Richmond for a second night to protest George Floyd's death and displays of police brutality towards African Americans across the country. That protest, which started peacefully, once again turned destructive when windows were smashed at a bank and stores, dumpsters and trash cans were set on fire and Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, along with buildings and other objects, were tagged with spray paint.
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** Va. delegate maced, protestors hit with rubber bullets at protest near Manassas ([link removed])
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By STAFF REPORT, Prince William Times

After angrily confronting police officers during a protest in Manassas Saturday night, Del. Lee Carter appeared to have been sprayed by some kind of chemical agent by police. Meanwhile, at least two state police officers were struck by thrown objects, including a brick and a rock, during the protest, according to Virginia State Police.
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