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Demonstrators defy curfews as protests rage for eighth day Lizzo and Lil Nas X criticise Blackout Tuesday for obscuring protests Experts fear protests and police risk accelerating Covid-19 spread Evangelicals hail Trump’s church photo op Are you taking part in US protests after the death of George Floyd? Sign up to our First Thing newsletter 12.41pm BST NYPD chief Terence Monahan has been doing the TV round this morning - appearing on Today He said an earlier curfew helped take out of neighborhoods “people who didn’t belong there” and that officers had allowed peaceful protests to continue beyond 8pm. He said those who had broken off from the main groups “looking to cause mayhem” had been rapidly dealt with. Watch @savannahguthrie’s full interview with @NYPDChiefofDept about the department’s response to protests and the effectiveness of an earlier curfew. pic.twitter.com/TSFh4pkmqm 12.21pm BST British prime minister Boris Johnson has described the death of George Floyd as “appalling” and “inexcusable” in the British parliament - but he also cautioned protests to stay “lawful and reasonable”. There is a weekly session in London where the prime minister is grilled by MPs, and this week Keir Starmer, the leader of the UK’s main opposition Labour party, opened by saying: 12.01pm BST Fatima Bhutto has written for us today about yesterday’s #blackouttuesday and #theshowmustbepaused campaigns, which she scathingly dismisses as “a facile attempt at armchair activism”. At exactly the moment when power requires interrogation and urgent reckoning, social media users, celebrities and influencers rallied for silence. Whereas 24 hours earlier, users had been posting legal information, names of pro bono lawyers and bail funds, filming videos of wanton cruelty and abuses of power, now they were shtum, save for the sanctimonious black squares. Related: As responses to George Floyd’s death go, #BlackOutTuesday was embarrassing | Fatima Bhutto 11.54am BST More details are emerging about the death of retired police captain David Dorn in St Louis, Missouri, after his widow, St. Louis police Sgt. Ann Marie Dorn, spoke to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was apparently killed by people who had broken into a pawn shop. His widow said Dorn frequently checked on Lee’s Pawn & Jewelry when alarms went off, as he was a friend of the owner. To put into context how much Captain Dorn believed in being apart of the neighborhoods he once policed in, we would often see him walking his dog in North St. Louis or shopping at a store nearby. Most current and retired officers leave the city as soon as they can. https://t.co/rFa2VCEsoO 11.40am BST Eric Trump is up and tweeting as well - and he’s just retweeted a string of angry tweets from his father last night, where the president confirmed that this year’s Republican National Convention will not now be taking place in North Carolina. Donald Trump says it is because the Democrat state governor Roy Cooper won’t guarantee that all coronavirus restrictions will be lifted in the state in time for the event. Had long planned to have the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, a place I love. Now, @NC_Governor Roy Cooper and his representatives refuse to guarantee that we can have use of the Spectrum Arena - Spend millions of dollars, have everybody arrive, and… …millions of dollars, and jobs, for the State. Because of @NC_Governor, we are now forced to seek another State to host the 2020 Republican National Convention. 11.36am BST In a rare statement of condemnation of the actions of officers in a fellow democracy, British police leaders have said they are “appalled and horrified” by the killing of George Floyd. The statement is from Martin Hewitt, chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, Mike Cunningham, Chief Executive of the College of Policing and Paul Griffiths, President of the Police Superintendents’ Association. It says: “We stand alongside all those across the globe who are appalled and horrified by the way George Floyd lost his life. Justice and accountability should follow. 11.28am BST My colleague Matthew Teague has been in Fairhope, Alabama, speaking to evangelical Christians about that controversial Donald Trump photo with the bible from earlier in the week. Related: ‘He wears the armor of God’: evangelicals hail Trump’s church photo op 11.22am BST Turkey’s state-run news agency has reported that at least 29 demonstrators were detained in Istanbul who had gathered to denounce police violence and to stand in solidarity with protesters in the United States. 11.12am BST One political development overnight that you might have missed with all the attention on street protests, is that controversial Iowa Republican congressman Steve King lost his re-election race to the state senator Randy Feenstra. The nine-term conservative congressman, who was repeatedly reprimanded by leaders in his own party for racist rhetoric and interactions with white nationalists faced four Republican primary challengers - and lost. Related: Republican congressman Steve King loses primary race in Iowa 11.03am BST The president is up and tweeting, and attacking “poorly run & managed” states in comparison to Texas, which he is praising while also touting the southern border wall which he says is going up “fast”. I agree, unlike other states that are poorly run & managed, Texas is in great shape…and the Southern Border Wall, which is going up FAST, puts it in even better position! https://t.co/F7quFwVPVF 10.57am BST There’s some interesting sports stories related to the protests and police violence floating around already today. Real Salt Lake defender Nedum Onuoha has come out to say that he never goes out and feels 100% safe while in the US. After attending a protest in Tulsa AND being well protective of myself, I have tested positive for COVID-19. Please, if you are going to protest, take care of yourself and stay safe. 10.41am BST Meanwhile back in the US, the US Park Police (USPP) has defended its forceful clearing of protesters for a controversial Trump photo-op on Monday. In a statement, the agency accused “violent protestors” of “throwing projectiles including bricks, frozen water bottles and caustic liquids”. When @usparkpolicepio says they didn’t use “CS or CN” tear gas, technically that’s correct. “OC” gas cannisters used instead. Causes same tears, tight breath and comes out green. This is not a smoke canister. I picked this off the street after it was launched at us Monday. pic.twitter.com/UuGJy0A6cr 10.38am BST There’s no doubting the international impact of the protests over George Floyd’s killing. Last night a new mural by street artist Akse was unveiled in the Northern Quarter of England’s Manchester. Local council buildings in the area were also lit up in purple in Floyd’s memory. 10.33am BST Several US news organisations are reporting that Tuesday night’s protests have been the calmest in days. Clearly that is not the case in Portland and Seattle, where police have been dispersing people with force, but it may point towards a nationwide drop in confrontations. 10.30am BST Pope Francis isn’t the only foreign voice speaking about the protests and violence in the US today. If you missed it from our earlier live blog, my colleague Philip Oltermann in Germany reported that Germany’s foreign minister has criticised Donald Trump’s threat to use the US military against protesters in his own country, saying “democrats must never escalate – even with their words”. “Instead of pouring oil into the fire, we should seek reconciliation”, Heiko Maas told Der Spiegel news website. “Instead of allowing ourselves to be divided, we should stand shoulder to shoulder against radical extremists.” 10.27am BST Associated Press reports that in the Vatican, Pope Francis has addressed the killing of George Floyd, saying he has “witnessed with great concern the disturbing social unrest” in the United States, and calling for national reconciliation. “My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life,” he said during his weekly Wednesday audience, which was being held in the presence of bishops alone due to the coronavirus restrictions on gatherings. 10.12am BST Last night was the first public appearance in Minneapolis from the people most closely affected by the death of George Floyd: his immediate family. 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