It follows the killing of George Floyd, an African American who died last week in Minneapolis while being detained by police.

His death has now been declared.

Ah homicide Following on official postmortem On the streets of some cities, there's been more violence and looting, prompting Mr Trump to say that he will send in the military.

Presidents Democratic rival for the White House Joe Biden accused Mr Trump off using racist language.

Onda failing in his presidential duty to unite the nation for the latest Let's join our correspondent Ali Makbul in Washington.

Hundreds of people outside the White House again this evening, right now with their hands up with the hands up, don't shoot chant that they've been chanting over recent nights.

But at the same time over the last hour, what we've been seeing is huge convoys off military personnel fanning out across this city, and Donald Trump has promised on even a tougher response on people on the streets tonight.

That's when he's already receiving heavy criticism for coming down hard on legal, peaceful protesters.

Undeterred, they're outside the White House again.

The focus of their anger now is not just violent police officers who kill announed black men, but the president is well, it's terrible that people can protest.

Which, by the way, is the First Amendment right.

President Trump likes to talk a lot about the Second Amendment owning guns everything but won't even comment when we come to do what we are literally race to do, want to do as Americans.

Donald Trump himself has appeared quite pleased with the way he has, in his words, dominated with overwhelming force.

But those subjected to that force here late yesterday for peaceful protesters out in the memory of George Florida As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers.

On with that, demonstrators were gassed and shoved and pushed back from the historic church outside which they've been protesting.

That was well before any curfew.

I feel like I'm not even feeling 1/8 of what black people feel every single day, and I'm terrified.

And what was it all for?

Particularly outside the church?

This The president took a short walk to ST John's to show he's in control and apparently, to pose with a Bible.

Donald Trump's Democratic presidential rival has been critical of his handling of this crisis.

A country is crying out for leadership, leadership that can you.

Nine US leadership That brings us together, leadership that could recognize pain and deep grief of communities that have had a knee on the neck for a long time.

But the security forces continue to force back demonstrators on the orders of a president who's claimed to be a champion of free speech.

But there's a sense that this will go on.

We've been Martin Luther King for ages for generations.

Relations on in.

It's time for Michael makes a market garden.

No justice, no peace like that's not just a monitoring that's got to be a way of life.

Although the military and the police have fairly successfully shut down a lot of zones across the American capital, there are still large pockets of protest traveling throughout the city, determined to continue to demonstrate Theo President may have disrupted the protests in Washington and with it dealt with some of the looting.

His critics feel his actions compared to those of authoritarian leaders around the world the US would previously have condemned Alaimo Ball BBC News in Washington well within the past hour.

The family of George Floyd took part in the march in his home city of Houston, Texas.

On there have been protests across the United States, including in Minneapolis.

That was the city where Mr Floyd was killed.

Our correspondent Barbara Plett Usha is there with the latest after having a number of protests here today you including one that involved faith leaders who marched right up to this memorial site.

The situation has largely stabilized, though, but attention is still very much focused on accountability, one of the officers was charged on.

The attorney general is saying that prosecutors are working as quickly as they can to see whether the other three who were involved in the arrest should be charged as well.

But the unrest that began here is still rolling across the country.

Minneapolis is reclaiming the place that sent the city into spasms of anger and unrest, smothering with flowers the spot where George Floyd stopped breathing, pinned down by a police officer's knee on his neck.

It's become a pilgrimage site for those demanding justice for George Theo state capital, a city in echoing the civil rights movement 60 years later, still demanding equal justice for African Americans, especially an end to police brutality against black people, the Minnesota government has announced it will investigate the conduct of the state's largest police department, stretching back 10 years in Houston, Texas, it seemed like the whole city had turned out to march for Mr Floyd.

Members of his family joined them.

This is where he grew up and where he'll be buried.

Packed streets in New York City emptied out in recent months to contain the Corona virus pandemic.

Now full once again with protesters, the anger has taken a destructive turn here, as it has elsewhere.

Unfortunately, there people out here looting.

But you can't sell angry people how they could be angry.

You know, that's like telling this lays not to burn down masses house.

But this looked like more than protest about racial injustice.

In Manhattan, bands of young people dressed mostly in black took advantage of the unrest to pillage stores that had been shuttered because of the Corona virus.

Police struggled to respond, and the mayor imposed a curfew, a double quarantine thieve vast majority of protests air peaceful.

But it doesn't take much for the mood to change.

Police have been responding with more and more force, and they have been attacked in several cities.

Last night, four were shot and injured in ST Louis.

Some coward fired shots at officers, and now we have four in the hospital.

But thankfully and thank God, life live.

But you way make some sense out of this.

We make some sense out of this.

Police are struggling to make sense of their role to restore law and order, but also respond to the tragedy of Minneapolis.

Wait, what happened in that city?

Faith leaders made clear they were siding with those calling for justice.

People are demanding that all of the officers involved in Mr Floyd's arrest be charged.

Accountability in this case might be the beginning of an answer, but only the beginning.

Barbara Part Usher, BBC News Minneapolis Also today, artists and record labels and radio stations suspended business on what's being called blackout Tuesday in response to the killing of George Floyd, celebrities and social media users across the world joined them in solidarity to show their support for the black community on the Oscar winning film director Spike Lee, has long been an outspoken critic of police brutality and racism suffered by America's black community.

He said scenes witnessed in the United States over the past week were not new and had been going on in various ways since the advent of slavery in America four centuries ago.

Spike Lee was speaking to Will Gompertz ahead off the release off his latest film, Black G.

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Is It there?

So more than the white Americans that sent you here and in the broad sense, is the Vietnam War through viewpoint off black Vietnam vets See goes well, it's all of us, man.

You are more than a filmmaker, your urine intellectual activist on and you are very eloquent on the situation of racism.

How do you bring about change?

We have to talk about how United States America was founded.

The foundation The foundation of this country is immoral.

The land was stolen from the native people.

Genocide was committed against the native people and we ancestor was stolen from Africa.

Brought here till work.

So the foundation of the nice this is America is genocide.

Steal the land and slavery is so any arc detector budding architect would tell you that if you don't have a strong foundation, the building's gonna be shaking as in shaky from day one.

The whole music business has come out in solidarity before George Floyd.

I think this it seems to have resonated beyond America.

Yes, and I think that's I think that's a good point, Black and bring it up because United States America racism, they don't better anybody else but is not just racism is all over the world is a global pandemic.

Before Kuroda died for this country from the fair kit, I resigned the presidency.

What did you think of President Trump's suggestion that he put military on the streets of the protests?

Didn't say I was watching this last night with my family, and we were all screaming in disbelief that this thing was staged.

The show of force gassing.

It's it peaceful bystanders.

So you could clear the street is a gangster.

You know, this isn't trying to be, you know, he's a dictator, okay?

They killed him.

They kill radio rise, bird.

I did it again.

Just like Michael Stewart murder Eleanor.

But if you're talking about the young, slightly young filmmaker this raised angry is that applying to its finally today, let's take a step behind that.

Why are people angry?

People anchors black people being killed, left and right?

Cops walk away free.

It's the angry for reason you angry because you live every day in this world where the system is not set up for you to win on That was the director Spike Lee talking to Will Gompertz.

Now with me in the studio is our North America editor, John So Paul John.

Let's take stock on where we are.

And do you think we've now reached the position where it's impossible to separate what's going on in the U.

S.

From the politics of this year?

You think it was grave enough that politics wouldn't intrude, but they have lightbulb moment for me.

Yesterday morning, Donald Trump tweeting after the night of terrible writing across America how good his poll numbers were this evening in the last hour, he's tweeted about sleepy Joe Biden again, saying he thinks he knows the answers he doesn't even know.

The questions on that, of course, follows Joe Biden coming, breaking cover coming out from the basement where he's been for the past three months, and taking off his facemask on launching a scathing attack on Donald Trump for his handling of the race riots that we're seeing across America now.

Donald Trump doesn't want it back down.

He wants to say, Look, I am the guy who is going to bring law and order back to the streets That is going to be his pitch.

I think it's notable how few Republicans have come out and backed what happened yesterday when he went to that church and held up a Bible leading to thousands of peaceful demonstrators being tear gassed in the process.

Republican Senator has been stopped and asked for their reaction.

One prominent supporter of the president said, Oh, is that what happened?

I didn't actually see it.

No one can say in November there won't be a clear choice between Donald Trump, Mr Lauren Order, Mr Tough Guy and Joe Biden.

Mr.

Unity missed the empathy.

The only thing I think they have in common is that both of them are in their seventies.