Pictured are police murder victims George Floyd of Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor, whom Louisville police killed in March when they barged in her home

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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Police Chief Calvin Williams, both of them Black, said Friday that today's scheduled protest in downtown Cleveland by activists for justice for Minneapolis police murder victim George Floyd can go forward but that it must be peaceful.

Led by Black Lives Matter Cleveland, activists and other community members will gather at 1:30 pm, Sat, May 30 at the Free Stamp next to Cleveland City Hall to rally for Floyd and against excessive force by police as nationwide protests, including in Ohio, continue over the celebrated killing that has caused racial unrest in the Black community.

Whether the event will be peaceful remains to be seen.

Five people were arrested and two cops injured following two nights of protests over Floyd's death in Columbus, Ohio's state capital. And seven people were shot in Louisville, Kentucky Thursday, one critically, during a protest for Breonna Taylor, a 26-year Black EMS worker whom Louisville police shot and killed in March when three cops barged into her home.

Other incidents with police and protesters have occurred across the country since Floyd was suffocated to death by police as tension increases between Black America and the nation's cops.

Floyd died Monday after since fired White cop Derek Shauvin, the arresting officer, held his knee on his neck until he killed him, and before a crowd of people as the Black man pleaded for his life and cried out that he could not breathe.

The unarmed Floyd was pronounced dead an hour later at an area hospital.

The disturbing video of the incident, taken by a bystander, has shocked the conscience.

Shauvin and the other three involved officers, all of them White, were immediately fired.

Shauvin has since been charged with third degree murder and manslaughter charges and currently sits in jail without bond, the other three former officers currently under investigation for possible charges.

Protesting in Minneapolis has been continual with rioting and widespread looting and fires breaking out Tuesday night as crowds clashed with police who met them with tear gas and rubber bullets.

Multiple businesses were destroyed and a unmanned police station and an airport were set fire.

The governor has called in the National Guard.

Arrested on a forgery charge, the murder by police of Floyd, 46, has resurrected anger in the Black community relative to Blacks questionably killed by anxious White cops, including Staten Island police murder victim Eric Garner, whom New York police choked to death in 2014, the same year Cleveland police gunned down 12-year-old Tamir Rice at a park and recreation center on the city's largely White west side, and the death of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old community activist who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas in 2015,

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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Police Chief Calvin Williams, both of them Black, said Friday that today's scheduled protest in downtown Cleveland by activists for justice for Minneapolis police murder victim George Floyd can go forward but that it must be peaceful.

Led by Black Lives Matter Cleveland, activists and other community members will gather at 1:30 pm, Sat, May 30 at the Free Stamp next to Cleveland City Hall to rally for Floyd and against excessive force by police as nationwide protests, including in Ohio, continue over the celebrated killing that has caused racial unrest in the Black community.

Whether the event will be peaceful remains to be seen.

Five people were arrested and two cops injured following two nights of protests over Floyd's death in Columbus, Ohio's state capital. And seven people were shot in Louisville, Kentucky Thursday, one critically, during a protest for Breonna Taylor, a 26-year Black EMS worker whom Louisville police killed in March when two White cops barged into her home.

Other incidents with police and protesters have occurred across the country since Floyd was suffocated to death by police as tension increases between Black America and the nation's cops.

Floyd died Monday after since fired White cop Derek Chauvin, the arresting officer, held his knee on his neck until he killed him, and before a crowd of people as the Black man pleaded for his life and cried out that he could not breathe.

The unarmed Floyd was pronounced dead an hour later at an area hospital.

The disturbing video of the incident, taken by a bystander, has shocked the conscience.

Chauvin and the other three involved officers, all of them White, were immediately fired.

Chauvin has since been charged with third degree murder and manslaughter charges and currently sits in jail without bond, the other three former officers currently under investigation for possible charges.

Protesting in Minneapolis has been continual with rioting and widespread looting and fires breaking out Tuesday night as crowds clashed with police who met them with tear gas and rubber bullets.

Multiple businesses were destroyed and an unmanned police station and an airport were set on fire.

The governor has called in the National Guard.

Arrested on a forgery charge, the murder by police of Floyd, 46, has resurrected anger in the Black community relative to Blacks questionably killed by anxious White cops, including Staten Island police murder victim Eric Garner, whom New York police choked to death in 2014, the same year Cleveland police gunned down 12-year-old Tamir Rice at a park and recreation center on the city's largely White west side, and the death of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old community activist who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas in 2015.

Facebook event page Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.