Moscow demands from North America authorized to protect the media from police, told the Minister.

So the Ministry has responded to the attack on producer Agency Sputnik Nicole Russell in the coverage of protests at the White house in the US capital yesterday. The law-enforcement officers shot a woman with rubber bullets despite the fact that the neck she hung a press card, and she repeated several times that working in the media.

the Ministry noted that even after the fact, as a reporter fired and used a special frag for forcible disbandment of the protesters, " one of the police officers threw the journalist to the ground and literally trampled her."

"This outrageous and illegal cruelty regarding envoy media, which are, really, the guarantor of any democratic society, took place at the walls of the White house, which has positioned America as a model of democracy," - said the Minister.

the Ministry called on the international institutions and human rights NGOs to respond to the incident.

similarly, on Sunday, law-enforcement officers sprayed pepper gas in the face of the journalist Last news Michael Turgiev when he was covering the Riots in Minneapolis.

then Minnesota Governor Tim now apologized to the media workers who came under attack.

The Russian Ambassador's residence sent a note to the state Department.

the Commissioner of the OSCE on freedom of the media Harlem Desir tried to persuade U.S. authorities to provide safe operation of correspondents covering the protests. The official representative of the UN Secretary General Stefan Dujarric said that " all these cases must be investigated ".

Riots in the United States broke out last week After the death in Minneapolis of the African-American George Floyd.

in the Internet appeared the footage, which shows that during the arrest the man was handcuffed, was knocked down, while one of the police officers stepped on his knee on the neck. Focusing on video, the detainee repeatedly stated that he could not breathe, and then fell silent. Floyd later died in intensive care.

After the start of demonstrations 4 officers were fired, one of them was charged with involuntary manslaughter.

In many cities because of the protests there is a regime of emergency, imposed a curfew.



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