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Cleanups, Curfew and Injuries Following Unrest in Florida

Associated Press

   ORLANDO, FLA. - Deputies were recovering from injuries, nightly curfews
   were issued and the cleanup of smashed store windows began Sunday
   around Florida after a night of unrest throughout the state's cities
   that followed protests in response to the death in Minneapolis of
   George Floyd, a black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer
   pressed a knee on his neck.

   Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said an unnamed deputy was either
   stabbed or slashed in the neck and was taken to a hospital for
   treatment Saturday evening. A sheriff's office spokeswoman wouldn't
   comment on the deputy's condition Sunday morning.

   In Tampa, protesters on Saturday night threw rocks at first responders,
   burglarized 40 businesses and set fire to a gas station and a
   sporting-clothes store at a shopping mall. A Hillsborough County
   Sheriff's Office deputy was injured when he was struck by a firework
   and another deputy was sent to the hospital after being hit in the back
   of the head by a hard object, the sheriff's office tweeted.

   Officers arrested 41 people, and more than two dozen police cars were
   damaged, Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan said Sunday.

   A nightly curfew was issued in Miami-Dade County, Florida's most
   populous county, and Mayor Carlos Gimenez said he would postpone the
   reopening of the county's beaches until the curfew order is lifted. The
   county's beaches had been scheduled to reopen Monday for the first time
   since March when they were closed to stop the spread of the new
   coronavirus.

   Curfews also were issued for Orlando and Leon County, where a pickup
   truck drove through a crowd of protesters Saturday in Florida's capital
   of Tallahassee.

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