3 Jun 2020

Joe Biden adds his voice to US protests over racism

From First Up, 5:43 am on 3 June 2020

Back to the US now, where President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the military to suppress civil disorder as political leaders across the nation struggle to control the coast-to-coast outpouring of rage over police killings of black people. George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police has sparked widespread riots in the US with more than 40 cities in lockdown as demonstrators continue to clash violently with police. An independent autopsy commissioned by Floyd's family determined the cause of his death was "asphyxiation from sustained applied pressure". Joining Indira from Washington DC is our correspondent Simon Marks..