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Only 20 percent of Minneapolis’s population is black. But since 2015, when officers have gotten physical — with kicks, neck holds, punches, shoves, takedowns, Mace, Tasers or

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Sources: City of Minneapolis, U.S. Census Bureau. Note: Police use-of-force data was retrieved on May 29, 2020,and shows cases up to May 26, 2020. Data on officer-involved shootings is recorded separately and shows casesthrough 2019. Cases for which location was not listed or that occurred outside city limits are not shown.

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WASHINGTON — DefenseSecretary Mark T. Esper brokewith President Trump on Wednes-day and said that active-duty mili-tary troops should not be sent tocontrol the wave of protests inAmerican cities, at least for now.His words were at odds with hiscommander in chief, who on Mon-day threatened to do exactly that.

Mr. Esper’s comments reflectedthe turmoil within the militaryover Mr. Trump, who in seeking toput American troops on thestreets alarmed top Pentagon offi-cials fearful that the militarywould be seen as participating in amove toward martial law.

Speaking at a news conferenceat the Pentagon, the defense sec-retary said that the deployment ofactive-duty troops in a domesticlaw enforcement role “should onlybe used as a matter of last resortand only in the most urgent anddire of situations.”

The president was angered byMr. Esper’s remarks, and excori-ated him later at the White House,an administration official said.Asked on Wednesday whether Mr.Trump still had confidence in Mr.Esper, the White House press sec-retary, Kayleigh McEnany, saidthat “as of right now, SecretaryEsper is still Secretary Esper,” butthat “should the president losefaith, we will all learn about that inthe future.”

Senior Pentagon leaders arenow so concerned about losingpublic support — and that of theiractive-duty and reserve person-nel, 40 percent of whom are peopleof color — that Gen. Mark A. Mil-ley, the chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff, released a messageto top military commanders onWednesday affirming that everymember of the armed forcesswears an oath to defend the Con-stitution, which he said “givesAmericans the right to freedom ofspeech and peaceful assembly.”

Mr. Esper and General Milleyacted after they came under sharpcriticism, including from retiredmilitary officers, for walking withMr. Trump to a church near theWhite House after peaceful pro-testers had been forcibly cleared.

As anger mounted over thepresident’s photo op at the church,former Defense Secretary JimMattis offered a withering denun-ciation of the president’s leader-ship.

“Donald Trump is the first pres-ident in my lifetime who does nottry to unite the American people— does not even pretend to try,”Mr. Mattis said in a statement.“Instead he tries to divide us. We

Esper at OddsWith PresidentOn Army’s Use

White House Angry —Military in Turmoil

This article is by Eric Schmitt, He-lene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neffand Maggie Haberman.

Continued on Page A20

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The threeMinneapolis police officers whofailed to intervene while GeorgeFloyd was killed were charged onWednesday with aiding in hisdeath, and officials pressed amore severe charge — second-degree murder — against DerekChauvin, the officer who pinnedMr. Floyd to the ground with aknee for nearly nine minuteswhile he pleaded, “I can’tbreathe.”

Announcing the charges, KeithEllison, Minnesota’s attorney gen-eral, who was assigned by the gov-ernor to handle the closelywatched case, asked for patienceduring what he said would be alengthy investigation and cau-tioned that history revealed seri-ous challenges in prosecutions ofpolice officers.

“We’re here today becauseGeorge Floyd is not here. Heshould be here,” said Mr. Ellison, aformer Democratic congressmanand civil rights lawyer, adding lat-er: “Trying this case will not be aneasy thing. Winning a convictionwill be hard.”

“I take no joy in this,” Mr. Elli-son said. “But I feel a tremendoussense of duty and responsibility.”

On a ninth straight night ofdemonstrations, thousands ofpeople amassed on Wednesday,including on the streets of WestHollywood, Calif., and outside theColorado State Capitol. Issuing in-

tensifying calls for changes toAmerican policing, the protestersshowed no signs of calling off theiractivism, and in New York City, arally was planned outside themayor’s official residence.

The fallout from Mr. Floyd’sdeath continued unabated onWednesday as his official autopsy,released for the first time, re-vealed that he was known to havehad the coronavirus in early April,though he was believed to beasymptomatic at the time of hisdeath. Demonstrators have regu-larly pointed out that police vio-lence and Covid-19 are dispropor-tionately affecting African-Ameri-cans.

Former President BarackObama called on every mayor inthe nation to review use-of-forcepolicies and make reforms. Offi-cials in Virginia announced plans

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IN FLOYD’S KILLINGOn Day 9 of Unrest, First Officer’s Case Is

Raised to Second-Degree Murder

This article is by John Eligon,Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Sarah Mer-vosh.

Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s at-torney general, urged patience.

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The looters attacked with crow-bars and bolt cutters.

They broke open stores in theFordham neighborhood of theBronx until they came to two glassdoors side by side. The door to theleft led to a tattoo parlor, the one tothe right to a watch and jewelrystore. They smashed the rightdoor and ducked around the sharpglass teeth left along the edges.

Inside, they found a treasurecase filled with gold and silverwatches and laptop computers.They swung again, sending glassflying. They quickly grabbed whatthey could, missing a couple ofwatches in the back. Then theyreached above and pulled down

displays of diamond necklaces,earrings, bracelets and rings.

They were long gone by thetime the store owner, FranciscoAraujo, arrived hours later onTuesday to find his family busi-ness gutted. By his count, he lost$150,000 of merchandise. Only arack of tacky T-shirts with drink-ing and sex sayings was left be-hind.

Mr. Araujo said he was just be-ginning to get his life back afterthe coronavirus exploded across

Mom-and-Pop Stores in BronxReel From Looters’ Crowbars

By WINNIE HU and NATE SCHWEBER


Blow to Immigrant andMinority Businesses

President Trump is facing thebleakest outlook for his re-elec-tion bid so far, with his pollingnumbers plunging in both publicand private surveys and his cam-paign beginning to worry abouthis standing in states like Ohioand Iowa that he carried by widemargins four years ago.

The Trump campaign has re-cently undertaken a multimillion-dollar advertising effort in thosetwo states as well as Arizona inhopes of improving his standing,while also shaking up his politicaloperation and turning new atten-tion to states like Georgia thatwere once considered reliably Re-publican. In private, Mr. Trumphas expressed concern that his

campaign is not battle-ready forthe general election, while Repub-licans are concerned aboutwhether the president can emergein a strong position from the na-tional crises battering the country.

Mr. Trump has been consis-tently unpopular as presidentwith a majority of Americans; hisadvisers have long seen his effortto win a new term as depending onthe loyalty of his conservativebase and the Republican-friendlytilt of the Electoral College — fac-tors that could allow the president

As Poll Numbers Dive, TrumpSpends to Hold States He Won

By ALEXANDER BURNS and MAGGIE HABERMAN


Ad Barrages in Ohio,Iowa and Arizona LONDON — Prime Minister

Boris Johnson raised the stakes ina brewing confrontation withChina on Wednesday, promisingto allow nearly three million peo-ple from Hong Kong to live andwork in Britain if Beijing movesforward with a new national secu-rity law for the former British col-ony.

Mr. Johnson’s offer, made in acolumn in The Times of London,opens the door to a significant in-flux of people fleeing Hong Kong,should the situation in the terri-tory deteriorate further. But itleaves unanswered thorny ques-tions about how difficult it wouldbe for those arrivals to obtainBritish citizenship.

Describing it as one of the big-gest changes in visa regulations inBritish history, Mr. Johnson saidthe roughly 350,000 Hong Kongresidents who hold British over-seas passports, as well as 2.5 mil-lion who are eligible to apply forone, would be granted 12-monthrenewable visas that would allowthem to work in Britain and putthem on a path to citizenship.

“Many people in Hong Kongfear that their way of life — whichChina pledged to uphold — is un-der threat,” Mr. Johnson wrote. “If

Britain Would Take In 3 MillionFrom Hong Kong, Johnson Says

By MARK LANDLER


Growing Tensions OverChina’s Security Law

VENICE — For a change, it wasthe Venetians who crowded thesquare.

Days before Italy lifted coro-navirus travel restrictions onWednesday that had preventedthe usual crush of internationalvisitors from entering the city,hundreds of locals gathered onchalk asterisks drawn several feetapart. They had come to protest anew dock that would bring boat-loads of tourists through one ofVenice’s last livable neighbor-hoods, but also to seize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to showthat another, less tourist-addledfuture was viable.

“This can be a working city, notjust a place for people to visit,”said the protest’s organizer, An-

drea Zorzi, a 45-year-old law pro-fessor who frantically handed outhundreds of signs reading, “Noth-ing Changes if You Don’t ChangeAnything.” He argued that the vi-rus, as tragic as it was, had dem-onstrated that Venice could be abetter place. “It can be normal,” hesaid.

The coronavirus has laid barethe underlying weaknesses of thesocieties it has ravaged, whethereconomic or racial inequality, anoverdependence on global pro-duction chains, or rickety health

Picture Venice Bustling Again,Not With Tourists, but Italians

By JASON HOROWITZ


A Post-Pandemic Visionof What Could Be

At Tiananmen Square, change seemedunstoppable. China’s furious responsecasts a long shadow today. PAGE A12

INTERNATIONAL A11-13

Echoes of 1989 in Hong KongIn a hearing, Rod Rosenstein, the for-mer deputy attorney general, defendedappointing a special counsel. PAGE A22

NATIONAL A14-25

Rosenstein in SpotlightJamar Roberts’s short video “Cooped”is a powerful artistic response to theCovid-19 crisis, with added resonanceafter George Floyd’s killing. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-7

A Dance About a Tense Time

History and human nature prove thatwe will dress up again. What that willlook like is the real question, VanessaFriedman writes. PAGE D1

THURSDAY STYLES D1-6

This Is Not the End of FashionThe Trump administration has selectedfive companies as the most likely toproduce a vaccine for the coronavirus,senior officials said. PAGE A9

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-10

5 Vaccine Candidates Tapped

A retaliatory ban on passenger flightsto and from American airports wouldtake effect on June 16. PAGE A13

U.S. to Bar Chinese AirlinesPresident Trump “remains healthy”after taking hydroxychloroquine, theWhite House physician said. PAGE A23

A Presidential Checkup

A visit to the gambling mecca looks athow it is weathering the pandemicwhen it was already hurting. PAGE A6

Scenes From Atlantic City

The service said it would stop promot-ing the president’s account because ofhis comments off the site. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

Snapchat Joins Trump Fray

Nicholas Kristof PAGE A26

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

Bruce Jay Friedman, 90, skipped backand forth between literature and popculture, including movies, to acclaim.Then he seemed to vanish. PAGE B10

OBITUARIES B9-10

A Savage Social Satirist

Late Edition

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