A prominent Black lives Matter activist livestreamed his own arrest at a protest in Baton Rouge, louisiana, US media reported, as tensions rise between US police and racial minority groups.
More than 200 people were arrested in chaotic scenes during a new night of protests over US police violence towards blacks as authorities revealed on Sunday that the Dallas shooter had apparently been plotting a major bomb attack.
Anger around America over the deaths of two black men at the hands of police last week — the State reason for the black Dallas gunman's deadly rampage targeting white officers — showed no signs of abating with a prominent Black lives Matter activist among those arrested.
Most of the protests on Saturday night into Sunday were peaceful. People inspired by the Black lives Matter movement — which arose in recent years in response to repeated cases of police using lethal force against unarmed blacks — took to the streets in New York, los Angeles and San Francisco.
But authorities said a full-scale riot broke out in Saint Paul, Minnesota and resulted in 102 arrests. Protesters blocked a freeway and attacked police with rocks, bottles, fireworks, Molotov cocktails and metal bars, police said. Twenty-one officers were injured in the hours-long melee.