June 6 George Floyd protest news

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan urged people who participated in demonstrations throughout the city over the past week to get tested for Covid-19, according to a statement released by the mayor’s office on Saturday. 

Durkan announced a new citywide testing program for Covid-19 that expands testing criteria to include people who participated in demonstrations.

Currently, testing is recommended for individuals experiencing any symptoms of coronavirus and those who have been exposed to someone with Covid-19 within the past 14 days. 

“I recognize that many have put themselves at risk of exposure to make their voices heard, and this expanded criteria will ensure they can get tested at city test sites,” Durkan said.    

Jon Batiste — a musician and bandleader of "Stay Human," the house band for Stephen Colbert's late night talk show — said protests across the country show how this generation has the power to make change.

Batiste said "everyone deserves respect" but "everyone doesn't get a chance."

"I don't believe in trying to change people who don't want to change, but I believe everyone has that love in them. All we have to do is put it on display," he said.

"Everyone deserves a chance to live a life pursuing liberty and happiness," Batiste added.

Watch the interview:

As protests continue around the US, here's a look at where curfews stand in major cities around the country:  

Georgia - Atlanta: A mandatory curfew was lifted Saturday by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms after more than a week of a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. 

New York - Buffalo: Mayor Brown said the plan is for the curfew to remain in place until 5 a.m. Monday but the city will monitor and adjust if needed.

New York - New York: An 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew remains in place until Sunday. 

Illinois - Chicago: A curfew remains in place between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued the curfew on May 30.

Texas - Dallas: The curfew for downtown Dallas was lifted effective Saturday, according to the city hall website. A curfew had been in place since the state and city declared a state of disaster on May 31.

Colorado - Denver: The city wide curfew expired at 5 a.m. Friday and was not extended, a tweet from Mayor Michael Hancock said. 

California - Los Angeles: A curfew for the city was lifted by Mayor Eric Garcetti effective Thursday.

Florida - Miami: A curfew was put in place for Miami-Dade County by Mayor Carlos Gimenez earlier in the week and was pushed earlier to 8 p.m. from 10 p.m. due to unrest in Miami Beach Friday.

Minnesota - Minneapolis: Curfew was lifted by Gov. Tim Walz effective Friday after more than a week of protests.

Minnesota - St. Paul: Curfew was lifted effective Friday after more than a week of protests and curfews.

Pennsylvania - Philadelphia: The curfew was extended into Sunday morning. Effective Friday, people must be off the streets and retail businesses must close from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m.

Washington DC: Curfew was lifted Thursday by Mayor Muriel Bowser.

The crowd of protesters outside of the Dirksen Senate office building in Washington, DC, is growing quickly.

Organizers from Freedom Fighters DC told CNN that their plan is to march down the National Mall to the front of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture where they expect a couple of speeches

One demonstrator, Philomena Wankenge, who is a Freedom Fighters DC board member, said she was willing to die for this movement on behalf of her family's future.

"It sounds extreme and it might sound dramatic to people but as a black person every day that I wake up I could die. Especially as a black woman dealing with sexism and dealing with racism I'm combating double the trouble," she added.

After the stop at the African American Museum, the group will proceed to the Lincoln Memorial.

The group will end the day at Freedom Plaza, which is across the street from the DC mayor’s office. 

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Thousands of people gathered to pay homage to George Floyd and protest against racism and police brutality in Paris on Saturday. 

Protesters rallied with slogans "No justice no peace,“ “I can’t breathe" and “Black Lives Matter” and chanted “being born black is not a crime” as they marched through Place de la Concorde and towards the US embassy. 

The rallies had been banned by the police due to health measures in the context of Covid-19, and the area was barricaded Saturday morning to prevent public access to the US embassy.

As hundreds gathered in Concorde, several thousand peaceful demonstrators joined at Champs de Mars in front of the Eiffel Tower.

Despite the protest ban, people gathered in other French cities such as Lille, Marseille and Nice on Saturday for the same cause. French TV stations showed police firing tear gas and clashing with protesters in Lille.

Some context: On Tuesday, a demonstration banned by the police prefect brought together at least 20,000 people in Paris at the call of a committee supporting the family of Adama Traoré, a young black man who died in 2016 under Paris police custody.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz tweeted Saturday that she would decline to prosecute protest arrests based on curfew and social distancing violations. 

A spokesperson for Katz told CNN Saturday that she has declined to prosecute curfew-breakers "from the start” and that her decision to not prosecute is not a recent one. 

Ryan Lavis, director of communications for the Staten Island District Attorney’s Office told CNN Saturday that their office "has not received any protest or curfew related arrests to date."

CNN has also reached out to the Brooklyn and Bronx district attorneys for comment.

Read Katz's tweet:

The curfew in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been extended through Sunday morning, according to an executive order from the mayor.

The new curfew hours took effect Friday from 8 p.m. ET until 6 a.m. ET, the executive order said.

In addition to people not being out on the street, the order also tells retail businesses to close at 8 p.m. and not reopen until 6 a.m.

According to the order, "only people with essential duties will be permitted outdoors."

Police are estimating that there are about 6,000 protesters in Washington, DC, according to the DC Police Traffic, a division of the Metropolitan Police Department.

At 12 p.m. ET, there were approximately 3,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial and another 3,000 at 16th and I St, NW, near the White House, DC Police Traffic said.

CNN staff on the ground in DC note there are protesters gathering at other locations as well, including Capitol Hill.

Read the tweet from DC Police Traffic:

When asked how officers should have responded to the 75-year-old protester in Buffalo, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said "you don't crack a skull on the concrete."  

Flynn was asked what police officers should have done if the man was not listening to officers, to which he responded, "what you do is that you grab him" and "turn him around" and arrest him if he's doing something illegal. 

Flynn said he highly doubts "shoving a 75-year-old man" is part of any training. But "if what you've been trained to do is unlawful, that's not an excuse" and police should "reevaluate their training."