Protests erupted in dozens of U.S. cities over the weekend following the death of George Floyd, a black man, at the hands of four now-fired Minneapolis Police Department officers led by Derek Chauvin, who is white. The killing followed the Georgia murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man, allegedly shot to death by a white former police officer and his son; and Breonna Taylor, a black emergency medical technician shot to death in a hail of gunfire by the Louisville, Kentucky, Police Department as she slept inside her home. As protests have grown, increasingly militarized American police have become more violent, and a new report contends they have physically attacked U.S. journalists 100 times in the past four days. In Louisville, the police and National Guard, claiming they were fired upon, fired live rounds into a crowd, killing an unarmed black restaurant owner. In New York City, police commissioner Dermot Shea (along with Mayor Bill de Blasio) defended officers who ran down a crowd of protesters in Brooklyn using two police SUVs, while in Manhattan another officer appeared to threaten civilians with his gun. In Atlanta, officers tasered two college students in a car. Rather than making an attempt to calm the nation, President Donald Trump has consistently fanned the flames, urging governors to “dominate” protesters, encouraging his supporters to rally and boasting of the “most vicious dogs” and “most ominous weapons” protecting him at the White House, where on Friday night he was rushed to the safety of a secure bunker. And tonight, there will be a curfew in New York City. Here’s the latest. —Josh Petri

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Despite a veneer of egalitarianism, Minneapolis has never managed to root out its racial inequity, Peter Coy writes in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday hosted a conversation with black leaders in Wilmington, Delaware, his first public campaign event in two months. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said he would set up a national police oversight board in his first 100 days as president and would ensure coronavirus relief efforts would “deal with institutional racism.”

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state, the center of the coronavirus worldwide in terms of deaths, had 54 fatalities on Sunday, the fewest since the pandemic began and down from a peak of almost 800 a day in April. Gilead’s treatment remdesivir showed only a limited benefit in a large trial. Wuhan’s push to break hidden virus transmission chains through aggressive testing appears to have succeeded, as no new asymptomatic cases were found in the Chinese city for the first time in two months. The pandemic has infected more than 6.2 million people and killed more than 370,000 worldwide since late January. Here’s the latest.

Facebook employees expressed anger at Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to follow Twitter and take action against Trump’s incendiary posts by staging a virtual walkout.

Beijing told major state-run agricultural companies to pause purchases of some American farm goods as China evaluates escalating tensions over its proposed crackdown on civil liberties in Hong Kong. State media has trolled the Trump administration over the protests roiling the U.S.

Two American astronauts on Sunday boarded the International Space Station from a SpaceX capsule, marking the first time humans have traveled to orbit on a commercially developed craft, forging a new era for NASA and Elon Musk. It was also the first time since 2011 that America didn’t have to pay Russia for a ride to the ISS.

What you’ll need to know tomorrow

• No worries on Wall Street: U.S. stocks were up.
• IBM is refusing to disclose the extent of its employee terminations.
• Goldman Sachs rolls back its pessimistic outlook for U.S. stocks.
• The IRS is not pursuing rich tax dodgers.
• A new Ebola outbreak in West Congo has killed four people.
• It takes a $100 bribe to fill your car with gas in Caracas.
• Sales of pepper spray are spiking on Amazon.

What you’ll want to read in Bloomberg Hyperdrive

Chargers Are Last Hurdle to America’s EV Future

Before the pandemic struck, the auto industry had plans to spend at least $141 billion to retool supply chains in a historic shift from internal combustion to battery-driven machines. The financial reasoning was clear: Roughly one-third of U.S. drivers say they may go electric the next time they buy a vehicle. Just one problem remains, though: Huge swaths of the U.S. are without fast charging stations. It has become the final, biggest obstacle to mass adoption.

Photographer: Jinhwa Jang

Photographer: Jinhwa Jang

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