Dystopian movie or American Spring – world media on US protests

The sheer extent and ferocity of the US protests have widely caught the attention of news organisations around the world.

Latin America’s media dedicated front-page headlines and photographs to the “fire and fury” of street protests raging in the US over the death of a black man during a Minneapolis police arrest.

Their reports spoke of “chaos”, “scenes of barbarism” and anger against the “virus of racism”.

In Russia, a five-minute report on state news channel Rossiya featured cases of heavy-handed police tactics, such as a police car driving into a crowd of protesters.

The report concluded that the situation resembled a “dystopian movie”.

Pan-Arab TV channels, too, gave rolling coverage to the protests, highlighting the most prominent incidents of violence.

Many social media users condemned the police brutality. Some called the protest movement “the American Spring”.

And some conservative newspapers in Iran referred to the curfews imposed in US cities as “martial law”.

Hardline Keyhan’s front page headline read “Martial law in 25 American cities”, and the banner headline of Vatan-e Emruz newspaper was “US under military boots”.

Source: bbc.com

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