Portal:Current events/2020 May 27
Disasters and accidents
- A fire at a hospital kills five patients being treated for
International relations
- 2019–20 Hong Kong protests
- United States–Hong Kong Policy Act. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- George Floyd protests
- George Floyd protests in Minnesota
- Rioting and looting take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, following the death of African-American man George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis Police Department officers. Several buildings are looted and burned down, and riot police have been deployed. (Fox News) (NBC News)
- A 43-year-old protester is shot dead outside a pawnshop. The shooting is carried out by the owner of the shop. He is arrested. (Star Tribune)
- George Floyd protests in Minnesota
- Kyoto Animation arson attack
- In Kyoto, Japan, Shinji Aoba is arrested. He was moved from the hospital and charged for an arson attack at an animation center in July 2019, which killed 36 people. Aoba had been unable to be arrested due to the severe injuries he sustained during the attack. (Reuters) (BBC News)
- Terrorism in the United States, crime in Florida
- The May 24 arrest of a 23-year-old man in ISIS. (WTSP)
- The May 24 arrest of a 23-year-old man in
- Essex lorry deaths
- Judicial authorities in U.K. (Daily News)
- Judicial authorities in
- Zambian police arrest three people suspected of murdering three Chinese nationals three days prior and burning their bodies. (BBC News)