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A blockade of police officers stopped hundreds of protesters from exiting the Manhattan Bridge on June 2. (Video: The Washington Post)

As protests nationwide continue past curfew, tension eases in some cities

While clashes between police and the public continued well past the curfews in cities nationwide on Tuesday night, tensions subsided in some places as a second week of protests over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody got underway.