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Donald Trump has blamed “anarchists” and “domestic terrorists” for a protest in Seattle overnight and threatened to intervene as anti-racism demonstrations again erupted across much of the US, in rage at the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis last month.

Following a week of nightly standoffs with police, who regularly used teargas to disperse crowds, protesters in Seattle have set up an “autonomous zone” in the Capitol Hill neighbourhood after police agreed to vacate the area and abandon their police precinct station.

The area, bordered by barricades, is thronged with people protesting against police brutality and systemic racism