UAE embassy urges citizens in US to avoid protest places

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Source: Emirates24

UAE embassy urges citizens in US to avoid protest places

Embassy tweets contact details

By Wam with Agencies
Published Sunday, July 10, 2016

UAE embassy in the United States has urged UAE nationals, who are in the US, to stay away from places of protests and demonstrations that broke out in some states.

In a statement, the embassy also called on citizens to contact number 0012024315530 when necessary.

The appeal came in a tweet posted by the embassy in the aftermath of a demonstration by supporters of 'Black Lives Matter,' - an activist movement - in front of the White House on Friday in the backdrop of the killing of two African-Americans by white police officers.

Police agencies across US on guard

Police agencies across the US are on edge and on guard after receiving threats and calls for violence against them on social media in the aftermath of the killings of two black men and the sniper attack that left five officers dead in Dallas. Some departments ordered officers to pair up or more generally said they were increasing security.


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[Feeling the Bern]

1. The terrorists won. We are a police state, near social civil war and other countries view us as

dangerous and violent.

[adigal]

2. There was a warning in Caribbean media to visitors to thenUS

About complying if stopped by police, asking for the consulate immediately, and not joining any protests, etc.

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. The rest of the world should issue a travel advisory

to people wanting to visit the USA. If I were a citizen of another country considering visiting and I knew what it's really like, I think I would go to Europe instead.