The Irish Examiner View: Dubious demonstrations amid Covid crisis

President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington. Part of the church was set on fire during protests on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

That people in Europe want to show their concerns about civil rights and police brutality in the US is understandable, what we have witnessed there has been upsetting and at times barbaric. It’s fair to ask though what solidarity protests of the kind seen in Dublin, London, and Berlin this past weekend can achieve, knowing what we do about the incumbent in the White House and as the risk of new Covid-19 infection outbreaks poses its own threat to life on European shores.