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New YorkA police department in Galveston,
Texas, has apologi sed after two white
offi cers on horseback led a black man
through the city’s streets on a rope.
Photographs shared on social media
show Donald Neely, 43, fl anked by two
mounted police offi cers. Neely’s hands
are bound behind his back, and one
of the offi cers is holding an attached
thick blue rope.Richard Partington
Economics correspondentDonald Trump has dropped the broad-
est possible hint that he is ready to dig
in for the long term in the US-China
trade war, following the latest escala-
tion in the confl ict between the world’s
two largest economies.
Extending a war of words between
Washington and Beijing, the US pres-
ident said he was ready to provide
support for American farmers in 2020
should they face pressure from China
in the long-running trade dispute.
The announcement came as econ-
omists at Goldman Sachs warned that
the standoff was set to continue well
into 2020, until after the US presiden-
tial elections next November.
In his latest string of tweets Trump
said: “Our great American Farmers
know that China will not be able tohurt them in that their President has
stood with them ... I’ll do it again next
year if necessary!”
The deepening confl ict has sent
stock markets around the world tum-
bling over recent days as the chances
of resolution have waned.
China stepped up its rhetoric yester-
day, accusing the US of “deliberately
destroying international order” via
“unilateralism and protectionism”
with behaviour which was severely
damaging the world economy.
Washington labelled Beijing a cur-
rency manipulator on Monday. Steven
Mnuchin, the US Treasury secretary,
accused China of devaluing its cur-
rency “to gain unfair competitive
advantage in international trade”. The
US will now ask the International Mon-
etary Fund to “eliminate the unfaircompetitive advantage created by
China’s latest actions”.
Wall Street recorded its biggest daily
plunge of 2019 on Monday as both
sides raised the stakes. Global mar-
kets steadied yesterday as investors
stepped back to take stock. The FTSE
100 closed the day down by about 52
points at 7,172. The Dow Jones Indus-
trial Average was up 0.7% at 25,886 in
trading in New York.
Trump has provided billions of dol-
lars of support to US farmers, whom
he wants to keep on side as the trade
war weighs down the economy. Desig-
nating China a currency manipulator
fulfi lled a Trump 2016 election prom-
ise. He threatened last week to impose
a new 10% tariff on $300bn of Chinese
imports. The White House already
charges tariff s of 25% on $250bn of
Chinese goods sold in the US.
After Trump’s move the yuan weak-
ened below a key seven-to-one-dollar
level on Monday for the fi rst time in
more than a decade. China’s central
bank said the depreciation was “due
to the effects of unilateralist and
trade-protectionist measures and the
expectations for tariff s against China”.
Yesterday the People’s Bank of
China denied any deliberate manipula-
tion of the currency to help the nation
fend off the impact of the US tariff s.Following widespread criticism
and outrage, Galveston police said
it would end the practice. The police
department said : “We understand the
negative perception of this action and
believe it is most appropriate to cease
the use of this technique.”
Neely’s sister-in-law, Christin Neely,
criticised Galveston police. Neely had
been “treated like an animal”, she said,
adding that he was homeless and men-
tally ill, and the family often struggled
to locate him.
She wrote on Facebook : “Nowimagine scrolling FB and seeing said
loved one being escorted to jail on foot
by two offi cers on horses, hands cuff ed
behind his back with a rope attached.
In 2019?”
Galveston’s police chief, Vernon
Hale, said the photos were genuine.
He said: “First and foremost I must
apologi se to Mr Neely for this unneces-
sary embarrassment. Although this is a
trained technique and best practice in
some scenarios, I believe our offi cers
showed poor judg ment in this instance
and could have waited for a transport
unit at the location of arrest.”
Hale added: “We have immediately
changed the policy to prevent the use
of this technique and will review all
mounted training and procedures for
more appropriate methods.”
Police said Neely had been arrested
under suspicion of criminal trespass,
and was being led to a mounted patrol
staging area. Hale did not say whether
the offi cers would be disciplined.
Hale said the pair “did not have any
malicious intent at the time of arrest”.
Civil rights groups said the image
recalled the historical mistreatment
of black people.
“This is 2019 and not 1819,” James
Douglas, the president of Houston’s
National Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People, told the
Houston Chronicle.
“I am happy to know that Chief
Vernon [Hale] issued an apology and
indicated that the act showed poor
judg ment, but it also shows poor train-
ing. Even though the chief indicated
that the technique would be discon-
tinued, he failed to address the lack
of respect demonstrated by the offi c-
ers in the episode.”
Leon Phillips, the president of the
Galveston Coalition for Justice, said
the pictures reminded him of racist
images from the 1920s. He told the
New York Times : “All I know is that
these are two white police offi cers on
horseback with a black man walking
him down the street with a rope tied to
the handcuff s, and that doesn’t make
sense. Period.”Fury after police in Texas
lead a black man by rope
Trump signals
plan for lengthy
trade confl ict
with Beijing
▼ An image shared on social media of
police offi cers leading Donald Neely
by rope through streets in Galveston
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