The judge says he’d reviewed public statements made by the 82-year-old swindler and found they ‘show that he has never fully accepted responsibility for his actions.’

Many are invoking Crispus Attucks – an African American gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston Massacre – as a symbol of entrenched white-on-black violence and oppression.

Amid nationwide protests, what goes largely unspoken is that many of the troops being called upon to help keep order are African Americans and other minorities.

Demonstrations take place in London, Athens, Stockholm and elsewhere in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.