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As protests continue across New York, the city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, has been speaking about systemic racism in American society and problems exacerbated by the coronavirus crisis.
The mayor also referenced the video of dog-walker Amy Cooper confronting a black bird-watcher in Central Park that went viral earlier this week. The mayor called her actions a “horrible insult” and “the epitome of American white racism.”
“(She was) literally criminalizing the very act of being a black man,” de Blasio said. “It brought up, for so many people, the fundamental contradiction that pervades our society.”
The mayor spoke about the death of George Floyd and the disregard for Floyd’s life.
“That raw painful anger frustration – it gets brought up so deeply in moments like this. It is an every day, every hour thing for black New Yorkers, for Latino New Yorkers, for some many people who deal with the pain of racism in their lives.”
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed an executive order Saturday night authorizing the activation of up to 3,000 National Guard troops statewide, according to a series of tweets on his verified Twitter account.
Kemp called for the activation in advance of several planned protests on Sunday.
National Guard troops will partner with local law enforcement “to preserve peace and protect Georgians in every corner of our great state,” according to Kemp.
Gov. Kemp did not specify where the Sunday protests would take place.
Separately, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a statement to CNN that members of the California National Guard are being deployed to the city overnight to support law enforcement authorities.
The mayor had previously said it was not likely the National Guard would be called, but Garcetti now says they are necessary “to maintain peace and safety on the streets.”
Officers with the St. Paul police department have stopped several vehicles driving without license plates, according to a tweet from the agency.
Occupants of the vehicles fled on foot after being stopped. They left behind “vehicles and tools used to wreak havoc on our city,” the tweet said.
Police have also used gas on protestors who fled when officers attempted to arrest them. Major protests are ongoing in St. Paul and neighboring Minneapolis.
The Atlanta Police Department said one of its officers had sustained “significant injuries” after seemingly being struck by “someone riding an ATV,” in a tweet.
The incident occurred near the 200 block of Ted Turner Drive and the officer has been transported to nearby Grady Hospital in a stable condition, the tweet adds.
The rider suffered minor injuries and has been taken into custody, police said.
The Minnesota National Guard has more than 4,100 citizen-soldiers and airmen responding to protests in Minnesota, the force said on Twitter.
The tweet said 10,800 National Guard members are expected to join the response. There were 700 on duty on Friday.
National Guard forces have been deployed across at least eight states and the District of Columbia to tackle increasingly violent protests across the country.
Three people were arrested during protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday night, police said.
Two people were arrested on gun charges, involving one handgun and one rifle. The third person arrested was charged with assaulting a government official.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has signed an executive order implementing a citywide curfew for Sunday night into Monday morning.
Sunday’s curfew will start at 8 p.m. and extend until 6 a.m. Monday morning local time.
CNN previously reported that a mandatory, citywide curfew began at 8 p.m. Saturday and would last until 6 a.m. Sunday.
During both curfews, “people may leave their homes only to go to work at essential businesses or to seek medical attention or police assistance,” Kenney said in a tweet.
Protestors marching from Minneapolis to St. Paul were tear gassed by police as they tried to cross the Lake Street Marshall Bridge.
CNN’s Miguel Marquez, and his team, were with the protestors when police began firing tear gas at the crowd. Protestors could be seen running back in the direction they came.
Curfews are in effect in Minneapolis and St. Paul, the site of major protests for several days.
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The National Guard has been activated in Washington, D.C. to assist police handling protests around the White House, according to a statement from the DC National Guard on Facebook.
The DC National Guard (DCNG) ultimately reports to the President but was activated at the direction of the Secretary of the Army, according to the statement.
There have been protests for the past two nights near the White House following the death of George Floyd.
Earlier, President Donald Trump praised the Secret Service for handling the unrest outside his residence, saying they “were not only totally professional, but very cool.”
Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has extended a curfew, which initially applied only to downtown, to the whole city.
The curfew requires everyone within the City of Los Angeles to stay indoors tonight, from 8 p.m. until 5:30 a.m. on Sunday morning.
At least 25 cities across 16 states have now imposed curfews.
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More than 80% of people booked into jail in Minneapolis on riot and other potentially riot-related charges over the past two days are from Minnesota, according to a CNN analysis of data from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s office.
Officials had earlier claimed that most protesters came from out of state.
Of the 51 people who were booked into jail in Hennepin County between noon Thursday and noon Saturday on riot, unlawful assembly, burglary or damage to property charges, 43 had an address listed in Minnesota.
Those charges amounted for more than half of the total jail bookings over the 48-hour period. Three of the arrestees were listed as Illinois residents, while others were from Alaska, Florida, Michigan and Missouri, and one had no address available.
It’s not possible from the data to say for sure that the charges were linked to the protests. And the data only covers people booked into jail, not necessarily all arrests. Hennepin County includes Minneapolis, but not St. Paul.
Local news channel KARE 11 had previously reported that most arrestees came from out of state.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Saturday that protesters “are coming in largely from outside of the city, from outside of the region, to prey on everything we have built over the last several decades.”
And Gov. Tim Walz had suggested that 80% of protesters were from out of state, but didn’t provide data at a Saturday evening press conference to support that figure. He said some of the information came from “human intel” and he spoke of “other data points,” but didn’t provide details. “We’ll see tonight, whether it’s right or wrong,” he said.
St. Paul mayor Melvin Carter said Saturday morning that “every single person we arrested last night, I’m told, was from out of state,” but retracted that claim on Saturday evening, saying he “takes full responsibility” for the mistake.
Fireworks are going off and smoke is filling the air at the protest in Minneapolis. Some of the crowd rushed away as the large bangs rang out.
Police have also been firing tear gas at the protesters near the 5th Precinct, where some in the crowd have responded with projectiles of their own.
A CNN producer on the scene was struck by an object but it is unclear what the source is.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has announced a curfew starting 9 p.m. local time and ending at 6 a.m. Sunday that will “be nightly until further notice.”
It is currently 8:50 p.m. in the city.
At a press conference this evening, Lightfoot said she had been “watching a tragedy unfold in our city. What started out as a peaceful protest has now devolved into criminal conduct.”
Lightfoot said 35 minutes, from the start of the announcement, would be enough time for people to “clear the streets.”
“My expectation is that most people who have been peaceful today are going to go home,” she added. “But if they don’t, then we give the police department another tool to use to enforce the curfew.”
Lightfoot later added that anyone breaking the curfew, after being given the warning to disperse, would be arrested.
According to Transit Chicago, all but two of the city’s subway lines are currently suspended due to the protests, and multiple bus routes have had to be changed.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said Saturday that the majority of protesters in the city were peaceful marchers who were expressing “our collective grief,” and that any acts of looting and violence came later in the day from a “ragtag group.”
Some 3,000 protesters gathered in downtown Philadelphia earlier, police said. The demonstration began peacefully outside the city’s Museum of Art, before violence broke out in the city center and some protesters vandalized property and clashed with police.
At least 14 arrests have been made so far, a police spokesperson said.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has activated the National Guard to help respond to protests in the state, his spokesperson John Wittman said.
Separately, Colorado Governor Jared Polis has also authorized the National Guard to respond to protests in the city and county of Denver, according to a release from his office.
As protests continue to erupt across the country over the death of George Floyd, at least eight states and the District of Columbia have now either activated or requested the National Guard to assist local law enforcement.
Those states include:
Beverly Hills will implement a curfew at 8 p.m. local time that will last until 5:30 a.m. “to ensure the safety of citizens, visitors, and law enforcement personnel”, the city government said this evening.
It’s currently 6:30 p.m. in Beverley Hills.
The curfew prohibits people from being in any public place in the city, including streets and parks.
The family of George Floyd spoke to both President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden this week following his death in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaking to MSNBC’s Al Sharpton, George’s brother, Philonise Floyd, said his conversation with Trump was “so fast.”
Philonise Floyd said he asked Biden to get justice for his brother.
“I asked Vice President Biden — I never had to beg a man before – but I asked him, could he please, please get justice for my brother,” he said.
“I do not want to see him on a shirt just like the other guys. Nobody deserved that. Black folk don’t deserve that. We’re all dying,” Philonise Floyd said.
CNN has reached out the family and has not heard back.
Footage shows more than 250 protesters in Nashville gathered in front of the Central Police Precinct shouting at officers standing ground around a vandalized police car, holding signs and yelling chants.
Protesters chanted “hands up don’t shoot” and “black lives matter.”
As protests continue to erupt across the country over the death of George Floyd, at least eight states and the District of Columbia have either activated or requested the National Guard to assist local law enforcement.
Those states include:
