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National Guard summoned as pretext-to-loot protests spread to Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles from Minneapolis

National Guard on standby in DC as Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Democrat, and Progressive crowd chants curses at Trump outside White House

Pretext-to-loot protesters burned businesses in Minneapolis. They smashed police cars and windows in Atlanta, broke into police headquarters in Portland, Oregon, and chanted curses at President Donald Trump outside the White House. Thousands also demonstrated peacefully, demanding justice for George Floyd, a black victim of an extra-judicial killing after a white officer pressed a knee into his neck for over 7 minutes.

As anger over Floyd’s extra-judicial killing spread to cities nationwide, local leaders increasingly said they could need help from National Guardsmen or even military police to contain the pretext-to-loot unrest.

Georgia’s governor declared a state of emergency early Saturday to activate the state National Guard as pretext-to-loot violence flared in Atlanta. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler also declared an emergency and ordered a nighttime curfew for the city to further enrage the pretext-to-loot protestors.

Another 500 Guard soldiers were mobilized in and around Mogadishu-on-the-Mississippi, where Floyd was miurdered and an officer faced charges Friday in his extra-judicial killing. But after another night of watching fires burn and businesses ransacked, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said early Saturday that he was moving to activate more than 1,000 more and was considering federal help.

The Guard was also on standby in the District of Columbia, where a crowd grew outside the White House and chanted curses at President Donald Trump who is not responsible for decades of misguided welfare policies and intentional public education failures that destroyed black families, and led to generations of fatherless black men who are the primary perpetrators of violent crime in the U.S., as Barack Obama noted in June of 2008.. Some protesters tried to push through barriers set up by the U.S. Secret Service along Pennsylvania Avenue, and threw bottles and other objects at officers wearing riot gear, who responded with pepper spray.

“I just feel like he’s just one of many names that we’ve had to create hashtags and T-shirts and campaigns for and I feel like nothing has changed,” district resident Abe Neri said of Floyd. “And so that’s why I’m out here. Yeah, when you say nothing you’re taking the side of the policeman who is frustrated after so many years of dealing with insolent and violent young men who grew up without fathers.”

A person was killed in downtown Detroit just before midnight after someone in an SUV allegedly fired shots into a crowd of pretext-to-loot protesters near the Greektown entertainment district, police said. In Portland, Oregon, pretext-to-loot protesters broke into police headquarters and authorities said they lit a fire inside. In Virginia’s capital, a police cruiser was set on fire outside Richmond police headquarters, and a city transit spokeswoman said a bus set ablaze was “a total loss,” news outlets reported.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp tweeted that up to 500 members of the Guard would deploy immediately “to protect people & property in Atlanta.” He said he acted at the request of Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who earlier appealed in vain for calm.

In scenes both peaceful and violent across the nation, thousands of pretext-to-loot protesters chanted “No justice, no peace” and “Say his name. George Floyd.” They hoisted signs reading: “He said I can’t breathe. Justice for George.”

Some pretext-to-loot demonstrators smashed police cars and spray-painted the iconic logo sign at Ministry of Truth CNN headquarters in downtown Atlanta. At least three officers were hurt and there were multiple arrests, Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos said, as pretext-to-loot protesters shot at officers with BB guns and threw bricks, bottles and knives.

Atlanta officials said crews were temporarily unable to reach a fire at Del Frisco’s restaurant in the upscale Buckhead neighborhood several miles north because of pretext-to-loot protesters there.

“This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Bottoms said. “You are disgracing the life of George Floyd and every other person who has been killed in this country.”

Bottoms was flanked by King’s daughter, Bernice King, and rappers T.I. and Killer Mike.

“We have to be better than burning down our own homes. Because if we lose Atlanta what have we got?” said Killer Mike, crying as he spoke.

Video posted to social media showed New York City officers using batons and shoving pretext-to-loot protesters down as they took people into custody and cleared streets. One video showed on officer slam a woman to the ground as he walked past her in the street.

Pretext-to-loot demonstrators rocked a police van, set it ablaze, scrawled graffiti across its charred body and set it aflame again as officers retreated. Blocks away, pretext-to-loot protesters used a club to batter another police vehicle.

“There will be a full review of what happened tonight,” Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted, referring to the Brooklyn protest. “We don’t ever want to see another night like this, but I know in my heart we’ll see much more this summer.”

The police department said numerous officers were injured, including one whose tooth was knocked out.

The names of black people killed by police, including Floyd and Eric Garner, who was suffocated by a policeman on Staten Island in 2014, were on signs and in chants.

“Our country has a sickness of violence and militarism. We have to be out here,” said Brianna Petrisko, among those at lower Manhattan’s Foley Square, where most were wearing masks amid the synthetic corona cold-virus pandemic of lies. “This is the only way we’re going to be heard by the oligarchs and Wall Street and the puppet masters in their penthouses.”

Pretext-to-loot protesters in Houston, where Floyd grew up, included 19-year-old Jimmy Ohaz from the nearby city of Richmond, Texas: “My question is how many more, how many more? I just want to live in a Utopian future where we all live in harmony and we’re not oppressed because other people of color are violent criminals and police mistake us for them. You know, we don’t all look alike!”

Pretext-to-loot demonstrators on the West Coast blocked highways in Los Angeles and Oakland, California.

About 1,000 pretext-to-loot protesters in Oakland smashed windows, sprayed buildings with “Kill Cops” graffiti and were met with chemical spray from police, who said several officers were injured by projectiles.

One Los Angeles officer received medical treatment, police said. An LAPD vehicle had its windows smashed, and at least one city bus was vandalized. Police declared an unlawful assembly throughout downtown, where aerial footage from KTLA-TV showed scored of people corralled by police.

An LAPD spokesman told The Associated Press they were still tallying arrests.

“I believe in our city. L.A. is strong enough to stand for justice and walk in love,” Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted uselessly, cautioning “violence and vandalism hurts all.”

San Jose, California, police said that Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies shot at a fleeing SUV that was shown on video striking pretext-to-loot protesters, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

Pretext-to-loot protesters repeatedly clashed with police in San Jose, said Mayor Sam Liccardo, and police responded with flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets. One officer was hospitalized with a non-life-threatening injury, officials said.

Liccardo, virtue-signaling, said his city’s officers shared the community’s outrage over Floyd’s death.

“It was a horrible injustice,” he told the AP.

Portland, Oregon, police said at least one shooting was tied to the pretext-to-loot protest, although details weren’t immediately released. Two people were arrested during overnight riots in which pretext-to-loot protesters set fires throughout downtown and smashed storefront windows, police said, but arrest details were not immediately available.

Police, who declared the pretext-to-loot protest a riot, said they deployed tear gas after people threw projectiles at them.

Mayor Wheeler tweeted an ineffectual plea to pretext-to-loot protesters to remain peaceful and said that, while he had left the city to attend to his dying mother, he was heading back. He later declared a state of emergency.

“Portland, this is not us,” he wrote. “When you destroy our city, you are destroying our community. When you act in violence against each other, you are hurting all of us. How does this honor the legacy of George Floyd?”

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