Officials across America are bracing for another night of escalating unrest after clashes erupted between protesters and police in dozens of cities Saturday.

Tensions flared in cities from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to Columbia, S.C., and New York as thousands of people amassed to protest the death of a black man in police custody.

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BREAKING: A curfew has been imposed in some parts of Los Angeles tonight as thousands of protesters march through the streets, expressing outrage over the death of George Floyd.

The mayor pleaded for police and protesters to find a way toward understanding and peace.

As the sun began to set in the nation’s capital, police took a decisive move on a group of protesters that had settled in a park across the street from the White House.

About 300 people were pushed out of Lafayette Square, and Park Police were attempting to seal barricades together with zip ties.

Protesters continued to launch projectiles at the police, including water bottles clanking off officers’ shields.

CHICAGO — A thick crowd of people on Saturday surrounded a black SUV outside Trump International Hotel and Tower in downtown Chicago and destroyed it by hitting it with blunt objects, smashing the glass, opening the doors and pulling out everything inside.

She said she doesn’t fear violence because she and other protesters are “not wrong.” “It’s the police that’s a gang,” she said.

She and others here say that the police and government at all levels are coordinating to keep black people marginalized in their own country.

Six states — Georgia, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Colorado, Ohio and Utah — are joining Minnesota in calling their National Guard forces to respond to the sometimes violent unrest that’s broken out amid demonstrations against black Americans’ deaths in police custody.

Andy Beshear (D) is calling in the National Guard to help “keep peace” in Louisville, where protests have focused on the death of Breonna Taylor, shot by officers who entered her apartment to serve a no-knock warrant.

Brian Kemp (R) said he would authorize the deployment of the Georgia National Guard to “protect people & property in Atlanta” as the mayor there said those defacing a CNN headquarters and torching a police car were “disgracing” the city.

Tony Evers (D) said he had authorized at least 125 National Guard members to go to Milwaukee to help police and protect infrastructure, according to local news outlets.

Jared Polis (D) tweeted Saturday afternoon he had granted the mayor of Denver’s request for National Guard support as well.

They want to focus attention on the tragic death of George Floyd and on other injustices.”.

At around 7 p.m., hundreds of protesters paused in their march across downtown Washington, D.C., and sank to sit cross-legged on the street, directly in front of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

“Actually nine minutes” — approximately the same amount of time that video shows former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck.

Of the 57 people arrested in protest-related incidents through Saturday morning, 47 (82 percent) provided a Minnesota address to authorities, said Jeremy Zoss, a spokesman for the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office.

Tim Walz (D) said in a Saturday news conference.

Authorities are trying to determine if people arrested have ties to white supremacists, Walz said.

Protests sparked by outrage over George Floyd’s death had begun peacefully in the city Saturday, with hundreds paying silent homage to Floyd outside City Hall at midday.

Charles Davis, 39, came upon the large group by happenstance while he was running an errand, and he joined it in its demonstrations in light of George Floyd’s death.

Shatkin, who is white, said she is there because she is “sad for the people who are dying.

“We’re just out here just to support the movement because white people have the most power in this country," Litvak-Winkler said, “and if white people don’t speak up then nothing is unfortunately going to change.”.

As demonstrations continued across the Twin Cities, a large crowd of protesters gathered Saturday afternoon at the home of Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, who charged former officer Derek Chauvin with third-degree murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death.

More than 1,000 protesters here calling for more prosecutions of police.

Al Sharpton on MSNBC on Saturday evening that he spoke to both President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden, as the family continues to call for justice in Floyd’s death.

Calling his brother’s death a “modern-day lynching in broad daylight,” Floyd said he wanted first-degree rather than third-degree murder charges against fired officer Derek Chauvin.

The Mercury News in San Jose reported that police said Friday night the fatal shooting appeared unrelated to protests of George Floyd’s death in police custody and had not provided different information as of Saturday afternoon.

The Oakland Police Department did not immediately respond to inquiries Saturday.

On the second day of clashes between police and protesters outside the White House, demonstrators at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue managed to break through police fencing, pushing closer toward the White House, where they confronted a line of Secret Service officers in riot gear.

The officers used chemical spray — cries of “Does anyone have any milk?” rang out as protesters tried to calm their burning eyes — and then pushed the crowd back to 17th Street, causing many people to fall to the ground.

… something in my heart, thinking about George Floyd, thinking about all the injustices, I needed to be out there.”.

Lying face down, their hands bound by imaginary handcuffs, hundreds of protesters at the Capitol building in Denver chanted “I can’t breathe” for nine minutes — roughly the duration of time former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck.

The demonstration unfurled Saturday following two nights of protests and a mobilization of the National Guard in the Colorado capital to restore order after two days of protests.

Minneapolis police said they are “overwhelmed” after responding to hundreds of 911 calls about gunfire, property damage and burglaries this week following days of unrest after the death of George Floyd.

Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo pleaded with residents to follow curfew orders during a news briefing on Saturday, warning if they didn’t comply, they would be considered “complicit” in any violence and destruction that occurs.

and 9 a.m., Saturday, 27 people were booked into the Hennepin County jail after Friday night’s demonstrations.

In stark contrast, Minnesota officials said in a press briefing earlier they are investigating if more violent protesters were associated with white supremacy groups.

Elder said he couldn’t explain the delay in identifying those arrested but that it is common for outside protesters to give false names and addresses to police.

Elder also offered statistics further highlighting the unrest in the city following Floyd’s death.

About 380 people called to report burglaries, damage to property and alarms from Friday to Saturday morning.

Tim Walz (D) said he was “fully” mobilizing National Guard forces, he and other state officials gathered for a somber, live-streamed summit with local faith and community leaders.

Paul reeled from the death of George Floyd and burned in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

Protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in police custody continued across the country Saturday after at least 20 U.S.

Since Floyd was killed Monday during an arrest in Minneapolis, protesters have repeatedly clashed with police there and in other cities including New York and Atlanta, where officers used pepper spray, rubber bullets and other riot tactics to quell crowds.

Then a bomb exploded at the Gaston Motel, where King had been staying, sparking the same kind of riots now engulfing Minneapolis and other cities over the killing of George Lloyd by a white police officer.

“These are people who love this country, I have no idea if they are going to be here, I was just asking,” he told reporters in brief remarks outside the White House.

He said Minneapolis needed to “get tougher” on the protesters, and suggested that “by being tougher they will be honoring (George Floyd’s) memory.".

Officials will investigate reports that New York police officers used force against protesters demonstrating in Manhattan and Brooklyn over the death of George Floyd.

In a news conference on Saturday, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said he will launch an independent review of the police reaction to Friday night’s demonstrations.

Authorities arrested more than 200 people, including one person who was arrested on a charge of attempted murder after hurling a molotov cocktail into a police van with four officers inside, he said.

Shea said that a gun, a set of brass knuckles and several bricks were collected by police from protesters.

De Blasio condemned protesters who “aimed to do violence” and instigate police reaction.

They said they are trying to determine if some of those arrested during protests were tied to white supremacy groups, John Harrington, Minnesota public safety commissioner, said, adding that he would release more information about protesters to the public later Saturday.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) said that while the protests earlier in the week were marking the community’s grief for Floyd, Friday’s uprising was done by people taking advantage of the unruly situation.

The mayors and Walz urged residents to stay home Saturday night and not violate the 8 p.m.

He did so after several nights of rioting in response to the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody this week in Minneapolis while handcuffed and on video.

Chinese officials appeared to shrug off President Trump’s latest slaps against Beijing and struck back with their own rhetorical punch Saturday as propagandists highlighted the growing street clashes triggered by George Floyd’s death in police custody.

Tim Walz (D) announced Saturday that he was “fully” mobilizing the National Guard, a first in the state’s history, to help control the violent unrest that followed peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd while in police custody.

“Let’s be very clear, the situation in Minneapolis is no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd,” Walz said.

The governor said he had “sensitivity to the legitimate rage and anger” that Minnesotans felt after Floyd’s death, which manifested earlier in the week with “healthy gathering of community.”.

By Thursday, Walz said that peaceful protest was gone and that the destruction Friday night made a “mockery” of Floyd’s death.

Walz warned of more protesters gathering Saturday night spurred by increased police presence.

Minneapolis has raged and mourned since video emerged this week of George Floyd, pinned for several minutes as he gasped for breath.

Andy Beshear announced Saturday morning he is calling in the National Guard to help “keep peace” in Louisville, where protests have erupted over the death of 26-year-old emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was fatally shot eight times by narcotics detectives in her own home in March.

Seven people were shot in downtown Louisville during a protest on May 28, though police have said the shots did not come from them.

In a descriptive string of tweets Saturday morning, Trump said he watched “every move” of the protests near the White House and that he “couldn’t have felt more safe.”.

Had protesters gotten close to the White House fence, Trump warned that dogs and weapons would have been unleashed and “that’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least.”.

Park Police and uniformed Secret Service officers — all appeared to be on the scene pushing protesters through Lafayette Square Park outside of the White House well into early Saturday morning.

The Secret Service on Saturday afternoon said that D.C police “were on the scene.”.

In a later tweet, Trump said the “professionally managed so-called ‘protesters’” were there to cause unrest, rather than to memorialize George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck.

Using security footage, emergency services recordings and cellphone video, The Washington Post created a timeline of events immediately preceding George Floyd’s death on Monday evening.

The timeline shows how his encounter with police began on one side of an intersection, where Floyd was removed from a car and handcuffed.

In Louisville, protesters mourned Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old former emergency medical technician who was shot to death in March by three police officers inside her apartment.

They are 2.5 more times likely to die at the hands of police than white men, according to a study by three state universities

The Washington Post’s police shooting database has shown that year after year, about 1,000 people are shot and killed by police

Police said the man did not obey orders and shot him with a bean bag

Police said they are investigating at least one downtown shooting that appeared connected to the protests, and reports of significant vandalism kept officers busy into the early-morning hours Saturday

Police responded by firing tear gas into the crowd and ordered people to go home

Businesses were torched, shots were fired on police and demonstrations turned violent across the Twin Cities early Saturday in what Minnesota Gov

More than 2,500 state and local police and National Guard troops — a force larger than the response to riots of the late 1960s — fanned out to protect firefighters trying to extinguish blazes and enforce an 8 p.m

“I can fully understand the rage,” Walz said in a news conference

The governor said he takes responsibility for underestimating the level of violence that erupted after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s arrest, explaining his force was outnumbered by the thousands of people who spilled onto the city’s streets

Jensen, adjutant general of the Minnesota National Guard, confirmed that the state had not been consulted but felt it was prudent of the Pentagon to activate military police in the event they need help restoring order

About 1,000 more National Guard troops reporting for duty this weekend will join the police force in the Twin Cities

“These people want nothing more than to entice conflict,” Walz said

Brian Kemp (R) issued a state of emergency via Twitter early Saturday, activating the National Guard to “protect people & property in Atlanta.”

The announcement came hours after peaceful demonstrations turned violent, as a police car was set ablaze and protesters threw objects, broke glass and spray-painted the front entrance to CNN’s world headquarters

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