JUST IN: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announces he is authorizing 'full mobilization' of the state's National Guard. Walz calls it 'an action that has never been taken in the 164 year history of the Minnesota National Guard.'
This story will be updated as protests continue throughout the country. Please check back for updates. All times Eastern.Governor Tim Walz announced on Saturday morning that an additional thousand members of the National Guard will be deployed to"support civil authorities" during protests over the murder of George Floyd.
"We cannot as members of the community tolerate that," said Minneapolis Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington at a press conference on Saturday.Walz noted that practicing First Amendment rights should also involve practicing COVID-19 guidelines, but"the folks that are gathering out there ... the masks were worn to disguise, to cause confusion and take advantage of that situation.
"When we fail to honor their rights, we not only tarnish the badge we wear, we completely erode the trust so many of us in law enforcement work so hard to build, particularly within minority communities. The events this past week in Minneapolis clearly illustrate just how quickly that trust can be lost," the message stated."
The president also wrote that if protestors had become"too frisky" or"got out of line,""they would quickly come down on them," he wrote. He also tweeted that if protesters had breached the White House fence, they would have been"greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen."
He also announced the city has a curfew in effect until 6 a.m. local time Saturday and will begin again at 8 p.m. A gray Dodge Durango pulled up and fired into the crowd, hitting a 19-year-old man who later died at the hospital, a Detroit Police Department spokesperson told ABC affiliateDetroit Police Chief James Craig said the violence and destruction overnight is not what the city of Detroit is about.
"We know that the individuals from outside the city of Detroit who converged at the protest location don't represent this city. They are not from this city," Craig said."Let's peacefully protest, but outside of that, we're not going to tolerate it. We're not going to tolerate criminal acts.
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