Tensions flare for the fourth night as protestors respond to George Floyd's death. Follow along as we track what's happening across the US.
Volunteers on the north side of Minneapolis on Saturday afternoon turned parking lots into makeshift markets to combat a dearth of grocery stores in the area. At the intersection of West Broadway Avenue and Emerson Avenue, 250 or so people filled the lots at U.
S. Bank and Episcopal Church in Minnesota to drop off and pick up donations from members of the community. Amanda Kelli, 18, has relatives who live on the north side and said it’s been a struggle to find food the past few days. “My family has been looking for somewhere to go grocery shopping — my mom, my dad my grandma,” she said as she held her baby and chowed on pizza. “But we couldn’t find nothing so we came here.” All businesses along Broadway appeared to be closed as of Saturday afternoon due to violent protests the past two nights. Breyonne Golding, a community planner, called the donation effort “healing” for a low-income area usually starved of resources, but even more so now with all businesses closed. “On the north side, there’s only 3 grocery stores. All of them are boarded up,” said Golding, a native of Connecticut. “It’s about to be the first of the month, where are they gonna get food?”Rep. Ilhan Omar asked Minneapolis residents to stay home Saturday night in an effort to isolate"agitators" she says are destroying minority owned business during protests over the death of George Floyd. Omar, D-Minn., represents the district where Floyd was killed this week, when a white Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground with his knee. Outrage over his death resulted in violent protests in Minneapolis and demonstrations throughout the country. "Right now, our grief and pain is being exploited. People primarily from outside our city are destroying black and minority-owned businesses in our city,” Omar said. “We can’t let them. Let us all prioritize justice for George Floyd, police reform, alongside the safety of our community and the prevention of more violence. I urge people to stay home tonight so we can better target and isolate these agitators.”Attorney General Barr: Peaceful protests 'hijacked' by 'far left extremist groups' Attorney General William Barr said violent protests that have erupted after the death of George Floyd appear to be organized by"anarchic" and"far left extremist groups" pursuing their own aims. Addressing"rioting" in many cities, Barr said,"the voices of peaceful protest are being hijacked by violent radical elements." "Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda," he said."In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized and driven by anarchic and...far left extremist groups using Antifa-like tactics."Minnesota officials said Saturday many of the protesters in Minneapolis were from outside the state, and said they were investigating whether some outside agitators had links to white supremacist groups.The Minnesota National Guardto respond to unrest in Minneapolis, a massive increase over the 850 now on duty. Meanwhile, the Pentagon offered to assist Minnesota with active-duty troops. So far, Gov. Tim Walz has not sought help from federal troops, according to a statement from Jonathan Hoffman, a Defense Department spokesman. Walz said this morning that he had spoken with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on Saturday, as well as with mayors across the country, and was"fully mobilizing" the state's National Guard for the first time in Minnesota's history. Walz alleged that the protests were fueled by elements of domestic terrorism, ideological extremists and international destabilization.In an afternoon news conference, Minnesota officials asked residents to forgo protests and stay home after 8 p.m. Saturday night so that law enforcement could "remove those folks who are harming us." Community and faith leaders – including reverends, rabbis, imams and representatives of the state's Latino, Asian, and Native American communities, as well as the uncle of Philando Castile – encouraged residents to observe the curfew. "We need to create the space for people to be able to grieve, to come together, to mourn the loss of George Floyd," Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan said in an afternoon news conference."We cannot do that until community can gather safely ... Stay home tonight so that we can remove those folks who are harming us.""They are not from our state, and they're coming from the outside," and Sen. Amy Klobuchar."We cannot move forward when people are burning down our city."Across Minneapolis, groups of volunteers spontaneously appeared to begin cleaning up the damage Saturday morning. Leaning on her shovel while talking, social worker Kara Vangen, 58, said no one should mistake the cleanup as a criticism of the protests themselves. "I’m supporting the protesting, completely. And this is my neighborhood, so this is part of the healing," she said, over the scrape of shovels clearing rubble from a burned-out Walgreens.The two, who live nearby, said they had heard reports that troublemakers from outside downtown Minneapolis have been flooding into the area last night causing damage. They wanted people to know that those who live here care about this neighborhood.Morning in Minneapolis: Firefighters put out blazes, clear rubble As morning dawned in Minneapolis, authorities had moved back into some formerly contested areas, and firefighters with the Minneapolis Fire Department poured water onto a still-smoldering gas station in the Hiawatha area as a small crowd watched. No police were present. Over on Lake Street at Columbus Avenue, members of the Minnesota National Guard controlled access to the streets, their Humvees and trucks blocking the road as firefighters and public works officials tried to shut off leaking gas lines and clear rubble from the road. Because some areas lost power, drivers collided yesterday when speeding through stoplights that weren’t working, and their abandoned crashed cars were then set ablaze. Broken glass from shattered windows and bus stops crunched underfoot. "This is sad. It’s very emotional right now. I just had to come down and see it," said Brian Ledin, 58, who lives in a nearby suburb but was born in the area, as smoke rose from an O’Reilly Auto Parts store and CenterPoint energy workers searched for broken gas lines.The Pentagon on Saturday ordered the Army to put military police units on alert to head to Minneapolis on short notice at President Donald Trump’s request, the Associated Press reports, according to three people with direct knowledge of the orders who did not want their names used because they were not authorized to discuss the preparations. According to the AP report, soldiers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York have been ordered to be ready to deploy within four hours if called. Soldiers in Fort Carson in Colorado, and Fort Riley in Kansas have been told to be ready within 24 hours.Derek Michael Chauvin, 44, was arrested Friday and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in connection to Floyd's death. He was booked into the Ramsey County Jail. A criminal complaint that references body cameras worn by the four now-former officers involved in the incident sheds some additional light on what happened on Memorial Day in the moments before and after Floyd's death. The Hennepin County Attorney's complaint said Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, including two minutes and 53 seconds after Floyd was non-responsive.
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