Georgia State Governor, Brian Kemp, declared a state of emergency in the state's Fulton County, moving 500 members of the National Guard, in the face of the turmoil in several cities, in protest at the death of George Floyd, an African American, who was killed by a policeman, Finally, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In a series of tweets on the social networking site Twitter, Kemp said the state of emergency came at the request of Keisha Lance Bottoms, mayor of Atlanta (the state capital), to protect individuals and property.
The authorities in the US city of Minneapolis charged with murdering the policeman, Derek Chauvin, the third degree murder suspect, after he appeared in a video recording pressing his knee on the defenseless neck of Floyd, which caused his death, and the authorities dismissed the policeman and three of his colleagues who participated in the incident.
In video footage taken by a bystander on his mobile phone and widely circulated on the Internet, the policeman appeared pressing his knee on the neck of Floyd, who was trying to breathe and moaning, saying: "Please, I cannot breathe", while a crowd of passers-by gathered and shouted In the face of the police officers to leave him alone, and after a few minutes Floyd seemed motionless, then he was later pronounced dead in a hospital.
The authorities had hoped that the arrest of the policeman would calm public anger and stop the ongoing unrest, but in defiance of the curfew imposed by the city's mayor, Jacob Fry, as of 8:00 pm, about 500 protesters clashed with riot police, the first evening of Yesterday, in front of a police station.