- Racial tension: Police officer implicated in George Floyd's murder charged after another night of unrest in Minneapolis
Employees of the Du Nord Craft Spirits distillery in Minneapolis, which had been modified in recent days so that instead of alcohol it could produce disinfectant to fight the coronavirus , put up a series of signs saying: "This is a business owned by a black. " But they did not leave the signs in all the facilities. On Friday, the parts of the distillery that did not have those signs had been impeccably looted. Those that had them were intact.
"I hope that the community remains calm, and keeps the protests focused on what is important: the death of George Floyd, and that it does not allow them to become what they were yesterday and the day before yesterday, when they degenerated into total destruction," he said. on Friday the owner of Du Nord Craft Spirits, Chris Montana, to the CNN television network, to which he had provided photos and videos of the selective destruction of his business .
His words were not heard. On Friday night through Saturday, more than 20 cities in the United States experienced a massive wave of protests and violence over the murder by the policeman Dereck Chauvin - a white man - of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American who had been denounced for using a counterfeit $ 20 bill (18 euros) on a purchase in Minneapolis.
The violence has reached such a point that today, the Minnesota Governor, Democrat Tim Walz, has ordered the entire state National Guard to be placed on alert , for the first time since World War II. The decision to mobilize the National Guard, which is part of the US Army Reserve, is due to what Walz has described as "a situation that has nothing to do with the death of George Floyd", but "has to do with attacks on civil society, the spread of fear, and life-altering in our big cities. "
The mobilization of the 13,000 Minnesota National Guard personnel is the largest display of force in that territory since the wars that exterminated most of the indigenous population 160 years ago, when the state offered a reward of $ 200, an amount Fabulous for the time, for every Aboriginal killed.
Walz has alleged that the state's two major cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, which actually form a single urban area, "are under assault," and has stated that 80% of violent protesters come from out of state , though it has not provided any evidence to support that claim. As of today, 2,500 National Guard soldiers are already deployed on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
In Washington, hundreds of people tried on Friday night to break down the barriers that protect the White House. In the city of Atlanta, in Georgia, the acts of vandalism were directed against the headquarters of the CNN television network, paradoxically an information company that has shown considerable sympathy with the protesters. The National Guard of that state has also been placed on alert. Likewise, Kentucky has adopted the same decision, although in that state the protests are due to the murder of the African-American Breonna Taylor, who was killed in a confrontation between her boyfriend and the police in March . Demonstrations and protests have also reached the country's two largest cities, New York and Los Angeles, and have led to considerable violence in the second of those capitals.
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