“I am officially introducing a state of emergency. The curfew takes effect immediately until 6:00 AM today. It will resume from 8:00 p.m. Saturday evening until 6:00 a.m. Sunday, ”he wrote on Twitter.

According to him, the protests are accompanied by fires, thefts, threats against journalists.

“And it’s all in the midst of a pandemic, when people have lost almost everything,” he wrote and called it “disgusting.” 

Earlier, Governor of Georgia in the United States, Brian Kemp, announced the introduction of an emergency regime in Fulton County with a center in Atlanta amid protests over the death of African American George Floyd after his detention by police in Minneapolis.