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Georgia Declares State of Emergency, Activates National Guard as Violence
Flares in US Cities

Associated Press

   ATLANTA, GEORGIA - Georgia's governor declared a state of emergency
   early Saturday to activate the state National Guard as violence flared
   in Atlanta and in dozens of cities nationwide following the death in
   Minnesota of George Floyd after a white officer pressed a knee into his
   neck while taking him into custody.

   Another 500 Guard soldiers were mobilized in Minneapolis and
   surrounding cities, where Floyd died and an officer faced charges
   Friday in his death.

   The Guard was also on standby in the District of Columbia, where a
   crowd grew outside the White House and chanted curses at President
   Donald Trump inside. Some protesters tried to push through barriers set
   up by the U.S. Secret Service along Pennsylvania Avenue, and threw
   bottles and other objects at officers wearing riot gear, who responded
   with pepper spray.

   A person was killed in downtown Detroit just before midnight after
   someone in an SUV fired shots into a crowd of protesters near the
   city's Greektown entertainment district, police said. And deputies in
   San Jose, California, fired at an SUV that reportedly ran into
   demonstrators.

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