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| Georgia calls in NATIONAL GUARD after protests in Atlanta descend into chaos with LOOTING & ARSON (VIDEOS) | |
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| Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has activated National Guard units and declared an emergency as demonstrations in Atlanta escalate into riots and looting, sparked by the police killing of a Minneapolis man earlier this week. | |
| Mayhem has erupted in downtown Atlanta, where arsonists have set fire to several cars, including a police vehicle, with reports of several other fires around the city. | |
| “At the request of Mayor Keisha Bottoms and in consultation with public safety and emergency preparedness officials, I have issued a State of Emergency for Fulton County to activate as many as 500 Georgia Guard troops to protect people and property in Atlanta,” Kemp said in a statement posted to Twitter early on Saturday morning, adding that they would “deploy immediately.” | |
| Videos shared to social media showed smashed up storefronts and looting in progress around the city, particularly at the Lenox Square shopping mall, where a number of law enforcement helicopters were seen hovering overhead. | |
| Earlier on Friday, a rally elsewhere in the city was dispersed by police, pushing a crowd of demonstrators to the nearby CNN headquarters, where they staged a raucous protest, smashing police cars and windows at the building’s entrance. | |
| A heavy police presence was deployed at the headquarters’ front door to keep the protesters out. |