THE GOVERNOR of Minnesota said he plans to fully mobilize the state’s National Guard and promised a massive show of force to help quell civil unrest following days of protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
Walz said he was aiming at mobilising more than 1,000 more Guard members, for a total of 1,700, and was considering the potential offer of federal military police.
But he warned that even that might not be enough, saying he expected another difficult night on Saturday.
Walz blamed much of the destruction in Minneapolis on well-organized, out-of-state instigators whose goal was to “destabilize civil society.”
Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington vowed a stronger police presence and a change in tactics “because this is intolerable and we are coming to stop it.”
There had been appeals for calm after protests turned into riots overnight in cities across the US, over the killing of
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