Protests have spread to more than 20 US cities as police and the National Guard attempt to quell riots that have escalated since the death of George Floyd
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The move by Walz to activate all of the state's available Guard troops - up to 13,200 - comes after protesters defied a newly imposed curfew on Friday night and set a string of businesses on fire, including a bank, a restaurant and a gas station.“Quite candidly, right now, we do not have the numbers,” Mr Walz said. “We cannot arrest people when we’re trying to hold ground because of the sheer size, the dynamics and the wanton violence that’s coming out there.
The president tweeted Saturday he watched from inside the White House as officers "let the 'protesters' scream & rant as much as they wanted, but whenever someone .... got too frisky or out of line, they would quickly come down on them, hard - didn't know what hit them."Trump said if the protesters had managed to breach the White House fence, "they would ... have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen.
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