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A majority of truckers are vowing to halt deliveries to cities that defund or disband their police departments, according to a recent poll.

Protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota on Wednesday afternoon toppled a statue of 15-century explorer Christopher Columbus outside the state’s Capitol building. 

The owner of a manufacturing plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, says he will move his business out of the city after officials failed to protect his livelihood from being set on fire in riots this month. 

The percentage of Minnesota residents who have been tested for the novel coronavirus and have tested positive since the beginning of the pandemic has declined dramatically over the past two weeks, from 10.4 percent on Sunday May 24 to 8.1 percent on Sunday, June 7.

America is too large to have law and order in its streets maintained by the president without local officials’ help, said Ken Blackwell.

Canadian police chief Scott Gilbert kneeled before Black Lives Matter activists clambering on the city war memorial in Peterborough, Ontario, after they asked officers to attend their demonstration and either lie down or “take a knee”. 

A report published Wednesday evening indicated George Floyd had coronavirus approximately two months before his death, though multiple autopsies did not attribute his death to the illness.

“An overwhelming display of force eliminates the need to use force,” said Tom Cotton, calling for use of the Insurrection Act to end riots.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) is upping the charges against Derek Chauvin, the former cop who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck for nearly ten minutes, to second-degree murder, and he intends to charge the three other officers who were on the scene, according to a local report.

There is “no clear evidence” white supremacists are participating in the rioting and looting sweeping U.S. cities across America following the death of George Floyd, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) conceded in a New York Times report published Sunday.

Multiple reports have surfaced in the past week of communists allied with the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua, the chavista regime in Venezuela, and other Latin American leftists surfacing at protests and riots allegedly meant to condemn American police brutality.

A law enforcement official said that the semi-truck caught on camera hurdling towards a group of protesters on I-35W in Minneapolis was likely an accident, according to a report.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement of support to violent rioters burning down homes and businesses throughout the United States this weekend, asserting on Monday, “the world is standing with you.”

China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times repeatedly gloated this weekend over the widespread destruction by radical leftists in the United States, claiming on Monday that “Chinese netizens are cheering” looting and vandalism.

Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) described the conduct of Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as “one of the worst cases of malpractice” he had seen from a governor, offering his remarks in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Jeremiah Ellison, the son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D), declared his support for Antifa on Sunday after President Donald Trump announced that the United States will declare the radical far-left group a terrorist organization. 

A semi truck drove into a crowd marching to protest the death of George Floyd on a portion of I-35 that had been closed off earlier in the day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, late Sunday afternoon.

Municipal leaders have told the media that the vast majority of those arrested in Minneapolis were from out of state, but jail shows just the opposite.

Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other activists have met little resistance from the authorities after flooding the streets of London in an unauthorised protest, despite the British coronavirus regulations.

The University of Minnesota announced this week that it is cutting ties with the Minneapolis Police Department over the death of George Floyd. The university previously used the Minneapolis Police Department for additional support during football games, concerts, and ceremonies on campus.

The governor of Minnesota and at least 12 others plus the District of Columbia have now activated the National Guard amid ongoing rioting and looting sweeping the nation triggered by the death earlier this week of a black man, George Floyd, while in police custody.

A video allegedly made by the hacking group known as “Anonymous” has been published online in which a masked figure threatens to “expose” the Minneapolis Police Department.

The George Floyd unrest spreading across the United States has crossed the Atlantic to Great Britain, with thousands of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other activists taking to the streets of London, with little apparent regard for the coronavirus regulations.

“The National Guard has been released in Minneapolis to do the job that the Democrat Mayor couldn’t do,” Trump wrote, referring to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

The protests across the nation over the death of George Floyd are fueling fears in U.S. cities that the demonstrations could exacerbate the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak, which has disproportionally ravaged minority populations.

More than a dozen staffers working for former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign have donated money to help pay the bail of those arrested in the recent riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington told reporters on Saturday that his agency is using “contact tracing” to identify the associations of rioters arrested in the state on Friday.

Jail records show that the vast number of arrested Minneapolis protesters have Minnesota addresses: 38 of the 45 individuals arrested.

Minnesota Democrat Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan accused “white supremacists” on Saturday of instigating and participating in the widespread riots and looting in her state over the police killing of state resident George Floyd.

More than 170 St. Paul, Minnesota, businesses were looted or damaged during the riots over George Floyd’s death, police said.

Members of an Army Immediate Response Force part of the 82nd Airborne Division have been told to be ready to respond to riots.

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that leftist organizations such as Antifa are responsible for the widespread rioting and looting on Friday after the death of George Floyd.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) on Saturday announced that he will fully mobilize the state’s National Guard amid continued violent unrest in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd. 

Rioters in Brooklyn rocked and threw a molotov cocktail at a police van abandoned in the middle of a street until it caught on fire.

Friday during Minneapolis NBC affiliate KARE’s coverage of the ongoing civil unrest in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, an unidentified man claiming to be a shopping center owner took to the camera to sound off on the situation.

Protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, are defying a city-wide curfew and in some instances clashing with the state’s national guard as the public backlash to the death of George Floyd enter its third night.