1 Trump Says He’ll Deploy Military To Quell Protests If Needed
President Trump is vowing to deploy the military to quell protests if governors do not take action. In a call with our nation’s governors, Trump said states need to deploy enough force to dominate the streets. Later, he addressed the nation and threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act. "I am mobilizing all available federal resources, civilian and military,” Trump offered. “To stop the rioting and looting, to end the destruction and arson and to protect the rights of law-abiding Americans, including your Second Amendment rights. We are ending the riots and lawlessness that has spread throughout our country. We will end it now.” He listed acts of violence across the country and said they are acts of domestic terror. Trump said they are not acts of peaceful protests. His remarks come amid violent protests across the country over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. As we told you before, Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest for nine-minutes.
2 Coronavirus Update: Over 25,000 Nursing Home Deaths From COVID-19
Over 25-thousand nursing home residents across the U.S. are dead because of coronavirus. That's according to new data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. On top of that, more than 60-thousand residents have also tested positive for the respiratory illness. As for “the people” at large, a study shows social distancing is the most effective way to combat coronavirus – a key points as large crowds have been gathering nationwide in protest. Published in “The Lancet,” the analysis shows virus transmission was much lower with physical distancing of one meter or more compared to that of less than one meter (for reference, one meter is about three-point-three-feet). It adds that protection increases as distance is lengthened.
3 Volunteers Across U.S. Coming Together To Clean Up After Protests
Protests have been happening across the country in response to the killing of George Floyd and now people in those communities are uniting to clean up the aftermath. Some of the protests have left city streets covered in debris and broken glass and hundreds of volunteers are stepping up to clean up their local areas. In Philadelphia, journalist Christie Ileto spotted an “army of volunteers” tackling City Center and Rittenhouse. A twitter user from grand Rapids, Michigan, posted that her “heart is lifted” after seeing hundreds of people downtown cleaning up the city. And in Buffalo, New York, volunteers got to work on the mess “just minutes after the curfew ended,” according to reporter Christy Kern. Cities including Ferguson, Missouri, Seattle, Scottsdale, Arizona, and Atlanta all had people coming out to pitch in and clean up. The group effort is showing the best of the communities and it’s helping people to start healing, like Seattle Police Department Chief Carmen Best, who says she’s “totally inspired” by the community coming together to tackle the damage and destruction.