Posted on 07/06/2020 1:48:17 PM PDT by Enlightened1
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp has signed an executive order declaring a State of Emergency and authorizing the call up of up to 1,000 National Guard troops in Georgia.
The troops will be deployed as needed to protect state buildings, including the state capitol, the Georgia Department of Public Safety headquarters, the governor’s mansion and the Georgia World Congress Center.
The goal, according to the governor’s office, is to free up state troopers from those locations so they can help patrol the streets of Atlanta.
“Peaceful protests were hijacked by criminals with a dangerous, destructive agenda. Now, innocent Georgians are being targeted, shot, and left for dead,” Kemp said Monday. “This lawlessness must be stopped and order restored in our capital city. I have declared a State of Emergency and called up the Georgia Guard because the safety of our citizens comes first. This measure will allow troops to protect state property and dispatch state law enforcement officers to patrol our streets. Enough with the tough talk. We must protect the lives and livelihoods of all Georgians.”
The order comes after a violent weekend across the city of Atlanta. Thirty-one people were shot in 11 incidents between Friday and Sunday. Five people, including an 8-year-old girl, died.
The Georgia State Patrol headquarters were also vandalized by protesters over the weekend.
Department of Public Safety officials told Channel 2 Action News that a group of 60 to 100 protesters dressed in dark clothing and masks came to the headquarters around 1:05 a.m.
“They were armed with bricks, landscaping bricks, Molotov cocktails, fireworks. Their one mission was to destruct property and that is exactly what they did,” Lt. Stephanie L. Stallings, spokesperson for the Georgia Department of Public Safety.
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This is racist. They should only send in social workers.
I agree, the Governors Mansion is in Buckhead, a beautiful Atlanta neighborhood.
Mayor Bottoms does not want to protect Atlantans, neither black nor white.
Governor Kemp therefore cannot rely on Mayor Bottoms so a State of Emergency is warranted. Smart move Gov. Kemp.
Tik tok on the ferals turning on the NG and the NG returning fire in an impressive way. Another Harpers Ferry/Ft Sumter is waiting to happen.
Do the NG get trained in crowd control? Weapons like cops?
“Peaceful protests were hijacked by criminals with a dangerous, destructive agenda....”
If it’s a liberal (e.g., corrupt, idiotic, and lacking in historical perspective) cause, the term ‘peaceful protests” is the mother of all oxymorons.
Only one way to deal with them.
World Congress center that’s CNN...
LOL
said Lt. Stephanie from under her bed.
Their pimp of a governor realizes that those dogs have gotten so much leash, they could even try a run at the governor’s mansion. Ordinary citizens, even children, can die. But now he’s scared for himself.
No the Speaker of the House moves up into the VP slot if Biden was Prez and left early or was Arkancided......
.....”This should have been done when the riots started”....
Gov. isn’t real bright to have waited as was done.
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take the office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both houses of Congress.
https://www.senate.gov/about/officers-staff/vice-president/VP_Gerald_Ford.htm
I dispute the notion of peaceful protest. While some people involved may be peaceful. The destruction and violence associated with this whole mess is proof that Overall peacefulness has nothing to do with it.
It doesn’t count until you start shooting the rioters (let’s call them what they are - don’t dignify with the labels protestor or demonstrator).
Who was it who said recently:
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
Oh, yeah: PDJT
Good. Time to drop the hammer.
(no way)?
Kamala Harris is on the record favoring everything you favor and is on the record against everything you are against.
Very flexible, has taken all sides on everything.
She has more positions than the Kamala Sutra...
Thank you American Governor with a backbone
May,
you are too new here. Gov. Gump does not have a backbone. Never had and never will. However, his staff sees that the pitchforks are coming and it will not be pretty for him.
In Georgia, we do it differently than other places, we actually hold our elected officials accountable or we make their life miserable.
Trust me. I have fought before and WON against the majority with millions of dollars compared to my couple hundred.
Broken bones are a deterrent.
>> Keep doing nothing but kissing their asses, and they’ll be emboldened to the point where they burn you out of your own homes and kill you when you run into the streets.
Yes, they will — but before then, malicious DAs will arrest and charge the homeowners that aim to protect themselves.
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