They resulted in widespread property damage, numerous injuries and at least one death: Police in Detroit said shots were fired from a vehicle into a crowd of demonstrators there, killing a 19-year-old man.

In Minneapolis ⁠ — where Floyd died Monday after a white officer pressed his knee into the 46-year-old’s neck⁠ — businesses were torched and shots were fired at police, who struggled to enforce an 8 p.m.

In Louisville, protesters mourned Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old former emergency medical technician who was shot to death in March by three police officers inside her apartment.

Organizers in Austin are planning to march this weekend for an unarmed Mike Ramos after an April 24 incident in which police shot and killed him inside his vehicle.

The Washington Post’s police shooting database has shown that year after year, about 1,000 people are shot and killed by police.

For Taylor, death came March 12 when police executed a search warrant at her home looking for a man who did not live there.

Fires were lit inside a police building, businesses were broken into and shooting erupted in Portland, Ore., where police declared a riot hours after a peaceful protest disintegrated into bedlam.

According to the Oregonian, hundreds of demonstrators in downtown Portland began breaking windows at the Multnomah County Justice Center, home to the jail and police station, and lit a fire inside while workers were present.

Just before midnight, the police declared the protest an “unlawful assembly.”.

Businesses were torched, shots were fired on police and demonstrations turned violent across the Twin Cities early Saturday in what Minnesota Gov.

More than 2,500 state and local police and National Guard troops — a force larger than the response to riots of the late 1960s — fanned out to protect firefighters trying to extinguish blazes and enforce an 8 p.m.

The governor said he takes responsibility for underestimating the level of violence that erupted after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s arrest, explaining his force was outnumbered by the thousands of people who spilled onto the city’s streets.

Jensen, adjutant general of the Minnesota National Guard, confirmed that the state had not been consulted but felt it was prudent of the Pentagon to activate military police in the event they need help restoring order.

About 1,000 more National Guard troops reporting for duty this weekend will join the police force in the Twin Cities.

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