NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 5/28/2020

(SPORADIC SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE THURSDAY)

Protests and looting continued today and into the night in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area following the police killing of George Floyd.     One person now reported dead in the sometimes violent confrontations.   That person killed last night in the area of the protests with a suspect in custody.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey calling for calm and assistance from the National Guard.   GOVERNOR TIM WALZ CALLING UP THE GUARD LATE THIS AFTERNOON WITH 500 MEMBERS ACTIVATED......

Bus service being suspended this afternoon in Minneapolis.   All bus and commuter rail service suspended through the weekend.

Another Target store looted today, this time in the city of St. Paul.      Target closing 24 stores in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area........MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE

The mayhem in the Minneapolis streets captured in a live Australian television report just after 530 pm Minneapolis time, Friday morning in Australia.     A stabbing incident caused police to intervene in the midst of the rioters.....NINE NEWS AUSTRALIA VIDEO

Late tonight fires set in both Minneapolis and St. Paul with large numbers of protesters on the streets in both cities.

The Third Precinct police station near where Floyd was killed torched late tonight by the protesters......

UNICORN RIOT LIVE VIDEO FEED

KARE-TV MINNEAPOLIS LIVE VIDEO

ALSO TONIGHT IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY A PROTEST OVER THE DEATH OF A BLACK WOMAN DURING A NO-KNOCK POLICE RAID IN THAT CITY MARCH 13TH WITH GUNSHOTS HEARD AS A CROWD ATTACKED A PRISONER TRANSPORT VEHICLE.   FIREWORKS FROM PROTESTERS AND TEAR GAS REPORTED FIRED BY POLICE......WHAS-TV NEWS REPORT.......WLKY-TV REPORT

Russia says that the latest US sanctions will not stop Iranian efforts to reconfigure their nuclear facilities only slow them down.     The Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova characterized the US moves to suspend sanction waivers and sanction two Iranian nuclear scientists as harmful......TASS NEWS STORY

In China the parliament approving the new security law for Hong Kong.....China's leadership to approve the legislation next......BBC NEWS STORY

President Trump signing an executive order regarding social media in response to Twitter's move to "fact-check" a Presidential tweet on voter fraud earlier this week.

On Twitter the President hailing today as:

"Big Day for Social Media and FAIRNESS!"....TWITTER POST

Details of his order will emerge as we move into Newsdump Friday but the President said he is supporting free speech and enabling the Attorney General of the United States and state's attorney general's to go after deceptive business practices of social media companies.......

The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying that groups of six people will be allowed to meet starting next week provided they meet outdoors......

Russia's representative to the World Health Organization warning of an "anti-vaccine lobby" that "gets louder and omnipresent".     Melita Vujnovic making her comments to the Russian Academy of Sciences saying the health care system cannot fight against it alone....TASS NEWS STORY

South Korea moving its capital city Seoul into a mild lockdown status advising against large gatherings among other things because of a spike in coronavirus cases.

According to the estimate by John Hopkins University, the number of COVID-19 deaths in the US wen't over 100,000 Wednesday evening......

The coronavirus story around the world as reported by BBC News today on its blog.......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 5/28/2020

In brief that's the way it really is Thursday May 28th, 2020........