[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] flex we go live now to the me Minnesota State capitol, st. Paul. Internationally, a society that does not put equity and inclusion at the center of it is certainly going to eventually come to the places we are at. Inflection,ment of a real change, a moment where the folks out there demanding this are not going to take a commission or a report. They are going to want fundamental change. That is one of the exciting things in the middle of all of this. You can feel a sense of optimism coming back. I want to say to you will hear from the updates, i dont want to paint the picture that its over but i do want to paint a picture that we as minnesotans have regrounded ourselves and it looks to me that there is a clear delineation between the ands are rightfully pained angered wanting to see change and expressing it in lawful ways and what we witnessed several days earlier in the week, those bent on the wanton destruction of the communities most pained. As citizens, has residents of minnesota, we can continue to maintain that. Us a space for a time of unprecedented opportunity to address things that have been around for decades, since the founding or prior to it. Moving in that light, i want to talk a bit about the posture we are in in terms of Law Enforcement on the street. I signed an executive order in consultation with the mayors of minneapolis and st. Paul, twonding the curfew for days, but the times will change, from 10 p. M. To 4 a. M. One of the reasons for this is that minnesotans have taken charge of this. The only way these things work is what we have seen the last two nights, the vast majority of i buy it and those that dont are able to address it. Some of you witnessed this on many of your stations and live tv, there were protesters that state out past the curfew in some cases i think is of the truck,near miss with the it disrupted some of their schedules. I think some of them are very intent on going home and doing that. Clearly aarticulating peaceful right to demonstrate but they also understood that once they got out past that time that the interaction with the police that some of you witnessed, i think it was gratifying to see how citizens approached it and how our Law Enforcement approached it. The very humanized and orderly way that people were processed and treated in the interactions in order to understand each other, for me i think it was the way that people expect this to happen. So, that curfew will go in place and we will think about the strategic levels of what we have. General jensen will be speaking about a transition of our National Guard troops back to their homes and their jobs, that is what they are. They take time out of their jobs and many of them will be going back, some of them working as news reporters, camera operators, teachers. That will begin to happen and it will be done as general jensen talks about, in an orderly and organized way. The strategy that we need to , the Multiagency Command Center will be stood in place as we manage communications. I think that some of you have now witnessed the complexity of Something Like this. It doesnt look like the movies. You have to get everybody on the same frequencies. When there is an operation moving in unison like you have seen the last few days with no prior training together, its a testament to the leadership of these agencies. They will continue to operate until the time comes when we transition out of that. Its worth noting that this week as we understand it right now there will be a significant event with the funeral memorial of george floyd. I believe it is scheduled for anrsday and it will be important event both for the city of minneapolis, for minnesota and the nation, to watch that process of celebrating a life that was taken in front of us. An opportunity for leadership. When i say leadership, what we are saying and seeing now is that where there is a void of leadership, you have leaders and communities that have always been there, putting their voices forward. That will be in conjunction with as we said yesterday the idea of protecting Peaceful Protesters. For more incident were more detail on this, the incident with the truck, i think it will live with us forever. I was watching that in live time when it happened. I was breathless as i watched it because i thought i was going to witness dozens or hundreds killed in the immediate crash and my fear was the intentional thought of detonating that truck. The preliminary with the interviews of the driver was frustrated. He got ahead of that , closing in sections, and from his perspective he went around it, saw the crowd, went around the other cars. He did break is what you see. I think the amazing thing, first of all, is that no one was hurt, but the crowd then responded in many cases on sheer adrenaline, fear, and Everything Else that was happening, but the driver noted afterward that he was told he didnt kill anybody, he noted that the vast majority of the crowd were protecting him. The protesters were protecting the driver who they had just seen a p her to run into the crowd because they realize how dangerous situation was. For those of you old enough to remember the horrific scene in los angeles during rodney king of the driver was in the vehicle severely injured, Peaceful Protesters in minneapolis and , after what we saw, appeared at the time he an attempt to kill them. Im grateful to be able to tell that, because i still am in shock of what i thought we might have to be talking about. Didll note that the event have some disruptive impact on the movement of folks last night, but it still worked out. I think again, an amazing thing of no deaths, no injuries, and last night a report of one fire that is still under investigation and cannot be confirmed and was immediately extinguished. Got an opportunity here to change the direction of where this has gone. We have opened up incredibly important conversations. Yesterday we saw attorney general allison assume the lead in the case to start with. Many more things need to be done at this point in time, but minnesota, this is our chance. I would say this, with the curfew, its a june 1, we are still in the middle of a pandemic. I will give you an update at the end where we talk about the number of tests we are doing being up. Massivelanning for mobile testing in the cities for folks. For those few peacefully protesting, again, if you are starting to get symptoms of covid19, please isolate. We will have to do some contact tracing, which i have not wrap my mind around, what that would look like at this size. June 1 restaurants are opening up outside. Its going to be 85 degrees this afternoon. We have got restaurants across the state that are ready to do that. This is a time for the community to gather outside, gather outside in the early evening and experience what minnesota has to offer and lets have some of that happen, get some of that going once again. With that i would like to turn it over to commissioner harrington, department of Public Safety. Thank you, governor. John harrington, commissioner of Public Safety. We watched yesterday afternoon, as many of you did, two really startling events. Theatched, about 3 00 in afternoon, between 5000 and 7000 people came to demonstrate at u. S. Bank. We saw moms with their kids. E saw elders in the community we saw young people coming together in what was a very large and very peaceful demonstration at u. S. Bank. We also saw that group move onto the freeway. And then we saw what can only be described as the moment, i cant use that term in polite company, but when you saw the truck going into the crowd and you just winced because of what you imagined you were to see with bodies under the tires of the truck. And when you didnt see the bodies under the tires of the miracle. Was frankly a the driver was doing 70 Miles Per Hour as we understand it, in that range, and even with hitting the brakes, even with dry pavement, we got lucky. Or there was something miraculous happening there. Once that happened for we continued our operational posture in terms of working through the curfew and our protest, prevention, the riot prevention model. The rapidresponse team moved and you could literally see it in real time. Bikes and cars and trucks moving into the protest area around the truck, making sure that we could control what we might what we thought might turn into another really bad situation. Police officers responding, they responded with restraint and to containre able the situation in such a way where we really did you like we had control over it. It took hours to continue to move that along. At the end of the night we really did feel that the interaction was right at the right tone. We had moms with their kids leave because they really were, that was early on in this. There was no curfew and it was to sorttunity for us this out. There were folks who didnt want to leave and were clearly there by design. I think we made good decisions throughout. Today we started the morning out , 7 00 in the morning, looking at the intel. Looking for additional information. For signs that we would have disruption. We had a preventative could preventative patrol model similar to what we have had over the last few days, National Guard, municipalities, ramsey and hennepin, how working the streets today, prepared to rapidly respond if we have disruption or riot. And also prepared to protect the First Amendment rights of people who are coming to protest. We have been working with community and will continue to work with community. Inther it is at the memorial chicago, little earth, or the twin or all over the twin cities area. Peace officers have been working to keep the peace. That is what the Community Wants and it is what you want. This afternoon we will be moving into a more multiagency coordinated presence, bringing more folks in from the suburbs and other sheriffs departments, can you doing to integrate them state patrol,sota the department of National Resources and National Guard, once again going out to patrol to make sure the curfew is make sure that lawful and peaceful demonstrations, their First Amendment rights are protected and to make sure that writer behave riot or behavior is not allowed to be the story of the day. Time at this time i turn it over to Major General tom jensen of the minnesota National Guard. Good morning, everyone. Adjunct general of the minnesota National Guard and as the governor just, this morning we received guidance from the governor as it relates to demobilization of the minnesota nephew bogart, returning part of them back to their hometowns and armories. This is not an order to return the entire organization back home. Any redeployment is correlated coordinated by the magic and approved by the governor. [no audio] state patrol and the department of safety. Movement and as as weas this afternoon take units were not respire required to respond in st. Paul or minneapolis and allow them to return home and begin the process of turning back, with no more status as a citizen soldier. P. M. , in the 9 48 vicinity of i35 and washington avenue, an unknown vehicle driving at a high rate of the towards a minnesota National Guardsmen and their police counterparts. The rapidly approaching vehicle refused to slow down as it approached guardsmen and Police Officers. Initial questioning into our National Guardsmen indicates that this element responded with verbal and nonverbal signals for the vehicle to stop. The vehicle continued at a high rate of speed. Nonlethal weapon methods were engaged on the vehicle to again have the vehicle stopped, but it continued at a high rate of speed. At that time, in accordance with the escalation of force, our soldier fired three rounds from his rifle in response to a perceived and legitimate threat to him and the Minnesota Police officers he was in direct support of. The vehicle changed course and fled the scene. At this time, no injuries have been reported. We have followed all procedures and reported the event to the Governors Office and the chief of the National Guard bureau. As is required by regulation anytime a Service Member discharges the weapon, regardless of reason, we have assigned an investigating officer for the incident. Week,nally, this specifically this weekend for minnesota National Guard has seen the best in the worst of minnesota. We have seen the devastation of community and we have seen great ,itizens coming back out picking up the pieces with their friends, neighbors, and strangers. We have had a small part in that, the privilege and the. Onor minneapolis and st. Paul are our communities, to. We live here, we work here, the minnesota National Guard is here for you. Now i will be followed by colonel langer. Thank you, general. I have the honor and privilege of serving as chief of the Minnesota State patrol. I will be brief, last night was a kind of text civil disobedience issue that we are training to work with on a regular basis and people saw a strategy that lawenforcement likes him better likes better than munitions and chemical weapons. Last night i think people saw a much Slower Development of the crowd control strategy with a tactic of encirclement that works in a very careful, methodical, save, and easier way to take people into custody. Most of which want to be taken into custody for their actions for various reasons. I echo the sentiment and i was bh to see law officers, louvers, shares deputies, Police Officers, this is a multiour interaction. Multihour interaction it warmed my heart to see those Police Officers interacting with the protesters under arrest, communicating, talking, laughing, being human together. That is what i like to see and what we like to see and what makes us proud. Enough was said about the semi on the 35 w bridge. I had the same this role reaction is the Traffic Safety professional but what it could have been versus what it was, the freeway is just a dangerous place to be when you are protesting. There are many places to exercise your First Amendment rights. We continue to facilitate that, the freeway is just not the place to do it. Though we tried as hard as we , its keep people safe just really difficult and yesterday is a shining example of what he said for a long time about the danger of those. Nothing short of a miracle in terms of the lack of injury involved. Last and least, we are not least, we are prepared, the Agency Response is still there. The curfew adjustment has been announced. Other than that you hear Law Enforcement saying 10 00, the idea being its a curfew and in order, but what you dont here is i would like to ask people to operate with it. Maybe thats different, thats maybe not common, but that is our ask and i am a speaking on behalf of law force and. We would like you to operate, that is helpful for us. We will be there and we are ready and willing and we know the vast, met a vast, vast majority of the minnesota is around st. Paul are helping and trying and we are just hoping for a peaceful, genuine expression of a First Amendment right. We look forward to that and it is my ask for the future who we get back to worry who we were in this state. Will changes a gate it over to mayor jacob frey. With that, i think i will change it over to mayor jacob frey. Thank you area this has clearly been a crisis unlike any our city or state has ever seen and it is clear that it demand at ace date supported response. The governor mentioned a little bit ago that we have not seen this kind of mobilization since world war ii and i want to thank the governor for the support we have gotten over the last several days. It has been essential for the safety and welfare of all of minneapolis. I wont get too much into the tanker truck, but this just terrifying instance also shows a lot of bravery. Bravery, those Peaceful Protesters that were willing to help the individual in the truck. Took weekendrs clear action to remove them from the bridge because we didnt know what was on the tanker. We didnt know it was explosives or the intent of the individual and by focusing on the bridge we quickly got First Responders to the action. There was also an Early Morning fire in north minneapolis. A suspected arson. We have a long way to go and although north minneapolis has not been the center of a lot of mobilization, some beautiful things are happening there. Providing for one another, free food. 35 texts and calls. What it says to me is that they are strong and well cared for. Cantnt you know, we use site of the fact that today today yesterday and today we have seen peaceful protest all around the city. I visited Lake Bloomington and the memorial for george floyd in chicago. On chicago. It was therapeutic for me to see people in Community Loving each other, looking out for their andhbors, celebrating peace of the Beautiful Life that was george floyd, heart warming even in the most difficult of circumstances. It was heavy. People are obviously sad and angry, but their commitment to seeing change Going F