burned across the citythe damage in us cities came as many americans plan to return to inperson church services on sunday for the first time in several weeks since the pandemic forced a ban on large gatherings pastors in pulpits across the country will likely be urging peace amid the rubble of riotstrump appeared to cheer on the tougher tactics saturday night commending the national guard deployment in minneapolis declaring no games and saying police in new york city must be allowed to do their jobpresumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden condemned the violence as he continued to express common cause with those demonstrating after floyds deaththe act of protesting should never be allowed to overshadow the reason we protest biden said in a statement saturday nightovernight curfews were imposed in more than a dozen major cities nationwide including atlanta denver los angeles minneapolis san francisco and seattlethis weeks unrest recalled the riots in los angeles nearly 30 years ago after the acquittal of the white police officers who beat rodney king a black motorist who had led them on a highspeed chase the protests of floyds killing have gripped many more cities but the losses in minneapolis have yet to approach the staggering totals los angeles saw during five days of rioting in 1992 when more than 60 people died 2000plus were injured and thousands arrested with property damage topping 1 billionbut not all protests were marred by violence in juneau alaska local police joined protesters at a rally in front of a giant whale sculpture on the citys waterfrontwe dont tolerate excessive use of force juneau police chief ed mercer told a gathering where most people wore masks and some sang alaska native songsthe show of force in minneapolis came after three days when police largely avoided engaging protesters and after the state poured in more than 4000 national guard troops to minneapolis and said the number would soon rise to nearly 11000the situation in minneapolis is no longer in any way about the murder of george floyd said gov tim walz who also said local forces had been overmatched the previous day it is about attacking civil society instilling fear and disrupting our great citiessome residents were glad to see the upheaval dissipatingl live here i havent been able to sleep said iman muhammad whose neighborhood saw multiple fires set friday night muhammad said she sympathized with peaceful protests over floyds death but disagreed with the violence wrong doesnt answer wrongwatch us police protesters clash over george floyds death