'When the looting starts, the shooting starts': Trump weighs in on Minneapolis protests

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Minneapolis: US President Donald Trump has weighed in on the Minnesota protests in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody, tweeting "when the looting starts, the shooting starts".

The National Guard has been deployed to the streets to help quell the riots, after Trump earlier threatened to bring them in if "the very weak radical left mayor Jacob Frey" didn't bring the city under control.

Amid intense national scrutiny and a heavy police presence, black CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his television crew were arrested by Minnesota police on live television.