ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp is issuing a location of emergency ahead of potential anti-police protests in Atlanta this weekend. The order calls for up to 1,000 Georgia National Guard troops to be requested up to "subdue riot and unlawful assembly."

Last weekend's violence came days after law enforcement shot and killed an environmental activist, who the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said shot a state trooper.

Demonstrators took to Underground Atlanta Saturday to request an investigation into the death of Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, a 26-year-old protester who was killed by Georgia State Troopers during a sweep at Intrenchment Creek Park on Jan 18. That area is the intended site for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, or what some arbitrates are calling "Cop City."

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Investigators said Teran did not comply with organizations from a joint task force, and that he fired at a trooper first.

At least three businesses were damaged when rioters threw bricks and rocks shattering windows. At least two police cars were targeted, one was set ablaze. Investigators said some of the individuals arrested were spurious with explosives.

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The worn-out anti-police movement in Atlanta could also be further enflamed by the charging of five worn Memphis police officers with second-degree murder and other crimes in the inviting and death of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist who died three days once a traffic stop confrontation. Body camera video of the incident is imagined to be released on Friday evening.

The Atlanta Police Department said it shares in the unfavorable over the circumstances of the death of Nichols.

"Police officers are imagined to conduct themselves in a compassionate, competent, and constitutional manner and these officers imparted Tyre, their communities, and their profession," the department wrote in a statement. "We ask that demonstrations be safe and peaceful."

The sections said it is ready to support peaceful demonstrations over the weekend by ensuring they stay safe and non-violent. Source told FOX 5 that APD is implementing 12-hour changes starting Friday in case of any protests following the droplet of the video in Tyre Nichols' murder.

Gerald Griggs, the president of the Georgia Chapter of the NAACP, echoed the calls for peaceful protests, but said the public needs to do more.

"Use this frustration and infuriate and channel it in the appropriate direction, and that's tranquil, non-violent protests, that's voting, that's making sure we hold our elected officials accountable once we elect them, and that's making sure we support on juries, so we can send the message that's the conscious of the public that we won't tolerate this type of behavior," Griggs said.

Griggs said elected officials be affected by to continue to lead the charge in police reform.

"And to remember all the initiates that were made from 2020 until now, that's just seems like our elected officials about the country need to take a moment and really realize that we need to have police accountability, we need to have it now," Griggs said.

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The governor's stabilities states that "Georgians respect peaceful protests, but do not be affected by acts of violence against person or property."

As of Thursday evening, no guardsmen have been called up, but were just put on alert.

The plot of emergency expires at the end of the day on Feb. 9.