Ohio's entire Democratic congressional delegation, including U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and U.S. Reps Marcia Fudge and Marcy Kaptur, all three of whom's constituents include Cleveland, voiced opposition to the military troops coming onto Cleveland soil.

A former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus whose 11th congressional district is largely Black, Fudge called it "unconstitutional."

Critics say the president is targeting cities led by Democratic mayors.

During Cleveland's riot May 30, one of many nationwide behind Floyd's death by Minneapolis police nearly two-months ago, rioters torched or completely destroyed some five police cars, broke out the windows of multiple businesses, including the downtown Arcade, destroyed some downtown shelters, and threw rocks and boulders at police.

They wrote messages and profanity on some government buildings, and a group of protesters clashed with police.

Police shot off tear gas repeatedly, and in some instances unnecessarily, said activists.

Some 99 protesters, most of them White, and young, were arrested with charges ranging from disorderly conduct to criminal damaging and aggravated rioting.

There were more than 45 felony arrests and practically all of those arrested were from Ohio, mainly Cleveland and its suburbs.

And while there were no casualties, one protester reportedly lost an eye from the debris thrown by a fellow protester.

Given Cleveland's history of excessive force killings against Blacks and a pending consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice for police reforms and the climate nationally relative to police brutality, the upheaval was not at all surprising, sources said, though Cleveland's Black leaders have said for years that Cleveland is a sleepy town when standing up against police brutality.

Cleveland's riot in the downtown area of the city in May proves otherwise.

City officials say that it was a small group of agitators who precipitated the violence.

Other incidents with police and protesters have occurred across the country, including during protests in Oakland, Detroit, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Chicago.

Also center stage at Cleveland's violent protest were Staten Island police murder victim Eric Garner, whom New York police choked to death in 2014, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice, whom Cleveland police gunned down  in 2012 at a park and recreation center on the city's largely White west side, and the death of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old community activist who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas in 2015.

Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, both Black and unarmed but gunned down in a car in 2012 by some 13 non-Black Cleveland cops slinging 137 bullets, were a subject of the protest too.

Floyd, 46, died after since fired White cop Derek Chauvin, the arresting officer who has since been charged with second degree murder and manslaughter and is out on bond awaiting trial, along with three other Minneapolis police officers who were at the scene and later charged, killed him.

Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck during an arrest over a forgery charge, and until he killed him.

A  crowd of Black bystanders looked on in shock.

The other three officers at the scene, all of them subsequently fired and charged with aiding and abetting, did nothing as the Black man cried  for his mother and told officers repeatedly that he could not breathe.

Riots in the city immediately erupted and sparked racial unrest nationwide, unrest that shows no sign of deteriorating any time soon.