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orders of blood. played important role protecting human. touch face. cities across the us begin another day of protests against the killing of an unarmed black man by police in los angeles demonstrators burned a police cruiser. and i stand before you in firm opposition to anyone exploiting this tragic. attack and met us president trump just protesters to stop the violent demonstrations.
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hello i'm down in jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up buckling under the pressure peru's health system is on the brink of collapse as cases of coronavirus soar plus. 3. 10. and a new era for space travelers to nasa astronauts blast off from their mission to the international space station. welcome to the program cities across the united states are entering a 4th day of violent protests as anger over the death of george floyd a black man who died in police custody continues to spread new protests are broken out in los angeles where a police cruiser was set on fire other demonstrations are being held in new york miami and chicago in minnesota where george floyd was killed the governor says he's
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fully mobilizing the national guard for the 1st time in the state's history but warns he still doesn't have enough troops meanwhile president trump says the authorities that need to get tougher and offer to send in the national military this while appearing to encourage a counter protest by his own supporters well the continuing demonstrations came despite derek show of in the police officer who knelt on george floyd's neck being charged with murder. ok let's cross live now to allison herrera a journalist in minneapolis alison so many outlets is gearing up for another night of protests just bring us up to date with what's been happening on the streets there. oh yes hi i was just to add a 31st in nicolette over in the south side here in minneapolis where last night's demonstration and i'm dressed took place you know burned out auto parts store that has been family owned. a wells fargo set on fire the post office set on
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fire but people were cleaning up people were sweeping up all of the debris and doing the best job that they could and people were getting stuff out of the post office people were you know cleaning things out of the wells fargo so there's been a lot of cleanup along lake street but thousands of people and amidst that there was a very peaceful demonstration that was taking place right in the middle of all of it and allison the governor says he's fully mobilizing the national guard for the 1st time in the state's history but is that likely to inflame the situation even more. i'd you know i'm not sure about that i know that so he has 2500 troops that are said to be out on the streets tonight at a press previous press conference that happened about an hour and a half ago the governor said that you know this is the work of outside agitators they're not here to make a difference and his lieutenant governor peggy plan again also said you know it said along with other faith and community leaders that were that have been involved
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in organizing peaceful protests to say telling people to stay home and if by a curfew because if you're not staying home and abiding by that curfew then you're then you're just it you know not aiding and abetting but you're just encouraging more people to come out and you know these outside groups to. destroy the community and allison just a final thought from you i mean what more details do we know about the arrest of david children that's the former policeman who knelt down on george floyd's net what's happened to him and the 3 other police officers well so the other 3 officers have not been taken into custody so far but i did read out from the star tribune this morning is that 2 of them have actually their locations are i know one is a lawyer for one a. former officer said that he has left the state another person and another
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one of the former officers is with family and then derek jovan himself that he is i'm his bail is set at $500000.00 his wife from the east a letter to the media yesterday filing for divorce and also expressing grief and sadness over the death of george floyd or to allison herrera there live for us in minneapolis allison thank you for that let's cross over now to los angeles and talk to rob reynolds he's on the phone for us now rob so just bring us up to date with what's happening there. well there's a large demonstration going on in the middle of the city there and a place called the fairfax district this is a. busy kind of upscale shopping area and there are hundreds and hundreds of protesters we see from pictures from shot from helicopters above that there are a couple of fires burning one appears to be a police car other police cars seem to have been vandalized a city bus stop. van covered in graffiti as
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a thin line of police officers were trying to gradually push these demonstrators back out just within the last half hour really the mayor of los angeles eric our city declared there would be a curfew beginning at 8 pm local time that's about 4 hours from now in the downtown area of los angeles which saw some violence and violent confrontations and again more arson last night. carr said he urged everyone to take a deep breath and go back home and saying that violence and burning fire setting is dishonoring the memory of george floyd the man who was killed by a police officer in minneapolis on monday 1 in another part of the city beverly hills well known as a very wealthy area of the united states another demonstration was underway and the
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black lives matter co-founder patrice koehler's told a group in beverly hills we are living in the middle of an uprising we're in an uprising both black 9 life now it is unclear how this is obviously unclear how this is all going to get sorted out whether people will heed the mayor's plea to leave. or whether things will be even worse and excuse me as the sun sets it's still broad daylight here in los angeles as you can see from these pictures but. that has not deterred the demonstrators from doing what they're doing and the expression of rage that it's reached from coast to coast across the united states. i believe you know exacerbated by increased racial tensions over the past 34 years the rise of the all right the utter confusion caused by the coronavirus pandemic all of these
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things are contributing to this sort of tinderbox situation that we see. erupting all over the united states most notably as you can see right now in los angeles and rob we've seen in the past race related riots take place in the city of los angeles how does this compare to that. of course in 1902 to the police. beating of rodney king an unarmed black man was did you tapes and that videotape was widely circulated the city erupted in very deadly riots some of the worst in u.s. history left large swathes of the city in ashes this has not. it seems that level of violence yet but it is notable that the causes the root causes of police violence. violence at least
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between police officers or perpetrated by police officers however you want to put it against unarmed black men it's at the root both of the 1992 riots and the riots that we're seeing all over the country here today and over the past several days and if you look at ferguson missouri a few years ago with. the uprisings there again police activity was at the root so it is a societal problem live for us in los angeles rob thank you for that well chaotic scenes in new york too as crowds gathered in the streets blocking traffic police in some parts of the city seem to be great they outnumbered office as a been trying to disperse the protesters there that's been a zonda who joins us live now from new york so this is the 3rd day of protests in the big apple just bring us up to date what's been happening there. now we've seen
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several hours of protests throughout the city of more than a dozen different protests throughout new york city at this very hour this is one of the largest what they're seeing right now thousands of marching down broadway street here on new york city they are mad they are upset they want change and they are not happy right now this protest here goes on for more than 10. and this is just one of several been seen everybody there quite frankly has been saying that. and if they're tired of this and that's why you see these protests in these numbers it's all been very useful but what has happened is a lot of young people out at these protests and that's. here and see me bring brooklyn philadelphia as well as neighboring new jersey for the scenes like this
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are being replicated throughout new york city right now and might go well into the evening again this is the 3rd night of protests that we've seen here many protests but haven't seen anything quite like this i'm gay what sort of official response of we've seen from the mayor and the governor and i'll be seeing more police on the streets. we are seeing a lot of police presence everywhere quite frankly both the mayor and the governor of new york say that they stand with the protesters that they. are upset by what they saw in minneapolis they too say they want justice however they are urging people in new york city not to riot not to do any sort of damage to any buildings or anything like that and we have not seen that so for this evening which is a good sign but both the mayor and the governor at least are saying that they support the protesters broke tell you you talk to people out here and they don't
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want to hear any of it they say they don't want to hear any more from any politicians they say it's time for them to take to the streets and most of this is going to be unlike anything this country has ever seen before and they just a final thought i mean new yorkers will be remembering they had a similar case back in 2014 when gone and also an unarmed black man was also killed off the white police held him in a chokehold. yeah that's true eric garner was african-american man that was killed in a choke hold here in new york city and he was heard on tape saying i think i'm the pivot around so you can see more you should on. him as well on tape that led to really the black lives movement it was started here with the death of gardner as you mentioned so there's a lot of people here that remember that and they say. we remember that 6 and we were told that there would be justice after that and they're saying now out on the street saying now here we are you know 4 years later and now we're having to do
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this again so there really is a sense of new yorkers here especially the young people that you see out here which make up the majority of it saying we are fed up seen it before we don't want to see it ever again i'm dave you've been out and about talking to protest as for most of the day what what's the underlying feeling there what are they telling you. they're saying 2 things number one is that they're that when i talk to especially the young people as young as 16 years old they're saying that they're tired they're tired they just screw it i talked to was 16 years old he said i'm tired of this and she said i'm brock and i don't want to repeat be fearful of my life in this country that's number one a theme that we're hearing over and over again and then we're also hearing from people who are here and you know what happened in many many applets what really triggered the anger on the streets here is that it was on the ground handcuffed and
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have video show be officer on his neck for almost 9 minutes and a lot of people have mentioned that out here they said that just watching that in their words was watching a cold in their words a cold blooded murder and they said there is absolutely no justification for it and they say that's why they're out on the streets in scenes like this all over new york city right now all right there live for us in new york city gabe thank you for that or trump is also warned that he won't tolerate mob violence during the demonstrations my administration has opened a civil rights investigation and i have asked the attorney general and the justice department to expedite it i understand the pain that people are feeling we support the right of peaceful protesters. and we hear their police but what we are now seeing on the streets of our cities has nothing to do
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with justice or with peace the memory of george floyd is being dishonored by rioters looters and anarchists. let's go to my camera he joins us live now from washington d.c. where things are also pretty frantic there too michael talk about about minneapolis no 2nd let's talk about d.c. 1st where you are we know that protesters were outside the white house earlier on tell us what's happening there now. but it's been a fairly limited protest but what force of motives that in the course of the morning president tweeted it's going to be back at night at the white house now this was interpreted as calling on his conservative supporters to mount a counter protest and the facility of the white house following the demonstrations that took place friday now this deeply angered at washington's mayor who accuse president trump of attempting to foment unrest by calling on his supporters to
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stage a counter demonstration this between the district's mayor and the president certainly gaining in in temper the president also tweeting in the course of the morning that if the demonstrators had got across they would have been met with all some firepower and vicious dogs and the washington mayor interpreted this as a throwback to the 60 you saw dogs being released unleashed on black american protesters so certainly the mayor of the city absolutely angered by president donald trump's position on this and as stated in his tweets it must be pointed out though in that demonstration outside the white house or near the white house in the course of the day there was no sign whatsoever of anybody that's make america great again and that's a brand of president trump's campaign but no sign of anybody actually reacting to his tweet in any way which is of course a great relief to those attempting to enforce law and order in that area mike
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meanwhile president trump says he's ready to send in the national military to minneapolis but does he have the power to deploy the army at a local level. well to put it bluntly no he doesn't but plus a comma tartus which was a lot of cost way back in the 1903 which expressly forbids a president from deploying any u.s. troops within u.s. soil without express permission of congress there's another act as well the insurrection act which does allow for troops to be deployed under very narrow processes 1st of all the governor has to request said deployment or the state legislature secondly they are there in a support role they cannot for example a wrist people now all of that being said they are it is understood troops on standby these are military police units now they have been moved from a 4 day deployment bases to
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a 4 hour deployment place to bases the pentagon saying that they just want to the troops to be ready should govern all state legislature requests their deployment but bottom line president trump does not have the right to take unilateral action that is governed very strictly under the constitution or i tell my kind of there in washington d.c. mike thank you. well let's speak now to reverend raphael warnock in atlanta ga he's the pastor of the ebenezer baptist church that's a role which martin luther king jr held back in the 1960 is reverend warnock let's talk 1st about the feelings within the black community in minneapolis clearly people extremely angry that yet another unarmed black man has been killed by a white policeman how would you describe the underlying feeling then and also in many other u.s. cities where protests are taking place even the way you are. there is a deep sense of pain. and anguish in a moment like this the murder. of george flu it is
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a part of an ongoing. and tragic saga that we've seen all over and over again it's like watching a bad movie over and over again and i think you hear that deep sense of desperation and in the voices of young people who are rising up from minneapolis to atlanta saying i'm tired and as they say that i think not only have they were exploited but i think of briana taylor i think of. a model. here in the state of georgia who was attacked by. vigilantes to aggregate it to themselves the kind of police brutality that took the lie not only of george lloyd but you know the list goes on and on and on right and. you're going to go and in the air guard a case we saw a man's life taken from him in
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a chokehold as he said over and over again i can't breathe 5 years it took 5 years to get the officer fired and no one was ever convicted and here we are again and so there's understandably a deep sense of pressure. richmond people feeling but we would encourage people to protest with pete's ok so the governor says no he's going to deploy the fool national guard and president trump is threatening to send in the national army to stop the protests is not likely to inflame the situation on the streets and make matters even worse do you think well i think that in recent years we have seen. military weaponry got on very on american streets and ironically this is part of what has i think inflamed the conditions that we're seeing right now. it's interesting to hear mr trump speak in this way just a few weeks ago a short few weeks ago we saw. we saw folks marching and
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rioting as it were in the state of michigan and its response was very very different i think people can feel whether it's. about your authentic whether or not you hear where they're coming from dr king used to say that riots are the language of the kurds we don't support this kind of looting but we also don't support. presidents who tweet about shooting this is a dangerous situation robin will not just a final thought we know that one of the officers involved in this case has been arrested but that hasn't stopped the violence in the riots so what is the end game here for the protest is what changes do they want to see in order to bring back calm onto the streets. i think people have been saying this for years that that this whole idea of equal protection under the law is something that we must and i think people are are deeply tired and what they need is leadership compassionate leadership that will hear their cries hear their concerns and that's what's needed
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at the moment like it's all right to reverend wright how one up there in atlanta georgia reverend thank you very much indeed for your thoughts. on a significant amount of our top stories here this hour large groups of protesters around on the streets in los angeles a police cruiser has been set on fire there that demonstrating about the death of the unarmed black man george floyd who died in police custody in minneapolis on monday. chaotic scenes have been playing out in other cities across the country for testers block streets in cities like new york chicago and miami police have moved in to try and control the crowds and u.s. president donald trump has denounced the violence saying it's being carried out by looters and casey also appeared to be encouraging a counter protest calling on his supporters to gather outside the white house let's
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join rob reynolds he's live for us again in los angeles rob just bring us up to date with what's been happening there on the streets. again jordan again daring the strong. showing by protesters in a part of los angeles that's known as a very upscale shopping area and there's a tense standoff underway with police in that area one police cruiser at least one has been set on fire other police vehicles vandalize there appear to be at least several 100. protesters on the scene in this area called the fairfax district it's also home to entertainment venue. museums and the like the earlier in the day gk protesters were gathered in beverly hills which of course is known worldwide again as another exclusive a wealthy area and one of the co-founders of the black lives movement patrice
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colors said to the group that we are living in the middle of an uprising and she said it is an uprising for a black lives the protesters who are in the middle of los angeles last at the moment report that police have fired some canisters into the ground that could be rubber bullets or some other kind of non-lethal stencil a non-lethal. projectiles but we haven't been able to confirm that at this point the mayor of los angeles eric garcetti appeared on television he announced there would be a curfew. beginning at 8 pm tonight that's right around dark and it would last until around dawn 5 30 in the morning and their guard said he said that the protesters who were acting violently were sullying the memory of george floyd he
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urged everybody to take a deep breath think things over go home return later but do so peacefully last night friday night and well into saturday morning there was intense . confrontations between police and protesters in downtown los angeles protesters blocking a freeway at one point also setting several fires and taking things from stores without paying for them police arrested 500 people friday into saturday morning and rob what sort of the police response and police presence had we seen on the streets that. we have not seen the. overwhelming kind of police response that for example i witnessed in ferguson missouri after the killing of michael brown several years ago in that
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instance police were using these sort of of semi military armored vehicles a here you see police with their face shields with their baton. with. riot gear you know the the. protective vest and so on but not that kind of overwhelming force that has been deployed in some places i want to point out something else because you asked me a little while ago and you were speaking about the history of a racially instigated violence in the city of los angeles and it was in 1902. and no one here was alive can ever forget the riots that ensued after the police beating of rodney king on our black man with caught on videotape but i want to correct myself to the beating itself didn't spark the worst of the riots what
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happened later when the police officers who were put on trial for that beating were acquitted and set free that was the spark that really exploded los angeles in 1902 so we have to think then about officer child and possibly others who might be arrested in connection with the death of george void and their trials. the what sort of end result comes out of the u.s. justice system and how that could possibly again be a flashpoint or to rob reynolds live in los angeles rob thank you for that let's go to new york city again where gay men as has been following the protest as their agape sort of bring us up to date with what's been happening you've been out on the streets there with the. yes is behind you. yeah that's right we've been following several 1000 protesters one of more than
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a dozen different groups in new york city right now that are proceeding some are and some of been in neighboring new jersey and also down into philadelphia but here in new york the people have taken to the streets and right now they've gathered here fully square in downtown new york city and you can see that there is a vigil that is taking place as people are gathering here we've seen mostly young people i would say 25 and younger mostly older we've seen some older middle age people as well but this is definitely a movement that is being dominated by young people particularly of color brown black and. latino but you're also seeing white caucasian young people out here as well they've been walking out and they and the message that they're giving us over and over again since we've been out here with them and walking more than 30 blocks for them to get here is that they're tired and they're fed up and they want justice
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and they say that this is different that this is something is really trigger this in many of the people here the especially young people 116 year old african-american girl i talked to she said i don't want to hear any longer for my life because of the color of my skin that's what we've been hearing over and over from people and i will tell you it's been very peaceful let's make it very clear it's been very peaceful tonight. so far as what we've seen but people are very very angry and gave what sort of official response we've seen from the mayor from the governor and always seeing more police on the streets just yet. yeah there are police have been patrolling throughout the streets but for the most part they're not interfering in this at least not yet in terms of the mayor of new york still built up last year and the governor andrew cuomo both of coming out saying. that they support this protest movement that they too want justice but listen i mean especially the mayor here in new york he's he's very much in
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a difficult position he's not very well liked by the police union here and he has a you know a lot of the protesters here say we don't really care what the mayor of governors say we want to justice and we want to make sure that it happens so listen to the politicians here in new york are all saying the right thing but no one here really is in much of a mood to listen to what they have to say quite frankly and gabe of course new york will be remembering they had a similar case back in 2014 when aragon an unarmed black man was also killed off the white police held him in a chokehold as well. yeah that's right who are in my voice a little bit because they're kind of lowering the tone here a little bit as they're having some speakers who just want to give you more of the scene here that's right eric garner unarmed black man that few years ago was tackled by officers here in new york he was brought to the ground and he was heard saying i can't hurry as he was killed by the officers those officers were
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fired and disciplined but weren't to face any criminal prosecution from that and that's why a lot of people here say we don't want to see that again you know there's a history of this in new york city so people know about that here eric garner case from new york city led to the black lives movement of course it led to ferguson and other movements is this in the u.s. in recent years people here in new york know this very well they feel that they have a certain obligation to take to the streets and now you're really seeing it right now as people are in somewhat of a quiet bijoy at this very 2nd for george for it and gave you've been out and about on the streets all day following the protest as working with them talking with them what have they been telling you what's the underlying feeling that. yeah i think there's 2 things number one is they want just. it's of course that they are mad make no mistake about it people are mad and these are young people that are very
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very furious because they feel that they've been left out if they aren't listened to it's that if they don't have a voice and so now a lot of them have told us this is now our voice and we're going to make sure people in power hear it this time that's number one and i think number 2 is what you're hearing a lot of his real people who were so upset about that video of george clooney the terrible video but what upsets so many here is that floyd had his was handcuffed and the officer had his is needed for nearly 9 minutes and people have mentioned this out here they said that video is evidence of what they say is a murder and it just really really struck a chord with a lot of people here especially on the streets you can see just off in the distance you asking about police presence just up in the distance you can see it is just a few n.y.p.d. corps here they're mostly keeping their distance but we've seen them moving about the city. throughout the last few hours or so but for the most part they're not trying to instigate things right now i just want you to see one more 2nd as
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everyone is holding up their hands right now. in a silent. protest. take this in for one second. streets of new york attorney quiet. for this moment. and many people told us if they feel if i holding their hands up like this it's really an act of defiance is what we've been hearing from them over and over as they start chanting we want justice. all right to. live for us with protesters in new york city thank you very much let's go to mike hanna who joins us live from washington d.c. where things also pretty fun take that to my protest as of again taken to the streets close to the white house are we likely to see clashes with security forces there in the hours ahead. well the damage.
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