frankton friction this truth is it anyway on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. on earth are you probably are you george floyd's brother calls for peaceful protests over his death saying violence will not bring him back. also coming up on the program president trump or just state governors across the u.s. to get tougher with protesters and call up more of the national guard. the

police officers are fired for using excessive force against 2 college students during protests. and in other news a south african. virus restrictions are but there is a last minute you turned on plans to open. but 1st let's take you live now to sacramento war california governor gavin you giving a media briefing let's listen every one of you and to bring people together at a time we so desperately need people to focus on what we have in common and my gosh it's overwhelming what we have in common and so let us let us commit ourselves to that in the spirit of this moment and out of the spirit of this

weekend where i pray that all of us that want to express ourselves do so thoughtfully and gently but forcefully in terms of expressing themselves as they should and as they must so that we collectively to not only hear your voice but we can resolve to do something with the lesson that we learned just we take the time to listen finally listen and do more and do better. ok that was gavin newsom the governor governor of california giving a speech there obviously talking about the protests that we have seen erupt across the united states of course including california in the past few days let's cross live now to rob reynolds who's in los angeles for us rob you were listening to that statement as well briefed but i guess trying to be a unifying voice considering what's going on in california as well as other states . that's right barbara the governor of california has given this briefing at

noon time locally every day for months now talking about the corona virus and the infection rates and death tolls from covert 19 now today of course this is a very different topic and he issued this call for people to protest to make their voices heard forcefully but also gently and thoughtfully he said there is a desperate need for us to focus on what we have in common now throughout the past 3 nights here in los angeles in various parts of the metropolitan area there have been. peaceful protests but also very violent events looting. widespread destruction fires being set many people in the in the communities that are affected especially business people

are asking why police didn't do more and local officials are scrambling to try to explain what they were doing and how they sort of got over well mayor outmanned and out strategized by people who are not protesting peacefully but determined to do other things most of them involving taking merchandise from stores setting things on fire and so forth so you see pictures here that we're looking at of some of that activity but this morning in los angeles it's a different scene a lot of people have come out volunteer ing with shovels and brooms and trash cans to clean up the mess and try to restore a sense of of normal life. there was a major. demonstration planned for the for the west hollywood

area it was going to be a peaceful protest a sit in but that was canceled by the organizers of a group of faith leaders because they said they feared and had gotten some indication through social media that bad actors were going to try to tag along with this demonstration and use it as a cover for for doing these types of things that we're seeing here now. another protest is planned for a community called manhattan beach. community obviously and that is scheduled for this afternoon but we shall see what else goes on in this city which is really shaken i think is the way to put it to its core by. the events of the past 3 nights of the and not just los angeles 40 u.s.

cities really have had to impose rare nighttime curfews to deal with some of the violent unrest coming from the protests for the moment reynolds in los angeles thank you. and as we were saying these process started after the killing of a black man who died in police custody of a week ago well his brother has called for calm after his death sparked days of protests and riots across the u.s. demonstrators are demanding an end to police brutality towards black americans flowers and posters now cover the ground where george floyd was forced to lie for nearly 9 minutes gasping for breath while a police officer knelt on his neck so it's family say that will release the results of an independent autopsy later on monday after preliminary findings from an official report found underlying health issues contributed to george george floods that.

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president has reportedly urged state governors to take a tougher stance against protesters saying they quote looked weak in their response u.s. media reporting that donald trump told the governors to dominate during a phone call on monday and that makes sweeping arrests the white house press secretary says he also encouraged them to call up more of the national guard trump has made no major statement since floyd died last week fight has issued multiple tweets pushing for a tough response. or meanwhile the former u.s. president barack obama has offered his advice on how to change american society following the death of george floyd in an open letter he wrote the choice isn't between protests and politics we have to do both we have to mobilize to raise awareness and we have to organize and cast our ballots to make sure that we elect candidates who will act on reform if the anger could be effectively channeled obama said it could be a real turn. point in the nation's long journey to live up to our highest ideals

well our white house correspondent kimberly halkett joins us live now from outside the white house so we've just heard there from former u.s. president and we've also just had a white house press briefing we didn't hear from donald trump there is perhaps some salt we might but what that came out of the press briefing yeah just one point of clarification we have heard from the u.s. president since the death of george floyd and not just on social media when he was on saturday in florida for the launch of the space x. he did in fact address the employees of nasa and spent about the 1st 15 minutes of that speech addressing not only the death and his. his emotions around that but also that he felt that this was being exploited in terms of the protest of the violence and that has been really a recurring theme now we've not heard from the president since saturday and many

people feel that can as this has continued to swell across the country that he needs to come back out as the press secretary kelly mcenaney spoke to that in fact she said that a national address will not quell this violence what the view is of this president is that in order to quell this violence there needs to be more of an overwhelming presence of the national guard autum erika's streets and there was frustration that was put forward in terms of the president's as she represents his view that so far only 2 states have called for more than a 1000 troops so in that press briefing there was it appears a pending announcement that the u.s. president seems to be indicating that he will put his joint chiefs of staff general milley in charge of seeing that more national guard troops get out on the street the press secretary saying that in fact this is a deterrents that has been shown in studies to d. ask late civil unrest and once again the white house is pointing to and tif that is the left leaning group the far left group that has

a militant opposition to right len far right politics and they continue to say that this is something that is being pursued under the lens of domestic terrorism we should also point out in the united states there have been reports of right leaning groups like a white nationalist white supremacist that have also been sewing unrest within the otherwise peaceful black lives matter movement on america's street the argument is that the white house says is that this is being hijacked this message as these groups tend to sow discontent and that they will be prosecuting these under joint terrorism task force and domestic terrorism laws here in the united states in an effort to combat it and carol let me just bring you some breaking news now and then maybe you can call. manana we're just heard from the attorney about the family commission autopsy so george floyd's family commission their own independent autopsy and that one says he died of a 6 year due to neck and back compression so let me just read that to you again the

attorney says the family commissioned autopsy shows george floyd died of a 6 year due to neck and back compression which of course would come from the police officer is a knee on his neck how does this correlate with the official autopsy. yeah well it's a direct contradiction but how this correlates is that it correlates to what everybody saw in that video now the autopsy report tends to lean to this was something that may have been in his system or a heart failure but we know that those can be by products of the fact that you've had incredible force placed on your body as so the cause of death may have been that but that doesn't rule out that the person body went into some sort of traumatic shock as a result of being detained has spent behind not just one knee on the neck but also there was a 2nd officer who was also putting force on that individual's body george floyd

this the people on the streets are saying say his name george floyd so this is going to give the ammunition that many of these protesters are asking for they want to see more than just one arrest of the one officer * that had his knee they want to see the 4 officers that were there the run has been arrested there are still 3 that have not they were all complicit in this because they stood by as bystanders watched they urged the police to act and they did nothing and that is why we're still seeing these protests on the street now we should tell you that the earlier the u.s. president held a conference call with governors across the united states where they said you know the president some of his rhetoric with regard to this case is making these protests even larger that he needs to tamp that down the u.s. president for his part has been pushing back while he says that he understands that there are living faces carefully the u.s. president has basically stated there's not a problem with the police force what there are isolated cases like we're seeing in

the case of george floyd he was very angry with the governors that they are not doing more to quell this violence he doesn't seem to end disputes with many of the protesters some of the democratic governors that there is a need to reform policing in the united states instead he sees this as an issue of violence of civil unrest when. that he very angrily in this video conference call we understand ordered them to do more to to restore law and order on america's streets now one more point i should make very quickly speaking of america's streets our raid outside the white house gates lafayette park it's been the site for 3 nights consecutive now a very violent clashes with protesters and police i can hear it gearing up we heard the helicopters earlier and i can see the riot police are already starting to draw their line in anticipation of another very violent night. kimberly halkett with the latest from the white house and over your view really of the political aspect of all of this thank you so much. well protests are now getting

underway once again in new york chris salumi joins us live now from times square in new york and the city has of course seen its share of violence over the past couple of days tell us what's happening there now and crucially what are officials doing to try to content. yes we're going now into the protests here in new york and you can see behind me they have no signs of abating just a moment ago demonstrators were lying. on the ground chanting george what are you trying. to do violence that you have to take in florida chanting that i can't prove chanting his name chanting no justice no peace the same scene that we've seen over recent days. after these days of violent incidents now the governor and the mare have said that they are considering implementing the

curfew here in new york and the governor said that he does have national guard troops on standby new york has avoided taking those steps to guard the governor and the mayor both. expressing sympathy for demonstrators here sympathy for their cause saying that they understand the region. 1st hispanic changes but also warning that violence could undermine those schools warning that at this pivotal moment it could cause people to turn against the goal of changing the system for the better to better represent the interests of the people who are out protesting we have been seeing out here a heavy police presence interesting to note though that the police have been standing back in a way most of them are not wearing riot gear so there seems to be an attempt here in new york to really deescalate tensions but there is concern heading into the evening with more demonstrations planned throughout the city throughout the day at

many different locations that things could again get violent so so far officials not formally calling a curfew or calling in the national guard here in new york but warning that piggybacks. a person i know you've been monitoring developments there from new york for us so for the moment thank you. and let's go to atlanta where 2 police officers have been fired after they were seen on camera using excessive force during protests over the weekend the city's police chief says members of our force cannot be allowed to act with impunity rob reynolds has a story. police misconduct amid nationwide protests over police misconduct hear police in riot gear surround a car with 2 young black people inside one slashes a tire thanks. another smashes the driver's window.

and the young woman is taped and violently dragged out although she is not resisting. 7 the male driver is manhandled and also shocked with a taser even though each 2 doesn't appear to resist putting down one of the to go for us on sunday after the police body cam video went viral 2 of the policemen were fire authorities identified them as ivory streeter and mark gardner writes this was atlanta georgia on saturday night for protesters calling for justice for the death in minneapolis of george floyd it could have been almost anywhere in the us atlanta mayor keesha lance bottom's said the officers actions were unacceptable sometime during the night i saw a very disturbing video of 2 young college students who were

in downtown atlanta yesterday evening. and it was disturbing on many levels at the least not which was set there clearly was an excessive use of force. 3 other officers were placed on desk duty n.b.a. thesis further discipline plan as police chief apologized how we behaved as an agency as individuals was unacceptable and i know that we cause further fear . to you in a space that's already so here full for so many african-americans and i'm genuinely sorry this is not who we are this is not we were about another disturbing video from los angeles shows a police vehicle excel orating into protesters knocking 2 of them down it then reverse that high speed nearly striking other people no one was seriously injured

rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles a truck driver who barreled towards protesters in minneapolis on sunday has been arrested on suspicion of assault thousands of people were marching on a closed moesha way when the tanker truck her told towards them the crowd parted seconds before the truck rolled in and authorities say that no one was hurt you see the pictures now it's shocking the driver driver was pulled from the cab and beaten by some protesters before police took him into custody well as about 11 is an activist who was among the many protesters who witnessed that truck driving through the crowd in minneapolis she joins us live now via skype thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera we were just showing those pictures that really are so dramatic looking and shocking to see just explain to us roughly where you were in relation to the truck and what you saw. i was right next to where the trucking

through my bag got ran over once i ran off i mean it was the scariest thing i've ever been a part of and the videos really don't do it just as we were told that mayor if i was going to be coming in 5 minutes and that you're going to show up he's our. want us all to sit down and less than 2 minutes later my whole i phone is according it's our time so i know it's a minute later we started hearing screams that like the whistling of a car coming through and everyone started racing or hall like dividing the high when i we were all crying trying to get over that and my will it is our group and caught up it was really traumatizing because the truck coming apart from being huge obviously it was going it relative high speed so did you see it coming were you aware of it coming at you quickly you know did you just run away because everyone

else around you did so for me i feel like i was lucky not to be in the front of everything but i was in the middle where all the protesting and speaking was happening so we were sitting on the ground the people on higher ground are the reason i hope is ok they thought for me because there's no other cars i weigh so for us it was more so he heard it we didn't know it's coming we heard and heard tunes and we just ran and yeah i saw * him right past the grand right through where i was sitting and it was. then i mean obviously the crowd parted before the truck rolled in and mercifully no one was killed say no one was hurt and then the driver himself was actually pulled from the cab and beaten by some protesters now the governor has just come out to say that actually some of the protesters were also shielding the driver did you see any of this did you hear anything about it. yeah i saw them pull him out of the truck from when we were we've ran on that. ground for

a outward and we saw them getting out of the car but i didn't see the part about the protesters stealing and so afterward i watched those interviews and stuff so yeah i have seen that it must have been obviously a very shocking experience how does it affect your i suppose this i or willingness to keep on protesting for me it's like nothing ever felt it was right but now it's an absolute. it's critical for all of us to keep going out there and advocating because that was the most powerful thing i've ever been a part of in all of this is what the people we were thinking we were supporting each other and after like experiencing the time was heartening. it's so important now more than ever that people don't but that doesn't scare because we all are states like you and i think that in our well you forward. is either.

thank you isabelle live in an activist who was one of the many protesters witnessing that truck driving through a crowd of people isabel thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. kids take a look at some of the day's other news now in south africa has eased some restrictions 2 months after one of the strictest lockdowns in africa the changes mean more people can return to work but the reopening of most schools has been postponed after teachers' unions complained not enough has been done to keep students safe to meet a military port stuff from johannesburg. some parents in the western cape province are angry that schools there have reopened they say stuff and opera pay it to keep students safe 2 months into a national lockdown that's kept people indoors except for essential services or to

buy food across the rest of south africa schools remained closed a last minute decision by the government not disposing the reopening for a week. i mean concept. of the schools in terms of the night. and around those particular issues to deal with and the safety. as well as. the government's eased other restrictions including the ban on the sale of alcohol which will be sold for consumption at home unspecified days and during certain hours but the sale of tobacco products is still pretty habited the government has been under pressure to reopen the economy which was already in recession before the lockdown began. it's estimated that millions will lose their jobs if the strict measures i extended most industries have reopened with more than $8000000.00 south

africans returning to work under what the government calls strict health protocols but as millions of people use public transport to get to and from work or concerns that social distancing may not be possible ristorante spas and cinemas remain shut the owners of this restaurant in johannesburg say it had to improvise to keep their business going transforming it into a health food emporium it may be months before restaurants can open their doors previously our. business was about 90 percent of the saddam business of the restaurant so we realized that we couldn't come out of waits we don't have the resources to wait that long so we needed to look for a new way to actually generate revenue the government has identified hasa parts around the country including major cities such as johannesburg durban and cape town it says that while the lockdown has been eased the restrictions in the cities will

be revised every 2 weeks with more than 30000 infections their concerns out of africa is months away from hitting the peak of the pandemic health experts say that could happen between july and november causing at least 40000 deaths the worry now is that a lack of adequate preparation might to worsen the outcome for me al-jazeera janice berg. u.s. retailers have been criticized for praising their staff as heroes for working during the pandemic while ending the extra pay that they receive for dangerous conditions unions are urging large companies such as amazon and wal-mart to change their policies share brittani has more. the u.s. has major food retailers like wal-mart amazon whole foods trader dru's and krueger don't release estimates of how many of their workers have contracted prove it 19 how many have become ill and how many have died but the food and commercial workers

union estimates 10000 sick or exposed to the virus and dozens of deaths amongst those that represents some of america's largest companies have refused to release this information or in the case of mammals i have attempted to silence workers were brave enough to speak about it for its part craig which owns several u.s. supermarket chains instituted hazard pay at the end of march but called it here i'm paying an extra 2 dollars an hour thank you for being a hero together we are the best put to the shopping with some workers here on pay and in mid may replaced by a $1.00 off bonus of between 2 and 400 dollars we are total targets sitting ducks for the virus and their risk is why we deserve our hazard pay when our heroes were sacrificing this is a risk that we are getting. we deserve hazard pay until i no longer have to put on

a mask to work at a grocery store they asses on may 5th to dress up as heroes here all day i'm so happy i was off i don't know who decided to do it that but it was in court taste people are suffering people aren't dying and they want us to dress up as superheroes. trager is expected to beat its 1st quarter profit forecast the same week as the company ended hero pay it was disclosed that kroger c.e.o. wrote the mcmullan's annual conference station had risen to $14200000.00 kroger declined our request for an interview but its actions during is the question of whether this new normal will be just the same as the old model except with yet another layer of inequality not just of wages but of whether you're given the opportunity to protect yourself from the virus or not triggers her at an extra 100000 workers since the pandemic was declared in the us there's

a resign because they feel they're in danger of contracting prove it are also not eligible for unemployment benefit but workers are fighting back. while demonstrations by those calling for a full reopening of society received huge amounts of attention. hundreds of wildcat strikes and protests around the country told by workers who recognize the danger of the new law will have received less attention and also under the radar some employers may be feeling the pressure as workers decide their job just isn't worth the risk the department of labor statistics tracks your labor statistics tracks officials stress they don't track in any real way how many people called in sick or how many people hold a notion the fight to define the new normal is just beginning she have returned al-jazeera.

and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the brother of a black man who died in police custody last week has called for calm after his death sparked days of protests and riots across the u.s. flowers and posters now cover the ground war george floyd was forced to lie for nearly 9 minutes gasping for breath while a police officer kneeled on his leg a family commissioned also say shows that floyd died from. fix ia to his neck and back compression. go go go go go. go. go reform over wall and oh oh oh form over. on one of. the from out on we are now from up market known or the no. no no no no no no.

no no group. no no. because now i'm a brother or. in reaction to george floyd's that civil unrest again flared across the u.s. on sunday night have to peaceful protests the send it into more rioting protesters ignored curfews and dozens of cities from washington d.c. to los angeles city small birds cars were set alight and shops were looted this by national guard troops being deployed in at least 15 states the u.s. president has reportedly urged state governors to take a tougher stance against protesters saying they looked weak in their response media reporting that donald trump told governors to dominate during a phone call and call up more national guard 30 stories the stream is next asking why the coronavirus is killing so many black asian and minority british people.

hi anthony i can see what the strain in the u.k. if you're black or brown you'll most likely to die from kovac 19 we have an impressive lineup of guests who are trying to work out why if you have a take and you and you jump into that chat we would love to hear from you and that's one way that you too can be in this journey. i am going to introduce you to the guests in the guess what introduce themselves to you so let's start with dr frank.