the president we expected a few moments in the one minute time that we will see very strong action following that up be interesting and you mentioned that split screen moment of listening to him speak in the rose garden one of hearing shots outside of the white house and he was meant to speak half an hour roughly before he did but it's almost like the timing was impeccable it was almost like it was orchestrated to happen that way to get maximum impact how one president to do you seeing these images even outside the white house our i mean you know the white house is no stranger to protests but can you remember seeing anything like this. will not of the 20 years that i've lived in the united states i'm a canadian american citizen i can tell you for the time that i've lived in the united states i've not seen this so but i know the history of washington i know there were civil unrest back in the late 1960 s. but in fact there was. ok. ok rob

i don't you can see behind me but the media is standing can you get that shot rob and perhaps you can. ok we're ok i'm going to move out of the way from my photographer to piers the president is about to come out in the lawn and witness this for himself this is another unprecedented moment we understand he's going to walk over cross in lafayette park where the it's pennsylvania avenue the lafayette park and then it's the site of st john's episcopal church they call it the church of the presidents it was burned last night in d.c. that would have been sunday evening in washington d.c. this outraged the u.s. president you see the media standing by i see people accident the white house and we expect that the u.s. president will momentarily be accepting the white house himself to make what would be an historic walk across the lawn. out of the gates. and into the tear gas where

these protesters have been pushed back so we're you asked me barber if i've ever seen anything like this before i certainly have not this is an incredible moment but it's also we should point out the show this is donald trump he is a reality t.v. star before he became president and he likes a big show he likes the drama he likes to keep people in anticipation and he likes to keep them waiting and that is what we're doing right now so we're going to continue to watch very carefully but yes the gates are opening now i can see the gates great this driveway behind me the gates have opened so we are for perry to see the u.s. president accept the north lawn of the white house here he comes i'm going to stand back.

you can see president trump he is walking out of the white house this is the white house north lawn he is walking down the driveway the reporters and the media this is called the white house pool they are running to get ahead of the president in this shot you can see this is the u.s. president walking there he's wearing a dark suit and a light blue tie. and. you can continue to see the u.s. president he is walking down the north lawn. if there's another shot that you can get from pennsylvania avenue london and doha if you're watching this it would be advisable because we're going to lose the shot of the president any moment if you. so the u.s. president is behind me. he's continued it is absolutely silent right now nobody is

talking it is quiet outside the gates as the u.s. president exits the gates and on to pennsylvania avenue he is about to walk through those gates. it's the same street pennsylvania avenue 1600 pennsylvania avenue the famous address is the same street we just you know more than an hour ago we saw the soldiers going down in their carriers and astounding the shot as it is and now we see the u.s. president walking on the very same spot towards lafayette park. and again this is remarkable the u.s. president reportedly headed to st john's episcopal church a church that is known and has served presidents dating back hundreds of years where they go often before inauguration during their terms in order to get solace comfort guidance they have had there been many church leaders that have advised presidents president sitting on those pews and it outraged this president

reportedly that protesters said it ablaze. so the president walking there to see that for himself i can tell you all of the shouting that we were hearing earlier it is now completely silent soon the president will be approaching the area where our colleague my colleague she had her tons he was standing however i think he has been pushed back by the sound of gunfire earlier rubber bullets also a flash. of tear gas pepper balls pushing the protesters back making way for the president again we have to underscore this is a president that likes to show and that is exactly what he's doing right now this is incredibly remarkable to see the president walking were normally you would see. the run of the mill protests you would see tourists taking pictures never before have i seen a u.s. president walking the defense secretary mark asper is also beside the

president and in addition the attorney general william barr also in lafayette park we didn't have reports that william barr had been there earlier and we should for. point out both gentlemen met earlier in the day with the u.s. president they were speaking in advance of the consultation with the governors and it was that point so proud 6 or 7 hours ago that we got indication that the u.s. president will be taking some form of action. we're still watching to see what the u.s. president will do but he's about halfway through lafayette park he is halfway now the distance to where that church is located and we should also point out right now he's walking up towards what's known as 8th street as the letter in the alphabet age street that has been the spot where we saw washington in flames it's the site of the protest where most of them have been concentrated especially late last night

and it is adjacent to st john's episcopal church you'll see the church when the president approaches it's a bright yellow church it has a very distinct white columns in front of it and it dates back hundreds of years it is the church of the presidents day although it is st john's episcopal church it is still standing but it did sustain fire damage from the rioters the u.s. president also walking by a building i don't know if you can see it in your shot but you can see the flame marks on the side that was also a blaze last night that was a storage facility on lafayette park that was also one of the images that we saw repeatedly as we watched the protesters rioting in washington d.c. so the u.s. president continues now at the top of the park and he is just about to be at the location of st john's episcopal church where i'm told he is where his destination is i'm not sure if he's going to speak none of this has been on the daily guidance

schedule this is all been unexpected this is all something that was not scheduled in fact when we woke up this morning there was really only one or 2 meetings on the president's. the rest of this has been completely unscripted for a president known for his surprise and for his unpredictability i can also see there in that delegation of on trump his daughter one of his close advisors the national security advisor robert o'brien is also walking with the president the shot i'm seeing is quite shaky so it's difficult to see who else is walking with the president but it's clear the president is trying to make some sort of a statement. in front of the cameras he's surveying the damage that i can see right now you can see the extensive tour feeding. the damage to the church my producer photographer robbie show is reminding me is minor damage so you won't

see much destruction the damage was inside the basement of the church we understand in the nursery but there is significant graffiti and tagging and one of those buildings you see the u.s. president is now crossing 8th street ages in the letter age the church in the background he is surveying the damage of st john's episcopal church you can see the boarded up building there where there is fire damage and i can tell you as i watched the church burn at times it was so difficult to push back the protesters that there was a question of whether this church would burn to the ground given the fact that the fire trucks put not get to the scene right away in fact one reporter attempted to try and find a fire extinguisher but it was already too late so the u.s. president looking at this image in the st john's episcopal church. the church was built in the 1864 viewers 16 rather 1816 so i said

hundreds of years. now getting some clarification question the u.s. president standing in front of that church on h. street the street intersecting. next. is 16th street in northwest washington for our viewers who are familiar with washington the u.s. president i believe is holding a bible but i can't confirm that affliction. if . you. take. the never. hear the whole thing.

but welcome to our jersey or if you're just joining us here it is now 2310 g.m.t. it's darren jordan here in doha and we're bringing you shocking scenes from the streets of the u.s. capitol and this unscripted unprecedented drama unfolding on our t.v. screens now of president trump leaving the white house walking across the lawn through the gates across 8th street to the senate john's episcopal church holding up a bible pure optics pure drama totally unprecedented all the others are the scenes you're seeing on your screen now president trump was followed by members of his cabinet marcus but the defense secretary william barr the attorney general there was also his press secretary. stephen minutiae and was also there and they're flanking him now outside the cent jones episcopal church which was burned there was

some damage to it's a night or so ago and there's president from standing outside this is all about optics this is about president trump showing that he's in charge despite the trouble despite the unrest that he can walk out of the white house. he had been accused of having a bunker mentality he's now moving off let's just watch these pictures him for a 2nd unscripted unprecedented the u.s. president walking out of the white house across to the senate john's episcopal church and now it seems he's probably now heading to the white house let's just watch these pictures for a 2nd before we talk to you can be how could she have the time see correspondents who are on the scene. can be i think you can hear me. you know i was just saying that this is totally this is totally unprecedented kimberly unscripted president trump has torn up the rulebook doesn't it. this is unprecedented in modern history i can't i'm not a presidential historian and american presidents so there is never

a small possibility that this has happened before in the distant past but in modern history i can tell you in the 20 years i've lived in washington d.c. i've never ever seen pictures like this of a president strolling through the streets of washington d.c. and especially after making a rose garden speech to the sound of gunfire well protesters in the spot where he's now walking have been pushed back as a result of rubber bullet gunfire tear gas and also horses police on horses charging forward to push the protesters back this is simply remarkable what has been happening but that's what this day has been like for many hours this was an hour the scripted moment this was not on the white house schedule the u.s. president making an impromptu statements from the rose garden saying that he has a duty to defend the united states what he called our great country he said that

the man whose death ignited the protests across the nation who was laying on the ground when the images of a police officer grinding his knee into his neck the. a coroner has now ruled was the cause of death that george floyd will not have died in vain the u.s. president reportedly outraged that for many nights now peaceful protests for people who are protesting in the united states for systemic change to end systemic racism in american institutions that that has been hijacked by what the u.s. president says are outside interests they have pointed to leftist groups like anti fall for viewers that are not familiar with anti for that is a far left group that has a militant opposition to right wing ideology there have also been reports of right wing groups that have been protesting as well what the u.s. president says is that this is not what america is about he says he is a law and order president he says that this country has been gripped by anarchy and

it is something that he says that he has pointed to the governors of this country that they failed to take control of their states it's important to note in the united states that it is the governors that have the power over policing the u.s. president not satisfied that enough has been done in a number of u.s. states and as a result making the announcement in the last half hour from the rose garden probably more now about 45 minutes that he is taking presidential action to stop the violence to end the mob violence that he sees using the military to protect citizens rights to protest he says that he is deploying the national guard to dominate the streets and quell the end rest if that does not stop he says he will deploy the military now this is dangerous legal ground we should point out that the president is navigating but this is a president who as you said dare and through has thrown out the rule book u.s. law i should clarify posse comitatus $878.00 limits the military it cannot be used

to enforce domestic policies now there is an exception to all of that the coffee at the insurrection act of 1807 gives the u.s. . president constitutional power to restore order from insurrection or civil unrest it has not been used in quite some time the us president did not specify if he intends to deploy the military in this way the last time we saw it was during riots in los angeles in 1992 now the us president has been using a very big show of force to get the message to protesters that he is not backing down and we have had helicopters circling overhead for hours we have had convoys of soldiers on carriers a company if anyone has a military background is familiar with that number it's about $200.00 military police we also have park police on horseback we have riot gear u.s.

secret service all filling the park where the u.s. president is now walking and you can see them lined up there in those shots that you are looking at the u.s. president almost surveying the troops if you will this is really very astonishing this is not something that you typically see very often in the united states but the u.s. president has always been a big backer of the police they are big backers of his generally and the other position that i should point out of this administration is that they do not believe there is systemic racism inside the police force i'm watching the u.s. president is now coming back going to pull away so my photographer can look at these shots but the u.s. president is now back inside the white house grounds and he is walking up the driveway back into the white house the u.s. president entering those gates he's crossed back through lafayette park pennsylvania avenue he is now walking up the driveway and back into the white house

he is flanked followed by the national security adviser mark asked for he also has his daughter of one of his advisors the attorney general. william barr among other advisers of the presidents he is continuing to walk it is really a historic site one we've not seen in modern history the u.s. president making and sending a very clear message to the protesters not just in washington d.c. where we should point out a curfew has now taken effect it is now 717 in washington d.c. that's eastern standard time 2317 g.m.t. the curfew set to take place at 7 pm eastern standard time or $2300.00 g.m.t. the u.s. president walking out as that curfew settles in on washington d.c. i can tell you it is much quieter than it has been in some hours from those protests we know that there are protests that were also taking place at the u.s.

capitol i cannot see a shot there of what may be taking place and if that has been clamped down but i'm told by my sources that there is an extensive military as well as police presence throughout the nation's capital at this hour ready to enforce the curfew you see the u.s. president walking up the steps of the white house he's entering the front door of the building this is the north lawn of the white house and i can tell you this is not an entrance you normally see the u.s. president you can see the media tents where we are familiar standing but this is not an entrance that is used by the u.s. president he will exit from the south lawn on to marine one the he certainly will greet dignitaries there but this is not where you normally see the u.s. president walking it is certainly a remarkable night but again we should know that it is one that is still very tense because the protesters feel they have a message to deliver the president now delivering his own message as well. i mean i

think we all need to just stop and just cut so. it's absolutely extraordinary pictures i mean just just watching the president leave. i mean this must have been an absolute nightmare for the secret service who would have sort of. moved ahead and behind him as he crossed out of the white house across the lawn into lafayette park across to the church it must have been an absolute nightmare for the secret service. well let me give you a scene setter here that's been going on for since since friday evening really there has been. 10 times the secret service presence than we normally experience so there has been concern and we have to remind our viewers things were so tense on friday night that at one point the u.s. secret service had to put the u.s. president in an underground bunker temporarily it was very frightening there were.

protesters literally just a matter of meters outside the last gate before you could jump the fence and into the white house one that we should point out has been raised in recent years because under president obama in fact that's exactly what happened there was a demonstrator that got right inside the white house and very close to the 1st family so the fact that there were hundreds of angry protesters on friday evening shows just how close they came to getting to this u.s. president that the secret service needed to put the president in the underground bunker after that happened we saw an enormous presence of. riot gear clad secret service in lafayette park we saw also many of the rooftops carrying assault rifles this was a presence that has been in place near constantly since friday evening when these riots in washington d.c.

really started to wrap up so it was under that sort of blanket of security that the u.s. president was able to walk so freely out into the park and this would otherwise be unheard. because this is normally a park that is open to the public this is where families will come on a sunday afternoon with their children to west will come to take a picture in front of the white house there will be peaceful demonstrations that take place on a regular almost daily basis so this is not an area where you see a u.s. president walking but that's what we've just witnessed on the heels of the u.s. president making the announcement in the rose garden that he is ending the riots deploying that ash no guard and potentially the military if necessary he made a very dramatic show of this and walked across lafayette park to the site where the protesters had just been pushed pushed back to visit st john's episcopal church where just less than 24 hours ago it was in flames from the riots taking place.

reporting live from outside the white house can be as you say you know president trump is a show man it's like a reality t.v. show to him this is all about the drama let's take you now to the streets of washington d.c. outside the white house and shihab rattansi is there watching what's happening now she has but i know if you if you wanted to see any of the pictures or any of what was going on with president trump leaving the white house but let's just pick up the scene where you are now when we saw you earlier you were being tear gassed they were allowed sonic booms from flash bangs things seem to have quieted down a little bit just tell us what's happening where you all. were in fact route we were actually who was directly outside the church were not what was going on now perhaps we have more of an understanding of the timing of the flash bangs until i guess you can maybe just make out the church through the building they've they've moved us all around the crewmen now you can maybe just see the. syndromes between

the columns of the 5 building over the police a slowly moving off further and further back the number of protesters has dwindled to still several 100 here. for police. slowly moving us about using a bicycle mounted police. horses at the moment at least. but yeah i mean clearly that's. not that sudden intensification of the police reaction was to clear out there in front of the truck say that donald trump good to have that photo opportunity it was rather intriguing i mean he seemed to be getting his members of his cabinet together for for a photo opportunity and of course holding the bible which will go down very well with on a mix of his base but we're going to the sim the symbolism there it's confusing as you suggested this is a holy war now that he's defender of the faith this is what it's about it was striking that in his speech he didn't mention racism or the police violence or anything it was just about property damage. upholding the law one law he kept

saying what a course the reason why so many people are on the streets is yes they say there is one no one more for white people there's also one north of black people when it comes to police violence there was no recognition of any of those issues in his speech and then he came brandish the bible have sites in john's church it was a fascinating show and i look this is interesting the police are moving back and this is what they often do they come at us they seem to be suggesting that they're not going to try to move us out but then they and they retreated and now whether this is a very can say that they tried with our schools now they can use some of the force that we have to see. as well as we're watching those live pictures there of the protest as facing off with the police who you say now are moving back and that's that's sort of been the cycle as they move forward the protest has moved back the protesters move forward the police look back move back you were reporting earlier she had just as military units are being deployed in troop carriers near the white house now we we haven't seen that before these last few nights happily shihab that

was significant. right and i think he was was alluding to this to bring you know active duty troops even you know the national guard on to the streets is a huge step because there are clear rules about how the posse comitatus act that that company was talking about clearly governors and local officials can request this kind of aid without the national guard but then usually certainly in civilian issues civilian situations like this you don't expect the national guard to of course are trying to shoot and kill the enemy to be policing it's a it's an incredibly dangerous a dangerous thing to happen and the fact we don't leave reports from member national guard saying we don't train for this sort of thing because what are you saying basically this is about them about the enemy being being being chased by by the national guards normally you expect them to be in in supporting roles with the police forces but it's clear that donald trump is constantly hinting about bringing the troops on the streets he does have you know the ability to use the insurrection

act if he does but imagine that they're bringing bringing the police you know this but i want to presidency it's been already but now just a capital off he brings the military into the streets of the united states which is something that is you know it did happen in 1903 off to rodney king george h.w. bush. invoked in the insurrection act and the military was called into los angeles about the last time that's happened here things have quieted down that people are beginning to disperse somewhat it is now off the cuff you and i seems to be the police of us backed off the road we were completely surrounded actually about 10 minutes ago there was a big funks of part of a police over there a big following to the police over the power of the pilings over there and we were kind of wondering well where are we supposed to go but now they will sort of disappeared so how they decided to wear that sort of a relatively peaceful state now and that they could just let us be or is this the probably to something else. yes they have i mean we seen throughout the last few

nights. that things have started off relatively quiet. on the streets and then with darkness things have all kicked off and things of a lot more violent. just talk us through shab in terms of the curfew in d.c. what are the restrictions what time does it stop and what time is it finished and what's allowed. 7 pm to 6 am and basically disperse to stay at home i mean that's. the route the requests from the water from from the man. it was pointed out that actually early voting has begun this week so there is an exemption if you're going to vary the polling stations tomorrow be open to 8 pm i don't really actually thought that through necessarily but apparently now we were being told that there is an exemption if you are going to be voting. but yes the streets between 7 and 6 in the morning

except for essential workers. theoretically the press as well theoretically we are allowed to be here although as we've seen over the last several nights the police have been i mean there's nothing else you can say from the video evidence they've been targeting not to be members of the press so far so good they are showing my past and they seem to. me as opposed to going to me. so that's something that things have calmed down now. that's the church you see where we are now in relation to the church. and then you can see the ranks of police the military police as well . police but military police so there's the national guard element and u.s. park service and she had the timing of all of this was was pretty remarkable was that i mean you know the president was speaking at the rose garden just as the anti-riot measures those military personnel on the streets and that and. taking place outside the white house it all happened at the same time it

was as if it was as if it was orchestrated wasn't it. we can only speculate but it's clear that this tough appearance against demonstrators appeals a great deal to sections of donald trump's base it's clear that that any suggestion of police reform or police culpability police excessive use of force and violence well of police murder is not going to sit well with that particular part of his base but it's true that he photo opportunities for the evangelicals with his bible you know when the when the crisis occurred all trump was there with his bible on the steps of the church defending the faith but he doesn't need more than that in the not just rely on 30 to 35 percent of his extreme right wing and evangelical base you know that's why there has been this debate in the white house we understand between that if you're saying look maybe have

a unifying message maybe try and say something that isn't going to take sides in such a manner and clearly that advice has not been taken because what we saw was taking sides we will this is no it's as if george floyd i mean nothing happened to george floyd the from the way that he's speaking it's just simply about the sudden rioting you know and then property damage he doesn't believe in mentioning the cause of this rage the why the catalyst for this rage is simply we will protect we will protect our citizens and there is one law now that doesn't sound like a president who is cognizant that with the killing of. the killing of mr floyd but it's time to take another look at how things are this is a man who's upholding the system as it is. bold under saying look this is it this is all system one little thing and we will stand behind the police but they don't bring violence enough. and we will protect property over everything else. in some ways it's refreshing honesty perhaps you know when you have barack obama during

baltimore for example giving speeches about healing and reform and then nothing actually changes i don't know is not better. i mean it's a good question is there some sort of refreshing almost from donald trump that he's not even pretending to care about what the protesters are here on the streets about shahab can i can i just because we're just about to go and talk to john hendren over there in minneapolis but before we cross to him shop let me just come back with one last question to you as as things start to quieten down around you i mean you were telling us earlier she had that sure we see protests outside the white house you know from time to time but we've never seen these sorts of violent protests i mean they're that they're extremely rare in in the you know in washington d.c. what what's the underlying feeling there and you've been out and about on the streets talking to people you've seen people who've been arrested detained you've seen now this sort of faceoff between now the military police on the stay on the on the streets of the capital well what's the underlying feeling on the ground now she

had. that they have loans they never learned and we should be really careful about this type of violence what do we mean by violent protests it's not the protests that the protesters were being violent yesterday it just suddenly a decision is made on the police move forward and will mode on everything in that part of the compilation of tear gas pepper spray batons and shields that's the violence that was a police that's all this is called the police uprising more than anything else that's the way they clear things that's the way that's the way that the police acts and what's underlining the protests is precisely that this idea that the police who are supposed to protect and serve the population always police i mean they'll they'll act against the population with impunity and this is what it's all about and that's the whole self-referential nature of this it's all very postmodern isn't it that i think that the police act with such violence to peaceful protests is randomly pepper spraying people randomly throwing tear gas without warning to

peaceful protesters but that's precisely why the protesters are out in the 1st place is not just about george floyd it's about impunity and about justice in a system that doesn't protect and serve the people but protection of property of the practice of businesses that as donald trump says because that is the origins of the u.s. police force it is to protect the rich sugar you know from the poor and that's very much well known display right now i'm not there i mean we are clear in the sense of the 99 percent i suppose i should say that in fact it's a very varied crowd actually of black and white and latino and all sorts of income levels and then of course there's another canard very quickly that because therefore it's not just black people then they're mostly outside agitators as if there's no way that other people can't be disgusted by police violence these kind of canards you know it's you know our people would never do this i mean it's you know it's the same could all be heard since the civil rights era when they say the martin luther king was trying by the communists and so that in the soviet union it was outside agitators and then we got to be careful about these narratives because

i think it's very easy then to discredit the entire protest and what it's actually about which is the killing of george floyd and what led to that killing. all right she had baton see the live for us on the streets of washington d.c. she have no doubt we'll come back to you as night falls throughout the night but for that thank you so right so let's cross to minneapolis where this all started and talk to john hendren john i think the 1st thing we should pick up with you about is this private post-mortem was carried out by the george floyd family that the results of that said he died of asphyxiation but that differs from the official preliminary report by the county medical examiner doesn't it. that's right what we know about the hennepin county medical examiner's report is what we see in the prosecuting document and that says that the police contributed to the death of george floyd but it also says that he had some underlying health conditions. artery disease hypertension and this autopsy says in fact he died directly

of asphyxiation and in fact it went on to say that not only was the one officer with his knee on george floyd's neck responsible but it also said the other 2 officers who had their knees on floyd's back were responsible because his lungs were compressed and were not able to get air to his brain at that report specifically concluded it was a direct result of the officer's actions that killed george floyd and it also concluded that this was a homicide of course this was a private report we don't see all of the official coroner's report so in a sense we've got dueling reports and what that really does here out on the streets when i talk to people is it a road to their faith in danger to 2 shootings here in america i mean they've lost their faith many of them in the police in the politicians you sent the police down to crack down on them and then now they're questioning the officers like the coroner some people here believe it seems to be minimizing how those police

officers apparently can trigger. did to the death of george floyd so dueling reports and a lot of confusion here and mistrust aaron john i think you will standing at the spots george floyd. that now infamous incident happened. where he died so so so just tell us quickly john what's happening then now if you coming in later on tonight so how is that likely to play out. that it's bedstead right there in a right over there under that stoplight is where george floyd spent his last moments on the ground we know now that they were his last moments even though they were and it was initially reported that he was pronounced dead at the hospital even pronounced dead at the hospital but we know from the 2nd coroner's report that in fact he had no pulse when he went into the ambulance and we saw in that video how they had picked up his limp body the emergency medical technicians and put it in

the ambulance according to this 2nd autopsy he was dead then but what you're seeing here is really quite the opposite of what you're hearing about 2 across the country those sort of violent protests in this area right here all week long that there has been no looting of these stores it's been a very somber atmosphere there's a sense of respect right here at ground 0 because this of course is where george floyd's family came earlier today. and people are giving out free food there is music people are giving speeches they're singing so it's a it's a mood of celebration here but that does tend to change after curfew during the curfew has been 8 o'clock since this friday night and now it's 10 o'clock tonight and what happened is the 1st 2 nights tuesday through thursday the demonstrators only that night and they really dominated and there were some aggressive people we saw people set fire is the end. and it is. in the last 2 nights

after a 1000 more nash. guard troops came in freed up the police the police got very aggressive used tear gas and rubber bullets and they have just burst the crowd both of those nights and it's been quiet since then we haven't seen the kind of burnings and lootings that we have since then so a little curious to see what will happen tonight but right now in the daytime the mood is generally very somber and respectful yesterday the confrontations began at about this hour but today we have not seen that at least not here don let me get in a quick final question to you we saw a little. brother terence he came out calling for calm in minneapolis and across the country he had some very moving words to say to me. yeah he did in one of the main messages he said was that george floyd would not have wanted violence and looting fires he said don't do that he would have wanted you to fight

for him having been wrongfully you know this is his brother jarrett speaking. but he would not have wanted the violence and we have learned a little bit more they're going to be several memorial services one here in minneapolis on thursday there's one in north carolina on saturday on monday there is one in houston and then it will be an actual funeral i believe that one is in houston as well on tuesday but the main message from jordan floyd brother was that he was a man of peace he would not have wanted violence in the streets he would not have wanted looting he would definitely want people to push back against the police to protest peacefully now but he would not have wanted the kind of violence we've seen in the streets all right john hendren there live for us in minneapolis john no doubt we'll come back to you joining not full let's let's cross over now to new york if we can and talk to guy but i was on the who's been there for the last few days covering the protests they gave so we're hearing earlier that the new york

governor andrew cuomo has declared that a citywide curfew will come into place from the. that's right there will be a curfew in new york city starting at 11 pm local time that's about 3 and a half hours from right now it's a little after $730.00 here local time right now i'm speaking a little bit of a hushed tone because i want to give you the. right this is thousands of people gathering a story in brooklyn neighborhood and this is a candlelight vigil in honor of george floyd it's one of the 1st types of protests that we've seen like lists in new york the last 4 days it's a wide group of people that are here that have gathered and they have been lighting candles and have holding up signs saying black lives matter. police

brutality it's a very very. very beautiful scene here is the only way to really describe it just thousands of new yorkers here gathering in a very quiet quiet protest and it's very powerful of that way a lot of the other protests that we've been seeing a lot of chanting of course so a lot of marching this is completely different they're trying to get their message out by numbers and by simple silence there's just a couple people in the middle of the group that are speaking but other than that everyone is just listening very intently take time. and everything. everything that's going on in new york really united states and alaska pretty. extraordinary pictures that you know those people behind you very quiet very different to the scenes much of the scenes we've seen from new york with you over

the last few nights or so that you and i have been talking let me just pop another question to you i mean bill de blasio was saying only that. will be taken against any police officers found using excessive force there was a case. when a police car was seen ramming a barrier with protesters behind it remind us again why the mayor has reiterated this and why he felt the need to say it. quite frankly because there have been incidents over the last 3 or 4 days of seeing heavy handedness by the new york police department with one case here as a matter of fact on saturday night police cruisers. into a group of protesters we've. come out the last couple days of a police pepper spray appeared to be peaceful protesters so this is why the mayor came out and said he will not tolerate the same sense he's also defending the police saying that they. are just trying to do their jobs under very difficult

circumstances. protesters are viewing it as they're coming out to protest against police brutality being met with. some of the protesters were clearly the video that we're seeing is certainly some instances of very very heavy handed tactics by the new york police not everywhere but in a few instances and it's interesting gabe to point out isn't that the there's a code 900. taking place in new york i mean how much will these ongoing protests on the mind that it i mean they're talking to us in a mosque. just just to remind us that there was a covert $900.00. this is the epicenter still of the covert 1000 pandemic in the united states here in new york city and that's

why we'll pan off one more time maybe to the right this time and you'll see that almost everybody here if not everybody's wearing masks you might see a patient person not wearing one but the reason is because we are in the middle of a pandemic even though your police officers here in front of us are also wearing masks it is remarkable what we are going through here in new york right now epicenter of the pandemic yet people are still taking to the streets and defying defying suggestions and orders by the c.d.c. and the mayor and the governor not to group the group in tight groups of people the bottom line is new yorkers have come out and said listen we've been in our houses for 10 weeks now we know it's still a pandemic we know it's still the epicenter they're saying we're going to wear our masks but they're also saying you are going to take the street protests even if you have to ask what he learned about 20 feet almost everybody at these protests during

. a very very big concern here in new york he. gave we're trying to establish some communications with rob reynolds over in los angeles we wait so that to happen. because obviously we're trying to get a picture of things happening right across the country let me just come back to you andrew cuomo the governor of new york let's go back to him again because he he's been pushing has he not talking about calling for the banning of the chokeholds by the police. across the u.s. because of what can happen and what happened to george floyd so just tell us a bit more about what cuomo has been calling for. he's still calling for 2 things and cuomo has become a famous baby to the international community or the world right now because of his response to the broader virus epidemic in new york he's taken very strong measures

here to sell press conferences every day for the last oh i don't know 70 days or so now kamel finds himself leading the biggest or most important state in many ways in the u.s. new york. and what he's saying is stupid he is saying there is to be a ban on any sort of. police tactics that led to the death of george floyd the need into the neck tactic but he's also saying that there needs to be a national system uniform system not out of punish toniest because of wrong doing 33 now it's left up to individual states in. prosecutors in individual states and even the police departments themselves around the nation to define what is excessive was what is not excessive force cuomo has come out and basically said we need to have a national standards and we also need to set up an. independent body that oversees

all police brutality claims in the united states it's a pretty strong measure but all to me it's not going to be cuomo that decides that it's going to be others but that's how he's positioning himself i will repeat again during support to go i mentioned just briefly new york city will go on a curfew has 11 pm tonight the biggest city in the us i know you people per unit about 3 and a half hours from right now remarkable that new york city would be shut down after 11 pm until 5 am on tuesday morning why and that is in direct response to the looting and clashes between protesters and police that we've seen the last 3 nights here so all right so gable is on there reporting for us from new york where things seem to be pretty quiet at the moment. that's been out. the west coast and talk to rob reynolds who's been there for us for the last couple of days rob we're still trying to catch our breath from events happening over on the east coast so we thought we'd come to you just that we can breathe for

a minute just bring us up to date with what's been happening today as los angeles and california gear up for yet another night of protests. it's it's interesting that you use that choice of words because that is the chant that these protesters here in west los angeles have been repeating over and over again i can't breed i can't 3 now there's several 100 people who are gathered here it's a major intersection and you can hear the sirens going past there police are on hand but keeping a relatively low profile they're not lined up with their billy clubs or other non-lethal weapons. in this particular area a few minutes ago maybe. 20 minutes ago a group of protesters went off in that direction is a major highway there is called the world 5 i way and they climbed onto the on ramp

blocked traffic for a few minutes but police moved them all traffic resumed and the protesters i did not see any of them being arrested but they they seem to disperse pretty. pretty quickly in in terms of that incident so it's quite peaceful here there are. not not a lot of of tension at this moment and i think there are there are various a curfew restrictions in separate places in counties across the state do you think they're making any difference to the protests and some of the balance me seen in the last few nights that you and i have been talking. the. curfew in all of los angeles county which incorporates a lot of different cities including l.a.

and about $10000000.00 people starts in a little more than an hour now people have not been particularly observant of this protesters have continued to stay on the streets in the past despite the curfew the curfew does give police an opportunity to intervene because they say that because it is it becomes a misdemeanor in that case so police can intervene but whether or not we will see the streets empty tonight i kind of doubt it aaron all right live from los angeles robin no doubt come back to you throughout the course of your night in california but for now thank you now there was another incident that spot plenty of controversy last week after it was filmed and posted to social media a woman in new york's central park called the police saying a black man was threatening her christian film the exchange after he asked her to follow the rules by putting her leash on her dog the woman amy cooper no relation

was later fired from her job. according to my count them i don't. drive i have read them. all right so let's go to los angeles and bring in chris. melody the tweet of her brother's exchange in central park has gone viral melody thanks for waiting for us patiently to come on air let me start by asking you 1st how is chris and what's been happening to him since that encounter with amy coop in central park. on me he's good he's been he's been doing a lot of interviews and trying to continue the thing that he loves to do which is to fight to central park and just to birdwatching and people been very supportive

he's kind of been you know in a good place because people have been so supportive and that's and that's and that's that's great to hear look i mean i read your recent article in the new york times i was struck by a comment you made that when you saw the video at 1st you were relieved but then when you watched it again you felt this sort of strange emotion sort of extremely uneasy angry and then you were overwhelmed with fear so just describe that fear to us and why you have this mix of emotions. well i i have posted on twitter several different videos like this that i see in. these kind of phone calls that have been made and for it to be my own brother it just struck home it struck a nerve for me and i've been fighting against this kind of systemic racism for a long time and i was afraid because when i saw that i realized that my brother if it had gotten another way police could have arrived could have thrown him on the

ground and when i posted it i didn't yet know about george floyd and when i found out about george floyd i i watched that video again and i realized yes that could have been my brother and it infuriated me and it frightened me and i knew that the world needed to see this video so that we could start to really engage in a in a conversation about it and take action to change this kind of systemic racism that you know the leadership in this country has said has encouraged we've seen it across the country for all of those specially over the past 4 years and i thought it was time for it to stop yeah and that really addresses yeah that's that's an important point to make relative because of people drawing parallels between george floyd and your brother and when you see what happened to george floyd in minneapolis and many other young black men getting killed by white policeman do you consider that surely your brother may have been very lucky to survive this this

incident with his life. yes and i end it when it when i i make a point of not watching the videos that are posted a black men and women being killed because i don't want that kind of pain i mention that in the article that i wrote but the other night by accident i have to detach on the news part of the video of george floyd being 'd killed and when he called out for his mama it it broke me because i have a son and hear that from a grown man who was being killed in the next day when our i'm in l.a. and i went out to fairfax and i joined the protest because i can use my words but i've been on protests all my life and i knew it was time for me to get out there again and and walk the streets with everyone because it's it is very much as martin luther king jr said it is the language of the unheard that we have to go out in protest let me let me. just talk to you briefly if i can about amy cooper the

same surname as as as as chris's of course but no relationship because there are reports that she lost her job and that she's received death threats what are your feelings towards amy coop and how do you think she should be held accountable for what happened. i think she does need to be held accountable i i will say that i think it's my brother and i both feel that it's it's sad that she lost her job by her own actions and of course her her business and place of business is who fired her. but it's the replications need to be there when we've you know you see that we take a knee and we protest peacefully and nothing changes and people are dying and the kind of phone call that she made could have resulted in someone dying and there are other people thinking that that's ok to do and there has to be accountability there there has to be and you know unfortunately she lost her job but my brother could

have lost his life so i think it's a moment for us to really realize how serious it is these kind of actions and that kind of weaponization racism is important to fight and to take action against and to take very seriously. melody just a final thought from you because president obama has come out and said that these protests over the killing of george floyd could be a real turning point for america but i mean what kind of pivot what kind of turn needs to be made to stop the kind of racism that we're seeing to stop the kind of police brutality that you're talking about and to stop the sorts of incidents that we saw with your brother chris in central park. well it's not going to happen overnight but what's clear to me is that. the fact that people have contacted me from all over the world the video that i posted has had over 44000000 views and people have reached me reached out to me from places where they're protesting now

in london in berlin in copenhagen there it's amazing to me it's become a worldwide phenomenon and it's a movement that's been a long time coming it amazes me that we've waited as long as we have i am honestly not as concerned about property damage as people's lives being taken and i it's not a race war it's a fight against injustice and i think the more that people come together especially in our country white people join us in this fight so it can't be just the characterizes just one fraction of society but in the protest i went to there were latino native american white women just people across the border joining together to say this is wrong and it really isn't even police now are joining a protest they're taking in the they were there were police marching with us in different cities so i think it really is a movement and the beginning of it is people continuing to take action not backing down and not accepting the president characterizing it the way he has been and to

keep fighting and speaking up. i think that's a slog great start just a just a final thought to you melody before you go you've had a sign you've been taking part in some of the protests in los angeles just give us a sense of the reception you get when you get to these protests of people know who you are and people have seen about your brother and your sort of general feeling in l.a. as you see these protests unfold. well this is i've been in l.a. since december and it was my 1st protest in l.a. i've been going to them in new york for years and 1st of all i was i was glad to see so many people there were lots of the people of all ages there were children i purposely i walked with a sign that said i am christian cooper's sister and emmett till's emmett till is my is my name and tell as my son so i and i had

a mask on and i didn't march i didn't want people to know who i was necessarily i did speak to a few people who were very supportive and they were happy to know that i was there but i was really there as just an individual i didn't know anybody but just to join with everyone else who was there because they were fighting against racism and fighting against injustice and there was one little girl who was carrying a sign she must have been about 7 years old that said i can't breathe and i was stoned with her and her mother is taking a picture because she she found out who i was and we were taking a photo and then there was a police action and this huge crowd started just bolted towards us and all i could think about with this poor little girl and how frightened she must be and and we were during it was just after the official part of the march so the police hadn't given a chance for people to disperse i was there when you could see smoke from the cars being set on fire i saw police you know coming on mass and you know it's

frightening at some points but you could tell everyone still felt it was necessary to be there. raining.