the death of george employfloyd the ex-police officer had his knee on his leg. i will be back tomorrow, 11:00 a.m. eastern. our special live coverage continues right now with erin burnett "outfront". >> up next, protests growing across the united states at this hour as the officer who was pinning down george floyd is charged with murder but bus a new autopsy report complicate this case. and i will speak to one black business owner whose place was ransacked. and new evidence the virus was in the united states earlier than thought.

the cdc on defense tonight. let's go out front. good evening. i'm erin burnett. outrage, protests across the country as prosecutors announce the first charges on george floyd. the officer who was pinning down george floyd for eight minutes, nearly nine, has been charged with third degree manslaughter. they anticipate charges for the other officers involved. and new details about the moments leading up to floyd's death. after six minutes he stopped moving. an officer checked his pulse but said he couldn't find one. the officer there did not left his knee. it would be almost three more minutes, 2 minutes and 43 seconds before derek chauvin removed his knee. after he said there was no pups. minneapolis now bracing for a

protest after the outrage boiled over last night. other cities on high alert. live pictures out of washington, d.c., protestors there marching to the white house. and protestors blocking a major highway, all this in a time of coronavirus. many of those masked and social distance. and miguel marquez is live with his team, and omar jimenez. i want to start with you, miguel. what is the mood on the ground after chauvin is chasing charges of george floyd's death? >> very little hayes changed. the anger is just as as great. the crowd here has been growing for some time now. the authorities here needed to connect with the people here. and for them to believe them. given they that these charges came so late and only after a

night of wanton destruction. >> reporter: the officer here kneeling on george floyd's neck is now under arrest are. >> he is in custody and has been charged with murder. this is by far the fasterest we have charged a police officer. >> reporter: the others are under investigation and likely will face charges. it's not the nearly enough. >> we are not satisfied with one officer. all of them are come poliplacenh his murder. just as four black men that killed something. they would be in jail right now. >> reporter: and warning to the viewers, this video is gruesome

and jarring. here, you can see three officers holding him down m kneeling his his body. officer chauvin's knee is on his neck as he pleads to catch his breath. >> please! >> reporter: a preliminary autopsy report showed no findings of as fix ya -- or strangulation. and it indicated officer chauvin's knee was on his neck for nearly nine minutes. 2 minutes and 58 seconds that floyd was unresponsive. chauvin worked in security, the same place as floyd and may have

known him. >> i don't suspect they recognized each other. even though they may have crossed paths. >> reporter: today, the city began preps for another night of anger spilling in the streets. after the national guard was called in police clashed with protestors over night. parts of police aminneapolis an st. paul burned, including a police building. >> i'm asking to you help us. help us use humane way to get the streets to a place where we can restore the justice. >> reporter: now, there is a cure f curfew in effect. it goes until 6:00 tomorrow morning. the same for sunday.

the crowd here has gathered, state control and national guard are here now. protestors, i know they are moving in other parts of the city as well. they seem to have -- there is no indication they are going to start. erin? >> all right, obviously, setting up for what could be -- obviously, we all hope it will be a peaceful night. they are gathering and not looking like they are willing to move. thank you very much, miguel. i mentioned, miguel is on the ground there in minneapolis. but we are also following protestors around the country. washington, d.c., among the places. white across the street from the white house and brian todd is there. brian what are you seeing? >> reporter: erin, a pretty dangerous situation just unfolded here in lafayette park. they were just crowded here at the steps of this bank building where we are now, there was a pretty violent scene. i just got information on what had happened. when came upon the scene here,

the police were escorting a young white male. we thought they turned on that young. the young man didn't do anything wrong. that anybody here saw. the police just basically jumped on him and accosted him to get him out of here and that is when the crowd got upset. they didn't think the man did anything wrong. the police brought up him the steps and got him inside the bank building. they went right through the entrance. to our knowledge, he is still in here. he didn't look like he was doing so well physically. that is what really turned the crowd against the police here. they started throwing objects at him. the protestors told me, the young man didn't do anything. and they got upset with that, and the police hurriedly rushed this man here. the man here is showing me the video. >> yeah, this is my video here. >> reporter: what do you believe

happened to him? >> nothing happened to him. specifically. he was just -- e we were just marching and to cops came and we tried to hem him out. and the next thing you know, he was being aggressive. >> reporter: well, thank you very much. well, it escalated very, very quickly. we don't know what happened to this young man. these people were very upset. a short time ago, before that incident, this was a boisterous and peaceful protest. hope flit it hopefully it's going back to that right now. >> thank you very much, brian todd. we will check in with recorders around the country. atlanta, other cities where we are seeing the masks protested. and people have not been going to work or are out of work and you are layering thatten on top of what is happening. out front now, the president of minneapolis naacp lesley wegman

is on the phone now. do you think this is going to calm things? is it going to be enough? is it what people think is fair? >> this is not enough enough. excuse my voice. i have been getting hit with the the tear gas as well. this is not enough. we need to see all of the officers charged, in this specific incident. i am glad that the -- the one officer was finally arrested but i believe the charges are not severe enough either. this could be potentially premeditated murder. they actually worked together for years as bouncers. this was not a split second decision. this was almost ten minutes of him having his knee on george's necking. mr. floyd's neck. it really does show there was

intentionality behind it. >> and you know, obviously, these are really, really crucial questions and could matter a lot to what happens here. lesley, what are you -- when you see the images, i don't know if you just saw in washington, d.c., people gathering but in minneapolis tonight, people gathering and our port reporter is saying, people are gathering, people want to protest, people want to be out. do you they people are going to pay attention to the curfew or not? what is your sense of this evening? >> d.c. is actually my home state. i'm really keeping them in my prayers. i really have been on the front lines since the beginning. and i think that there's been an unnecessa unnecessary escalation going on from the police officers and there are also a number of disrupters in the crowd.

i believe are there are things done by the young people in a cross fire. so i'm extremely concerned about the curfew. i have been witnessing young people have anxiety attacks, the tear gas. it's been very unfortunate. i'm not talking about young black people. i'm talking about young people of all different races and backgrounds. i'm very concerned, talking to the young people, making sure they know it's a curfew, seeing if they need a ride home, and if not, how do we legal services to help and protect them. >> i just wampbt to get yont to bottom line as you raise the issue, you said possible premeditation. that is a word you used. the bottom line is, are you satisfied with the charges against chauvin for manslaughter, unintentional? >> no i am not satisfied but i

am glad that he got arrested and is in custody and the next step is having the other three officers arrested. you know this is not an individual act this is really a group activity. it talks about the culture in the minneapolis police department and had one of the officers simply said, this is enough, right? the other two were on his back. they contributed in a real way. the fourth officer was making sure that bystanders were not able to intervene and save mr. floyd's life. that is a joint effort and all of them need to be arrested. >> lesley, i appreciate your time. thank you. the president of the minneapolis naacp in the center of this, at this hour. i want to go now to criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor john martin, and the political science professor. i know it's graphic, it's hard

to watch someone's face as you are watching their dying moments. and that is what they are. the officer kneeling on george floyd's neck. we have the autopsy, the preliminary findings and they say there is no support that support dramatic as fix ya or strangulation. >> well, there is trauma to the neck there is usually evidence of that internally. typically, a medical examiner will look at the cartilage in the neck, and the bones to look for fractures. this is an examination of the muscles on the side of the neck, the strap muscles to see if there is bruising. here, the medical examiner did not find any evidence of

internal damage. however, he did discuss these other perhaps contributing factors, namely hyper tension. and be the coronary artery disease. the other thing that important is mr. lloyd was placed on his stomach. he was prone, and that is something that prevents breathing. in normal breathing, you inhale, the chest rises, it goes out ward and up woward and when you in a prone position, you can't breathe. >> when they are saying there are no fizz kalg findings that support a diagnosis of stang ra e -- strangulation, and they

raise coronary heart disease. and from what you have seen, if the officer had not kneeled on george floyd's neck, would george floyd be alive today? >> that is the key question. and i think he certainly would be. this is what the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. when you are on top of somebody like that for a prolonged period of time and there are under lying factors and maybe other factors. pulmonary dysfunction, we don't have the toxicology report. there are a lot we are don't know. until we get the full autopsy report. >> and things, he would be alive today, even if you have all the other contributing factors, and derek chauvin, the officer, kneeled on his neck for a total of 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

and at that one point, another the officer quote checked his right wrist for a pulse and said i couldn't find one. none of the officers moves from their position. that a quote from the document. they don't get a pulse and another one minute and 53 seconds go by. right? no pulse. 1 minute and 53 seconds go by. officer chauvin does not lift his knee. i wonder, is manslaughter, third degree murder unintentional the right charge for that? >> i don't believe so. i believe based on the fact ps you just sited, he could have been at the very lest murder. the reason why, just like you said, once he was aware of the condition of mr. lloyd, he took no action. so his failure to act at that point in time was intentional. they told him he didn't have a

pulse and he did nothing. at the very least, you are charged with the highest charge you can sustain and that would be murderer in the second. >> to that point, let me ask you, paul, this is just raised, the naacp chief in minnesota raised it and talking to a night club owner, mr. floyd and officer chauvin worked in the same night club and the night club owner said she doesn't know if they know each other. but it opens the door to the fact they splay known each other. and how important that can be here? >> if they knew each other, that may be just a red herring. my real issue is what is stated in the charging document. i'm a little concerned with what the prosecutor has put forward. all they needed to put forward was the bare minimum facts. it seems they trying to send too

many dog whistles to say, listen, you have a basis to try to beat this case, and the event they keep on this prosecution, i'm very concerned. maybe this is not the type of case they be prosecutor. >> to that point, you went to the bottom line of it. they put in there that strangulation wasn't the cause of death, and other things could have contributed, and would he be alive had he had that knee in the bara the back of his neck, and the answer, he would be. what other questions do you want answered right now? >> well, i tell you one other thing to add to what mr. martin just said. there is something that is very controversial about cause of death. it's called excited delirium. which is something that happens to a person. it's a tremendous physiological response. it could be to drugs, it would

be to violence, and fisticuffs situation. people can die very suddenly. that is probably something that the defense will grab on to. but there is it a missing piece here. a missing autopsy report. the toxicology report. we don't know the history of pulmonary condition. but i think is enough here to sustain the charges. and i believe -- the under lying factors were contributory. but the police officer with the left knee on mr. floyd's neck. >> and doing so for almost two minutes after he was told there was no pulse. at this point, it does the not seem to be any possible answer to that question which would exonerate the officer in any way. and outfront next, go out to the

white house. the white house now on lockdown and omar jimenez and his team arrested today while on the air. >> you're under arrest. >> do you mind telling me why i'm under arrest. >> he is with me live next, and president trump tweeted when the looting starts, the shooting starts at the height of the rioting last night. [squawks] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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kbre >> breaking news. protests in washington, d.c. the white house is on lockdown. kaitlan, what you are seeing from where you are? >> the protestored started out on 14th street and thou they have come in lafayette square in front of the white house. you can see them behind e me. ly step out of the way and let you see the protestors that are gathering here. the park is technically closed. my producer and i were walking by it and the secret service officers told us we cannot get in, even though we have a hard pass to get in the white house. and the protestors to the left of the park and they movied in at once. they are now in front of the white house chanting george floyd's name and chanting "no peace." very audible. we should note, people inside

the white house grounds are not allowed to leave right now. secret service has barred reporters, anyone from leaving the ground at the moment as you see the protests break out. they have signs. they are chanting right now. george floyd's name is something we are able to hear audibly several times, erin. >> all right, caitlan collins, and minneapolis, crowds are being there, there is supposed to be a curfew starting in less tlan two hours. but miguel marquez said he didn't see indication of people going to come ply with that. that is now the third day of protests over the death of george floyd. covering the protests this morning, our own omar jimenez was arrested live on television. and they made it very clear,

omar made it very clear, they are members of the media. let me show you what happened. >> wherever you want it, we will get out of the way. let us know and we got you. we are advancing out of the intersection. and this is a scene here playing out in minneapolis. this is part of the advance police presence we saw come over the course of really minutes when the local police showed up at the -- with the fire department, i should say, the building that was burning. this is among the state patrol unit that is advancing up the street. scattering protestors, at that point, for people to clear the area. so we talked away. i'm sorry? >> you're under arrest. >> do you mind telling me i'm under arrest? why am i under arrest, sir? >> cnn is on the air right now.

on the air are cnn. you are arresting him live on cnn. we told you before, we are with cnn. >> omar is now out front. it was pretty incredible just to watch that. as they say you're under arrest what went through your head? >> reporter: well, right off the bat, i was confused. we had been out there reporting really days at that point. maintaining the same physical relationship with police, trying to keep our distance from the line they were holding, on to protect. and as we were covering a fire that was burning out of control around there, and people that were basically rioting and looting there, when the first responders and law enforcement showed up, we were outside of their perimeter, and then a protester, we believe to be a protester, came running out of

the fray. they ended up chasing that person past us, and all of a sudden, our crew was surrounded. as i tried to get out of the circle they made around our crew that is when somethione was beh me. and i waited there. i still didn't think they were going to put handcuffs on us. i thought they wanted us to hold in place. so we were in a state of disbelief. i still can't tell you why we were arrested but e we were. >> the state's governor issued a public apology. here is what he said. >> i take full responsibility. there is no reason that something like this should happen. calls were made immediately. this is a very public apology to that team. it should not happen. >> i know you still have questions. but you did ever get an explanation for why you were

arre arrested? >> we never get an explanation. i said what is deal here? and all they said, we just following orders, sorry. that was the closest i got. now, once we were actually released, the minnesota state patrol did put out a statement saying they were basically holding us until they would verify they were reporters. when they took us to the van on scene, we sat in the van for 30 minutes. we were literally live on television, on cnn, and i had the press credential out and i was showing them over the course of it, what that was. and that was their chance to reattach trust to the situation after hit finished but they missed that opportunity. our communications department called them out for it and we saw the governor issue that apology, and the governor made

the calls to get us out as quickly as possible. he e knows how important it is -- >> can i ask you a blunt people that people have been asking all day. we had a reporter who was nearby who was white, did not have this issue happen. you obviously are not white. do you they was part of it? >> reporter: well, in the moment, i didn't think it at all. while we were actually being arrested. it wasn't until we had gotten off after wards and it was my colleague josh campbell, he was a block away, he was the first to come up, and he said, i had a similar interaction with police on a different part of the perimeter where they came up and asked him for credentials and asked him what he was doing. he showed his credentials and e he will went about his day. so you can't deny the two different experiences there. i'm not going to speak to exactly what is in their head and it's hard to pin their

motivations but the two experiences there speak for themselves. and when you have a climate like this, and a story we are covering there are questions and a lot of people assume answers to. >> yeah, we certainly do need answers. thank you very much. omar is still there on the the ground. you know, 14 hours later, still covering this. and next, the protests building in washington. crowds now building at the white house. the president trying to explain from inside why he treweeted wh the looting starts, the shooting starts. and an alarming warning from the cdc. 25,000 americans can die from the coronavirus in the next few weeks.

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all right, i want to go back to the white house. brian todd is there with the crowds. obviously, just seeing the violence a few moments ago. brian, what is happening now? >> reporter: erin a tense stand off here at lafayette park in front of the white house. protestors here, if you want to

come in and get an it will closer. protestors here have been pushing down this steel barricade and the police, the secret service police will push it back up and it got very tense. one officer got in one guy's face, and it was going escalate. it looked like it was going to escalate and it calmed down again. but it's a pretty tense flash point here in front of the white house. this fence keeps getting pushed down. as we showed you earlier, there was -- it was an altercation with police, and police jumped on one protestor and escorted him out quickly. protestors got out in front of a gentleman. and what we hear was they didn't think that gentleman did anything wrong. that got the crowd to turn against the police. they started to throw many objects, and got to be a scrum. they got a man in a bank building. it was a pretty dangerous and violent scene there for about

ten minutes and we have -- we go in again where the people are taunting the police, and the police have been standing their ground pretty calmly over there. these are the secret service police because we are in front of the white house. until we got here, it was a peaceful protest. they were marching down 14th street. they made a turn down here to the white house, and there was a fire set here a short time ago. an american flag got set on fire here and quickly put out. an intense situation here. the police are trying to deescalate it. but right now, they are just standing there waiting to see if the people push the barricade down again. >> just the tenseness you're seeing. again, i see with this happening and it's important for us to remember, it's happening in a time of the anxiousety and the e and 3 20% employment in the

country and a pandemic and all of it adding to a tense and frightening moment. tonight, president trump is on the defense. he has been accused of inciting violence with a 1:00 a.m. tweet saying the thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd. when the looting starts, the shooting starts, thank you. he said he did not know the history of the phrase. hire is what he said moments ago. >> i head rd it for a long time as most people have been. frankly, it means when there's looting, people get shot and they die. if you look at what happened last night and the night before, you see that. it's very common. that is the why way it was meant. i don't know where it came from. i don't know where it ore rid

originated. >> i appreciate your time, congressman. i'm glad to sigh you and sorry under these circumstances. what do you make of the president trying to explain when the looting starts, the shooting starts. >> well, thank you very much for manage me. the president knows exactly what he is saying. he knows what he is doing. he has developed expertise in exciting people. so i don't accept service upon the statements at all. >> so i want to make sure our viewers know here, just a blata blatant implication. and the history, it appears to have originated in 1967. it was a comment made by the then miami police chief and he announced a campaign against dl crime that included uses dogs

and shut guns and he saalso sai we don't mind being accused of police brutality. and the pictures from 1968, he repeated the comment. when violence erupted in a predominantly black nand in the 1968 convention, when the loogt starts, the shooting starts. president trump said he didn't know about the history. most people have heard it for a long time. do you buy that? >> no, i don't. the fact of the matter is, we are old enough that crimes like this, and they are criminal behavior against property. when you talk about taking lives, because of the property crime, you take us back to a place in our history that gave

rise to all of this. may not have had the cute phrases like you just mentioned but we all know what happened to people of color when they were accused of property crimes and that is what is going on here. and most of us know the background, the history and this president knows the background and the history. so much of what he says is coded. and he means to send a signal to a certain element that he calls his base. and there are many people within that base who are not good people to say the least. >> so the president went to the rose garden today. he addressed the world. he did not mention george floyd or minneapolis but later this afternoon when he did address floyd, he said he had spoken to his family and that he, president trump, is calling for the doj to investigate floyd's death. here is what he said.

>> i asked that the department of justice expedite the investigation in his death. do it as quickly as possible. i spoke to members of the family. terrific people. and we'll be reporting as time goes by. >> are you confident that the department of justice will do a thorough and full investigation? >> absolutely not. the head of the department is justice is the attorney general. and we have watch withed the aty general, after he wrote the letters, presented ahimself as being the president's home. we know that that this attorney general is not about to go with

skrus tis in a fair and impartial manner. we have heard from him. i have absolutely no confidence that this attorney general will do what is right. >> all right, well, i appreciate your time very much. congressman, thank you very much, as always. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> and as we now see the protests, you see washington, d.c., we showed you minneapolis. i want to go to new york, where you are protests growing and you can see people gathering here right now. what you seeing where you are? >> yeah, so we're in brooklyn at the barclays center. here almost two hours and what was a mostly peaceful protest. and now, it has turned violent in some ways.

i mean, the police certainly have been more aggressive than they have been here in the last two hours or so. we have seen police pepper spraying heading in to the crowd. we have seen people throwing water bottles at the place. but something had occurred in the front of the line which is all the way up ahead. i'm not going to go in that crowd because it's just not safe. but something was going on, and the there are barriers in the front and what was happening, the protestors were pushing the barriers and the police made a decision to move in, it's a mostly peaceful protest but they move in, that is the seen here. and that is the scene now. and they are growing sense. and we have see how it plays out as it goes on. >> all right, thank you very much. as we watch crowds in another city where this is happening, up front. next a business owner in

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you're looking at live pictures out of minneapolis. tonight, crowds are growing. the curfew is set to begin in just over an hour. so we'll see what happens there. whether will is defiance or compliance. businesses in minneapolis are bracing tonight. and the owner of craft spirits. his distillery was damaged. we will show some of the pictures you took. is your livelihood, your business you built. i am so, so sorry. you are bracing for more destruction tonight? what are you doing? >> well, there's only so much you can do. and thank you for having me on. yeah, this is -- it's difficult.

i can't see the pictures you're showing but i was there when they were taken. and it's heart breaking for me, and really for many members of our community who are watching this as far as getting ready for today and what we expect for today, i don't know that anyone really knows. a lot has changed in past 24 hours. so i'm hoping that the community keeps it together and keeps the protest where it should be, speaking specifically about what happened to george floyd and not taking it to the extent it was last night and night before where it devolved into wide-scale destruction. >> i'm going to show video that you sent us, chris, damage from last night. on one side you can see all the damage to your business, to the distillery. on the other, fairly untouched.

that's where your employees put signs saying this is a black-owned business. so on the other side you said you didn't have the signs up. just to be direct here, do you think the looters' perception about your race as owner was part of this? didn't touch the part that said black owner. >> i think that's only conclusion you can come to. if you were to understand where the distillery is, we're on the same block as the third precinct, the epicenter of the protests. can't find a business in any direction that doesn't have damage, only spot is what you're showing your viewers now, that section of the business with those signs up. i have to believe it mattered. i certainly heard people saying that they did not want to affect black-owned or minority-owned

businesses. so i think it did matter. i have to point out, it touches me so deeply that my employees did that of their own volition, they came back to a place that tear gas, rubber bullets and flash bang grenades were going off, they came back just to do that, i continue to thank them from bottom of my heart. >> just have to ask you, you're going through incredible difficulty as a business. coronavirus and pandemic and shutdowns, community that's in distress, dealing with that. professionally and personally. i know you've got three young boys, your oldest is six. >> uh-huh. >> i can relate to that, that's my oldest. what are you telling them about this? they have a huge disruption to their lives and now this happening in their city and to

you. >> i'll be honest with you, this is tough for me to talk about, i can't talk to them about it. i have to lie. as far as they know, there have been a number of accidents that caused fires. there's a terrible thing that parents of color have to do at some point, when they tell their kids that they're not going to be viewed the same way and in this case because of the color of their dad. and my kids are too young for that. moment that that happens, it's a piece of childhood dies and they're just not ready, i can't do that to them. i prefer to be honest and straightforward person, but right now i'm not to them.

>> chris, thank you, thank you for sharing all that with us, and i hope that your story touches people in many ways but i think that most poignantly, thank you. >> thank you for having me. next, sobering new projection from the cdc, 20,000 more deaths in just weeks from coronavirus.

tonight president trump terminating america's relationship with the world health organization in middle of a pandemic with a cases trending up in more than 13 states, and cdc predicting 20,000 more deaths in the next three weeks. >> well done, new york city. >> reporter: once the epicenter of the pandemic, set to reopen in less than two weeks. >> june 8th, we have to be smart. this is not happy days are here again it's over, we have to be smart. >> reporter: city will monitor key data daily and if numbers reach a threshold, could trigger restrictions again. monday five regions are moving into next phase, hair dressers and retail opening with some limits. like new york, other states are seeing downward trend in new

coronavirus cases. in washington, d.c., hair salons reopened by appointment and residents could dine in again, outdoor only. >> today is first phase of stage one. stay-at-home light. >> reporter: georgia continues to hold steady, takes major step to reopen bars and night clubs with social distancing. still growing concerns of rising cases in 15 states, primarily in southeast, like arkansas saw largest single day increase thursday. critical in alabama, cases doubling two weeks after state started to reopen. icu beds filling fast, causing shortages in some cities. >> rural parts of the country are least prepared to deal with this surge and have least capacity to do this. this is what we've been warning about for months now. >> reporter: in washington and california, first cases reported, both are seeing

spikes. california its biggest jump since the pandemic started. >> testing 20 to 30-fold more individuals, you're going to have more positive tests. inevitability. >> reporter: grim prediction from the cdc, forecasting death toll could surpass 23,000 more deaths in u.s. in next three weeks. back live in new york, if that june 8th date sticks, could see construction, manufacturing, curbside retail come back to life. in l.a., seeing restart of hair salons and in-person dining, that's effective immediately. >> thank you brynn, appreciate all of you joining us this friday night as breaking news coverage continues in minneapolis and around the country, "ac-360" with anderson

starts right now. >> good evening, there are demonstrations going on right now across the country. people on the streets in middle of the pandemic protesting the killing of george floyd in minneapolis. police officer's knee on his neck. charged today with third degree murder and manslaughter, he and three others had been fired. live reports from minneapolis and nationwide. lot to get to, start in new york, outside barclay center in brooklyn. what are the demonstrations like in new york? >> reporter: started peaceful but thousands now. largest demonstration we've yet seen in new york city, relatively peaceful. within last hour everything has changed. police have moved in, they've put barricades we're behind, trying to get the protesters out the other way. there are police everywhere, you can see a woman there being