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this is cnn breaking news. >> and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm michael holmes. all weekend we have seen americans standing shoulder to shoulder and sometimes going head to toe with authorities to protest police brutality. >> shut it down! shut it down! >> there have been acts of violence. it is now 2:00 a.m. eastern time and things have settled down in much of the country. many people who had violated curfews earlier seem to have gone home or been arrested.
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we did see fiery hot-blooded scenes play out as you can see in new york on sunday. >> also in the nation's capital. this demonstration happened very close to the white house in lafayette park. washington protest started out peaceful during the day. but it didn't last. there were fires burning in the background at one point. the flash point for all of this, of course the death of george floyd. he died last monday while being arrested in minneapolis after a white police officer pinned him down with a knee to his neck. that officer, derek chauvin is expected to appear in court later today. washington's curfew lets up in a few hours at sunrise. >> the light of day will shed light on the damage done.
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cnn was there into the night as the violence broke out. >> reporter: this was the scene in washington, d.c. after an extraordinary night of protest. that is the northern edge of lafayette park which is right next to the white house. that has been ground zero all day for a third day of protests in washington, d.c. following the killing of george floyd. for most of the day it was a peaceful march to the white house. as the protests grew and we enter the evening hours, it got more tense. we saw more of a back and forth between the protesters and the police forces with various projectiles being thrown, including fireworks, bottles of water, and then the police responding with tear gas and pepper spray. there was a bit of a breaking point around 10:00 p.m. when a number of fires were lit just over there by the park. that is st. john's church which
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president after president has gone to to worship on sundays. a number of fires were set, including in the basement of that church and next to it which appeared to be a breaking point for the police. they then decided to push the protester who is had been in the park for hours out and well away from this hour. you can see there was more destruction here at this building. this is the aflcio which is the federation of labor unions. there was a fire in the lobby. back here behind me a number of buildings have been boarded up for security. and also saw some destruction from a number of nights of protest. the mayor of d.c. on this third night has put into place a curfew. it is had tthe effects of it. protesters have now gone home because of it or have been forced to go home. that curfew ends at 6:00 a.m. and it remains to be seen what will happen in the hours and days ahead in the nation's
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capital. the activity around the white house was alarming enough friday night to send donald trump to the underground presidential bunker. >> he was there apparently for a little under an hour before coming back upstairs. no word on whether he went there sunday night as violent demonstrations took place and fires were set pretty close to the white house. all this begging the question what is the president's plan for handling this crisis. >> we haven't heard much from him other than tweets. in tweets the president is playing the blame game, threatening to label the antifascist group antifa as a terrorist organization, something experts say he is not legally authorized to do. while many protesters and leaders say the core issue is systemic racism, one of the president's top advisers says that's not the case. >> no, i don't think there's systemic racism. i think 99.9% of our law
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enforc enforcement officers are great americans. many are african-american, hispanic, natiasian. i think they're amazing great americans and they're my heroes. but there are some bad apples in there. there are some bad cops that are racist and there are cops that maybe don't have the right training and there are some that are just bad cops. and they need to be rooted out because there's a few bad apples that are giving law enforcement a terrible name. >> well, the inequality face by black people in the u.s. is not new, but this current crisis began in minneapolis, minnesota just one week ago. >> it's hard to believe it's just been one week. it seems longer than that. george floyd died being taken into custody last monday. sara sidner has been on the scene from the beginning and has this report on a remarkable day. >> reporter: we're in the neighborhood where george floyd lost his life.
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while here, we saw the police chief arrive. he came up to the makeshift memorial, and he kneeled and prayed. then we were able to talk to him. and as we did, it just so happened that the family of george floyd was on cnn and they were able to talk through me to the chief for the very first time since this officer was accused of murdering george floyd. the floyd family has asked if you are going to get justice for george floyd by making sure that the other officers are arrested and that eventually convicted? they want -- and i know that there are things that you cannot control, but they want to know if the other officers should be arrested in your mind and if you see that they should all four be convicted in this case. >> this is the floyd family right now. >> this is the floyd family. >> to the floyd family, being silent or not intervening to me,
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you're complicit. so, i don't see a level of distinction any different. so, obviously the charging and those decisions will have to come through our county attorney's office. to the floyd family i want you to know that my decision to fire all four officers was not based on some sort of hierarchy. mr. floyd died in our hands, and so i see that as being complicit. so, that is about as much as -- i apologize to the floyd family if i'm not more clear, but i don't see a difference in terms of the ultimate outcome is he is not here with us. >> you don't see a difference between what officer chauvin did and the three other officers, some of whom kneeled down as well, some of whom just watched, you see that as the same act. >> silence and inaction, you're complicit. you're complicit. if there were one solitary voice
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that would have intervened, an act, that's what i would have hoped for. unfortunately -- >> that's what you would have expected from your officers. >> absolutely, that did not occur. to the floyd family, i hope that -- that's my response. >> all right. chief arredondo tried to answer their questions and each time he did, he made sure to take off his cap to show respect to the floyd family. when i asked him what he thought of the video, his reaction was outrage himself. and he fired those four officers faster than any other police chief that i have ever seen has fired officers in a case like this. and then i asked him if he thought that the other three officers should be charged in this case. his response, they said nothing, they did nothing to stop it, and they, he said, are complicit. sara sidner, cnn, minneapolis.
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>> michael, that was a remarkable moment of live tv. >> it was. extraordinarily powerful too. >> we also have this. 35-year-old man has been charged with assault after, get this, driving this truck you see here into a crowd of protesters in minneapolis sunday. the event occurred on an interstate bridge and the crowd plead guilty hadd managed to get out of the way. aerial footage appears to show the driver as officers took him away. >> according to records from hennepin county jail, he's being held without bail. it appears no protesters, fortunately, were hurt in that incident. now the may r i don't of atlanta announcing the firing of two atlanta police officers for using excessive force during protests on saturday night. three other officers are now on desk duty pending an investigation. >> this incident stems from something involving two college
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that's tough to watch. the police said they tased the man. you could hear it multiple times -- because they believed he was armed. he wasn't. his hands were visible at all times by the way even though you hear the officer yell get your hands out of your pocket. they weren't in his pocket. one officer reported hearing the word "gun" two or three times. no gun was found. >> reporter: for the third night in a row there was violence in the city of atlanta. it's the second night of a curfew. they're finishing processing the people picked up and arrested. most of them are picked up for curfew violations. usually when you see the violence that occurs at least over these past few nights it's
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at the time when the curfew goes into effect. people are allowed to protest up until that point, but after that any presence becomes unlawful. it happened again tonight. there were projectiles thrown towards police so they began firing back with canisters and tear gas. was the the events of saturday night and police actions that became the focus of both the mayor and the police chief. and they decided that there was at least one instance where police acted too strongly. and they have fired two police officers and then assigned to desk duty three others. they didn't waste any time on this. the body cam video has been released and it shows a very intense scene as authorities moved in on some people who were in automobile. but at the same time, they have been chasing protesters through the streets. saturday night traffic was still flowing despite the curfew. clearly the mayor and the police
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chief know that their department, like all departments across the country, are under intense scrutiny. and protest or not, they expect their officers to act the proper way. martin savidge, cnn, atlanta. >> now, earlier, my colleague dr. don lemon spoke with bernice king, the daughter of the civil rights leader martin luther king, jr. he asked king her reaction to the protests and unerest. take a listen. >> i really hear his words tonight. where do we go from here tonight, america, chaos or community? we have hard choices to make and quick choices. time is not our ally right now. and i am with the family, that there needs to be arrests made and the charges really need to be first degree. until we have justice in that
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sense, we're going to have that unrest unfortunately. and so america's choice is that we can keep focusing on these reactions or we can change the conditions that have led to these kind of actions. >> we go now to california. the national guard has been sent to the city of long beach in los angeles county where a curfew is underway. kyung lah has the report. >> reporter: long beach police still trying to clear the streets. they are working their way street by street to try to get protesters to go home. it is past curfew. you can see law enforcement here. they have batons. we have seen them fire rubber bullets into protesters who were refusing to go home even though the curfew had passed.
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protesters, i should mention, who were largely peaceful from what we observed. but that was not the case, especially in santa monica. earlier in the day in santa monica, we saw tense standoffs with the police, where protesters were throwing water bottles, glass, hunks of concrete at law enforcement. and then police had to use tear gas to break up the crowd, also firing rubber bullets. also in the commercial districts of santa monica, people were breaking the glass fronts -- the store fronts of blocks upon blocks of businesses, walking out with stolen merchandise. but here in long beach while there were some instances of looting, the protests were largely peaceful for hours. and as curfew fell, the marchers kept going. and listen to one woman about why she says she wanted to keep going. >> my family matter. my friends matter. i got nephews.
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i got nieces. i got sisters. i got a mama. i got a daddy. i got friends. i got parents. i got all these people standing right here. they [ bleep ] matter. their lives matter. nobody gives a [ bleep ] about us unless we get violent. you care about [ bleep ] getting burned down but what about when the kkk burned our [ bleep ] down. where were y'all then? where were y'all complaining then? >> you can hear the passion in her voice. >> we stand for the people who can't speak for themselves. we stand for the ones who have been knocked down, the ones who can't stand up no more. we stand for peace. we stand for equality. we stand for unity. we stand for love. no justice! no justice!
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>> shortly after we spoke to that woman, police did move in, stopped those marchers and took some into custody. kyung lah cnn, long beach, california. >> emotional stuff. we're going to talk a break. extremist groups on both sides are stoking protests and violence. not everyone agrees. when we come back, we'll find out who president trump is blaming for the unrest. we'll be right back. you've be. like people... and pants. but don't avoid taking care of your eyes, because we're here to safely serve you with new procedures that exceed cdc guidelines and value your time. visionworks. see the difference.
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welcome back. the trump administration placing the blame for the violent confrontation squarely on what he calls the the radical left. on sunday, mr. trump tweeting the u.s. would designate the left wing group antifa as a terrorist organization. >> not everyone agrees. law enforcement officials say that extremists on both the left and the right are responsible. >> since this is being driven by antifa, i don't know what they are, they're militants coming in burning our cities and we're going to get to the bottom of it. it appears the violence and planned, organized, and driven by anarchic and left extremist groups, far left extremist
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groups. >> there are detractors, there are white supremacists, there are anarchists. >> but we also know that some evil elements are literally interfusing themselves with the protests to destroy and cause arson. >> we should note the u.s. government does not have the legal authority to label a domestic group a terrorist organization the same way it does a foreign group. but let's talk about this. from new york joining me now is retired nypd lieutenant and criminal justice expert darren porter. lieutenant, thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> let's begin with the reports on these outside agitators. tonight in new york city according to cnn's reporter on the ground, there were peaceful protests when sudden a group arrived from brooklyn and trouble broke out. what do you think is going on behind this? >> well, i think this is
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hyperbolic speech from the president. and when we look at a lot of the groups that are participating in what initially started off as a peaceful demonstration and now evolved into riotous behavior, it doesn't set the labelling of any specific group as a terrorist organization. there are specific benchmarks that need to be met in connection with national security to make the assessment. if in fact this group were to be labelled a domestic terrorist organization. this is a prolonged period and in no way, shape action or form is this something that's going to be introduced from the president making a statement that groups such as antifa should be labelled as a domestic terrorist organization. >> organized resistance groups are finding areas of opportunity to bring in agitators and causing violence. do you recall this happening in the past with past issues, or is
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this something new? >> my experience as a practitioner at the nypd in connection with demonstrations and riots, we've often times had people we refer to as agitators. they came from territories outside of where the actual demonstration is occurring, and these people in many instances were hired. but they simply afford a small component of that peaceful demonstration because the masses are coming to protest something and resent a particular action in government. so, the agitators in many instances are distracting from the peace for which this demonstration represents. i think it's em per imperative that the police remove them therefore we can move forward with the constitutionally protected demonstrations to ensure that the message is getting out and not be
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distracted by a small number of agitators that are creating anarchy as a result. >> right. so, people are out protesting which is their right, holding signs and chanting. then suddenly these agitators show up. it's already a complex situation on the streets. and now police have to handle this separate avenue. how challenging is that for them? >> i mean, it's very challenging. i'll give you an example of what happened recently in new york. we had a team of two sisters that travelled from 50 miles away from the catskills to new york city and threw molotov cocktails into police vehicles. fortunately those two sisters were arrested, but they were clearly not a part of the population that represents the protesting community in relation to what happened to george floyd. and so these external entities come into play such as these agitators need to be fully
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addressed, separated. and often times police departments extract those from the group and arrest them. it's an arduous task, but it's really something that involves a force that's readily fit to handle such instances as it relates to the agitators that come to specifically induce a level of mass pandemonium at a peaceful demonstration. >> and unfortunately they've been successful at that. we really appreciate your insights and expertise. thank you, lieutenant. >> thanks for having me. >> thanks natalie. it's been less than a week since the event that sparked these protests. after the break we go back to last monday and the events that led up to george floyds death.
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take you to portland, oregon now. live pictures coming to us from there where large crowds are roaming the streets. there was a tweet earlier from portland police saying the demonstrators broke windows at the u.s. courthouse there in portland and officers responded with what was called riot control agents. what we've been seeing there were clouds of tear gas just a little bit earlier and large crowds running away from police across a park and through the streets there. apparently at the courthouse police feared demonstrators set fires in that courthouse. they did not gain entry. there were no fires. natalie. >> another city seeing protests.
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anger over the killing of george floyd is setting protests all across the united states. >> during the day it was pretty much peaceful all over the country. after dark it got a little rough in some areas. now let's go back and it's worth remembering, it's been about a week now since floyd's death in police custody. following that officer kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes. sara sidner recounts. warning, the video is disturbing and might be difficult to watch. >> my neck hurts. everything hurts. please. please. please. i can't breathe. please, man. please. >> 46-year-old george floyd spent the last minutes of his life begging for one simple
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thing, a breath. >> i'm about to die this day. >> the begging for breath goes on for 3 minutes and 9 seconds. >> get up and get in the car right. >> i can't. >> what are you on? >> i can't breathe. >> get up and get in the car, man. >> i will. they gonna kill me, man. >> even after floyd becomes unresponsive, minneapolis police officer derek chauvin keeps pressing his knee down on him. the video shows after a total of 7 minutes 59 seconds of this, floyd stops moving altogether. >> i don't understand. they didn't have to do that to him. >> the beginning of floyd's end was the 911 call that brought him face to face with these
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officers. floyd and a friend are accused of trying to pay for items with a counterfeit $20 bill. at 8:08, officers arrive at the store. the initial responding officers are thomas lane and j.a. kueng. you see floyd against a wall. he is handcuffed. a minute late e floyd is brought to his feet. floyd falls next to the police vehicle. he's lifted up. 8:15 p.m., floyd is up against the cruiser but you can't make out what's happening because a police cruiser has just arrived shielding the view but you can see his head drop behind the police car. two more under the influence aers arrive, tau and derek chauvin. another video shows floyd is
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already in the vehicle, there's a struggle, and floyd ends up on the ground on the other side of the car. bystander darnella frazier begins catching this video. another bystander also captures video from a different anger showing it's not just one officer restraining floyd. >> get off of him now. >> what's wrong with you? >> two minutes into the recording, officers called for an ambulance. chauvin continues pressing down on floyd's neck. the ambulance arrives, but floyd's body is already limp. >> you guys aren't checking his pulse or doing compressions! >> paramedics eventually arrive but floyd is pronounced dead a short time later. >> what i saw was murder and that's why i want them to be arrested and charged and convicted for. >> that is exactly what some in the neighborhood and others who saw the video thought too.
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the next day, they showed up in force to honor george floyd, a 46-year-old bouncer, truck driver, and father. >> it broke my heart. it was devastated. there are no words in the english language that will convey the despair that i felt watching that man's life leave his body and him scream out for his mother. i heard my son saying mama, save me! >> mama! >> the day after floyd dies, the four officers involved are fired. but the emotional wounds have already been broken wide open. by nightfall, sorrow turns to anger. protesters rage against the neighborhood police. by wednesday, it explodes. it's not just water bottles and rocks versus tear gas, flash bangs, and rubber bullets. >> they've been shooting me all -- look, i'm talking about all day. >> it just collapsed. there you go. >> buildings are set on fire and
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stores are looted. the devastation to a neighborhood further hinders its ability to heal. >> we know in this neighborhood the disparities are high, there's a high senior rate, everything that's been demolished and everything that's ashes now. we want to be part of the solution. >> but the protesters' anger cannot be contained. thursday, protesters breached the police precinct perimeter. eventually, there is no police presence at all. then this. >> we are definitely now seeing a fully on fire third precinct here. >> protesters celebrated. the next morning as the national guard rolls in -- >> move back here. >> -- state police make a move that is roundly condemned. >> i'm sorry. okay. do you mind telling me why i'm under arrest, sir. >> they detained cnn reporter omar jiminez and his crew live
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on television with no explanation from police at all. >> i believe they're about to d we're all about to be arrested. that's our producer. >> and governor apologizes. >> i take full responsibility. there's no reason this should happen. >> the crew is released. friday afternoon an announcement. officer derek chauvin arrested for third degree murder and manslaughter. protesters say justice means more than just charges for one officer. it's about the systematic nature of policing black people in america. >> i am out here to get justice for my city. my city has been going through a lot of pain. this is not the first, second, or third time. and this needs to stop right now. and this is the only way. you see all this, all this damage is what we have to do to get our voice heard. >> this is the minnesota state patrol. you are in violation -- >> for those sworn to protect
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and serve, to some they've become a sworn enemy. >> there we go, look out, look out, look out. >> this time, the fight was sparked by the suffering of one man whose death they now hope will finally break them free of a suffocating cycle. >> ian michael, you know, it's such a horrendous, horrendous murder and to think it was over one transaction that was a $20 transaction and this man died. >> yeah. exactly. and we've seen what happened to the officer with the knee. a lot of people would like it to be more than that. we have yet to see the other three officers who stood, watched, did nothing, took part. yet to see what happens with them. they are expecting charge. we'll keep an eye on it. you are watching cnn. still to come on the program -- taking a knee.
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sanitizing classrooms, and ensuring social distancing. tell lawmakers and governor newsom don't cut our students' future. pass a state budget that protects our public schools. that was the moment right there that brought people together at this scene in new york. over the weekend several new york police officers were shown on video kneeling in solidarity with protesters in the borough of queens. the activist who shot this video said it was a first for her. she had never seen that symbolic
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gesture from a police officer. she said while it's a nice start, it's nowhere near the change america needs to heal. >> clapping and chanting black lives matter, thousands gathering in london despite lockdown rules to show solidarity with protesters in the u.s. over the death of george floyd. london's mayor tweeting that the killing has quote, rightly ignited fury and anguish not just in the u.s. but around the world and no country, city, police force or institution can be complacent about racism and the impact this has, unquote. >> there were also demonstrations in berlin where people held signs similar to ones we see in the united states saying i can't breathe and no justice no, peace. >> and ta memorial to floyd
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appeared at a park in germany, a mural painted on the site once divided by the berlin wall. nick watts joins us from london. what's your take on how the world is viewing what's happening in the u.s. right now, nick? >> i think there's caution, there's concern, and there's a real desire to hope that the united states can, you know, make it back to some sense of normality. scott morrison, the australian prime minister in the last few hours has called this saddening as well. we heard from the british foreign secretary having similar sentiments yesterday as well. what you have in this coronavirus situation where very few sports events are going on and those happening behind closed doors, you had yesterday a french soccer player james sando playing for a german club. when he scored a goal, there's no audience there, pulls off his shirt so you can see "justice
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for george floyd" written on his undershirt. so, there's certainly a depth of feeling. and we know from the papers released by the scientific advisers to the governors here in the uk recently that there is concern about the potential for trouble during tensions caused by peoples' frustrations around the current pandemic. so, there is -- there will be caution watching what's happening and how it impacts centers like london and berlin. >> fascinating. just stand by nic, i want to watch people up on some of the coronavirus news and come back to you. some of the protesters we saw in london were arrested for breaching coronavirus restrictions. experts say these large demonstrations -- and we discussed it a little earlier -- could be spreading the virus even further. and it comes as infections are still increasing in some parts
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of the world, many of them now coming from latin america which experts call the new ep center of the outbreak. brazil, the region's worst-hit country, it has confirmed more than half a million cases, second only to the u.s. so, that brings us back to you, nic, because i know you've been looking at certain perceived strong men and how they've been handling it. >> yeah, the bottom line is if you don't crack down and clamp down on social distancing, et cetera, in your communities, then your communities are going to be hit hardest. and the countries that have failed to do that effectively have been those led by strong men. and this was what we're seeing, a podium place for presidents trump, bolsinaro, and putin. >> the united states, brazil, and russia have an unenvyable lead, gold, silver, bronze
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respectfully in this global pandemic. the presidents all populists, their populations suffering the highest number of covid-19 infections. inaction and ineptitude key factors, but keeeach leader earg the podium placement. russia coming in third. early march staid medium conveys covid-19 as not a russia problem. late march, putin pulls on a hazmat suit in a hospital. the next day announced paid have a dags and lockdown. in later meetings, he seemed distracted. problem is in russia when the boss doesn't take a grip, local officials slack, just what the virus needs.
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in second place, jair bolsonaro recognized the pandemic's danger but began early prioritizing the the economy over health concerns. [ speaking foreign language ] >> he sticks to his damaging message, even joins rallies protesting sound lockdowns advocated by regional leaders. and reacts angrily when confronted by brazilians about the spiraling infections. his countermessage cost him two health secretaries, left an open door for pandemic. >> now the democrats are
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politicizing the coronavirus. >> president trump, who leads the the u.s. the tragic top spot of infections combines putin's and bolsinaro's failings. >> this is the new hoax. >> first denying the pandemic in late february even after restricting some travel from china a month earlier. >> i see the disinfectant knocks it out in a minute. >> he becomes both distraction and divider in chief. >> the president of the united states calls the shots. >> fractious with some governors, fine with others, failing to unite and lead the country. >> two months ago we had the greatest economy in the history of the world. we're going to build the greatest economy in the world again and it's going to happen pretty fast. >> and like bolsinaro, trump pushing to prioritize the economy despite covid-19 dangers. >> so, that's, if you will, how
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to get a very high level of infection, not be able to get on top of it. of course that's what britain's experiencing at the moment. it had a high level of infection. and the concern is when you have schools restarting, outdoor markets restarting, that actually the brakes are being taken off too soon. that's a real concern for many scientists and some of those advising the government today. >> really fascinating reporting. nic robertson, thank you so much in london. we'll be right back. pants. but don't avoid taking care of your eyes, because we're here to safely serve you with new procedures that exceed cdc guidelines and value your time. visionworks. see the difference.
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this is live from portland, oregon. it's a scene that we continue to watch here closely. there have been large protests here this evening. many blacks and whites on the street. and the portland police just tweeted this 16 minutes ago saying this is an unlawful assembly and civil disturbance. all persons need to leave the area now or you will be subject to uses of force to include riot control agents and impact munitions. leave now. so, this is a story we're going to keep a close eye on to see
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what develops next. from coast to coast in the united states, big cities and small, americans are standing shoulder to shoulder and going head to head with law enforcement. >> they have one universal demand, stop the racial injustice. we will be right back with more news. we wanted you to hear from protesters in their own voices. >> say his name. >> george floyd. >> say his name. >> george floyd. >> we are gathered here to call on our racist president -- >> it is duty to fight for our freedom. >> it is our duty to fight for
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our freedom. >> it is our duty to win. >> it is our duty to win. >> this is the same thing they've been doing to us. this ain't even the first time this year. this ain't the first time this month. this ain't the first time this week. >> another firework right there. >> there's nothing funny about this! people are losing their lives! we're getting killed! we can't breathe!
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with resources for protective equipment, sanitizing classrooms, and ensuring social distancing. tell lawmakers and governor newsom don't cut our students' future. pass a state budget that protects our public schools. this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, i'm michael holmes. >> and i'm natalie allen. we begin with the sixth night of demonstrations over the death of an african-american man in police custody. >> those protests once again descending into chaos in some places including the nation's capital. washington now under a curfew like so many other cities
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