a book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. this is cnn's special live coverage of the nationwide protest over the death of george floyd. i'm glad you're with us tonight. i'm poppy harlow from new york to los angeles. a massive humanity tonight voicing minds of so many people and what appear to be some of the largest crowds seen in some cities since floyd lost his life with his hands behind his back 12 days ago. tens of thousands took to the stree streets. despite curfews, there are a number of cities like washington, dc, los angeles and

dallas that lifted their curfews. the protests have been, for the most part, peaceful and most part, powerful. as people remembered floyd and other african-american men unarmed whose lives were cut far too short by police. in north carolina today, the town where floyd was born. supporters held a memorial for him. in kentucky, balloons were released for breonna taylor, an emt shot 8 times in her own home by police executing a warrant in search of another person. and in the nation's capitol, the words black lives matter. look at this. this is just remarkable. black lives matter em blazened on the road that leads straight to the white house. the letters so large, they can be seen from space. that's what you're looking at. across the way on capitol hill, a new development in the floyd case. his brother will testify before congress this week. in washington, protesters have been making their voices heard

outside the white house, the capitol and the lincoln memorial. our coverage tonight, alex marquardt with the crowds all night and joins me now. good evening. what has it been like? >> reporter: well, poppy, just an astonishing number of people came out today, certainly the biggest here in washington, dc since they began more than a week ago since the death of george floyd centered here near the white house. i'll show you that in a second but you were talking about the mural that's appeared on 16th street, that the mayor of dc muriel bowser painted in huge letters that could be seen from space. this crowd back here, in fact, some of them have just added an addendum, an additional message that says, defund the police. many didn't think that black lives matter message from the mayor went far enough.

but has been throughout the course of the entire week. this has now been named black lives matter plaza by the mayor. people have been climbing up sign posts to take pictures with that new street sign and as you can see, this is the white house, this is the edge of lafayette park where people have been gathering all day long, all week long in a very peaceful way and from the looks of it, they will continue to throughout the evening because, as you mentioned, there is no curfew. it has been peaceful, so they lifted the curfew several days ago and there haven't been any arrests, poppy? >> that's great to hear. obviously, making news that the mayor joined in today in the protest. i wonder, have you seen the national guard out at all today? >> reporter: we have seen a bit of the national guard. i got to say, it is far less than we have seen throughout the course of the week. there is no one that we have seen lately tonight or throughout the day behind that

huge fence that is lining the edge of that park. that is a reflection of the peaceful protest, but also likely a reflection of the fact that muriel bowser has really been butting heads with the trump administration that called in those massive reinforcements from federal agencies from 11 different states, national guard and she has been demanding in a letter to the president and online on twitter that those federal officers, those extraordinary forces that she called in including the national guard be removed from dc and our ryan brown spoke with the commanding general of the dc national guard earlier and he was saying, possibly, early as monday, some of those 4,000 national guard from out of state could leave washington, dc. that would, of course, leave more than a thousand of dc's own national guard because dc is not a state, they do not fall under the mayor's control. poppy? >> alex, we appreciate the reporting tonight. thank you very much for being there. let's go now to the deputy mayor for public safety and justice in

the nation's capitol, kevin don knew. good to have you, sir. you just heard that reporting from alex and we know mayor bowser wants to see those forces taken out of washington, dc. any additional law enforcement that's been brought in. do you agree with that respect from a public safety perspective? >> oh, you know, we have a great dc national guard. we asked for them, we got them. they live and work in dc. what we do not want is national guard from outside of our area that don't know our city and our policies. we are very proud in dc of being able to handle large demonstrations well and our dc national guard is enough to do that. >> the commander of the dc national guard told us that some of those nearly 4,000 national guard forces that have been brought into dc from other states could be leaving as soon as monday. is that the case still and has the city been made aware of this? >> that is my understanding, and even as your reporting showed,

even today is a much lighter presence and the guard you see, our dc national guard, by and large and law enforcement that worked in dc and live in the area. >> thank you very much, kevin. we appreciate you being with us tonight and for those updates. so let's go now to the streets of new york city. huge crowds gathered throughout the city, despite the curfew still being in place. let's go to my colleague bill weir. you've been walking alongside reporting all evening with them, defying the curfew but police are letting them. >> reporter: exactly. we're two hours past curfew, poppy. take a look around. we're hearing from the organizers of this particular -- >> to stay together. >> reporter: this young man in the beret has been leading these chants of do not engage, stay

together. he's been keeping morale up with chants and this has been a very deliberate march, very deliberate, fast march. you can hear them say don't stop, they want us to stop. >> do not engage. >> do not -- >> engage. >> engage. >> we are -- >> we are. >> united -- >> united. >> we are -- >> we are. >> peaceful -- >> peaceful. >> reporter: i'm going to try to talk to this gentleman. i'm live on cnn. can i talk to you? >> everybody here in silence. take a look, the orange revolution. restart. >> what's your name? >> harris. >> reporter: you seem to be the leader of this particular march. is there an object? >> i'm definitely helping. we're bringing awareness of the injustices of the criminal system. breonna taylor's murder, walked

into her room. knocked on the apartment, kicked the door down, killed her in cold blood. those cops have not been arrested. >> reporter: we can move, walk and talk. >> mike check, mike check. stay close. >> stay -- >> stay. >> close -- >> close. >> stay together. united, the people, will never be defeated. let's go. >> reporter: in defying curfew, are you afraid of more arrests? >> listen, we're a peaceful protest. there's no reason to be arrested for being outside peacefully. you see no looting, no rioting. we are okay to be out here. the fact they would give us a curfew at 8:00 p.m., they're trying to control us.

they don't have that right to control us. if we want to speak, if we want to march, we don't have to listen to what they're saying. if you're listening, if you're watching right now, i want you to realize wherever you are right now, you have a voice. you can speak up. black lives matter. you do not let white supremacy rule anymore. >> reporter: let me ask you this. the four commanding officers who are reassigned as punishment for pushing protesters, spraying protesters. the two buffalo cops who are charged with second degree assault for pushing that 75-year-old, the governor calling for police reform. >> that's only happening because of us. >> reporter: you're taking credit for that. >> that's only happening because of us. if there was not this type of disturbance, that would not happen at all. the people are the ones doing this to the system right now. the system, listen, the system is not going to win. the people have a voice now. the people have a voice now and they're listening to us.

they're listening to us because we are united. they're listening to us because stuff like this happens in the middle of manhattan whereup where thousands upon thousands of people don't have to let injustice happen anymore. >> reporter: a taste of the passion and the discipline, at least, in this one tonight. and we've really seen an evolution of the nypd response. i'm listening to scanner traffic in one ear, and hearing commanders say as long as they stay in walkways, they don't try to take over the brooklyn or the manhattan bridges, as long as they stay on pedestrian walkways, they weren't going to be arrested. different commanders in different parts of the city are quicker to pull the trigger in terms of rounding people up. as we saw in the early days of the protest, nypd was using this k kettling maneuver. they box in a group like this and then begin to round them up,

but did district attorneys of both brooklyn, queens and manhattan said they're not going to prosecute anybody who gets arrested here tonight. so it looks like at least for thus far, they're goirng ng to them march. >> bill, i'm so glad you spoke to harris and we heard from him directly there. one thing that i think has been so striking, bill, there is not one single leader of this movement. there are multiple out there. as i've seen in my neighborhood in brooklyn, so many white people marching right next to their black neighbors, and this is one of the things that makes it so different this time. >> reporter: absolutely, and you see at one point, i was marching today with john batiste, band leader of steven colbert's late show. we ended up in gridlock from another protest coming in a different direction and i think what is striking and what's very

different about 1968 is everybody's got a camera. everybody's got an uplink, and so when you see somebody pushed or shoved, scenes just brutal, that brings out people who probably would never protest otherwise, so maybe that's what's led to this attitude tonight that let them wear themselves out and there's no need for conflict. >> yep, 100%, bill. thank you so much for those messages, those images, and the overall message that has been peaceful tonight across the country. bill weir, thank you. los angeles' mayor lifted the city's curfew there. this hour, there are people there on the streets as well. let's go to our lucy kavanaugh from los angeles. what are you seeing? >> reporter: you and bill talked about the diversity of the crowd in new york and that's something that's really struck me as notable here in los angeles. we've seen people from all walks of life.

members of the asian community, latino community, white people, black people, lgbtq, everyone coming to the streets day after day to protest the handling, the death of george floyd and the death of many americans of color at the hands of police. these have been peaceful protests. the community vibe is really notable. there's a lot of folks walking around handing out snacks, masks, hand sanitizer, food for the demonstrators. in contrast, in stark contrast, i should say, to what we saw last weekend. there has not been a heavy visible police force. the national guard is stationed at certain buildings but we no longer see the police in full riot gear. they've been largely absent from these protests, and that's a part of the testament to just how peaceful they have been. now, we've been marching for about an hour, i would say, there's at least a thousand demonstrators here. the choreography has been they gathered at city hall, they listen to speakers, they chant, and then they go on the march.

one of the sort of beautiful things on a human level we've seen is as they go past various apartment buildings, people come out to their balconies, start clapping pot and pans in solidarity of the protest. you get a sense of the whole community of los angeles is really coming out, standing firmly behind this issue. again, it's been largely peaceful. the curfew, as you mentioned, has been lifted. not a lot of police here. a lot of people though out here to show their dedication to this cause to demand a change, not just the way policing is done in this country but also demanding a broader conversation about the value of life in america. poppy? >> as george floyd's 6-year-old daughter said it best this week, lucy, my daddy changed the world, and that's what we're seeing tonight again. thank you very much, lucy kavanaugh in los angeles. up next, felony charges now

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in buffalo, new york, two officers who were filmed forcefully shoving an elderly

protester to the ground pleaded not guilty today to felony assault and walked outside of the courthouse to applause. it isn't clear who's cheering what. we do know that 57 of the city's emergency response team officers quit the unit after the force suspended those two officers. the officers' names, the men with the charges against them, andrew and robert on the right. before we show you this video of what happened thursday, it is very hard to watch. you see the man there. his last name gugino. hit the cement. blood pools by his head. right out of his ear there. and yet, police continue to walk past him. gugino is alert, critical condition at the hospital. buffalo's mayor has not called for the firing of the defendants. he also said this about gugino. >> he was asked to leave

numerous times last night. he was in that area after the curfew. one of the things that happened before that incident is there were conflicts between protesters. there was a danger of fights breaking out between protesters, and the police felt it was very important to clear that scene for the safety of protesters. >> let's go to my colleague vanessa yurkevich who joins me from buffalo tonight. good evening. i want to make it clear for everyone, the officers quit that unit but the 57 officers did not completely quit the police force. what is the mayor saying about that move by those fellow officers? >> reporter: hi there, poppy. well, tonight, we are in downtown buffalo in niagara square just across the street from where that gentleman martin gugino was pushed by the

officers. there's still a couple of stragglers and protesters here out after curfew but this came on a day where the two officers were charged. they pled not guilty but the district attorney saying that after he saw that video, he saw the two officers push martin gugino to the ground, he said the entire department needs to be retrained. here's what he said earlier today. >> they're not trained to shove a 75-year-old man with a baton and knock him to the ground. they're not trained to do that, okay, yeah, they're trained to push back, are they trained to clear an area? absolutely, but there's elements to that and there's aspects on that that are proper, okay, but when you cross the line, that's

when it comes out of the training aspect and comes now in my world. >> reporter: and that gentleman, martin gugino, he is in serious but stable condition still at the hospital and poppy, you mentioned the mayor. he seemed to indicate that he believes some of those resignations from the 57 officers were pressure from the police union. we also saw earlier today members of that union standing outside the district attorney's office and they cheered when they found out that the two officers entered the not guilty plea. that is in contrast really to what we saw earlier this evening when we saw protesters standing in front of the police department in the same exact spot where the law enforcement officials were standing and they were speaking out against police brutality. they were chanting black lives matter, i spoke to some

protesters here who said they think that the step of the charging of the officers was a good first step but i spoke to some who said it does not go far enough. they believe that those officers should be fired, but poppy, tonight, really peaceful protests here, not a lot of police presence but there is another curfew, again, tomorrow night, poppy here in buffalo. >> vanessa, thank you, live from buffalo for us. let's talk about that and what we have seen play out over the last 12 days. cnn law enforcement analyst charles ramsey is here. led police forces in washington, dc and philadelphia. glad you're with us tonight. let's begin in buffalo. you've got the felony assault charges against those two officers and 57 of their peers obviously disagreeing with that, leaving the unit. what does the police commissioner now have the power to do? what should he do? >> well, first of all, you're in

the middle of a crisis and now you've got people who want to leave the unit. as far as i'm concerned, i'd let them go. i wish they had resigned from the department. i wouldn't let them back on. i mean, you don't need people like that in a police department. that's why people are taking the streets right now doing what they're doing. and so when you hear police officers standing out there cheering and things like that, it just reinforces everything that people are saying. and it's unfortunate because that's not a reflection of what i know to be policing. but there are elements within the profession that are absolutely like that. there is a problem. >> you are still a believer that reform can happen, and that reform can be a solution in your important op-ed in "the new york times" this week, and i bring that up because i'd like to know what your response is to those seeing all of this play out.

whether it's in my hometown of minneapolis, with eric garner or what we saw in buffalo. it's enough. it's time to defund the police. some saline towardsy lean towarg the police. >> replace it with what? i mean, you still have crime taking place out in the streets. you have homicides, shootings, robberies, rapes. who's going to deal with that? if you get rid of the police entirely, what's going to take its place? when you talk about defunding police, and i don't have any objections to money going to staff, schools with counselors opposed to police, school psychologists doing more around mental health and having health care workers available to actually work -- i mean, there's a lot of social services that we need in cities across america and if that means a few less dollars for police, that's fine. i don't have a problem with

that, but i think that going too far in the opposite direction is going to be detrimental to the safety of people that live in many of these challenged neighborhoods every single day. if you just look at police, if you quote unquote, fix the police today, you still have inequities in housing, economic development, education, i mean, it doesn't just end with the police, and you need to look at the entire criminal justice system. there is a need for reform, don't get me wrong. there is a serious need for reform, but we need to be thoughtful about how we go about doing it. >> commissioner, there is an abc news poll that's really striking because it compares a few years ago with now. so it looks at 2014 right after the death of michael brown. you had 43% of americans saw his killing as a symbol of broader problems with policing in america and how police treat african-americans. now, fast forward to after the

killing of george floyd, 74% think that. i wonder why you think it was this moment that that changed so dramatically. >> well, you know, video has made a difference. people are seeing a lot of this on the air, and so those people that were on the fence that thought, well, maybe, you know, it didn't really happen that way or what have you, they're seeing it right now in their living rooms and they know that it's a problem. reform can happen, reform has to happen. i agree with that young man paris that bill was interviewing. if it hadn't been for people taking to the streets though, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now. we've had years and decades to begin the reform process. i had the honor of being a co-chair for president obama's task force on 21st century policing. the road map is there, but people have to do it. people have to do it. >> let's talk about the case against the officers in minneapolis because my colleague

wolf blitzer did a fascinating interview with minnesota's attorney general keith ellison who said it's going to be really hard to convict these officers and we know history has shown that but do you agree with him on what he sees as a very uphill battle here despite the video? >> well, you don't take anything for granted. you never know what juries will do. i've been to a lot of trials in my life. cases that i thought were a quote unquote slam dunk. we didn't necessarily win. cases that i thought were fairly weak, we did win. so you don't know what's going to happen, but i tell you, that video is so powerful, and the fact that one of the officers actually checked for a pulse, it was another two minutes and 53 seconds before pressure was relieved from his neck. i mean, that was intent. i'm sorry, that is murder, no question about it, in my mind, and hopefully, a jury finds it too because they need to be an example, all four of them.

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you're looking at live pictures of a black lives matter banner. this is on the fence that has now been made in that perimeter around the white house. the killing of george floyd at the hands of minneapolis police have sparked widespread outrage and action across the country. more shocking police confrontations are being filmed and shared in philadelphia. a police inspector is now facing charges after this video was shown released showing him striking a student protester on the head with a metal baton. joins me now, on the other side, the case for hope. and the co-founder of campaign zero. so nice to have you, thank you for being here. you have been voicing this and leading action for so long, ferguson, for more than 400 days. and i could go on and on. baltimore. why is this time different?

and why are so many different people on the streets again for a 12th night? >> yeah, i'll remind you, poppy. remember that the protests in 2014 were a flash point in this country. the police have killed more people since 2014, not less. even thinking about march and april of 2020, as much as april 2019. so in covid, quarantine, lockdown did nothing. a third of all the people killed in this country killed by a police officer and 2019 the first year ever where black people more afraid of being killed by a police officer than by community violence. so when we think about how this moment is different, you have to remember that minneapolis, a black person is 13 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a white person. it's the highest racial disparity in the country. so people are fed up. people want the change that we were promised in 2014 and didn't get. people are pressing because, you know, poppy, we know a lot of

the solutions and we just haven't had courageous local leaders or governors willing to do anything about it and i think people just like last time are saying, let's go. >> you know, the fact you bring up courage reminds me of mitchell andrew, wrote in his op-ed and said to me yesterday on the show, this is not for a lack of knowing what to do. we've known what to do since the commission 52 years ago. it's the lack of courage to do it. you are calling to defund the police and eventually to abolish the police. i just asked former philadelphia and washington, dc police commissioner charles ramsey about that and he said, i respect all opinions, you heard him, but he said, replace it with what? i put that question to you. >> let's just say, there's a lot of strategies to get us to the end of police killings, right? some revolve around use of force policies that immediately reducing the power of police. so we should be banning choke holds all over the place, should be saying you can't shoot into moving vehicles, should say if

an officer sees something wrong with another officer engaging misconduct, they have to intervene. those are simple but not small. simple because we understand them but not small because they have a big impact on police behavior. if chokeholds were not banned and de blasio lifted pans bans chokeholds in 2016. and then defund, poppy, people sensationalize this idea, but you already agree with it actually. it's just saying the experts do what experts do. who should respond to a mental health crisis? probably the mental health expert. not the police officer. who should respond to somebody dealing with drug addiction? probably addiction specialist, not a police officer. the police are the first people to tell us that they are not social workers and we agree. we should take all of those responsibilities and permanently remove them from police departments and all the resources that go with they will and p -- them and put them in other

places. whole teams of people that all they did was respond to mental health crises and not armed. why should somebody come with gun if it's a person dealing with suicidal ideation? i don't think that's a wild idea. people sensationalize the idea of defund but it's about moving the money and the responsibilities where the police aren't experts. >> so you're saying, for example, an armed robbery should be responded to by the police but not many of the things that police respond to. >> yeah, so let me too, i heard chuck say that. remember, poppy, of all the arrests, do you know what percent happen for violent crime? you've said 5. >> it's 5, yeah. of all the arrests, it's 5%, right? so when we think about that, we arrest more people for weed than all violent crimes combined. so this idea that violence is happening at such a scale, remember that 5% number is actually an fbi number and it's been that way for 20 years or

so. but we staff up police departments, if it's 50%, 60%, 70%. we might need to have an intervention, we might need an intent intervention around that 5% but not the vast majority of what the police are dealing with. and the data shows that, our lives show that and i don't think that's a wild idea. the fact that we arrest more people for weed than violent crime is sort of interesting. >> deray, listen, i wanted to get your reaction to this. this is from jeff madre, an nypd chief. i'd like to hear what you think on the other side. oh, we don't have it in there. let me read it to you. quote, on a black man, but i love being a police officer. i'm not resigning and i want to continue to make sure everybody is safe. what do you say to him? >> i would say the conversation about the police is never about an individual officer. when we individualize, then we lose the focus there's a system that produces these results. it's a system that said that in

2019, there's only 27 days out of the whole year where a police officer didn't kill somebody. that's a systemic problem, so i'm sure there's a lot of police departments with good people. this isn't about a person but what happens when there's a set of rules, policies and practices that almost like clockwork produce the same results. what does it mean in california? there's a lot that says any investigation of an officer that lasts more than a year never can result in discipline. 50% of the officers in minneapolis that get fired get rehired. it's about a system, not an individual, so i -- >> i'm ni'm not about an individual. >> i was struck reading your medium post today. don't call it a war. it provides cover for a militarized response from the state. >> yeah, it's true. this isn't a war. don't call it a marathon or a race either. we can name this for what it is.

there are police officers choosing to kill because they know they'll get away with it. it's like one in 500 murders by officers are a conviction. and we don't need to glam it up. you've seen like i've seen in the last couple of days, we've seen the police arrest, we've seen the police peopshoot bulle and the violence on display. don't take my word for it. your own eyes show you it's true, and also, you brought up the nypd, poppy, the nypd settles an average of $200 million because of police actions every single year. that money could go to the community. >> it's such an important question. i looked at my home city of minneapolis, how much that city is paid out in just the the last few years. let me just end on that because this goes even, as you know, and you've written about, so far beyond the disproportionate with

black americans, and when it comes to income and housing, et cetera, there are so many deep roots of this that i think are being voiced on the street now in a way that haven't been as pronounced before, and i wonder if you think it is in part, the moment. look, black unemployment, by the way, did not go down last month, as the president is touting the unemployment rate going down. black unemployment went up. >> yeah, i think the people are tired, right, people also sensationalize the idea of abolition but there's a precedent for abolition in this country and one of the most impressive things we've done. we think about the abolitionists who ended enslavement, we couldn't have a society without it and look where we are. we think about, we need to transform public safety that isn't rooted in making sure

somebody with a gun shows up but we know experts deal with what experts deal with. mental health, addiction, social services, and i don't think that's a wild idea. i think it's a simple idea. >> i appreciate your time tonight. thanks for staying up late. we'll talk soon. we have much more live coverage still to come, but first, you're going to want to watch this from my friend and colleague fredericka whitfield. tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. eastern. "unconscious bias: facing the realities of racism." her special, tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. ahead, it was george floyd's death that sparked these protests after a minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while three fellow officers stood by. so is the minneapolis police department making changes in the wake of this? that's next. ♪

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♪ it was an emotional day as friends and family members of george floyd gathered in his home state of north carolina to

honor a life cut far too short. this was the second of three memorial services scheduled. today's filled just with hauntingly beautiful music and this incredibly powerful emotional plea from the county sheriff, hubert peturkin. >> enough. don't let the life of george floyd be in vain. it has become a sacrifice. we are part of the problem. >> in minneapolis where floyd was killed, the city council banned the use of chokeholds. there's new questions tonight whether the third precinct where the officers worked after being burned down, whether it should even be rebuilt. let's go to my colleague josh campbell who joins us on the ground. josh, it is pouring rain obviously, so it must have dampened protests. what can you tell us about what today has been like and this

evening? >> reporter: that's right, this rainstorm appeared about an hour ago and before then, there were a lot of protests today, here in minneapolis, over in st. paul, and as we talked to a lot of protesters, they seem to welcome this new policy by the city. there were three actions into the officer that resulted in the death of george floyd. a state criminal investigation, there is an fbi investigation, and there's also a human rights investigation by the state commission here but they didn't want to wait until tehe end of the investigations to start reforming the police departments. the mayor called the emergency session and voted agreed upon this new policy to ban the use of chokeholds. we know that's important because in that video, we saw officer derek chauvin with his knee on george floyd's neck causing questions about the police tactic, that will now be banned but take it a step farther.

officers will now be incumbent upon them, if they see a colleague using one of these tactics, they must intervene, not just verbally but physically go try to stop a colleague from using this technique. if not, they will be disciplined to the same level of severity as the person who used it. a lot of reforms and protesters welcoming these moves, poppy. >> before you go, quickly, the third precinct that was burned down by protesters, are they going to rebuild it? >> reporter: it's a good question. we heard from a city council member here who says she wants that building to be turned into some type of memorial or a symbol for the community. we talked to a resident today who lived in the minneapolis area his whole life and he said he wants to leave the building standing just as it is with the burned marks and all, to serve as a symbol about what they believe there as police brutality and what that will mean for the community. yet to be determined from city officials whether that's going to be a police station again, but that's a matter of debate right now, what do you do with

that building? do you get it back into a law enforcement building, poppy? >> we'll see what happens. josh, appreciate it very we want to take you to seattle because the situation is growing more intense. police appear to be using flashbangs in the street. the calls for racial justice is coming from around the world. we will bring you that next. nuts to help support... joints, muscles, and bones. try boost mobility, with added collagen.

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pain and demanding an end to its own. >> i feel what happened in america was a spark. it happens here. i have experienced it. >> racism? >> definitely. >> when it happens, you feel a part of yourself die. >> i know more about the u.s. and issues there, but it is an issue here. >> it is a worldwide issue no matter where you are. >> reporter: what is clear by the day these protests are gathering momentum spreading far around the world. the sun never sets without someone demanding justice for george floyd telling us black lives matter and calling for change. sydney, melbourne, across

australia, there have been waves of protests demanding better rights for aboriginals. while in frans, thece, there is protests. > japan, south korea, south africa, lebanon, canada where p.m. justin trudeau took a knee. everywhere there is hope the swell of support will amount to change, finally. >> we have begging for this for years and years and finally in 2020. anxiety, coronavirus, george

floyd. i feel like i should have been here from day one. >> reporter: still plenty more protests to come from every indication here. from london. >> thank you for reporting, nick. much more special coverage on what has been a day of peaceful and powerful protests across america. we are getting these pictures from seattle. police are killing protesters with flashbangs, you a head. hea. . ahead. ahead. ahead. where will you go first? wherever you may go, lexus will welcome you back with exceptional offers on exceptional vehicles.

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