this is cnn breaking news. >> you are watching our special live coverage of the nationwide protests over the death of george floyd. i am glad you are with us. from new york to los angeles, a mass of humanity is voicing the minds of so many people. and some of the largest protests yet since george floyd was seen with his hands behind his back with a police officer's knee on his neck. protests are just happening despite curfews although multiple cities like washington, d.c., dallas and others are lifting their curfews.

overall demonstrations across the country have been peaceful and most of all, powerful, even downright hopeful. see these people in atlanta dancing the slide together and singing this is america. floyd and other african-americans were remembered whose lives were cut too short by police. # breonna taylor was cut down while police executed a warrant for another person. this is how large the letters are. you can see them from space. washington, d.c. is not under mandatory curfew, but a black

lives matter fence was draped on the fence that covers the perimeter of the white house. what have the protests been like? >> reporter: that's why i wanted to stand on 16th street where the mayor had that mural painted. this street goes straight in to the white house. you can see the spotlight that says black lives matter. that's also from the mayor. the mayor has been to some extent president donald trump and going after him. they have had a bit of war of wards on twitter. this paint job says defund the police. this was added by protesters who feel mayor bowser hasn't done

enough. people came out by the tens of thousands. this has been the biggest protest since the death of george floyd. it has been a mix of festivities as well as protests. people gathering right here in front of the white house. as i mentioned, it has been a bit of a showdown between president trump and mayor bowser who has demanded that the president remove federal forces to came in for enforcement purposes as well as national guard. they came from over ten states, over 4,000 of them. we understand many of them will be leaving on monday. sorry, papi, disturbance here. there are obviously people who want to get on tv. there has been no curfew because

there hasn't been any sort of arrests. to the most extent, other than a skirmish right now, they have been peaceful, understanding the importance of that. >> thank you. we appreciate it. in new york protesters are marching in manhattan and brooklyn. >> the curfew was at 8:00 p.m., but there are so many still out in force. >> no. it just ended. >> it just ended? >> it just dispersed. it was down to about a couple hundred. we had the most amazing scene marching down 34th and 6th, when the inspector in charge said i will march with you and marched

with the leader of the protest we talked to earlier. everybody in the crowd was incredibly respectful. the inspector of the npd gets the credit for disbursing this. he said go home tonight and come back tomorrow. this is a change in just the energy and conflict between these protesters from 11 or 10 days ago and tonight. all of the videos with these protester clashes. it looks like the policy, at least the strategy, on this night. a long, intense, passionate day,

but peaceful. last night 40 arrests. probably less than that tonight given what we have seen. jon miller who is the deputy commissioner of counterterrorism said when it came to those horrific looting incidents we saw at the beginning of the george floyd protests when they were smashing windows, he said that was on me. that was a failure of intelligence. he said that was a small gang and they missed the fact they were trying to take advantage of the protests. a rather stunning admission. the two officers in buffalo were charged with second degree assault for pushing down the 75-year-old protester so interesting developments there. and a lot of good cops out here trying to do their best to

protect and serve. at least they can go home tonight bruise free, thankfully. a peaceful night wrapped up. >> you are so right, the change from 12 days ago, to even seven days ago to tonight. thank you for bringing us that message and what a powerful image. huge crowds have gathered in los angeles. >> reporter: it has been peaceful but powerful to watch in this tunnel underneath the city of los angeles. it's loud but peaceful. thousands of protesters marching. we have been on the route for i

would say about two hours now. we haven't really seen a visible police presence. we just walked past a very long line of police officers with tear gas canisters visible, but not being used. again, it feels like the police have not provoked the protesters and the protesters have not provoked the police. people are marching by. very excitable atmosphere.

camera head ahead. it is the most high energy we have seen so far. they would stop, take the knee and then they would have speakers and so on and so forth. it looks like there is a lot more energy. >> a lot more energy. i know it's hard to even hear in this. we appreciate it very much to you and your team. thank you from los angeles. let's turn to a veteran of policing, and also the author of the important book "black and brew.

-- blue." >> thank you for having me. >> you were in the lapd during the rodney king days. the yquestion on so many peoples minds is how could this not have changed? how could we be here after seeing that? >> not only the rodney king incident, but we saw mike brown in ferguson, missouri and the choking death they tried to tell us wasn't a choking death. every death at the hands the errant police officers, the reason we are here is because police departments have yet to have an appetite for dealing with police officers who use

deadly force as a first resort, not a last resort. chauvin had 18 complaints. it is not like the police department didn't know who he was. and the other officer tau, the city paid $25,000 for knocking the teeth out of a man. >> i want you to listen, with that in mind, listen to this from a chief in the new york city police department. >> well, i am a black man but love being a police officer. i am not resigning. i want to be sure everybody is safe.

>> when you hear that from him, what is your response? >> listen, i am a proud member of the los angeles police department. i think we have a role and a part to play. unless there are people like me and that captain, we can't stop errant officers like aaron dean. imagine if someone looked like me when he pulled out his gun because she was sitting inside playing a video game with her nephew. someone like me would say put away your gun, what are you doing. and somebody like me may have been inclined to say what are you doing, let him up, what are

you doing on floyd george when he was there for 8:42. there is a problem in my mind. >> thank you so much as we look at these powerful images of protests in los angeles. thank you, the two officers in buffalo, new york, seeing the disturbing video as an elderly man was shoveld to the ground, bleeding out of his head. they were in court and we will take you there next. for adults with moderately to severely active crohn's disease, stelara® works differently. studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections

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in buffalo, new york, the two police officers recorded forcefully shoving a 75-year-old to the ground appeared in court and after being charged they faced applause. >> 57 officers quit that team. the officers named, suspended, and a warning of what they did to this elderly man is almost impossible to see. the man pooled by his head and

yet police continued to move past him. he is alert but is in critical condition at the hospital. >> 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. >> we are joined from buffalo. to be clear, the officers that left that unit, they didn't quit the police force. the district attorney who charged these two officers had a strong message.

>> that's right. these charges came swiftly. this came thursday evening just after curfew right behind me on the steps of city hall. these charges against these two officers, second degree assault. they pleaded not guilty and when they left the courthouse, there were cheers from law enforcement officials that were there to support them. the district attorney said after seeing that video, after seeing the gentleman fall to the ground and blood from his head and officers walking past, he said he believes the entire police department needs to be retrained. this is what he said today. >> they are not trained to shove a 75-year-old man with a baton and knock him to the ground.

they are not trained to do that. are they trained to push back, to clear an area? absolutely, but there are elements to that and aspects of that that are proper, okay? but when you cross the line, that's when it comes out in the training aspect and comes out now in my world. >> now martin, the 75-year-old man, remains in serious but stable condition. there were peaceful protests here this evening. i asked some of the protesters how they felt about the charges of the two officers. some say it was a step in the right direction, the charges coming so quickly. some saying it is not enough, that these officers need to be fired. it is well after curfew in buffalo. people have dispersed.

there is one more night of curfew in buffalo. the curfew starting again tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. >> thank you for reporting live in buffalo. let's bring back in the lapd sergeant. that video, as many times as i have seen it, this is unbelievable this happened. and i wonder your perspective if you were in the shoes of the police commissioner in buffalo, what you would do. >> buffalo has a history of foolishness. i get that these 57 officers were bothered and quit the unit. instead of just quitting the ert, response team, they should have just quit the department. back in 2008 a sister-in-law of

mine made a complaint about someone who choked someone handcuffed. she reported him. she was fired and then in 2017 he was in prison for violating civil rights. until a police department is willing to hold officers accountable, if they have a mindset to push down a 75-year-old man, they need to be gone. >> what about the police union and the role a police union can aid in reform or to stifle it. >> they are part of the problem. you have heard them speak before. they have not seen a back man or woman that they cannot get

excited about. politicians need to be barred from collecting ridiculous amounts of donations from these unions so when it's time for communities to get behind it, then maybe legislation can pass that can make officers accountable. police unions are part of the cover. they help them hide under the police officers bill of rights and don't do anything to end the bad behavior. >> thank you for being here on all of the different aspects of the development. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we have much more live coverage to come, but tomorrow night you will want to watch this special report on conscious bias facing the reality of racism. tomorrow night right here on cnn. as we have watched

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nearly 110,000 americans have lost their lives to the virus tonight. the number of confirmed cases is 2 million. the associate dean at emery school of medicine. many of these headlines have been joovershadowed because of what is going on in the country. nearly 110,000 deaths. where do we go from here? >> it is a shocking number and we will continue to have a growing number of deaths in this country. i suspect by the end of august or early september we will be approaching 150 to 200,000 deaths from coronavirus. the number of deaths are coming down in the country, the number of deaths is decreasing and part of it is because they are

younger people, healthier people. but also we are better prepared to take care of them. hospitals have learned a lot and we are doing a better job. mortality is going down, but still a highmore talt. >> for those protesting and those policing the protest. we have seen some with masks on and a number of them without masks. a big part of the protest is using your voice and letting your voice be heard and there is an impact with potentially releasing droplets and spreading covid. >> i think you can go to protests and have the right to go. you should wear masks and goggles. take masks to people who don't have masks. rather than use your voice, use

a sign. have a big sign or something that you can say what you want to say, but don't uncover your voice or shout. there is clearly a risk of doing that. what we want to do is let people express their anger, protest, but not increase the risk of infection. if you have gone to protests, what you should do is go out and get yourself tested. i think it will be important to find out whether you are infected or not. >> just judging by how long it takes to appear in people and the fact the testing takes a number of days for many people to get back, i believe we have not seen the result of these protests in terms of whether it results in an increase in covid cases, right? >> it will probably take 5 to 14 days to see an increase. testing has wrapped up

significantly. we are doing about 500,000 tests a day in the united states. there is a lot more testing capability. i think if somebody wants to get tested, they can. >> as parents, all of us thinking about school next year. we heard what dr. fauci said, that primary schools may not be closed in the fall. what should parents be looking for as indications whether or not their kids go back to school. there will not be a vaccine by september. >> it will be incredibly hard, but i think it's potentially possible. i think we know kids, even if they get infected, they are less ill and do better. it's important we prevent those kids when they come home, from going to visit grandma or

grandpa. classroo classrooms should try to establish social distancing. part of the school that can be done outside the classroom, distance learning. a lot of school districts are looking for ways to implement the measures. the problem is many of the school districts are grossly underfunded to do these things. and most schools have one nurse and i think it will be really important to think about how we get schools to partner with departments of health to really beef up their possibility of doing this. by themselves they will not be able to do it. >> the older people who work in schools in different capacity would be at risk as well.

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welcome back. we are tracking the protests

nationwide. this is in response to the death of george floyd. his last death came under the knee of a minneapolis police officer. for the most part the protests have been peaceful all day today and tonight. this is in los angeles. these are in denver, but protesters in los angeles, and seattle, police launched flashbangs to scatter protesters. protesters were told to make a difference by voting, go to the ballot box. with voters keeping six feet from each other, the wait line to cast ballots early has been

long. in kentucky, one demonstrator, charles booker is running to be the democratic nominee which means he is aiming to oust mitch mcconnell. thanks for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> we have seen you protesting and joining in the calls for the deaths of george floyd and bria breonna taylor, a no-knock warrant for her. they were looking for somebody else. i wonder to you if you feel this time is going to be different in

terms of an outcome. >> well, i know it is. i think you are absolutely right. this is different because it is more of a cumulative effect. we have seen so much trauma and pain. the loss of breonna taylor was the next devastating blow. people are standing up for the broader notion we need structural change. inequitable poverty and so many things we are fighting back about. >> you attended the vigil on monday at the site where david mcatee was killed. there are so many questions about his death, shot at 18

times. he was barbecuing and serving food. what are your questions about his death that are still unanswered. >> you are exactly right. we want to understand what took place. this is a fwaerigathering a cou blocks from my house. people gather there and get good food. we call him the barbecue man. he would give you food. to see the national guard come in and then see it end in the death of someone who was a pillar in the community, a lot of questions as to why this is happening, why aren't we having accountability and why aren't we making sure our communities don't face this kind of trauma to begin with.

>> your real push is go out and vote. i am not just talking about your primary and june 23, i am talking about november. i wonder how you keep the momentum up for the voting to take place en masse months from now. >> the people are really inspired. i think at the beginning what people called protests is now an uprising and fighting back in a bigger sense. things need to change. i don't come from money. i come from a poor zip code in kentucky and building an economy and have raised over a million dollars from regular folks because they know how important this is. people are already inspired. they just need to be listened to

and told their voice matters. that's what my campaign is all about. >> representative jeffreys back after eric garner died, he introduced a ban on chokeholds which went nowhere. but now it's getting a lot of attention. i spoke with him yesterday. he said although it may be fast tracked, he doesn't have a republican sponsor for that. do you believe there will be bipartisan support to band chokeholds federally? >> i think there is. i am looking at what we are seeing in kentucky. people are standing up in the commonwealth, even in areas where there is a rich history of overt racism.

populations over 90% white and people standing in the street saying black lives matter. i think it's clear that racism hurts everybody and we need change and i'm committed to that. >> thank you, charles booker, for staying up late and being with us on a saturday night. marching to the music earlier today. a huge crowd led by a familiar face. >> we are the ones who are responding to the 401 years of generational promise and oppression our ancestors bore. we are the ones who can change the generation for women and generation for one. we are it. >> jon batiste joining me next.

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you are looking at live pictures. this is out of denver tonight. it is almost 10:00 p.m. there from our affiliate kmgh. we have heard hauntingly beautiful and healing music. ♪ >> that is famed musician and activist jo activist jon baptiste. he met with us earlier. >> growing up in the world, there is a great unlearning taking place right now. if we let that happen and we get out of the way of our ego and

crowding for power, we can have true freedom and love. >> jon joins me now. he is the bandleader for the marching with you side by side with that music. and your impassioned comments to my friend and colleague bill weir. you talked about the great unlearning that's taking place right now. tell me more. >> that's right. that's right. well, this is a real experiment, this idea of bringing together cultures in a country under democracy to co-exist as one. so there's going to be a lot of things that we have to work out in that motion of working out how we're going to live together we made some pretty bad decisions. and those decisions now are

culminating in the moment that we're living through now and have reached a head at different points in the past but now we're at a point where people have realized almost as if we're facing a collective moral reckoning that these decision that's our ancestors have made have left us with a lot to untangle. so there's something about what's happening right now that can be a moment of great spiritual consciousness elevation, something that can elevate our collective consciousness and change the world and literally set the tone for the next 100 years. >> i think george floyd's 6-year-old daughter said it so well when she sat on the shoulders of steven jackson this week and said "my daddy changed the world." he did. the question is what do we do -- what do we do now? >> i think we have to vote and

we have to protest. i think those are very clear to me now that we have to vote and protest. look, the last election for our country, i believe the turnout was not what it should be. 100 million people who were eligible to vote did not vote. which to me speaks to a greater concern. there are race problems that we're fating but we're facing a human issue right now. george floyd's memory and legacy is something of a catalyst moment, a watershed moment for us to deal with a lot of our deep-rooted human as i was saying toxic ideologies we've adopted, one of which is the suppression of people. and also understanding everyone has a voice in this country and understanding that we matter. voting is something that speaks directly to that. that's something we can all do and really make a difference by saying i matter, i'm here.

and that's one of the main reasons why i was protesting tads, in memory of george floirksd and thinking of the greater humanity that we all should share, the equality we all should share and really thinking also how to enact that which i believe is by voting. >> i think you bring up such an important point with the humanity of it and the humanity of george floyd. i hope there is a day when people remember him in this moment not just for how he died. that is critically important to always remember. but for whoa was. and why he moved to minnesota. he came to minnesota, his fiance said, for opportunity and told people come here. this is a state that welcomes you and gives you so much opportunity. and everything was taken away from him. i hope we can remember the man and all he stood for as well. can you leave us with just a beautiful note tonight? i think we all need to hear it.

>> absolutely. ♪ we're never alone ♪ no, no ♪ we're never alone ♪ no, no ♪ we're never alone ♪ the ancestors are with us ♪ because we are, we are, we are the chosen ones ♪ ♪ we are, we are, we are the golden ones ♪ ♪

♪ >> mm. the power of music to help us uite and heal. you made my night. jon batiste, thank you. we have more news ahead. but why don't you take us to break? >> indeed. ♪ ♪

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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to "cnn newsroom," everyone. i'm michael holmes. now, with prayer and with protest thousands of people across america remembering george floyd now nearly two weeks after his death in police custody. right now an outpouring of determination to end police brutality, especially against african-americans. what you're looking at there is new york's union square. first in north carolina and an outpouring of grief and hope. ♪ you are theou