contact us confidentially today. it's time. this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and warm welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company. well, yet another police killing of an african-american man has prompted new protests here in atlanta. one of them turning violent. crowds still out in force at a wendy's fast food restaurant where that shooting took place. it is now 1:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. and earlier on, that building was set on fire, fully engulfed. protesters also blocking a major highway in atlanta south of the city. i-75. and cnn was there earlier when police fired tear gas at the

crowd. all right, now let's talk about the killing that set this all off. it began when police responded to calls about a man asleep in his car outside that wendy's fast food restaurant. authorities say the man, 27 year old rayshard brooks, failed a field sobriety test and then got into a struggle, they say, with the officers. cnn has obtained eyewitness video of that struggle and a warning to our viewers, it is disturbing. it goes on for several seconds. you can see police there grappling with brooks. georgia officials say that during the scuffle, and you will see it happen fairly soon, brooks grabs one of the officers' tasers and breaks free, and there he goes, breaking free there, the taser is in his hand and the police chase after him. georg

georgia officials released surveillance video that gives you another view point, and i warn you again this is disturbing. what you'll see is brooks running left to right from your screen. he turns around, appears to discharge that taser in the direction of the officers and then is turned around, starts to run away again. and, as he does so, he is fatally shot. the police chief has now resigned. the officer who shot brooks now identified as a seven-year veteran, garrett rolf. and the other has been placed on administrative duty. here's atlanta's mayor speaking about it. >> what has become abundantly clear over the last couple weeks in atlanta is that while we have a police forceful of men and women who work alongside our communities with honor, respect and dignity, there has been a disconnect with what our expectations are and should be as it relates to interactions

with our officers and the communities in which they are entrusted to protect. >> let's go now to cnn's dianne gallagher live for us in atlanta. there's been three recent incidents in atlanta that have angered people. two young people tased in their car, another young woman body slammed by a policeman, breaking her clavicle and now this, what is your sense of what sp going on in the streets now in the wake of this latest shooting? >> reporter: you know, mike am, you kind of hit the nail on the head there. we have these incidents that have happened during protests after the death of george floyd in minneapolis. and so, the people in atlanta, much like across cities all over the united states have been out, demanding action. all the while, this is happening as well. and the relationship between atlanta police and the people who live, especially in certain parts of atlanta, has already been strained before the

protests began. that incident with the aggressive tasing of those two college students. look, it ended with six police officers being arrested and charged, four of them have been fired. but for a lot of the people we've spoken with, that just isn't good enough. because they feel like right now this is only happening because the cameras are on. the attention is there. they want real change and real action. they want police officers in their community to be held accountable. now look, we've heard a lot about different measures departments can take to better their relationships with communities. michael, one of them is having a police force that looks like your community. atlanta police does look like its community. they have a lot of black and brown officers, and that hasn't seemed to make as great of an impact as so many have said it's going to. there is still a significant amount of distrust here in atlanta from the people that we've been speaking to, especially over the past few weeks. now look, they have talked about

the fact that they do want to see this change happen in their community, and that they would like to see, to be able to work with the people here. the georgia bureau of investigations says that so far just this year, michael, they alone have had to investigate 48 atlanta-police-involved shootings. that's a problem here. and when you talk to the people in the community, they talked about this sort of boiling over. even when they were protesting george floyd, it was about all the people who lived near them who were their friends, their neighbors, their cousins who were killed or who experienced what they consider to be aggressive tactics from the police. >> yeah, i mean you've got a situation now where the police chief's resigned. the mayor's been speaking out. there is an investigation into this. the shooting officer has been fired. the other one's on leave.

is there a sense that this, it's, that there does need to be that structural change. those officers have now been named as well. >> that's right. and so we're watching this happen a lot quicker than i can tell you i have seen this happen in the past. over the past three weeks, the quickness that the mayor, the now former police chief had acted, is a lot faster. and, again, in speaking with protesters and people who live in atlanta, that is something they've acknowledged. but, again, they want to see this happen repeatedly, and not just during moments of high ves a stress, and not just on moments that are happened to be caught on camera. that is the emphasis from people. we are outraged about things we haven't seen, things that have gone viral and we want police officers held account canable

for th accountable as well. we heard that from the police chief, she wanted the city to be able to move forward in a new direct, to be able to begin healing again and working toward a new relationship with the people in the community. whether her resigning is going to make that difference or not, michael, it's going to depend on what we see happen in terms of accountability, at least according to people we have spoken to who live in atlanta and deal with the police in their neighborhood on a daily basis. >> exactly. diane, good to see you, diane gallagher here in atlanta for us. appreciate it. now the president of the naacp spoke with wolf blitzer earlier on the situation room. derrick johnson talking about the culture of policing in america. have a listen. >> it's unfortunate that we are repeating this now. over the last six weeks, this is the fifth incident dealing with some sort of videotaped,

racialized activity. if in fact he had been drinking, we would have preferred him to stop at the wendy's drive through, take a nap, then drive, then drunk driving and kill someone else. police need training. this is not acceptable. i commend the mayor of atlanta for taking decisive actions to ensure the safety of her citizens. i commend all of the protesters who are continuing to raise the question. and that question is central. we need to change the culture of policing. we need to evaluate how we train police. we need to make sure police not only support the communities that they have a duty to protect and serve, but they need to be in the community. we have far too many officers who live outside the jurisdictions in which they work, there for they have little to no re-regagard for the citiz.

this is another indication that we must change the culture of policing in our communities. all right, before we continue, we're going to continue our conversation with retired los angeles police sergeant cheryl dorsey, who is also the author of "black and blue." i did want to tell people that these officers have been named now. and we'll just put up, we have photographs, too. garrett rolf who's the officer who has been fired. he was hired by the department in atlanta october 2013. the other officer is devon brossman. now he was hired in september of 2018. he's been put on administrative duty. the two officers involved in this shooting. cheryl dorsey, it's good to have you here to talk about, we talk a lot about deescalation. and when you look at what

happened here, that did not seem to happen. what in your view should have happened? >> well, what shaud haould have happened is hthat the officers should have broadcast a perimeter, providing responders with a description of travel and the suspect who was purported to be in control of their taser and contain the area and try to take the person into custody within that perimeter. you don't get to shoot someone because you can't catch them. and so i'm happy to see that this action has been taken by the mayor. understand that they can move swiftly when they want to. be clear, the police chief stepped down, which is very different from leaving the department. she will assume a different role on the department. she's only changed office and changed title. so be clear about that. and we'll see what happens. i think when officers are held accountable, their peers will start to understand that they're going to have to can comport

themselves in a way very different from what they've come accustomed to. using deadly force as a last resort, and generally, great deference is given to their version because they've killed the other person involved. so we only have one story, the one that they tell. >> we've heard this before recently a lot. what do you think when you hear the term a few bad apples, and that is a description of the problem? >> well, i believe that to be true. i mean, there's 18,000 police officers across the nation. i've worked with a couple bad apples, but there were far more who were there for the right reason. it's unfortunate, if it bleeds, it leads. so these bad officers are getting our attention.

now that they have our attention, we need to remove them from the police department, and to further help identify others who may not be known just yet. police departments need to engage in psychological investigations to see where three are in terms of institutionalized racism and bias. >> i keep coming back to this thought, when you think about mr. floyd, that was about a counter fit $20 bill. this was a call out about a man asleep in his car in a fast food parking lot and now he's dead. i'm just wondering, what do you see as where lethal force can be used? no matter what happened leading up to it. at the time the shot was fired, the man was running away. >> and so we're taught and trained that deadly force can only be used in immediate defense of life. your life or the life of another. and, at that point, as he was running away, all be it with

their taser, they may have been an a little embarrassed and didn't want to get ribbed about it later, but you don't get to shoot someone, and so officers have learned that they can say whatever they want after the fact to justify, because jurors tend to want to believe officers. it's a difficult occupation to have. and it's worked. and so now that officers are being arrested and charged and jailed, i think this will give some pause. but we really do need those psychological evaluations, because there's a lot of people out there that are working with the skill set and a temperament that's not conducive to law enforcement, i believe. >> and you and i touched on this i think last week. as a stand alone phrase, defund the police sounds pretty crazy. but those are serious proponents of it point out that it's about diverting funds from some current police activity, whether it's drug and alcohol abuse, mental health, homelessness and other things, whether moving it away from police and to social

service, if you have somebody asleep in a car who might be intoxicated, is that something that, you know, police officers should be showing up to? and perhaps that could be something that that's part of that restructuring. what do you think? >> you can't teach it, but what do you do when you stop someone for a traffic violation and you find out that they're having some sort of a mental episode? you don't have the luxury of calling in a civilian to come in and try to decipher and figure out what's going on. i promise you, as a patrol officer and patrol supervisor, the officers that are working in the field could care less about how moneys are moved around, shifted. it's not going to change their day-to-day activities. and to be quite honest with you, absent accountability, it doesn't seem to phase them much faze them much. we are on the heels of burying someone who was murdered in front of all of us, and officers can't even contain themselves in

the midst of protest and things that have occurred sense the murder and the funeralizing of george floyd. so officers are going to do what they do until you hold them accountable. >> retired lapd sergeant cheryl dorsey, thanks so much, appreciate your time. >> thank you. well, this has been the 19th straight day of protests in the u.s. over racial injustice and police brutality. while things have gotten tense in atlanta, many other demonstrations across the country have continued to be peaceful. thousands of people marching in new york city for example. some city council members proposing a billion dollars in cuts from the nypd. this sort of diversion of funds we were just discussing with sergeant dorsey. the mayor, though, already against that plan. demonstrators in chicago using music and dance to help drive home their message. this was caused the house music peace march to fight injustice and bring the city together. and several thousand people

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i'm michael holmes. in atlanta, georgia, a police officer has been fired less than 24 hours after he fatally shot an african-american man. is he garrett rolf, a seven-year veteran of the police force. the other officer at the scene, devon brosnan has been placed on administrative duty. the atlanta police chief r resigned over this incident. what you are seeing there is the wendy's where rayshard brooks was shot. and as you can see, it was burnt to the ground. protesters did get into a confrontation with a cnn news crew. let's back up and have a look at how this all started. friday night, police respond to calls about a marngs brooks, asleep in his car outside that

fast food restaurant. authorities saybrooks failed a field sobriety test. his lawyer suggests he was never given one, but that remains to be sorted out. and then after that he got into a struggle with the officers. cnn on tapbtained eyewitness vif that struggle. a warning to viewers, it is disturbing to watch. and what you see there is police grappling with brooks after he'd been pulled from his car. the scuffle goes on for several seconds, and during that scuffle, officials say that brooks grabbed one of the officers' tasers and breaking free. he does that in just a few seconds, breaks free. now he strikes one officer and runs off. georgia officials also released surveillance video of the incident. i warn you, that video is disturbing. he turns right there, appears to fire that taser in the direction of the officers, turns, starts

to run away again. and at that point he is shot. the lawyer for brooks' family says it isn't quite how it happened. they say they have more details. have a listen. >> they didn't do a sobriety test. there was no count to 100 or whatever it is and walk this line. they said they were just talking. and it seemed to be a decent conversation. and then all of a sudden one of the officers grabbed him and told him he's under arrest. so this started from nothing. this wasn't a bank robbery in progress or anything violent. they just told him he was under arrest, and now i see that they're reporting oh, it was a suspected dui or he was fell asleep blocking the line. he wasn't block the line. and they didn't even do a sobriety test from what the witnesses right there said, so

why was he even under arrest? >> cnn law enforcement analyst joins me. so good to have your voice of experience on this. i guess one of the things is it's important to remember i suppose, this was a call about a man asleep in a car at a fast food restaurant. >> right. >> and now he is dead. what does the video tell you when you look at it? >> well, there's two different videos that we've seen. one shows a struggle between mr. brooks and two police officers. one had a taser in his hand. mr. brooks was able to wrestle the taser away from him and take off running. the officers gave pursuit. the one officer who lost the taser is closest to him. at some point in time, brooks turns with the taser in his hand. it looks like he may have fired it. you see a flash. can't tell if that's a reflection or he actually

discharged it. and shortly thereafter, the officer actually shot him. so those are the two videos i have seen. there could be other angles, other videos, but those are the two specific videos that i have seen. >> i guess at the end of the day, despite what came before, the suspect, he was running away at the time the shots were being fired. what are the rules before you are opening fire as a police officer. do you not have to be fearing for your life or the lives of others? >> yeah. you have to be in fear of your life or the life of another, and that fear has to be imminent. now some jurisdictions have actually changed that to immediate. in other words, you know, right now there's no it might happen in a few seconds or whatever. you have to be immediately in fear of life. i don't know that they support that policy in atlanta. the fact is he had a taser, he knew he had a taser.

tasers are less-lethal weapons, and if he did discharge it, it would no longer be useful to him. the prongs would still be extended extended and you'd have to get it ready to fire again. so i don't know why he shot. i mean these things happen in just a matter of seconds, and we have the benefit of watching video over and over again. but it does seem that the use of force may in fact not have been necessary. and those are the three things you look for in a use of force, use of deadly force case. was it necessary? was it reasonable, and was it proportional. >> i'm not a police officer -- >> what you look at. >> i'm no police officer, but you know, when i look at the firing of the weapon, it appears to be not in a very disciplined way. he he's p he's pulling it out, off

balance, do the officer's actions reflect good training to you? >> the thing i question, he had the taser in his hand during the wrestling, he may have been trying to use a pain compliance technique where you discharge on the body and it makes, you know the electric shock causes pain which allows you to then bring a suspect into custody. but, again, atlanta is a police force as far as i know that is well-trained. but the training doesn't always translate into how it's carried out on the street. i don't know all the circumstances, but i would think that this officer has a problem in terms of justifying the use of deadly force. >> there's been a lot of talk of course in recent weeks about the word "deescalation." that just did not seem to happen here. what shaud have happened as those things unfolded,

particularly at, sure, he discharges the taser, but then he's turning away and running. what should have happened to make this not end in a death? >> well, when you say deescalation, the one video i would like to see is what happened during the first, the initial encounter when they first came upon him, when he was still in his car. now my understanding is the officers had a body camera on. if that's the case, it should have picked that up. that's where deescalation is. how do you approach originally? what got them into a tussle to begin with? that's a question. and so if we know that, then maybe things could have been handled a little bit different at the very beginning. i don't know the answer to that right now. but certainly, it led to tragic consequences. so they're going to look at everything. the georgia bureau of investigation has the case. i know they do good work. i've seen their work before, and they will certainly let the

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protesters in new orleans have taken down a controversial statue and rolled it into the mississippi river. the bust was of john mcdonough, a slave owner who died in 1850 and gifted $2 million to the cities of baltimore and new orleans to build public schools. police say they have arrested two people suspected of dumping the bust into the river.

well, in the nationwide movement against police brutality and racism, there is also opening a long debate over removing confederate symbols. could we be at a turning point? cnn's abbey phillips reports. >> black lives matter! >> reporter: a national reckoning on race could now mean the end for the last-remaining symbols of america's dark history of slavery. in cities across the south, statues inventory ragt military leaders of the confederacy are crashing down after the killing of george floyd. protests have swept the nation and prompted soul searching. >> i believe it is a sea change and a long-overdue movement against hate and racism in this country. >> reporter: it's the very issue that drew a group of white protesters, including white supremacists to charlottesville,

virginia years ago. >> richmond is no longer the capital of the confederacy. >> reporter: virginia's governor seeking to rye move an enormous land mark that commemorates robert e. lee. >> he fought to continue the enslavement of black people. and in so doing set our nation on a course towards instruction. >> reporter: the marine corps banning the display of the confederate flag and nascar following suit, saying fans will no longer be able to fly that flag in the fans. >> it starts with confederate flags, get them out of here. >> reporter: the changes are also sweeping through pop culture. on thursday, the popular country group lady ayants bellum announcing the change of their name. >> you've been brave so long, ms. scarlett.

>> reporter: hbo has temporarily removed the film "gone with the wind" and will return it with context from history. and now a movement to strip the names of military generals from base. gem petraeus saying it is time to remove names like benning and bragg. but there is also staufrpgs resistance, beginning with president trump who tweeted that the bases represent the history of winning, victory and freedom. and he would not even consider renaming them. trump warning his party not to fall for a bipartisan amendment introduced in the senate to remove the confederate names. but it may be too late, as some republican lawmakers say the time for change has come. >> we don't want to forget what's happened in the past, but at the same time, that doesn't mean that we should continue with those bases, with the names

of individuals who fought against our country. >> now the amendment that president trump decried on confederate names has already passed with bipartisan support out of a senate committee. it now potentially faces another vote in the full senate. a senate majority leader mitch mcconnell ignored reporters' questions on this issue, but many republicans will quickly have to decide, will they stand with president trump on this issue, or will they vote to remove the names of confederate generals from military installations all across the country. abby philip, cnn, washington. here to discuss this further is sarah bronen, a professor at the university of connecticut. great to have you on, professor. it's an important conversation to have. generally, those who lose the war don't get statues.

it's odd in 2020 that items that honor the confederacy still exist. why is that so? >> these are legacy names, names that were given to these bases so many years ago, and this really is time to change them. so i really applaud what the protesters are doing. >> what do you think they have lingered for? is it a misunderstanding of the symbolism? what thiey represent? that the confederacy was about preserving slavery? or do you think there's an underlying support among some for them? >> well, if you look at the history of how some of these ma monuments and naming rights came about, it really started just after reconstruction. there was another crop of these monuments being corrected erect 1920s and '30s and when civil

rights became very vibrantna i this country. so it was in all those points in time a backlash against african-americans asserting their rights. nan that way, these monuments were very intentional. they've endured because i think people have not been able to get through to some of those in charge of these, these places, that they're very hateful symbols and represent racism and they should be eliminated. >> yeah, i think you're absolutely right. a lot of people don't realize they weren't thrown up after the war to honor generals. they were thrown up as a result of jim crow, to do the exact opposite. it's amazing how many kifd symbols remain. the civil war ended 150 years ago. the southern poverty law center says there are still more than 700 monuments honoring the

losing side. there's grade school, cities, counties named after rebel leaders and the then army bases notably, too. there's a lot out there, aren't there? >> absolutely. hundreds of physical manifestations of this claim to white supremacy over everyone else, but also as you point out, roads that are named after confederate generals, schools. parts of university campuses. there's some mountains that are named after some of these, these traitors, i think this is, that word that your previous guest used. so it's rampant. and in fact it's not just in the south. >> do you see this as a turning snoipt point? we talk a lot about turning points lately, do you think this could be one? because they ha've survived oth complaints in the past.

>> just use alabama as an example. in 2017 was when alabama passed a law, called the alabama memorial preservation act that protected these statues from being removed by local governments, and you're seeing how that's playing out today, just a few days later with birmingham and mobile claiming that that statues are coming down or have already been taken down and then the state coming in and suing them. so you see the conflict that emerges between states, local governments and the federal level as you mentioned in your report. >> does seem to be a time of shifting opinion. sarah bronen, professor, thank you so much. >> yeah, absolutely, thank you. >> calls for racial justice reverberating across europe as well. thousands gathering in central paris to protest police brutality, marking the death in 2016 of a young black man who died while in police custody.

in london, fights broke out between far right and anti-racism demonstrators at a subway station. boris johnson weighing in on the clashes, calling them, quote, racist thuggery. he took to twitter saying it had been subverted by violence, mainly from the right wing and that racism had no place in the uk. as protests for racial justice continue in the united states and around the world, we look at what has already changed and if the movement might spark more change. we'll be right back. okay, so let's talk home and auto bundle.

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since the death of george floyd while in police custody, there has been an uproar in the u.s. to address racial injustices. cnn's tom foreman gives us an overview of the many changes rippling throughout the country. >> reporter: the rawling relentless wave of protest is finally hitting home. >> if we want change, our generation has to step up, right now, and demand that change. >> reporter: state and city leaders are, suddenly, moving

fast on new rules to fight systemic racism, following the horrific death of george floyd, at police hands. >> we still have black oppression in our society today, just in a different form. >> virginia, new york, massachusetts, minnesota, and california, are among many places enacting or discussing changes to police procedures, funding, and other measures. and there are desperate demands for federal changes, too. >> please, listen to the call i'm making to you now. to the calls of our family and the calls ringing out the streets, across the world. >> reporter: at the start of the year, with president trump's re-election train running hot. >> the people can hear the crowd. they know. >> reporter: and less than two weeks ago, when peaceful protestors were forcefully driven back for a presidential photo op, serious reform seemed hopelessly out of reach. >> i am your president of law and order. >> reporter: but trump's mishandling of the unrest and the coronavirus outbreak has seen his never-strong approval

rating plummet. and presumed democratic challenger joe biden adding another layer to his pledge to pick a female running mate. >> i promise you, there are multiple african-american candidates who are being considered. >> the corporate world is also responding. with nike, twitter, professional football, and other companies, recognizing juneteenth as a company holiday. celebrating the end of slavery. all while sales are exploding for books about the black experience. tv shows are under intense pressure to revamp how they portray police and their tactics. with the highly-rated cops and live pd cancelled. >> what would it take? >> for one of us to be murdered by police brutality? >> after nfl players posted a video and some police started imitating the kneeling protest of former 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick, the lead commissioner responded.

>> we, the national football league, admit we were wrong for not listening to nfl players earlier. >> nascar banned the confederate flag from its events, as the military considers renaming some bases named for confederate leaders. despite the commander in chief's vow to oppose such a move. and more confederate statues are falling. some white people say taking down these symbols is an attack on their history. some black people say leaving them up is something worse. >> it's my great great grandmother, julia branch. born a slave. >> former secretary of homeland security, jay johnson. >> the confederate flag, to me, represents the viewpoint that she should have remained a slave for the rest of her life. >> hbo max, own by the parent company of cnn, is even pulling the classic film "gone with the wind" from its streaming service for racist depictions, until it can return with historic context. it is a measure of how fraught the debate remains that the

movie immediately shot up on amazon's best-seller list. still, it's all been enough to spur former president barack obama to speak out about it. >> the kinds of epic changes and events in our country, that are as profound as anything that i've seen in my lifetime. >> in so many ways, this moment does feel different than all the calls before, for these types of changes. but, it still remains to be seen if that will play out and, those things will really come through. tom foreman, cnn, bethesda, maryland. >> thanks for watching cnn "newsroom." spending part of your day with me. i'm michael holmes. don't go anywhere, though. john vause will be back with more news after the break. t-mobile and sprint are joining forces to power your business.

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hello. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world-let great to have you with us. i am john vause. well, after three weeks of nationwide protests, three weeks of tears, anger, and outrage. three weeks of national soulsearching over race relations in this country and, in particular, police brutality. y once again, protestors are back in the streets because police, this time, in atlanta, have shot and killed another african-american man, as he was trying to run away. demonstrations began saturday, continued into the early hours of sunday morning. at first, they were blocking an interstate highway. it appearshe