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let's see what happens next fro the minnesota state patrol and the guardsmen that are out here. >> mike tobin forest. thank you. that is the end of our our. sorry to show you all those pictures tonight, but they are real. >> sean: welcome to hannity this friday night. we begin with a fox news alert, a curfew has just this very minute now been enacted in minneapolis following a violent night of writing that resulted in destruction of property of over 170 businesses impacted and frankly something i never thought i'd see in my adult lifetime in this country, the torching of a police precinct and they didn't defend it. all-out carnage across the country tonight. we will be following these protests in multiple cities all throughout the hour, whole life reports from the ground straight ahead at this hour, the protests in atlanta are getting more tense breaking moments ago, a squad car was smashed.
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we start tonight in minneapolis, a city in turmoil, a city in chaos, and a city being destroyed as we speak in front of the whole country to watch. according to local officials, more than 170 businesses have been damaged or looted along with dozens of fires in one location after another. just look at your screen. these businesses include major chain retailers like target, walgreens, dollar tree, family dollar, mcdonald's, cvs, goodwill, along with dozens and dozens of small businesses including jewelry stores, convenience stores, pawnshops, and the list goes on in. we will show you that list throughout the show. this type of violence on this sort of destruction of property is dangerous to every city where this is happening. and let me be clear, all of it is unacceptable and by the way, how could the governor of the state ever allow this to happen? the mayor of minneapolis? how did they let this happen?
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these are real businesses, these are real american workers already struggling enough right now. order must be restored immediately. is sad to watch all of this unfold. is our horrific display of violence that does not honor george floyd's memory in any way, shape, manner, or form. we have these updates on the case coming up tonight including the arrest and the charging today of the officer at the center of all of this. but first here for a live report for minneapolis, fox news correspondent mike tobin is in minneapolis again tonight for us. things seem to be heating up. >> they have been. it's been a remarkable 15 minutes. minnesota street patrol came to where the protesters were announced that they needed to disperse and if they remain, they will be in violation of the order to clear the streets and then they backed out. in both the state troopers with
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their truncheons and riot gear at the ready as well as the guardsmen carrying m-16s, some of them with magazines and some of them not and they all backed up. they had some conflict back and forth with the demonstrators in the street, they threw some bottles with some kind of white liquid, and the state troopers responded with a little bit of teargas, really wasn't a massive amount and they all backed up. you can see some green smoke in the foreground, i can't tell you where that is coming from but we are all the way back now to the third precinct building. backed up in front of the third precinct building after it was ripped out last night and you can see the front of the third precinct was torched. those are the flames you saw late last night, liquor store across the street now was gutted and the kids aren't throwing things. it was re-erected at some point
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throughout the day. i just heard a loud pop come i can't tell you what that is, but the crowd is back in the middle of the intersection of lake and minnehaha where we saw so much because we are so close to the third precinct, all of the fires and all of the looting, centralized in this area. >> sean: we saw there was very little police presence in areas when they were needed most. that like fireworks in my ear. i prefer fireworks over what else it could be. where were the police yesterday, where are they today, and i know the guard as they are, where they? >> i can hear the police off in the distance and you can see some light, and they are making an announcement again. what i see are buses, and i am going to presume that you've got personnel in those buses and now
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the kids are running. so let's see what we've got here. where were the police last night, see they made a decision based on the orders of mayor jacob frey to back off, avoid the friction some of the symbolism of the third precinct building was less important than a life. they made their strategic decision to retreat, but you still don't have the situation resolved here as you've got chaos once again in front of the precinct building. smoke is just made another announcement that the demonstrators need to disperse and they are not going to follow that order first time around, so let's see where we go with this. >> sean: seems like we are building into a potential huge conflict here tonight, the people in minneapolis tonight, if you are not there, don't go there. is not safe there. we will be checking in throughout the hour with mike tobin and mike is going to be interviewing some of the people on the ground listening to what they say, standby,
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washington tonight. >> good evening outside of the white house at 9:00, we've got a crowd of maybe 100, 150 earlier today, this protester grew and got quite confrontational along the north fence line of the white house. they ran some bicycle barricades that separate and the protesters began to shove those over. that did not go over very well with the secret service who initially appeared to be caught off guard, reinforcements came in, and they were able to push the protesters back pretty quickly, the protesters left and right now at 9:00, protests at three places in washington chance of black lives matter with the president upse upstairn the residence.
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what they call stay-at-home life here in washington, d.c., so they lifted a lot of the coronavirus restrictions and they are certainly out in force in the streets and they seem to be growing. in this way we have not seen the secret service that happened a couple of hours ago, based on the number of secret service agents lining the fence line now, you have to think they are at least prepared for it. we have been through this before in different ways here in lafayette park and every time i've been back and sides of outhouse as part of the unit, it is incredible the amount of supplies and at the ready of ammunition, weapons, shields, and riot gear they keep back here inside the white house. >> sean: there was an incident earlier this evening at the white house, apparently had a fenced jumper. what is the status on that? do we know if it was part of
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this protester somebody else? >> the secret service lock the white house down because the barricades were breached. i don't know if you can see it, but you can see this line of barricades, and those are the bicycle barricades that give the secret service a buffer zone, and then you can see the plywood wall and then the new fence line, the 13-foot fence being built here behind that which is the north lawn of the white house. what happened earlier, and we may have some video of it is the barricades were pushed down by the protesters, and that got the secret service's attention. they stayed back as they are now and let people chant and be angry, cause a ruckus if you will. as soon as those barricades got pushed down, that's when the secret service responded, we had the pushing the bicycle barricades back and using the barricades to keep the crowd back, big reinforcement of secret service agents and officers came out here to the
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fence line and on the white house was locked down. i'm not sure whether that lockdown has still been in effect or whether the white house, did see a of members of the press so we believe the secret service feels at least right now they have things more under control. >> sean: standby, we will be checking in throughout the day in the white house tonight. apparently now we have a press conference emerging in atlanta. let's just check it quickly he here. >> out of the wreckage of the struggle that we all experience just by being born to a certain color in this country. but atlanta is a place where we can set an example of prosperity, and we've done that for generations. people like dr. king, michael jackson, have paved the way for us, and when everything else goes away, when you don't get treated right in l.a., when
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you don't get treated right in alabama, atlanta has been for us. however, i understand a lot of others do, but we can't do this here. must be protected. >> let me just listening, one second. >> i'm the son of an atlanta city police officer. my cousin is an atlanta city police officer, and i've got love and respect down to the original eight police officers in atlanta that even after becoming police had to address in a ymca because white officers didn't want to get dressed.
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>> sean: by the way, that his killer mike is his name, a famous rapper from the city of atlanta. i lived there, love the city, prayers with them tonight, and please no violence. we now go to alex hogan, a protest in new york at the barclays center, what is the latest on the ground they are? >> we are hearing some of the same chance around the country, no justice, no peace, violence is deadly, and the words i can't breathe in reference to george floyd's final words. and tonight, seeing the tensions escalated in atlanta. we are seeing groups gathered, thousands of them gathered outside of the cnn headquarters, we've seen they've stashed windows, even lighting some cars on fire there, and this is all after that viral video of course in minneapolis on monday went viral, that a video a police officer kneeling on an unarmed
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black man's neck until he eventually stopped breathing. all of this is really here and around the country encouraging people and motivating them to come out of their quarantine and speak up and stand up together. encouraging people to exercise their constitutional right but to do so safely because of covid-19 concerns. in here, they marched from downtown manhattan to brooklyn surrounding the barclays center and nearby stores and side streets. new york mayor bill de blasio's urging protesters to direct their anger not at police but at elected leaders. while the gatherings tonight so far have been relatively peaceful, we have seen some changes just in the last 30 minutes or so, seeing more police officers there in brooklyn than we have throughout the day, also brought in those buses in to be able to haul away anyone who gets out of control.
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we haven't seen that many arrest today, but we will see following this. >> sean: thank you, in new york tonight at the barclays center. we now go to los angeles where there was a lot of activity last night. the latest in l.a., still early out there. >> good evening. i can tell you here in los angeles, we are bracing for what could be a lengthy weekend of protests. there was one under way as i speak right now, protesters trying to get onto a busy freeway here in downtown l.a., a line of police officers trying to stop them, several other protests already scheduled for tomorrow, but here in l.a., everything started on wednesday. this is when those protesters successfully did get onto the freeway in downtown l.a., this is the middle of rush hour. they got onto all lanes of traffic blocking all traffic on both sides of the freeway, california highway patrol, a couple of cruiser stopped by to break it up and they were severely "outnumbered" and you could take a look at what happened, they immediately
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swarmed those taking skateboards and throwing them through the windshield of these cruisers, the car took off, he fell off and split his head open. that turned into a big media deal out here in los angeles. they've got riot police standing out in front regarding, who vandalized in recent nights for the most part, the protest here in los angeles have been peaceful, have been some bad actors that have infiltrated these protests and started throwing things at officers, started attacking their vehicles and vandalizing buildings and for that reason saying we hear you, we're going to let you protest, we understand why you were angry.
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but we are drawing the line when it comes to officer safety and public safety. they say if they see anyone being attacked or buildings being vandalized, they will step it up and those people will be arrested. >> sean: thank you. we now go back to minneapolis where you can see on the light side of your screen, in minneapolis tonight for us reporting there, just spoke with mike tobin, what is going on where you are? >> yes. we are out here in minneapolis, probably about 15 minutes ago, the state patrol and the national guard told the protesters to back up, and if they didn't, they were going to start arresting. and shortly after that, they started firing tear gas which the protesters then threw back. i will tell you, one of our private security with us today served in iraq and he told me he never thought that he would see a scene like esau and iraq here at home.
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the protesters now have moved closer, so the street was closed off. the street was completely closed off and now everybody has moved in on lake street. this is the street that was completely destroyed, mostly immigrant run businesses on the street. now it's opened up again to protesters like we saw the first two nights. that curfew just going into effect a short while ago clearly the state patrol is saying they are going to enforce a curfew. what will happen next, we just don't know, but these protesters out here have come with jugs of milk, they have come with the attitude and they are going to stay out here. they will protest and they will riot until that happens. >> sean: thank you tonight. now earlier today, the officer derek chauvin who is seen kneeling on george floyd's neck for eight solid minutes plus until he couldn't breathe
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charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. there is not republican or democrat disagreement here. more liberal conservative disagreement, there is universal condemnation of that eight minute video of the knee pushing mr. floyd's head right into the pavement. here is the county attorney discussing the charges earlier today. let's take a look. >> form a minneapolis police officer derek chauvin is in custody. he has been charged with third-degree murder. we are in the process of continuing to review the evidence. there may be subsequent charges later. this investigation is ongoing. we felt it appropriate to focus on the most dangerous perpetrator. and i must that this case has moved with extraordinary speed. >> sean: four days, to be exact.
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third-degree murder is commonly known as the officer is charged with acting in a depraved mind with a reckless disregard for human life under minnesota law, that is punishable by up to 25 years in prison. first-degree murder so you understand and remember, this is eventually going to go before a jury of 12 individuals with a standard of beyond a reasonable doubt. first-degree murder would require intent and premeditation. that does not give us any premeditation evidence or intend for that matter. a second degree would require intent of a but premeditation. again, a high standard based on the take according to all the lawyers i have talked to. the standard for conviction from a criminal trial beyond a reasonable doubt. 12 jurors must agree. based on the evidence we have now, you can you do it with second-degree murder. he would need more evidence in
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my opinion, many independent lawyers i've talked to than just the tape we have seen so far, there might be incriminating evidence that we don't know about yet. i also want to be very clear there's a big difference between a right and a peaceful protest. friends and the mob and the media are having a very hard time making a distinction where there is a difference between peaceful marching honoring his life, demanding justice, and burning down businesses, breaking and stealing and advocating for violence. the country is pretty much in universal agreement on the videotape and about how outrageous it looks and is. is an abuse of power for law enforcement to the highest degree. we need accountability and justice because what makes this case of unique is the amount of standard running time, different
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angles and tape evidence for extended periods. don't say resistance anywhere, yet we see the officer pushing down mr. floyd's neck for eight plus solid minutes. 7 minutes, 552nd tape that was happening before the camera started rolling. is chilling. is shaking america, and the american people to its core. remember, the president took the lead on this from day one. i ordered the fbi and the doj to conduct a full investigation. made it clear this would be a top priority. saying saying we do not want this violence to continue. we also don't want to dishonor the memory of george floyd. unfortunately, with 170 stores that we are counting, anarchy and chaos are raining as we saw all throughout the night last night. radical rioters exploiting this
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death of mr. floyd committing crimes, justifying crimes, threatening more violence, one agitator actually saying "one of ours, two of yours." take a look. >> matter of fact, we've got a two-for-one rule. one of ours, two of yours. in essence died because you don't want none. there is more of us than you. they are coming to your house right now. >> sean: looking at the monitor here, they are looking up the meaning things are being thrown at them by those people. by the way, that is not peaceful protesting. that would be called rioting. in my life, destroyed like what
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we saw last night. we are all watching this unfold last night, we see a police presence. i'm thinking okay, where the police, where's the national guard called up, windows smashed, some of them burned, two dozen destroyed, puts an entire community of innocent people and innocent law enforcement at risk here. and also, you're destroying the entire community. taking away jobs where we are living in a time where we need every job as we now open the country hopefully safely. here's a bigger question, why are there people on the left in the mob and the media, celebrities that seem to be encouraging the violence? fanning the fire of the threat of all of this and making excuses for what you are watching on this friday night, night number three? look at this tweet, the quote,
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"while the situation on the ground is fluid and there has been violence, it is most accurate that this time to describe what is happening here as protests, not riots. that is network policy over there at nbc. 170 stores impacted, looting, rioting, whoever you are, that is called a riot. look at your screen. there is not peaceful protesting by many in this crowd. a far left filmmaker michael moore riding, "good citizen is burning down the evil police precinct of minnesota after people were out and save." i'm glad you know this, all police should go home, no violence please. that's one of the dumbest things you've ever said, and you've set a lot of dump things in the course of your lifetime. police headquarters, he writes, "must be demolished as a show of contrition to black america. this morning last night, all
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things democratic socialist party state run democratic tv, they have a host. who said the protests aren't unruly at all. he is saying it while standing in front of a burning building. take a look. >> there are at least four fires that i can see that's in a small radius that we are in, so i want to be clear and how i characterize it. this is mostly a protest. it is not generally speaking unruly. fires have been started, and there is a deep sense of grievance and complaint here. >> sean: there were four fires in your general vicinity. that's madness. and not only that, fake news cnn are actually comparing this to george floyd's death prompting a very strong chorus i think
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justified of backlash. i believe in freedom of the press, but comparing that to the death of this man is just the typical we get from fake news cnn and why the media mob be downplaying these acts of violence that we are seeing with our own eyes and minnesota burning down buildings is not about protesting. what happened to george floyd and his death, it doesn't honor his memory. these are agitators exploiting a crisis knowing more discord, putting lives at risk. open your eyes. those of you in the psychotic media mob. by the way, we now look at pictures in brooklyn, new york, and now barack obama's way in with remarks that frankly are not particularly helpful especially considering his history of other reckless remarks when it comes to police and the race, and you might remember ferguson, hands up, don't shoot.
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remember that didn't work out the way the mob and the media were telling people then because there were many eyewitnesses at the end of that that actually confirmed officer darrell wilson story about michael brown. he said in part, it's natural for us to wish for life to get back to normal as the pandemic, economic crisis and everything around us, we have to remember for millions of americans to be treated differently on account of race is tragically and painfully mattingly normal. also want a reminder about the cambridge police acting stupidly, and the travon bryant case ended up being the eyewitness. ferguson, baltimore, his comments by his own attorney general that were cowards in america on the issue of race. now we are in agreement, says it is unacceptable. what's also unacceptable is what we are now seeing happening in cities all across the country.
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that's not acceptable, the destruction of businesses, workers who are already struggling trying to restore order. in time for the police to do their job. this is the minnesota governor what he said earlier today. >> as we put our presence on the street to restore order, it is to open that space to seek justice and cannot have the looting and the recklessness that went on. i refuse to have it take away the attention of the stain that we need to be working on. >> sean: a little late. where were you last night? now all americans, my faith teaches us many americans, we are all made in the image of god, all of us. no identity politics here. the president says at the end of crescendo and his rallies, we
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are one glorious nation under god and one united american family, and this is not helping anybody, and again, the officer was arrested and charged today. but the horrific scenes in minneapolis and atlanta and brooklyn that we are showing you all night, this is not the answer. it's not going to make community safer or stronger. is sad and self constructive, there's a better way forward in a better way to bring americans together. here with reaction, nationally syndicated radio host and executive producer of upcoming book. larry, we will start with you, you are on the screen. i am afraid for our cities. i am afraid for the people of the cities, i am afraid of the destruction of businesses, lives being destroyed before our very eyes, people minimizing this making excuses for this. 170 businesses.
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>> i have listen to your monologue and i want every fox news to know i agree with everything you have just said. this is a tragedy. there is universal acceptance that the murder of george floyd was wrong. we agree with that. i am disappointed, shocked that there has been no democratic lawmakers the last 72 hours who have focused on the criminal activity of these individuals who are not protesting, using the guide of caring about george floyd. is not happening. and i encourage all of you democratic lawmakers to stand up and criticize these criminals. i have tremendous credibility as a civil rights attorney. i think the president for getting the attorney general involved in this and the county district attorney for filing charges. but what cannot happen is that we just tell you the truth by,
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these democratic lawmakers do not want to alienate black voters. i've got news for you, you are alienating me. i'm a black motor and you have lost me and doing something about these criminals. >> sean: all three of us have been friendly, having agreed over the years, you are outspoken. i want you to weigh in on all that we see now developing all around the country, we keep going from city to city and we see what's unfolding again tonight, and by the way, the curfew started 30 minutes ago, and nobody is listening in minneapolis. where the police, what are their plans? they've got to protect the community. >> what's so disturbing and destructive about all of this is the premise is wrong. institutional racism and
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evidence to the contrary. the cdc has been in the news recently, they did a study and found out over the last 45 years, police shootings and killings of blacks have declined 75% while the shootings of whites have flatlined. in fact, an officer is 18-point times more likely than an black man is to be killed by a cop. when this happens, it is rare. we should do with it on a case-by-case basis and not act like this is a reflection of how cops are all across america. they've never been better trained or educated, never been trained and more tactics than ever. the police department is not the institutional races department. >> sean: the police department retreated last night. they allow their precinct and all these places to be looted. there was nowhere to be found last night. >> that is the second point. this would be one thing if it
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were birmingham, alabama, talking about the superintendent of safety. we are talking about a mayor, very sympathetic. the police chief is a mexican-american no reason to believe that justice will be served. nothing to do with civil rights, everything to do with anger and i believe it's donald trump weren't in office, we wouldn't be having this conversation. >> sean: the president was very clear that if the governor and the mayor can't get this job done, they will. i don't see any enforcement and i'm not looking for a confrontation here, but i'm also not looking for a replay of all we witnessed last night now in multiple cities around the country, and the police and president said he would send all the support, and he will stop the violence and protect the homes and protect the businesses that are being looted and vandalized and burned to the ground.
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>> president trump, you need to federalize the national guard because these democratic governors in minnesota is not taking action. there is no law and order, democratic mayor, democratic governor in minnesota, nothing happening on the state and local level. we need president trump to step in and do something because these individuals are not protesting under the first amendment. they should be arrested. >> sean: standby, we will try to get back to you, continue to monitor the protests around the country tonight. thing is i am told by my producer now heating up in chicago, current images now in minneapolis, now taking over the police precinct. how in the world do you let them
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take over a police station? why didn't the city's democratic mayor and governor do anything about this? they literally backed away. anyway, we are now checking in. we'll go back to mike tobin and a second the first, rudy giuliani, mr. mayor, you dealt with some tough days in new york city, your years as mayor with all of this, mr. mayor, i can't imagine knowing you having been friends with you for a couple of decades now that you would ever allow what happened last night to happen again. >> first person who threw a brick would have been arrested. the second person who burned a car would been a arrested. third person who tried to hurt somebody would've been arrested and the statement to them would be push it any further and try me, and you're going to regret it. i inherited a city that had had to go major riots for eight days, and i left the city in eight years, no rights even
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though we had some very, very controversial police shootings. you just didn't write under me, i'm sorry. they never even tried. so what should happen here is somebody should take over. progressive democrats are incapable of keeping their people safe because they have criminal family policies that are pathetic, dangerous, and now seeing the results are only there, but watch the cities that start burning. they are all going to be run by so-called progressives idiot democrats who let criminals out of jail and set bail for murderers and encourage this kind of thing. giving up a police precinct, the mayor should resign. telling police officers to flee precinct, should resign and be replaced by somebody who can protect his people.
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the governor should resign. he has had four days to protect his people. this is about protecting people's property and protecting people's lives. one man has died already. before somebody starts to protect the people of minnesota, minneapolis, the people of atlanta, people of new york, and just as incapable of doing it. no one that feels more strongly about the killing than i do. it's outrageous what happened in. terrible trained police department. what you saw on the streets of minneapolis could never have happened if there was a well-trained police department. at least five major violations by those cops. >> sean: i am looking at these images and the former chief of
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police also ran the correction center, also with us apparently with some breaking news, but 37 minutes ago, this curfew went into effect. and nobody's listening, and i don't see cops making any maneuvers that i would've expected that the mayor is rightly describing things that you did and he did and he was police chief. >> i want to touch on something the mayor said real quick. you talk about the leadership now, can't control the cities now. you'll notice that those mayors can keep those cities less violent than we have the highest murder rates, they have poverty, low-income housing, atrocious management and leadership without the riots. now with the riots, it's the
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same mentality. heard the precinct, this stuff is unacceptable. >> sean: what did you say? >> the 88 precinct has called at 1013 in brooklyn, a 79. not a breach, but basically have hundreds of protesters they are. they have a car on fire in brooklyn, a police car. and really, it's all about the leadership. don't blame those cops in minneapolis for leaving when we are told to leave by their mayor. i can promise you one thing, rudy giuliani would have never told me to leave. and if i left, i'd be back the next morning. >> sean: mr. mayor, you live this. what would you -- what do you
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tell these mayors tonight? >> i inherited this. quit. don't elect progressive democrats if you want to be safe. that's the message of tonight. by people with idiotic policies, friendly to criminals, constantly friendly to criminals and completely unfriendly to law-abiding citizens whether they are white, black, hispanic, the worse things to happen to african-american communities, people like this. they suffer more than anyone else and what they have done for the last 20 to 30 years in these communities is outrageous. and a lot of these politicians who have run these communities have become millionaires. they are also crooks, a lot of them. >> sean: they may never come back. >> in harlem, all of those years, ends up a millionaire.
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they have to clean it up. >> sean: thank you tonight, going back to mike tobin in minneapolis as things have been heating up there as you can see, this curfew went into a effect. i don't see much of a curfew going on. >> whatever they are saying as far of as a hard-line, 45 minutes ago they announced it would be in violation of the law and they started offering up the ultimatum. you stay out here, subject to arrest. they just withdrew and the demonstrators took off marching. in they went without distracti distraction, a relatively destruction free. just a little bit of skirmishes in the sauce and liquor broken
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into. want to walk up on some of these people and see if i can get their viewpoints. see what they're doing out here. excuse me. can i ask you a question? what are you trying to get done? >> i'm not going to answer any questions. >> what about you, but he? all right. you're out here marching. are you trying to make a point? what about the order of the curfew? past the curfew. not getting a lot of cooperation right now, but a big crowd out here and it seems like the numbers grew with the curfew. you had a lot of people who are looking for a conflict, and they didn't get it because once aga again, that back down. >> sean: mike tobin, we will let you get re-situated, mike is continuing as curfew started nearly 42 minutes ago, nobody is listening obviously.
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you are a secret service agent, how many nights in a row are you going to watch the police stand down and how that continues because they're not going to be a city left here if they don't get control over this. >> let me say as a former secret service agent, dear god please don't let this escalate at the white house because you were under the mistaken impression as a protester and you are right to assemble and protest, that is your absolute god-given right, but if you think it's going to end at the white house like it ended at a police precinct in minneapolis, you are sorely mistaken. i am absolutely praying for some de-escalation and common sense here. >> sean: this is important. there are protesters, there was a breach earlier tonight as you
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know, and they are on high alert at the white house. no one is going to be allowed to go on those grounds, that will not end well immediately. >> no, you are making a strategic miscalculation of the highest order if you think the secret service is going to evacuate their precinct, it is not going to happen. and secondly, i was listening to the mayor rudy giuliani, i was a police officer when he was in charge. i can attest to what he said. when we went out to any civil unrest situation where things could get shaky, there was a standing order. in the first person who broke the law, grabbed him and arrested it. you arrested them, there was no third person, that was it. when you look at civil unrest situations, it's the same thing as criminality. a small pocket of agitators that agitate everyone else and when you take them out of the
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equation, the situation calms down quickly, and the mayor understood that. >> sean: we are watching now what was a regular scene last night, 20 buildings ablaze, 24 total last night, one bit of good news if there is any good news, the fire department is obviously there trying to extinguish it, probably the building is destroyed already. bring in geraldo rivera, who have been a reporter on the ground, started on the streets of new york, one of the best treat reporters in the history of reporting. you are watching this, you have seen when it's been handled correctly like when mayor giuliani was the mayor of new york, you saw last night and you see tonight unfolding in brooklyn, in minneapolis, you see it in atlanta, you see it in chicago, your thoughts on how this is being handled, how is it
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possible they backed out and about a precinct to be taken over and burned to the ground last night and 170 other buildings limited and robbed and broken. >> now we have the image of the third precinct being abandoned and burned to the ground. now we have the image of all these scores of businesses, many of them if not most owned by hardworking immigrants, minorities came to this country with $0.02 in their pocket, made something of themselves, but their life savings in these businesses will need to see wantonly destroyed. it's exactly what i said last night, who is not being mentioned? george floyd. the 46-year-old victim of all of this. his death and the knee on his neck is not the image we are thinking about tonight. what we are thinking about tonight is cities across the
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country being set ablaze. and what in minneapolis was an outrageous dereliction of duty to abandon those neighborhoods to the mob. those people have defaced the memory of this poor man. and it is horrifying. >> sean: you have been there -- i want to go back to dan bongino and i want to go back to the question i was asking bernie and mayor mayor giuliani, first person stops, second person stops, you see minneapolis now come use the atlanta tonight and brooklyn tonight, now chicago bandits early in los angeles tonight, a lot happening there last night as well. there seems no willingness to do what police need to do to stop these crowds. it's 46 minutes that this curfew has been in effect and there are more people marching, not less.
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>> how many people need to get hurt? how many businesses need to get burned down, how many lives need to be put in jeopardy? how many times do we have to see this model of handling. >> sean: it is early, you can see a fight has broken out in that pandan. there is a police or other, it looks like police have stepped in and stopped the fight. it is specific time. you can see this confrontation with the police and protesters there, and it is early out there. i'm sorry, didn't mean to interrupt. >> i was just trying to make the point that how many lives did you have to lose in cities do we have to see hollowed out by fire and unrest before we figure out that this model, the awful new n
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heights, how many times can they let this model play out they started with baltimore with freddie gray, remember her quote, i gave those who wish to destroy space. you did what? destroy what? geraldo is absolutely right. what are we not talking about right now? and just make a point here? this is critical. we disagree a lot, but we agree on some stuff too. this looks like an abuse of force situation. we have to fix this. but we are not talking about right now, any of that.
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>> sean: quick final remark from geraldo tonight. >> on your show when the freddie gray riots happened, baltimore has still not recovered. how is in los angeles, in 1992 for the rodney king riots, what this reminds me of the vonda king riot, the devastation brought. they never recover. this is a crime against the poorest people, the people contributing to our society, this is a crime against the memory of this poor man. is an obscenity, and i fear the worst is yet to come.
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>> god forbid geraldo, thank you both for being with us all week this week. i know town hall, a u.s. marine, senior writer at town hall previously working for the d.c. examiner, a blue check on twitter and i've just been sent this. riot police, national guard have completely abandoned the perimeter talking about minneapolis now that they had set up earlier. in other words, it continues. a rioters chase them away. how is that possible? we go now to bring in our 2020 correspondent on the ground, is with us as well. i believe that your firm is helping the family of mr. floyd if i'm not mistaken. >> representing that family. >> sean: let's start with you
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and your thoughts on what you are seeing here but more importantly, there is universal agreement, you and i have had disagreements over the years but i don't think we disagree on what happened. now this guy has been arrested and charged, third-degree murder and manslaughter. yet this is continuing, and i don't see the police stepping up by the guard being used properly by any of these mayors or by any of these governors which is saying if you don't do it and restore peace, i'll have to do it for you. >> we do agree. but the one thing right now as you see the agitators who are coming in and causing problems. we just saw a guy in los angel los angeles, throw something into the crowd. you saw guys last night breaking windows in minneapolis. so the agitators are the problem. the cops and the national guard have to get to the agitators and stop them. we have a great moment here like
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you said earlier, to bring the country together and to do some good. i just hate that the country has been robbed of this opportunity to do some good. i hope we get the bad folks out because there are a lot of frustrated people do have a lot to say and it's a good moment to bring the country together and do some good things. george floyd's memory is what matters here. all of those things that have happened that put forth a good conversation and because you can have right now this issue to move the ball forward missing that opportunity because all of this is going on across the country. i hope that it ends, but let me say something else. we've learned some lessons and when you organize the protests, meaning set up barriers, make the move, put them in a designated area, i was a stand at the other morning when i saw that minneapolis had not responded correctly. you would've thought they would have been watching.
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and learn their lessons. >> sean: i knew early on, i knew that there was a witness iu were involved in. i knew in baltimore, i knew in ferguson the case of ferguson, perfect case in point, baltimore perfect case in point, expectations were raised because of media and because of false reporting that they were going to be convictions and indictments. in both cases, i had numerous sources. let's look at ferguson. people telling me that there were many eyewitnesses, minority in this case, but people were seeing that through that prism, identity politics, telling on the record already backing up officer darren wilson story. and i was telling everybody else got it wrong, we were right on both cases. >> here's what we need. we need body camera footage.
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we need body camera footage. >> sean: game on, i'm with yo you. right this moment down. i agree with you completely. let's bring in lawrence jones, our correspondent on the ground. you spend lot of time all across the country with people in communities everywhere. you are watching this unfold. you live in the city of new york. you are here on the ground come out on the streets a lot here but also around the country. your reaction to all that's going on and what you're hearing from people you've been talking to all week. >> it's kind of weird because with quarantine and everything, i'm so used to being in the midst of these protests, and it's weird not being there with them but i have so many sources on the ground and it's the same thing that happened with ferguson and baltimore. professional paid protesters, and people that are outside of
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the community that comment and disrupt it. just look at the report after everything was said and done. so they don't care about burning down the city because they don't have to deal with the repercussions afterward, which is sad because this was the first time i think in this country where you had a universal agreement between liberals, conservatives, and libertarians like me that have been saying forever about civil liberties, and this moment is being ruined by people that have their own personal agenda, and this is a failure of leadership. i saw the governor's press conference today, and i could not believe that he admitted that he was not prepared. he called the national guard last night after they did no prep work. we are talking about wednesday, the city was on fire. he would think they would have some strategy especially with the national guard, but no, they didn't do that. they allowed it to happen again
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on thursday night. and what we are seeing right now is because of the lack of preparation and coordination, it may happen again tonight. >> sean: thank you. and by the way, mayor de blasio, where are you? where is your police department? governor cuomo, where are you? the governor in minnesota, where are you tonight? where are you? where are your police department's? we now have reports for new york, police cars on fire, and it's a huge fire apparently that is existing in there. we have other reports breaking that protesters are blocking responding units while writers attack the nypd 88th precinct which was confirmed down in atlanta. apparently, some type of flash bang, some type of fireworks was
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thrown into the lobby of cnn headquarters, what just happened as well. and then you have the riot police, national guard completely apparently abandoning the perimeter that they have set up earlier. we go back to mike tobin who was on the ground in minneapolis when this is all happening. so they were supposed to have a curfew 57 minutes ago, and the crowds are going by the second, and i'm praying that we don't see a replay of last night. but i don't see the governor or the mayor or anyone they are learning their lesson from last night. >> i can tell you what i know on the ground. what was seen as this crowd that was concentrated in the area of the third precinct is now spread out. so it's possible there technique here were their strategy was to give these protesters a line in the sand, get them geared up for a big conflict, then don't give them the big conflict because what's happening now is there going for a walk, their numbers
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are spreading out, looks like something is on fire off in the distance there, haven't got that far so can't tell you exactly what it is but for the most part what we are seeing now since we left that area of the third precinct is there just walking. i don't see any destruction, a lot of horn honking and vulgarity of the destruction that we saw last night, widespread lighting on fire, not seeing it. so quite possibly, the idea was lucy and charlie with the football come and give him the football, take it away, let all the tension dissipate on its o own. that's what we are seeing materialize here. >> sean: i know you've been working hard on the ground the entire week, can you talk to those guys by any chance? >> you're the voice of the city? >> i'm the voice of the city. they try to put everything negativity on the city. you kill positivity with that, they shot me and my leg and we protect the national guard. we are locked up and protected
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them and they still shot us. >> out on the street here tonight, what are you trying to get done? >> trying to get justice for the rest of the three. we don't want no violence, we don't want to hurt nobody. >> try to keep it clean. >> we all want to hurt nobody. we don't want to burn no business. we just want them to hear rest. >> to what are you trying to say? >> stop killing them. >> we need the other three. >> the hennepin county attorney said the fastest charges ever brought against the police officer in the history of this county, are you buying that? >> i'm not. do we know that he's really been arrested? we need proof, you know what i'm saying? >> sean: we are going to have to say good-bye to mike tobin, but our coverage will continue as early in the evening. we have protests going on in chicago, atlanta, los angeles,
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new york, minnesota. our thoughts and prayers are with all and especially keep the people safe, i hope and pray that we do. we will have coverage all throughout the evening and all throughout the overnight tonight on the fox news channel. please stay with us. >> this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. violence erecting in cities across the country. wheezy anger, some right of us, but lots of it is rated and out-of-control. lockdown has put 40 million americans now out of work and millions of others have been locked into their homes for weeks. you had a racially charged situation like the killing of george floyd in minneapolis, an sadly you have all the ingredients for a combustible night or two or three. we are covering this story throughout the hour from the la enforcement veterans that we trust local minnesota politicians, business owners, and we will break down the media 's
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