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and and has been arrested for murder or manslaughter, and possibly other officers. we will give you overnight coverage, tossing it to rick leventhal on the west coa west coast. >> this is a fox news alert. i am rick leventhal in los angeles. a curfew is in effect and response to the death of george floyd in police custody. and clashing as officers try to crush the streets. the minneapolis unrest spreading to other u.s. cities including atlanta, and washington, d.c., and here in los angeles with the secret service and uniformed officers trying to keep the situation under control before demonstrators threw bricks and other objects at demonstrators.
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and in atlanta, protesters setting a police car on fire, and vandalized the headquarters of cnn. and in brooklyn, new york, where the nypd has been forced to call in for backup of surrounding precincts. you see them outside the barclays center in brooklyn, demonstrators say that this is all about the death of george floyd. a black man who was arrested and handcuffed, and then held down on the ground in minneapolis for nearly 9 minutes with an officer's knee on his neck, as you see there, floyd dying while in police custody. the four officers involved have been fired. and that officer you see there, derek chauvin kneeling on his neck, he was arrested friday and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of floyd. he could face a 12-year prison sentence. fox news correspondent mike tobin has been in the thick of these protests all night in minneapolis and joins us now
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live. what is the situation tonight? >> frankly we have losing of our visuals, because it is getting covered in thick black smoke with three fires burning in my immediate facility. it will go over my shoulder and i can show you a building that has a tobacco store, a rental facility, and a money gram store. and watching the fire burned for an hour. and with the black flames coming up, and now a fire has just consumed this particular structure. no presence of fire crews here, and it seems that the policy has been throughout the process, the fire crews will show up and they need some protection, because even when the paramedics show up, the demonstrators pelt them with bottles and rocks and whatever they have in the vicinity. as we pans green left, i want to show you as you go past the dollar tree and the office depot that have been looted all throughout the night, and we keep panning left, you should be
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able to see the still lit sign of the wells fargo bank branch. that is on fire. you could see the flames leaping up from just about 15, 20 minutes ago, but now the smoke has gotten too thick into black, and at risk of showing you a black shot, we can continue panning left, and that is the u.s. post office at the corner of 31st street and first avenue. very near the minneapolis police fifth precinct. on that street, 31st, east 31st, that is the only place where we have seen police presence. about an hour ago, ballpark about a dozen police officers, minneapolis police officers in riot gear and several vehicles with them approach slowly up the street. they had some teargas and some smoke and some flash bangs in front of them and marched up the street clearing the street as
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they went along. but that is the only police presence we have seen from this vantage point as the rioting continues unabated, anarchy rules the streets. you don't have everyone in support of what the use of rioters and looters are doing. i talked with one gentleman throughout the evening and he says that the people in the neighborhoods are doing the wrong thing for the right reason. you don't find anyone who would disagree, just the outrage that a normal person would experience as they watch that video tape. but you have some people who disagree. the reaction that you are seeing on the street. some people are reacting to anger, but there are a lot of opportunists. i've seen people running down the street with arms full of liquor, giggling that they just robbed a liquor store. i saw someone with a dolly loaded up of cases and cases of red bull as he just wielded down the street without the threat of any kind of apprehension by law enforcement, because the presence is minimal at best.
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rick. >> rick: mike, i know that authorities put a curfew in effect, but it seems like that has been completely ignored and not being enforced on any level? >> it appears that that curfew was just an idle threat. about quarter to 8:00 they came out the state patrol, and they announced that anyone on the street after 8:00 would be a violation of the curfew, and they went a step further to issue an ultimatum, anybody who was in violation of the curfew would be subject to arrest, and then they were treated. and as they were treated the demonstrators came up lake street with them and marched past the third precinct where you saw the fires and all the anarchy last night. the third precinct at the orders of mayor frey. they went into destruction. and minimal, they marched past it. it looked like their numbers were going to spread out i may be the whole thing would dissipate, and did not materialize. they have them running around
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looting and setting fires and taking pictures and putting it on instagram. >> rick: wha what about the national guard? i know they were called in. have you seen them? >> we saw the national guard throughout the day. particularly on lake street in the area of the third precinct. they held their ground. they had their m4 and m16, some of them had clips, some of them did not. we saw the national guard vehicles, there were humvees with mounts for weapons on the top, but no weapons on the tops. and then after 8:00 and the announcement was made, we saw the presence of the national guard, and we saw them back up. and then we saw them back up again. we seldom continue to backup into the area of highway 55 bridge. they stopped for a little while. a bunch of smoke came out and by the time the smoke cleared, by the time the protesters had clear the area, the presence of the national guard was just no longer there and you did not see the troopers with the state patrol either.
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>> rick: mike, i know you been to plenty of these. one more question in terms of personal safety and the level of violence, those brazenness of this particular amount of demonstrators, how would you compare it? >> it is probably a little worse than we have seen in other places. mostly because there is just so much chaos, so much unpredictability. there have been other demonstrations where the people march and there is a pattern to the marching, there is a goal that they want to accomplish, in this case it is just a frenzy. we have been out amongst the demonstrators and it takes one of them to get worked up and then you get a whole pack of them whipped into a frenzy. and that is why we have come up to this vantage point, because we were down in the crowd earlier and they started just getting a little bit more testy then safety would allow. >> rick: we want you to be safe, mike. thank you for your reporting on the ground. take care. there is another scene going on
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in atlanta tonight, and fox news correspondent jonathan serrie is they are. and joins us live to describe that situation. how is it? >> high matt, i am on high street at about five or six blocks from cnn center where all of the mayhem began earlier this evening. let me show you what is going on behind me, police have been enforcing a perimeter around cnn center and they have been widening, when the protest turned destructive and violence in the downtown central core near cnn center and centennial park with protesters hurling objects at police, and even firing some fireworks into police, they responded with tear gas and moved them out. and then as the crowds moved out, they followed them with officers and heavy equipment to maintain that perimeter. and here we are five or six blocks away from cnn center where a group, a smaller group
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of protesters has gathered. they are sitting in the street in the middle of forsythe which normally is quiet at this time of night. and as long as they remain peaceful, it appears that the police are continuing to let them have their sit in, but maintaining a very strong perimeter, not wanting them to go back into that central core around centennial park where the protesters caused a lot of damage in and around cnn center. a lot of people from old civil rights leaders to mayor keisha are expressing so much over that particular protest, atlanta is the cradle of the civil rights movement dating back to the days of dr. martin luther king, famous for peaceful protests, and also the police in the city have also a long tradition of exercising restraint and
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allowing these protests to take place and just supervising so that they don't get out of hand. but this one has clearly gotten out of hand. police had to crack down outside of cnn center and now they are keeping a watchful albeit quiet eye on these protesters sitting in the middle of forsythe street right now. yelling insults at police and occasionally insults at the media. bye for now in this part of atlanta it is just words, but earlier tonight it was much more destructive. rick. >> rick: jonathan, the officer directly involved in the death of george floyd was arrested friday afternoon. and i am wondering if you had a chance to talk to any of these demonstrators whether that has made any difference in their feeling about carrying out the sometimes and often violent protests tonight? >> it has not had any effect on this.
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and in fact, this is the most violent protests that we have seen since the situation in minnesota. also when the mayor held her news conference, it was not just the mayor, but local hip-hop artists, other recording artists, civil rights leaders, members of the religious community, dr. bernice king, from the king family, obviously well respected. but it seemed to have no effect on the protests, part of that may be that people who saw this news conference were watching at home on tv, and the protesters were already out and about. but clearly some of them must have seen it on their social media. but it really did not seem to have much of an effect on the protest tonight. >> rick: jonathan serrie live, thank you, stay safe, we will talk to you soon. let's turn to ted williams, a former d.c. police detective and
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defense attorney. ted, i know that there have been protests in washington as well tonight, i'm wondering what your reaction has been to all of this. >> i reaction is that it is very disappointing. and distressed. i have only covered riots from baltimore milwaukee, new york. washington, and there is one common thread that i find rather troubling. that while some legitimacy in demonstrating, that there is no legitimacy whatsoever in riots. and the commentary is that most of the individuals are burning up their own neighborhoods.
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and this is what is very troubling. i remember being in baltimore and being at a drugstore and having an elderly black man where am i not going to go and get my medicine? at that stage, it had been completely burned down. >> rick: i was there. looking at pictures of the burning building in minneapolis. >> you can see a quite a few people are demonstrating in the name of george floyd it, but i can unequivocally say that also, there's a lot of people that hae come from around the country. i remember being out in ferguson and seeing the individuals get off of airplanes, to come to ferguson and to rise for their
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own agendas. they pretty much burnt that town down. a baltimore took the brunt of the burning of one of the black neighborhoods. i also saw in milwaukee, it's very troubling and in some states i'm hoping that the community leaders will be able to get together during the daytime and perhaps get with the leaders of some of the rioters and the demonstrators and to bring this to some type of a conclusion before somebody get seriously hurt. >> rick: hey, teddy, can you hear me? >> rick: yes. >> rick: is a former policeman, you have to be deeply disturbed seeing the anarchy in the streets and the lack of any effort to corral it. i'm wondering, again, as a
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former cop, how you would handle this. how would you calm things down and how would you get these people off the streets and stop at the looting, stop the burning, stop the violence. >> well, as of tonight, there is no way that the authority are going to get control as to what's going on. you find that during the daytime, you can legitimately meet with the leaders and you can get the medicine, when you get them involved because it's the nine tim nighttime that's ty of the people. also, what's going to have to happen here is that you're going to have to establish a current view.
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you're going to have to just ensure that you rush in an and i saw that against baltimore. baltimore was a big part of the black community and you had police officers right there in riot gear and what they did was to move in, they told people to move out, they didn't move out, they moved in and they arrested them. and they were able to get control. as i said, nobody's going to to get control of anything. everything is going to have to be done i think during the day tomorrow to try to control. tomorrow night, would still going on in some of the major cities around the country. >> rick: this is night three of the kinds of protests, this is not a surprise or shouldn't be to any law enforcement agencies and i'm wondering why
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they wouldn't roll a prison bus in there and have officers come in in masks to these neighborhoods and street bispiny street, and if people don't disperse you arrest them and put them in the bus and you take them out of there like you said they did in baltimore. why not do it in these upper cities tonight? >> well, you know, several different reasons. you have different mayors with different agendas in the cities and these mayors and the governor is also part of the chief of police in these various cities as well as the national guard. i think that you are legitimately right that to get on the bus and you get them out of there as quickly as possible. now, as he said, this is 93.
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night three, and they expected this kind of reoccurrence tonigh tonight. i think that the time of day, you're going to see the different reactions. i think you also tried to give these demonstrators who legitimately wanted to demonstrate some space, because it's only today that the officer who had his knee on the neck of george floyd was arrested. and i was hoping that it would have quelled things down to some degree, but i think what's going on right now is that there are a lot of other people out there who would like to see more arrests of the officer but is not the way to go about it. we bring up the subject again, there are people on the outside
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where coming in and destroying the intent or re-of various neighborhoods. the people who live in the neighborhoods are going to have to unfortunately try to rebuild and what we seen for the last two days throughout the city. >> rick: it's a horrible situation and we appreciate your time tonight, ted williams, former detective and defense attorney and will get back to you in just a bit. if stay with us, we're going to have light updates on the ongoing protest over the death of george floyd and annapolis we have live updates from washington, d.c., where there's a major demonstrations out outside the white house and brooklyn, new york, where protests ignited as well and so stay with us we will be right back. ♪
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♪ >> rick: i'm rick leventhal in los angeles with the ongoing coverage of the protest across the nation's response to the death of george floyd in minneapolis. there were major clashes outside the white house today in fact, white house was locked down for the time as demonstrators clashed with the police out front and we had the reporter on seat and he was forced to move away from there because of
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security concerns. if that's happening in a number of locations tonight as the crowd to grow in size and growth in anger. standoffs with officers there and many and ride to gear and some officers were apparently injured by objects being thrown by the crowd outside the white house tonight where demonstrations continue. they are also ongoing demonstrations in new york city and apparently centered in brooklyn outside the barclays center. if we do have a correspondent, alex hogan live in new york city tonight to update us on the status. you're not in brooklyn, just to be clear so you things are prety clear where you are. >> that's correct, and they marched to brooklyn and this is the second night of some of the violent protests that we are seeing here in the city. if good news, here in new york things are starting to settle down and again that's compared to things we are seeing ongoing rights and other parts of the
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country but things are starting to settle down. as i mentioned it, people moved from manhattan to brooklyn and we saw people surrounded a police van earlier tonight. they actually set the police van on fire in the way they did that, they threw fireworks underneath the vehicle and they threw a flare gun inside the car. the also spray-painted the car, they jumped on top of it, they spray-painted data cops on the hood of it before it went up in flames. large crowd gathered around the berkeley center and they broke up fighting with police and police brought in a van to load up the arrested and law enforcement even called in a level four to bring back up for them. mayor bill de blasio responded there himself saying though he understands the need to process es asking the public to do it safely. >> because if we haven't done this, we are the one who should
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be held responsible. but the police officer in front of you is a working man or woman just trying to do their job. they did not create the policies, they did not create the pain, they did not create to the contradictions of our society that we need to resolve. take your anger out on those who hold the power. >> again, we are seeing the protests in the fights with the police and with the protesters they are, many of the people that we talked with saying that they don't necessarily think that the protest might change anything but they have to do something. if they have to speak up over what they have seen and received far too many times and especially with people having so much extra time on their hands because of the coronavirus, so many people are staying, deciding this is motivation enough to come out and because of the protests renouncing people social distance and everyone is wearing masks. but simply, it doesn't make a
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difference in the mayor of of course reminding the people if they can keep the safe distance to do so. >> rick: the nypd has extensive experience handling large crowds and large protests. they have the largest police department in the nation so they seem best prepared for incidents like this. do you have any idea how many of the demonstrators were arrested and any estimate of the crowd size? >> yeah, so when it first started we were only seeing about 300 beta by the way i should mention some of the vans that we are seeing in some police cars and people leaving it seems in mentioning the things behind me. there's about 300 people when the protests started and by the time they thrived in brooklyn, there's at least a couple thousands of them with huge masses of people. i can't account how many people work arrested tonight but i
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mentioned they brought in a van and loaded up everyone who is arrested throughout the night. it would seem our commotion know in the people leaving the scene. >> rick: alex hogan come appreciate you being out on the streets and thank you again. turning to steve rogers, retired lieutenant directive demand director as a former member of the law enforcement i am sure you're a little disturbed. >> yes, very disturbed and a couple things to keep in mind as we put it in perspective. what triggered the protesters, what triggered the protesters was this horrific, horrific killing of this young man. he didn't deserve tha to die tht way. but with the people in general agree the officers need to be prosecuted and put in jail, but what triggered the nationwide fires is a big difference between riders and protesters and i believe triggering that is the failure of the minneapolis
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police officials, not the cops, they are obeying the orders come up with the political that city came last night by closing the offices and by retreating, retreating, and retreating and you had it on fox tonight, they even got out there and claimed it was going to be in force. if you're not off the streets and were going to rescue and guess who retreated to. the police and the national for so that in bold and the people who want to what they want to in the country and as a result this is what we have. >> what we have seen so many times, steve, many of the demonstrators are outside and many of them come into the y out mayhem. they see it as an opportunity and i would imagine in the pandemic -- this time a pandemic, people being cooped up at home all the time, they are eager to get out in this case do the wrong thing.
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>> you're absolutely right and it's sad because the family, they said they don't want any of this. they don't want to pay tribute and remember the young man that way and victimize the people who live in the people in the small businesses and they destroyed their lives. so the police need to get a handle on this immediately. now, l.a., they're trained it wouldn't have it in minneapolis and they have work to do there. >> rick: and you said it, the sort of open the door for it by announcing a curfew and the not enforcing it. do you believe the police department is capable? doesn't have the numbers to enforce the curfew and could this have nipped it in the bud if you will? >> rick>> sure, with proper plag and every police agency has mutual aid program set up. you have the strategic and
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tactical planning by interacting with the state troopers and the national guard. if there is no planning, none at all, just pick up the phone and called a guard in and make it look like were going to do something. they're probably so frustrated that they want to go in there and do their job at the political leadership failed the people. >> rick: that's the thing, you did have the national guard called in and they had two nights of this already and another day to prepare for it to presumably and then you do have multiple agencies on the ground there in minneapolis. what happened? what went wrong? >> what went wrong was that they were idle threats and the political will to solve the problem by getting the police in there and making arrests and getting this thing under control. it simply, there's no political will to do that. none of the strategy was come up maybe will back off and the riders will calm down rated as
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we know it's a signal for people in the rioter's all over the country and that's the same story being told tonight. >> rick: there's been finger-pointing at city hall in the mirror has said the number of things in support of the demonstrators and perhaps not enough to allow his officers to keep the streets calm. >> you know, anyone in the political position has to be neutral, no matter what their feelings are. you're absolutely right, if they favor one side or the other, they're building beside they're not favoring. so they have to have a very balanced approach to this in the way that you can do it and i'd advocated this for years, community policing programs need to be set up in the cities and you've got to get the clergy involved and between the police and the people and you know what, something like this may not happen. >> rick: it's got to be so disturbing for you as it is for
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most americans to see this kind of chaos in the mayhem in our major cities. i think we had video from phoenix there's another officer involved in the shooting and some major demonstrations there. we have demonstrations in washington state, and across the state of california as well. of san jose, they marched on the golden gate bridge and they shut down another major highway there and they were out on the streets of los angeles today and tonig tonight. it's a nationwide situation of demonstrations. if not all them violent, but, many of them -- >> that's true, rick, we need to get the message especially to young people that the police are not our enemies. they are not anyone's enemy. bad apples, yes, they have to be dealt with and brought to justice but the police are simply not our enemy and we need to pray for them and helpful them by being obedient to the laws. >> rick: what strikes me,
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steve, they arrested the officer who was involved on the neck of george floyd, they arrested him and charged him with second and third degree manslaughter. so, he's in custody now. yet, you have all these significant demonstrations and in many cases, they are looting stores and setting them on fire. even after the officer was arrested. >> to your point, these rioter's are not there because of what happened in minneapolis between the police officer and mr. floyd, they're not there, they are there for their own agenda. its took commit mayhem and terrorize people and so, it goes to a point of what i believe with the floyd family said that they want, and they want peace and we should do that. these people should be dealt with and we talk about the people, the writers, they should be dealt with and they should be charged and they should be put in jail.
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if you went as you clearly point out, if you don't back them up, people are going to march all over them and it seems clear that's what's happening in minneapolis and here in oakland. i'm not sure where we go from here. the l.a.p.d. warned people in los angeles to stay off the streets tonight to avoid the side streets and service way because of the potential for clashes with demonstrators. what do you tell someone sitting at home who might have to make a run to the store? what do you tell people who may need to go out for work or something else and run into one of these situations? >> look, your porters out there put their lives on the line and it's pretty unnerving to see the reporters there and i was talking to my wife and they get shot and they get beaten. what do we them, look, be safe
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as you can in the best interest of your own safety and you can go out there and so i hope to god that we don't start seeing people die outside. innocent people die because we may see not just cops but military on the streets and never have we ever seen that in this nation. >> rick: it's steve rogers, retired detective, we appreciate your time tonight and were going to continue with a live coverage of the protests coast-to-coast right after this. ♪
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♪ >> rick: fox news alert i'm rick leventhal in los angeles, coverage of nationwide protest over the death of george floyd in minneapolis over the fires continued to burn tonight on the ground there with thousands of protesters who have taken to the streets in anger, lashing out at police, but also at local businesses. they have broken windows, they have looted stores, and they have started fires. from our reporters on the ground, we are told that the fire department has not been responding to put out the fires in many cases because of concerns over their safety and the need for some sort of police
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escort it. if we're hearing on the ground is that police have basically retreated and allowed these demonstrators to have their wil. on the streets of minneapolis tonight. if this is happening across the nations and many cities to him and 80 degrees including the nation's capital where this lengthy protest outside the white house and down in atlanta where there is significant protest outsid outside the cnn . jonathan is on the ground and bearing witness to many of them demonstrations. jonathan, looks like it's a bit, perhaps where you are now. >> it is, it is, it i'm standing where it was ground is older and i'm across the street from cnn center and thousand of protesters who were out here at times becoming destructive and violent. over here, you can see all of the debris in the middle of the
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streets of the intersection. the centennial olympic park drive in marietta street here in downtown atlanta. at times, protesters were hurling water bottles and whatever else they could find. a police several times they fired fireworks into the symbol to police officers here in the police officers responded with tear gas dispersing the crowd and they widened the perimeter to the point where the largest crowd that we saw were as many as five or six blocks away. we went to one area where there is a smaller standoff about five or six blocks away from where i'm standing right now. at one point, they were holding a sit in and there in the middle of the street in their insults at the police, riot police were maintaining a perimeter but as long as the protesters were remaining peaceful, the police were allowing them to do their
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sit in. to hurl their insults and then something remarkable happened. if the individual officers, they kind of broke out of the line that they had formed and they started engaging the individual protesters in conversation. they were having one-on-one conversations and listening to the protesters and expressing their grievances while the officers explained what they were trying to do, keeping the peace. that really seemed to diffuse the situation. so as the one on one conversations were taking place, the people conducting the sit in in the streets, the group got smaller and smaller and smaller until there's only three people which looked kind of awkward and then they got up and disbursed. so, that situation there was diffused. here, it was much more confrontational with the protesters and attacking the police, hurling objects and firing fireworks at them.
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and so the police responded with tear gas and dispersed the crowd. as you can see, things here are much calmer than they were several hours ago. but police are still at the ready in riot gear to respond to whatever may crop up in downtown atlanta. as far as the major protests that you saw here several hours ago, that is dispersed and know what you are seeing is just mopping up smaller groups and continuing to protest in downtown atlanta. those who are protesting peacefully, the police are allowing that to take place leaving them alone, rick. >> rick: at jonathan, any clue as to why the demonstrators would target a new na network ae headquarters of cn and? >> that seem so counterintuitive because if you look at their earlier civil rights movement, the old guard of the 1960s,
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they embraced media coverage. the media where there is a cover whatever happened incorporate it into our strategy and what can we do to get the media coverage knowing that that is the eyes and the ears of the nation. if so, you had protests such as those on the bridge. if peaceful, dignified, and that situation it was the police in alabama were being unruly and cracking down on them. here, obviously, a very different strategy where it's the protesters were being unruly and the protesters were being violent. and some of the more recent protests that have been, when i hear is the sentiment that we don't trust the mainstream media and we don't need the mainstream media because we have social media. we have facebook life, we have
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twitter, instagram. the problem with the strategy is if you're only relying on that as a protester, you are preaching to the choir. if you are broadcasting to asylum. we become so side load in the country that each side is yelling out that people who already support them. by that the protesters want to win over other people, some of the old guard civil rights leaders are trying to convince them this is not the way to do it. if andy young is one of them, a confidant of dr. martin luther king and workg as a attorney during the civil rights movement and later became the mayor of the great city and the united nations ambassador. he tweeted tonight that, and i don't have it in front of me, but the paraphrase, what happened tonight they essentially killed the message that they were trying to get o
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out. there are so many of the people and a few of them that are still around and participate in the civil rights movement of the 1960s who would love to take these young people under their wing and coach them if they would listen on how to be more effective getting their message across. >> rick: i appreciate that inside, jonathan, and i hope next hour to talk to you a bit about with tear gas. we appreciate your efforts on the street. >> we'll be happy to share, happy to share. >> rick: if we look forward to that and much more ahead in the ongoing coverage of the protests nationwide. so, stick with us. ♪ i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424.
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♪ >> rick: i'm rick leventhal in los angeles with ongoing coverage of the nationwide protest over the death of george floyd in minneapolis. turning out to jason nichols, professor of african-american studies at the university of maryland to university of maryland degree to jason, thank you for being with us i don't know if he heard corresponded jonathan serrie on the ground who talked about how the demonstrators are not winning the hearts and the minds of americans if they are trying
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to protest for a particular reason. obviously, that's the goal here to raise awareness of police brutality but the methods will not win the hearts and minds of americans. how do you feel about that? >> i think there are two different things going on here. if there is a nonviolent, peaceful protesters who were trying to raise awareness with their hearts and minds and then there are others who are performing acts out of catharsis and frustration. and anger. i understand both sides, to be honest with you. i'm not condoning anything that's being done, and as a matter of fact it hurts my heart as someone who has worked day and night every single day of my adult life has been devoted to improving race relations. it that's literally what i do for a living grade i've been doing it my entire adult life.
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if it hurts me to see this and the reason and hurts and it with your correspondent was saying well, talking about that you saw police brutality there and the thing that caused that was jimmy b jackson. when i was a child i remember april 29th, 1992 and i'm sure your nla your member that day very well as well. i remember 20 minutes from my house in maryland where i am right now, april 12th, 2015. it seems that we have seen the record over and over again and five years later it happens. and it's frustrating because when is america going to learn a lesson? when are we going to actually address the underlying issue? that cause the kind of explosions and destroy communities.
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and i agree with andrew young because i teach every semester in my intro course, you know, the four steps to a nonviolent campaign. because i believe it's a right that i give my students. they are four steps to a nonviolent campaign and the first thing that they say when they come up to me is collect and negotiate and direct action. >> rick: it i hate to stop you there, jason, but we have a hard to break your coming up and i'd like to bring you back next hour because i want to get into this with you and i want to reference in fact that this is not ending tonight and so we have plenty more coming up. these folks don't have time to go to the post office
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♪ >> rick: this is a fox news alert, i'm rick leventhal in los angeles. a curfew is now in effect in minneapolis following days of violent protests in response to the death of george floyd who died in police custody monday. if most people not observing and you police and protesters clashing there is the officers made some effort to clear the streets and fires are burning there tonight. if the pentagon has now put military police unnoticed and on the alert to head to minneapolis to help out the unrest in that major american city also spreading to other cities across the nation tonight including atlanta, new york, washington, d.c., denver, and here in los angeles.