over los angeles, near the grove brooklyn. but again, new york now joins shopping center, a fairly the list of large citiesfloyd, well-known area, commercial area, and certainly one of again, as we were talking, important commerce in the city of los angeles. that's where these crowds have gathered to confront police. congressman, not -- i see -- all this continuing protests of the death of george floyd in minneapolis. the protesters have been held at bay for the better part of half right. hour now, but as jonathan hunt we understand that the governor -- minnesota's governor has been reporting from the is about to speak, but again, ground, these things tend to get worse as night moves on. we're looking at protests let's go to jonathan hunt who is underway, prospect park in new live on the ground in los angeles right now. york city in brooklyn. jonathan? >> hi, jon. we are still in the middle of congressman, we're going to have to say good-bye. what is a very tense standoff at we appreciate your insights. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, jon. jon: in the meantime -- here's a well known outdoor mall, the grove. police choppers are overhead. what the police appear to be the minnesota governor. >> they didn't bring molotov doing is trying to split this cocktails. they brought brooms and they crowd.

there was one large crowd very brought shovels and they brought close to the grove. what police have done is get on wheel bare -- wheelbarrows to both sides of them, stopping them to move towards that well clean up for people that they known retail destination didn't even know but know they obviously for fear of looting are their neighbors. and the kind of damage that i can tell you you will see the might be done there, if they best of minnesotans rising. you will see opportunities for were to breach it. people to show the best of who they have got police on the other side of that crowd, which we are, and we simply ask for is stopping a second very large cooperation to help us re-establish order on our group, of around a thousand i streets, to make it clear that would say, joining up with them, so they are trying to split the the force that's been put on the ground is there for the long groups, and they've basically haul, that this is not a place moved police on to all the side streets now and on to the main where violence is in any way going to step on or dilute the thoroughfare, 3rd street and message that we've got work to blocking them getting there. do around racial injustices. there is a large number that i'm we have got work to do to bring standing right behind right now, justice for george. facing a line of police just please know that we will do everything we can to do that. i'm proud of the people who are with their hands up in protest. out there delivering that. you are going to hear from the there were some bottles thrown mayors of minneapolis and st. paul working closely and in about ten minutes ago when we the operation center making sure things are done the way they were on air with you, and the police made a sharp move forward need to be done for their

then, which sent a large number citizens. what i would like to do tonight is give you a little bit of the of the crowd scattering. it's calmed down again. overview of this, once again, now, it is peaceful for the present major john jensen, the moment, but jon, we have seen general of the minnesota already this afternoon several vehicles set on fire. national guard. one i was standing very close to jon: that's minnesota's governor up on beverly boulevard, which walz talking about plans to try is about half a mile from my to keep the city -- the city of current location, the police and minneapolis and really the fire department just seemed to entire state safe. i'm jon scott. have decided to let burn. we'll be right back with more other cars have been set on fire. the trucks have moved in, but "fox report" in just a moment. clearly we're in a tense standoff that's going to go on in our softest, smoothest fabric. for quite sometime this evening, she's confident, protected, her strength respected. i would imagine, jon? jon: we are seeing some movement, again, i know you are on the ground and it is tough to decipher what's going on. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you. we are seeing some movement of the crowd away from what appear to be the flashpoints or at least the police lines, but i don't suppose you have any w of knowing exactly what's going on. >> yeah, without -- if you can

standing is not moving one inch. there are of course some people just coming and going. but the crowd where i am, to give you a precise pinpoint, i'm currently on 3rd street and edinburg, just about a block and a half from the grove, and they are staying. they aren't going anywhere right now. jon? jon: all right, jonathan hunt keeping an eye on this very tense situation in los angeles right there at about west 3rd street outside the grove shopping -- outdoor shopping plaza. jonathan hunt, we will check in with you in a bit. thank you. >> sure. jon: mike tobin is in minneapolis where all of this trouble began, after the death of george floyd at the hands of police. mike? >> jon, i want to draw your attention to the boarded up door you see behind me. this is where last night shortly after night fall we watched looters just streaming in and out of that back door, carrying

anything they could get their hands on. ultimately we saw them come out of that back door, rolling a safe out the back door, and they came and banged away at it with whatever they could, with rocks. it looks like they loaded that safe up into a vehicle and got out of the area. but from this area, we got up on an overpass and watched at least three major fires. the atlas staffing building was burning. the wells fargo bank was burning. the post office was burning. the state patrol says they have arrested 95 people in the area last night. and the governor says some of the people they arrested were from arkansas, iowa, illinois, michigan, and missouri. he called them tightly controlled groups of outside agitators and because they are here, he's predicting things will get more ugly before they get better. >> the call will go out to join, and the call will be there to try and break the back of civil society and the people putting it forward. everything that we believe in, these people are trying to

destroy. so if you are on the streets tonight, it is very clear, you're not with us. >> and we're just about two hours away from the curfew going into effect. we saw last night the curfew wasn't -- wasn't enforced certainly at the early stages. ultimately things got ugly out here. law enforcement says they were out on the street. but as a witness, you didn't see much in the way of law enforcement presence. we're hearing from authorities today that it is because they were simply overwhelmed by so many rioters, arsonists and looters out on the street. jon? jon: mike tobin, thank you very much. president trump is facing backlash over his response to protesters in the wake of george floyd's death. earlier today the president praised the united states secret service for its handling of protests outside the white house last night. president trump also doubling down on his comments that the demonstrators are just causing

trouble and this has nothing to do with floyd's death. mark meredith live from the white house with an update for us. mark? >> good evening, jon. president trump is due back at the white house about abhour from now. -- an hour from now. he was down in florida to watch the space x launch earlier this afternoon. while he was down there, he had a chance to talk about the civil jon: add new york city to the list of cities that are seeing unrest that we're seeing in violence erupting after the death of george floyd in minneapolis and in cities across the country. here's a brief clip of what he minneapolis. bryan llenas is covering some had to say. trouble developing near prospect park in brooklyn, new york city. >> my administration will stop bryan? >> jon, just about ten minutes mob violence, and we'll stop it ago, a tense situation became cold. it does not serve the interest of justice or any citizen of any violent. people started attacking two race, color, or creed. nypd vehicles, and then the line >> as the president was in of police charged at the florida, we saw like in many other states, demonstrations protesters, and right now what you have is you have a line of outside the white house. the secret service keeping police right here and the demonstrators, though, further protesters on one side over away from the property. here. this is 17th and pennsylvania, if you take a look, they are now -- this is the situation from probably hour, hour and a half ago where you can see the right now. they charged the street about demonstrators holding signs and five minutes ago. climbing on top of police cars.

we did see a security vehicle tagged with graffiti. bottles have been flying towards it is unclear if any arrests police. mace has been used and pepper have been made. compare that to what we saw last spray has been used against the night, when at least six people were arrested after the secret protesters who turned into service says demonstrators threw rioters when they started attacking nypd van and the rocks, bottles, a number of vehicle. things at the agents that were the police came out with batons guarding the white house perimeter. you can see the video from last and started going after those night. secret service says none of the who were throwing things and who people under their protection, talking about the president and first lady were ever in danger. were attacking. but there were a number of they are trying to make this a secret service agent tas were less tense situation. they just moved a bus out of the hurt. street. -- agents that were hurt. as you can see, this is the line the president had criticized the right now. there are some people who are mayor of washington and the d.c. trying to diffuse the situation there, as you see the woman police department for their there, but all along, when we first got here, there was a response. the d.c. mayor said they were doing all they could and accused there was the police, the president of hiding behind face-to-face with each other. the fence. as for what will happen this afternoon, that's a good everything was fine up and until question. the president had a tweet this the crowd moved towards the two nypd vehicles and started morning, he said the jumping on them and throwing professional managed so called protesters at the white house things at them. at that moment, the police then had little to do with the memory of george floyd they were just there to cause trouble. the secret service handled them charged down bedford avenue, and easily. tonight is maga night, make

they started -- [inaudible] -- who they knew were throwing america great at the white house things. that's the situation we have tonight. the park right outside of the white house, facing the north lawn, where the fountain is, here. that's where they are. secret service right now has about 20 to 30 agents just they're trying to diffuse the completely guarding it. it is very interesting to see. situation right now. they have their guns ready just in case. it seems calm, but we will keep an eye on the situation throughout the evening. jon? we're trying to give you guys jon: so beautiful inside where you are and such ugliness some perspective here as how they are trying to deescalate outside. >> big difference. jon: mark, thank you. protests also taking place the situation. in washington, d.c. where a this woman right now is trying to deescalate the situation federal civil rights investigation is underway in the death of george floyd in right now. there are multiple people, though, that have been injured minneapolis. attorney general william barr has pledged that justice will be served. he's announcing the probe here. police had to come in. minutes after minnesota state prosecutors unveiled charges they were patient for as long as they could be, but then things against derek chauvin. turned when bottles started david spunt joins us from the flying and started attacking the two vehicles. justice department with the this is the situation we're in latest. >> jon, think of this building right now, jon. behind me the department of jon: yeah, we saw the live

justice headquarters as the hub images. for the investigation into the again, for our viewers this is death of george floyd. taking place right now live in even though there's a criminal brooklyn in the city of new investigation in minnesota, there is a civil rights one york, not far from prospect here. a lot of things flowing through park. we saw the live images earlier, this bidding behind me. -- building behind me. about 35, 40 minutes ago, we saw bryan, when the crowd was about a thousand people make attacking the police van and the their way down constitution avenue. some of those protesters that were outside of the white house police cruiser. that mark just mentioned that's what seemed to prompt the actually made their way down constitution. they seem to be going back and reaction by officers, and it forth. attorney general bill barr actually was at work today. appears that that is underway once again. officers are moving in on the he made a brief statement here at doj this afternoon, while he condoned peaceful protests across the country, he said the crowd. briyan llenas and our rioting taking place is photographer are moving out of unacceptable and made it clear there. again, just another city, new there will be consequences. york now added to minneapolis, added to chicago, added to los >> it is a federal crime to angeles, added to atlanta, added cross state lines or to use to denver, major cities across interstate facilities to incite the country right now seeing or participate in violent rioting. incredible violence, all and we will enforce those laws. purportedly to protest the death of george floyd in minneapolis.

>> so barr also announcing a civil rights investigation. authorities -- these are members yesterday we are told that of the new york police investigation is in coordination department now pushing the with the fbi. this is to see if george floyd crowds back after a police had any civil rights that were cruiser has been set on fire violated. it's being worked on by both there in brooklyn. again, these are live pictures those teams. the fbi headquarters, jon, is coming to you from the city of just across the street from where i'm standing. new york. again, just another one of the fox news obtained an internal cities seeing this kind of letter, a memo that fbi director violence erupting. we're going to listen for just a chris wray sent out to staff across the country. moment. you can hear how chaotic it is. i want to read part of it. he talked about the bureau's role in the civil rights investigation. quote, when we fail to honor their rights, we not only tarnish the badge we wear, we completely erode the trust of so many of us in law enforcement work so hard to build, particularly within the minority communities. the events this past week in -- [inaudible] -- by fellow officers. clearly that officer has been minneapolis clearly illustrate just how quickly that trust can hurt. we don't know how badly. be lost. again, jon, a dual but the chaos is continuing on investigation, a criminal investigation, a civil the streets of brooklyn. investigation being head by both bryan llenas is there. the attorney general, also the brian, perhaps you can fill us director of the fbi. in on what's transpired there. jon?

jon: david spunt, david, thank >> all of a sudden, jon, as i was speaking to you, a vehicle you. the city of denver enacting over here, a police cruiser was an 8:00 p.m. mountain time curfew tonight after protesters armed with rifles and explosives lit on fire, and the police then destroyed city buildings and had to move the line forward. private businesses. alicia acuna live in denver with what you just saw was an officer the latest. get hit in the head with a alicia? >> hi, jon, yeah, and looking bottle, from what i can see, and around the country, by our he fell to the ground. account, there were about 40 different protests and demonstrations taking place across the nation, and some of they had to pull him out. the destruction is just staggering. fist, we want to take you to los this started two blocks away. angeles -- first, we want to they were at a stand still. there are bottles flying from take you to los angeles, to show every direction, behind them and you something we have seen in really so many cities where the in front. the police right now are protests are taking place. that's the destruction of law enforcement vehicles. this is a cruiser from the lapd, completely surrounded by these but this is not unique in what protesters. you can now see an ambulance we are seeing in these protests. trying to come into the we are following this as it happens. now, to oakland, where the department of homeland security situation. is now calling the shooting death of a federal protective again, this is the situation -- officer in that city last night domestic terrorism. jon: we heard what i imagine was two federal security guards were shot outside the federal a police helicopter overhead. they are going to be taking high building in that city. resolution video, and they will authorities say they were

get a pretty good look at these targeted. in philadelphia what began as a people who are throwing the peaceful protest has developed into a scary situation there. rocks and bottles and, you know, cars being overturned and presumably some of these people could face charges down the torched near city hall. in denver, the the mayor is line, even though they think they are getting away with it expressing his frustration over tonight, they're going to have high resolution images of what's the destruction that's happening in his city saying in a news going on there on the ground, conference today that none of this has anything to do with and, you know, as jonathan hunt george floyd. he has issued a curfew beginning has noted from los angeles, things are heating up in los tonight for next two nights. and the governor has activated the national guard. angeles right now, and night hasn't fallen yet. that's when the cockroaches tend to come out, and these >> what does this mindless destruction achieve? protesters, if that's what you want to call them, that's when what justice is served by they tend to get emboldened. breaking windows at the library or city hall or the state >> i have the to tell you, capitol or the state supreme court building or on private jon -- >> night is falling in new york businesses in downtown denver, just beginning to come back to city. go ahead, bryan. life. >> we have been trying to follow >> and in detroit, a 19-year-old the protests all day. man was killed after someone in they have been largely peaceful here in new york city. this was the one hot spot that's an suv shot into a crowd. the detroit police chief says a majority of the people arrested last night were actually from for the last couple of hours. out of town. we have heard this over and over it was just an intersection with the last few days, this as about 150 to 200 protesters.

lawmakers acknowledge the real and it was a tense situation. sense of rage george floyd's murder has created. >> what we also know is that if they clearly wanted to get in front of the police. they wanted to agitate the i as a white american had walked police. this has been on the radar for into that store, with a $20 two hours -- i'm sorry, now the counterfeit bill, i would be alive today. maybe i would have been police are coming this way. arrested. but i'd still be alive, and we we're going to back up here, would have to recognize what happened to george floyd. >> and as the sun setting across jon. the country, jon, law enforcement is preparing for a this was a small group who had very long night. been in front of these police standing off for about a couple of hours before we got here, and jon? >> alicia acuna, thank you. when they attacked those two nypd vehicles, it was clear this became something different. i have to say of that group it minnesota's governor tim wasn't all of them. there are those agitators who walz fully mobilizing the national guard to help police in wanted to throw bottles and minneapolis try to control the started attacking the vehicles, violent protests. minnesota national guard's top and now everyone here -- they general says more than a wanted to start this. thousand additional guard they incited it. soldiers are joining those it has started. already mobilized earlier this police find themselves in a situation where they are trying week. to protect a vehicle that's on for more on all of this, we want fire as they bring in the fire

to bring in former special agent in charge at the atf and faculty departme associate at arizona state department. they are trying to take out the fire right now, at the same university's school of time, they are protecting the criminology and criminal first responders. >> back up! back up! back up! >> they're protecting these justice. you know that there are an awful lot of people upset in the first responders the best they nation right now, and they are, can. you know, taking it out on you can tell as they try to put out the fire of the nypd police and authorities. how do you get a handle on these protests without making the vehicle. jon: new york city police department has a great deal of experience if handling crowds situation worse? >> well, we have to understand like this and demonstrations the premise that at this point, like this. the causation is not social -- in handling crowds like this and demonstrations like this. and tolerance is generally not justice. this is mayhem, and it is rioting, and it is a form of part of the game plan, at least anarchy that has its forms in tolerance of violence. new york city police will tolerate a peaceful demonstration all day long, but social media in mobilization in when it starts breaking down a way to cause havoc for other into the burning of police cars purposes as we can see with the and the smashing of police deployment of people, the vehicles, they will respond, and insurrection of citizens that don't even come into the we've seen that -- we've seen communities that they are that tonight. affecting right now, they are you pointed out, bryan, earlier destroying. as leaders, we need to assume that the police were essentially

surrounded, but that doesn't total -- they need to come in necessarily mean that they have with authority, have the expectation of making arrests let the situation or that the and stopping people and deploying more resources than situation has gotten out of their control. >> yeah, that's a good point, they think they actually need. jon: so you're not one of those jon. i think what i meant was as the front line was moving forward, they had control of the who says let them blow off some situation. they have had control of the steam for a night or two and situation, but they've had to thing wills get better? -- things will get better? charge down the block as the >> history demonstrates this is a failed tactic. situation has developed, so the first block, the two vehicles it's failed in minneapolis in were attacked. the front line moved forwa this situation. jon: in cities across the country, i mean, stores are being looted. moving forward, and then the you get the impression that vehicle got turned on fire -- that's what these protesters, if lit on fire, and they had to you want to give them, you know, move down even further. at that point, for a moment, that much credit, that's what they found themselves in the they want. they want to be able to break middle of an intersection, and into a liquor store or break into a shoe store or jeans store you can see now, they are and strip the place bare. surrounded by people, and there are things that are flying from every which direction. >> it's absolutely imperative that's why right now it's a for our constitution and for as a democratic republic to have precarious situation in that sense. they're in control, but they're the expression and to make not in control of things that change, but change does not come are flying at them, from every at the hand of a brick or a fire which way. and so they're trying now to

move the front line, as you can bomb or a rifle or looting or tell, to make some room between them and the vehicles. assaulting people. change comes from protesting and making political changes and making voices heard and having jon: you can tell that, you the expectation of our civic know, these are -- these are leaders, our civil, municipal, probably some of the officers from the local precinct house. county, state and federal, and they don't have helmets, not all that's not what's happening right now. of them. they don't have face shields, we have anarchy. not all of them. jon: governors can call out the they just were probably, you national guard, and many have, know, on duty on this particular and the president can call out time in the precinct and got caught up in this, and you have military police, which he has done. he has at least mobilized to imagine that it's pretty nerve-wracking to be a cop there military police officers from right now, when people are throwing rocks and bottles. fort drum and elsewhere. we did see as bryan pointed out, it was done in los angeles the we saw that one officer go down, same order was used in 1992, and after he or she was apparently the president is ready to call hit in the head with some kind them in again. of a projectile. would you advise that he do so? >> i do. but at any rate, this is not, i was during those riots in 1992. it was an executive order from you know, a s.w.a.t. team. president bush that mobilized it is not a riot control team. all the federal law enforcement, these are, you know, your federal officers and the regular city precinct officers national guard to restore civil

who are trying to maintain hold order, quite simply to restore civil order. it didn't have anything to do on a situation that -- well, has with suppresses the expression e the potential to spiral out of control. bryan? >> yeah, that's right, jon. and i will say this, you know, and causing destruction of our when we first got here, i can't society. completely different. stress enough that these police an executive order for restoration of civil order would officers -- sorry, just probably be the best move at watching -- that was a fire this point. extinguisher was just thrown at jon: is there frustration tied police right now. to the coronavirus that you a fire extinguisher was just think is being vented here? thrown at police. i mean, people who may have lost that's unbelievable. again, there are people in the jobs or spent too much time crowd that have their hands up, sitting at home, is that part of clearly trying to show police the spark that's fuelling all that they are not the agitators. this trouble, or is it something but behind them is where the that's completely unrelated? >> i think sociologists will be projectiles are coming from. studying this for quite sometime. it's something we need to pay and that's where we saw the fire attention to. there's a change in our national extinguisher just now come culture here. towards police. again, i can't stress enough it is reflective of this one horrific event is igniting that this is one part of all the things beyond i think a cause protests that we have seen for social justice. today, but it was clear from two hours ago that the people that there is something suppressed were here, that there was a group here that wanted to that we have to pay attention to agitate and have a confrontation

and address as citizens, as with police. and that's what happened here, leaders, as neighbors, because when they started going after those two vehicles, and it has we can't have a powder keg in this country and have us be then since turned to this. it looks like at this point, successful as a free nation in the -- if you turn around, you the expression of rights if we can see the fire's out, the are going to convert to cruise vehicle, they have that expressing ourselves with situation under control. violence. jon: as you say, it takes only a you can tell -- if you just do a little turn, my photographer, you can see, what i mean that few of these mob agitators to they are surrounded in a circle get one of these violent mobs at the intersection here. you can see how they're all surrounded by people, yeah. really fired up. we thank you for your insights tonight. thanks. >> yes, sir.he ground team i guess we're going to have to see what the next move is, jon, coverage on the protests and riots spreading across the because at this point, at this point, like i said, i'm sorry, country ahead. how atlanta officials are looking to take back control of i'm just trying to listen to their city. what's going on around me. right now is a time for action. there are some in the that's why usaa is giving payment relief options to eligible members so they can pay for things like groceries jon: gather your thoughts and before they worry about their insurance or credit card bills. keep your eyes peeled for just a discover all the ways we're helping members today.

second. a guest of our program a little bit earlier, a former atf agent, says it doesn't take many agitators. he said they are professional agitators who can come in and motivate a crowd like this to violence. you have the response of this woman who appears to be in medical attire. she is trying to handle the crowd on her own. and hats off to her because she seems to be doing a great job of it. we have seen -- >> hey,. jon: , i see you are trying to calm people down. >> protest people don't give the officers a reason to arrest them, a reason to kill them.

enough is enough. protest peacefully. jon: we'll have to leave it there. we appreciate her message. brian we appreciate the world you do. reporter: unrest continues in real-time. protests are spreading to numerous american cities. welcome to our continuing coverage of the turmoil gripping the country after the death of george floyd. i'm bill hemmer in new york. we are at 8:00 on the east coast. this was the scene earlier in chicago where police and protesters have been clashing for hours. angry crowds make their presence known, some peacefully

jon: a hoard of thousands of protesters has descended on the grove shopping pavilion in los angeles. it is a huge not only shopping but also tourist destination. you can see the lines of police on the ground who are trying to keep the protesters away from that very important commercial center. anita vogel tells me the grove draws up to 18 million visitors

a year. it is many times outpacing disney land in terms of tourist visits and the dollars that are generated there are very important to an economy of a city like los angeles. jonathan hunt is on the ground there, in the thick of these protests and has the latest for us. jonathan? >> jon, we're involved in just what appears to be a basic standoff right now. i'm like about 200 yards from one of the edges of the grove. as you say, it is an iconic destination in los angeles. it is very close to my house. in fact, i was walking through the grove earlier today, this morning pretty early. all the stores were closed. it is a beautiful place to stroll around. it is really an icon of l.a. in terms of retail and tourism. that's why you are seeing the lines of police now all around it. it would obviously be a dreadful result for the grove itself and for so many of the people of

l.a., were that to be breached and obviously the fear would be that if the protester and there are thousands of them still on the streets, if they could do that, there could be looting and great deal of damage done in there. now we have a standoff. the police are basically on the corner of -- or across every single block surrounding the grove. the protesters are being split into groups. the police have done a good job in doing that, getting between large groups of them, so instead of one huge crowd of thousands, they have broken them down into a crowd where i am i would say about 500. it was around a thousand. what clearly the protesters appear to be doing from what i can see on the ground here is move around and try to find a weak point in these police lines and try to get through them. others are just standing facing the police, chanting the usual

chants we hear so often, chief among them black lives matter. it is a moment where i am is relatively peaceful. earlier we saw several cars set on fire. those fires from my position have gone out. i can tell you with the concern of greater violence when darkness falls, which is not necessarily going to happen, but as history tells us, it is what often does happen, i've seen a lot of police reinforcements coming in, just behind me, about 15 minutes ago, i saw a sight i have never seen in l.a. before, a black pickup truck with something like -- i didn't have time to count them all, but i would say 18 fully riot clad police officers not just standing in the bed of that truck, but hanging off the side, moving obviously into a position where they felt they were needed. so the lapd is moving more forces into this location as far as i can see, ready for what

might happen next. as i say, for the moment, jon, this remains a peaceful, albeit very tense standoff. jon? jon: and we have just as you have been talking, we have just seen exactly the kind of thing you were talking about, a line of police officers just moved in to cordon off the intersection there by the shell station, where one of those vehicles burned earlier. you can see there is still traffic out on the street, probably people, you know, i don't know, maybe they want to go shopping at the grove. but there is traffic on the street. you know that they have to be mystified and perhaps a little bit terrified at what's going on there and what's normally a lovely and peaceful part of los angeles. go ahead, jonathan >> i'm standing in the middle of 3rd street now which is usually an extremely heavily trafficked street leading directly to the

grove, and there are a lot of people coming up behind to where -- i'm right on the line with the protesters here. a lot of people are driving up. i think some are coming just to try to take a look, their curiosity. as you say, some are just driving into this, and the looks on their faces of sheer fear and concern when they see these lines of protesters and so many police officers out here, and i have to say, some of them turn so quickly, try to do a u-turn in the middle of the road, that you worry for the people on the streets here, because obviously it is a concern. if you get somebody driving along through this and just getting panicked, then bad things can happen. that is another concern. but i think the police are trying to get a ring around this entire area now and keep -- and keep the traffic away, but at the same time, in a city like l.a., you can't shut down every street over miles and miles

because they cannot function. we have the public transport system that new york obviously enjoys here, so it is a difficult situation. you do worry about innocent members of the public getting caught up in here. now it appears the police are making a move towards me again. people are running right past me here. the line seems to have held. there is a line of protesters who are just standing there, hands in the air. while there was obviously some sort of move by the line of riot police, it appears -- both sides appears to have just held their line for now. but clearly, we're going to have these kind of skirmishes going on and on. and the hope of course among everybody is that it does not become more violent. it remains perhaps these skirmishes and then everybody

dissipates and goes home. that is a hope. it is certainly at the moment, jon, very far from the reality. jon: jonathan, we lost that chopper shot of your location in los angeles. i'm guessing the chopper had to go back to refuel. that's why we lost the shot. at any rate, we are looking now live in chicago where, yes, there is violence taking place. it's against property as far as we can tell. some agitators were smashing the window of a van on the streets. but bad situation developing in chicago as well just before 6:30 in the evening. these protests are developing across the country, including in atlanta. jonathan serrie joins us now with more. jonathan? >> hi, jon. things have gotten tense very quickly this evening, even though the crowds are somewhat

smaller, considerably smaller than they were during the brunt of things last night. already we have been seeing some protesters hurling water bottles at the police. the police firing tear gas, making several arrests. we saw one protester tased and then subdued and brought into custody. so as you can see, a very tense standoff here in the heart of downtown atlanta at the intersection of centennial olympic park drive and marietta street. with this strong police presence, city officials are trying to create a very different scene from last night. they're trying to avoid the looting that they experienced overnight. i have some video to show you from last night. protesters in atlanta, police cruisers were on fire, broke windows and college football hall of fame, omni hotel and shattered the windows of fast-food establishments and

small businesses downtown. the atlanta mayor condemned the violence and destruction and said last night's protests were not in the spirit of atlanta's civil rights legacy. take a listen. >> you are disgracing our city. you are disgracing the life of george floyd and every other person who has been killed in this country. >> and if we could come back to our live shot right now, i want to show you these national guard vehicles. governor brian kemp has signed an executive order authorizing as many as 1500 national guard troops to deploy throughout the city in an attempt to remain order and address hot spots of illegal activity. back to you, jon. jon: jonathan serrie from atlanta, thank you. we have seen it in los angeles, in atlanta, and in chicago as well. more team coverage on the protests over the death of george floyd and the riots

underway around the country as you look at minneapolis. that's ahead.

jon: minnesota activating all national guard troops in minneapolis tonight. i'm jon scott. this is a special edition of "the fox report". it is the bottom of the hour. that city rocked by riots after the death of george floyd, the unarmed black man who died after a white police officer put his

knee on floyd's neck for more than eight minutes. the officer has since been fired and is now charged with third degree murder as well as manslaughter. let's bring in minnesota congressman, a chairman of the national republican congressional committee. congressman, how do you get a handle on the riots and the violence that's racking minneapolis? >>nd order and the tragedy of george floyd that we saw earlier this week quite frankly our governor should have deployed the national guard immediately and should have been taking steps to protect the city right from the get-go. instead, they waited. what was to be a peaceful protest, which we celebrate in this country, has turned into something much different. very unfortunate. i should say i'm very proud of our president for making this case the number one investigation at the department of justice for george floyd because that's what we should be

talking about. people should be held accountable. we need the facts. instead we saw the incompetence of the mayor of minneapolis as he let the city burn and abandoned the third precinct, which i would argue has emboldened these actions all across the country. the governor allowed this city to burn for two days before he deployed a portion of the national guard after midnight yesterday, and look, it didn't work last night. they put an 8:00 p.m. curfew in. the city continues to burn. and now tonight, the question is, you've deployed this morning finally 2500 national guard troops. we've got major general john jensen and his soldiers are going to be on the streets tonight. there is a question, will they be able to restore law and order? because once people go from peaceful protests to breaking

windows, looting stores, destroying public property, committing acts of violence, they are no longer protesters. they are criminals, and they must be dealt with to the full extent of the law. jpz jon: yeah, these appear to be bad actors who just want to destroy things and maybe enrich themselves at the same time. you know, breaking into stores and walking off with tv sets and bottles of whiskey. do you have the officers who can make arrests in situations like that? or, you know, is there just too much mayhem? >> it's been growing. again, obviously it's a failure of leadership. when the governor waited and did not call out the national guard, when the mayor of the city of minneapolis literally withdrew the police presence from the third precinct and allowed the precinct to be burnt to the ground, it emboldened not only the people that were here but it brought more in. now they are going to have to

deal with a much larger presence, and it is going to be a problem tonight, but hopefully, hopefully, the men and women of our national guard are going to be able to bring this under control. the other thing, jon, that some have to question is, the president has offered to send in military police. he's got them on the ready. they're ready to go. our governor has not requested it. jon: i wanted to mention, congressman, while we're talking to you, we are looking at a situation right now in new york city, where, again, violence is erupting. we saw protesters beating on a police van, which had already been spray-painted with graffiti. now some of these protesters are running from the officers and being taken down and arrested in the middle of the streets. these are live in