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bill de blasio acting a citywide curfew that will extend from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. and president trump is under fire and using extreme tactics to disperse white house protesters stressed moments before walking at a nearby church. accusing the president of fanning the flames of discord. >> we hope that so many presidents want to be a healer and chiefs, not a fan or of the flames. >> donald trump has combined george wallace with richard nixon. >> using teargas and flash grenades as a photo op of one of the most historic churches in the country or at least in washington, d.c. we can be forgiven for believing the president is more interested in power than in principle.

>> juan: dana, let me start with you and deal with the controversy, do you think it is good -- what's good for the president to order teargas, rubber bullets to move peaceful american demonstrators out of lafayette park for the photo op? >> dana: let's be clear on the question of the teargas, issuing a statement earlier today, and just before we went on air, teargas is not used, how they want to be clear on that. there are many people with cameras that filmed everything. riding a firsthand account, and i feel like the idea to go to the church was a good one, but a good idea that was not well executed can turn into the story. and i think that it was a little bit more time and care they could've cleared the area in a way that did not feel like it

was there before the curfew, that was one of your loved ones, you would be upset by it. and the australian ambassador has reached out asking the president to speak out about how the reporters from australia were treated and what they went through, but teargas is not used, and there will probably be earrings about this. capitol hill is already doing that. nancy pelosi claimed that the president used a bible in a photo up and then she used a bible in a photo op at the exact same time, and i think people that read the bible, believe in the bible, rely on it for spiritual sustenance, nobody wants it to used as a photo op. i don't think people intended to use it as a photo up, i think that the president was trying to show resilience that america is not going to be taken over by people who would set fire to stk that it is a great idea to go to

the church, but not executed well, the execution of all of that was the story today when we should really and i know we will talk about the actual horrible destruction of america's great cities. especially new york city. >> juan: jesse, just picking up on what dana was talking about with the bible and the churches, the president is not a regular churchgoer as he spends many sundays playing golf, but in the last two days he has gone to st. john's, an episcopalian church and to the shrine, a catholic church in washington in the last two days, two trips to churches, what is he trying to do? what is he trying to show? >> jesse: maybe he found god all of a sudden, but i know if president barack obama had cleared a block of tea party protesters who just set fire to a church a block from the white house the night before and held the bible up, the

mainstream media would have canceled the election and crown him king, the media is sour now because they were forced to shoot a photo op of the president of the united states demonstrating that he is not going to be intimidated by criminals. it was a powerful moment for the country and they are better that they had to fill meant, because it deals a big blow to their lawless slide. i think de blasio should do the exact same photo up every single block of manhattan and clear out all of these criminals block by block and have the media shoot it. that's what everybody wants. that's what the country once. now you are saying these were peaceful protesters, you mean the same ones that lit the church on fire last night? the same protesters that smashed all these windows all over washington?

the same protesters that threw a bottle at the attorney general an hour before? dana mentions the park police, he said that they found stashed baseball bats and glass bottles, and they warned them three times to disperse, because curfew was around the corner. they didn't, they continue to throw bottles, so they threw some smoke bombs out and push them back, wow. armageddon, really? this is what we are talking about. this is a church next to the white house that needs to be protected. it is sacred ground. if the people had not been pushed back one block, they would have been throwing bottles at the president of the united states. is that what everybody wants? you trust this mob, juan? this burn the whole country down, that has eluded the whole country, that set fire to a church, you trust them to be within a block of the president? i don't.

i don't trust these people at all. they have shown no ability to be trusted, killing cops now. punching people in the face for no reason. they are trying to protest violence against an innocent man, and yet today are committing violence on innocent men and women. it's disgusting, the country has had enough of it, and the fake scandal is just another frame job of the president while the rest of the country agrees with everything he did. >> juan: greg, the president is also being criticized for saying that he would deploy the military against some of the protesters and possibly some of the violent protesters that jesse is referring to, but i just think, gosh, the founding fathers were quite clear, the bill of rights is quite clear about using the military in a domestic capacity. you can see it in the bill of rights. i was wondering what you as a libertarian think about this?

>> greg: when the government and the local government advocates their responsibility in protecting their citizens, you either have the military or the citizens where the second amendment will have to do it themselves. and that's what we are getting towards. what is ironic about the whole situation is that to this is the virus, it was never covid. think about it. it is everywhere. the government can't stop it. it is infecting mines. and it has created a crazed state of violent ecstasy. there is a myth that anger is driving this, there was no anger on the faces of the looters and my neighborhood on sunday night. they were having a blast, and the unspoken truth about all of this is that it is fun. you are going out in an organized fashion and beating the out of people, you are are taking stuff, this is not about george floyd, this is about "28

days later" if this is about to "the dawn of the dead," this is an amazing game show calling it "loot" and they can just grab as much as they want as possible and as long as you don't see the victims because of the conventional news media not showing you the victims, then you think it is a great idea. they are just taking free stuff. and what cuomo and de blasio were doing was pretending that the victims don't exist and then it is just a bunch of protesters being pure aghast. saying no to the national guard, we are done with embracing a curfew without military force, it does not mean anything. they are laughing at him. this is never going to end. i will tell you why. if the other cops aren't charged, another round of riots. if they are arrested and let off, another round of riots. if the bad cop gets charged and only gets a number of years, another round of riots, the

system is designed to accept to the purge. we are stuck in a dystopian deja vu. we are stuck on repeat of just repulsive reprehensible activity, and we can't do this, because it is no longer a means to the end. we are actually at the end. we are at the end. america is being read-pilled. this is a literal coup that we are watching, and nobody, cuomo, de blasio, they can't do jack because they are on the same side. >> juan: tim scott, senator, republican was critical. ben sasse, nebraska senator said that the president's language should be about trying to lower the temperature and he thought the use of some of these troops, et cetera, and the threat of them was raising the temperature, what do you think? >> dagen: it is a threat of

troops coming into greg's point, the local leaders, the mayors and governors don't get a handle on this violence, and that's what it is. it is looting. it is theft. it is destruction. if they don't get their hands around it and stop it tonight, the people of this country will demand federal intervention. they will demand for the new york, you cannot defend yourself. i can defend myself from a virus by keeping away from people and staying in my apartment and wearing a mask, may be washing my hands, but when i go in the street at 3:00 in the morning to come to work, i have no way of defending myself. and they will demand government intervention. the people of this country if this is not stopped. and in terms of governor cuomo and to de blasio being on the same side, governor cuomo through the mayor under the bus threatening to remove him, and blaming him and the police of new york for not stopping this.

just one more thing, and the next time the senator from new york, senior senator chuck schumer or nancy pelosi or any of the liberal left open their mouth, i went to hear a loud unwavering condemnation of these people who are robbing small businesses and destroying jobs and decimating this economy. i want to hear condemnation from everybody rather than oh, look at trump, because that's all you get. >> juan: all right, coming up next, here greg's take, it is one of a kind on the coverage of the looting and the riot, next on "the five." ♪ into a smaller life? are your asthma treatments just not enough? then see what could open up for you with fasenra. it is not a steroid or inhaler.

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>> greg: another night of looting, and what is the media's priority? >> he calls them thugs, who is the thug here? hiding in a bunker? hiding behind a suit? >> we are teetering on a dictatorship? >> is the president declaring war? speak of the president had been saying incendiary things, certainly if you had been listening with any kind of open-mindedness, certainly not helpful things. >> all about calling on authorities to crack's goals and the protest, it's not something you see in the united states of america, it's something you see in an authoritarian country. >> greg: amazing. meanwhile "the new york times" headline reads america's protest won't stop until police brutality does. meaning that this could go on forever. one of their scribes chides mayor de blasio for being too pro-police. meanwhile the city earns and stores are alluded, cops are beaten, and people are beaten

too. at the new york media by sticking to their narrative that we deserve the punishment reject protecting the citizens, and mock the need for military intervention. we have spouses who work at night, when the leaders believe the mayhem is inevitable and perhaps necessary, to protect us now. still people blame trump. i watch the streets of my home destroyed. it was not trump, it was criminals that knew that the light touch of important leaders calls for ruin. how is it trump's fault that aid cop killed a defense this man and a liberal town. held by liberal politicians. it's not. it's wild when you say everybody is in agreement over mr. floyd including trump, that is not enough. which tells you that they want no end to the violence. they want to burn it all down. they the radicals in the street in faculty lounges in the government coming in the minority keepers are playing dumb at paying the price that

the minority owners of restaurants are paying the price. minority is always paid the price. the only people who are not paying the price are the media. they wax poetic and they break it in, they hope if they feed the crocodile enough as churchill once said, it will eat them last, it will, and then it will get food poisoning. >> greg: so dana, i can't honestly even focus anymore on this. they were throwing hammers at my residential windows because they can't steal anything anymore. and yet we have -- we have leaders who are more upset, the media is more upset about president trump's tweets than the fact that people are getting beaten. i don't get it. >> dana: the media and also ways in selecting the local and

state officials in some places. for example in new york it is hard to imagine that they seem to be more concerned about the lawless then for the people who actually obey the law. the taxpayers. i think of all the people that worked really hard and try to do the right thing, that's the majority of people. then they did the lockdown, they lost their businesses, they lost their livelihoods, probably many lost their savings and their hope in their dreams, and it is -- i'm sorry that you are depressed, because it is hard for everybody who is a fan of yours, greg, to see you like this, but we know that it is from the heart and you are witnessing something that feels like the city in the nation is fighting for its life, and we need help in order to win this fight, i believe that we will and we will come out stronger, i also -- if i can just mention two things, one, the notion that the president was hiding in the bunker, i just want to be very

clear, no president asks to go down to the bunker. that is a secret service decision, they come and they tell you, sir, you are going to the bunker. they actually had to carry dick cheney to the bunker, because he did not want to go after 9/11. so i hope that the media up saying that the president was hiding. that was not his choice. the secret service is in charge, and the other thing that the media mentions, michelle goldberg calling us at "the new york times," and i read her because i like the perspective, and the headline is that she thinks de blasio should resign, left, left-wing columnist, and i thought we are on the same page, and then i realized, oh, no, she wants him to resign because he is not progressive enough, because he is cited too often with the police. if you saw on the daily briefing, one of the police officers who went after

governor cuomo saying you have no idea what it is like to be us, we do not feel supported by the luger leadership. i will leave it there. >> juan: you know, you are in d.c. during 9/11, maybe you were in new york, i was in new york, and it seems like this is so much worse because it is dozens and dozens of cities and us versus the terrorists, but now that terrorists are us and we can't do anything, because they have hijacked a movement, and they can expel them, that's why we are eating ourselves alive, and while the politicians are so flaccid on thi >> juan: that's n interesting perspective, we lost a lot of lives in 9/11 so far, think out in terms of the protest here, it has been nothing comparable to it but i wanted to join with you in

saying i want to unequivocally condemn the violence. i think it is counterproductive even for those of us who are seeking some kind of positive social change in terms of reckoning and calling for accountability in police brutality. to dr. king, so many others have spoken out about how that kind of violence does what you said. it allows critics hijack virtual movement and derail it, because he can't build coalitions on that basis. at the same time, greg. i want to make sure that there are penalties for people who break the law as protesters, and people break the law in terms of brutal tactics. i want to make sure that there are equal treatments all the way around. because to me we have in this country systemic racism, and i know that people do not want to deal with it or acknowledge it,

they want to get back to normal and say, how can we deal with that, how long will it take to correct, but we need to do it. we can both agree that it is harder to be a black man in america then it is to be a white man in america, and we need to confront this, because it is contrary to our ideals about equality. >> greg: it depends what black man you are talking about, but i agree that there is racism. to the problem is, and like you said, we all agree on it, it does not stop the violence. it is like, okay, we want to help you, what can we do? and then the violence still occurs. there is another aspect of this that is way bigger than race about undoing society. jesse, what are your thoughts? >> jesse: one of the ways you can punish police, they have union rules. these are police unions.

the unions have devised the systems, so a police officer can have 30 complaints against them in a couple of years, and he gets no discipline. that's on something that the unions can figure out how to do. and on the point that you just made about they can't expel these criminals and domestic terrorists from this movement, one way to do it is take a breather on the protests. they had a week, it has been hijacked, nobody is talking about george floyd anymore, everyone is talking about the reckless violence and property destruction. if you sit down, the rest of the looters and the criminals won't have you as the cover to perpetrate crimes against the country. that is just a suggestion. in terms of the media, i have never seen so many peaceful protesters commit so much violence. how many excuses does the media have to make for the use acts of violence! this is like the guy who says oh, my girlfriend only cheats on

me when she is drunk. and he says that time and time again. just break up with her. and the other point is this, bill de blasio, he can do something about this, juan condemned it, so did bill de blasio, he runs the police force. to tell them the police crackdown and then we can have enough of it. because i want you to be in a better mood, greg. >> greg: it's hard. i was going to ask dagan if she wants to buy an apartment in a really quiet neighborhood? >> dagen: you are trying to be funny and i love you, but you know what, there is no telling how much the price of that apartment is going to collapse with what has gone on in terms of the lock down in the city. half of the restaurants probably will never come back in the destruction of jobs in leisure, hospitality, and all of the looting that has gone on, you

will see unemployment that could be upward of 30 percent for a very long time. but one really quick thing in terms i wanted to mention, governor cuomo can do something rather than laying the hammer down on bill de blasio and the police force that is call out the national guard with their 13,000, in said he likes to talk and not act, meanwhile new york burns. >> greg: coming up next, police coming under attack in several cities. ♪

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four police officers shot in st. louis. not life-threatening. anna new york two officers were targeted, one pummeled in one rush to the hospital after getting hit by a car. i mean, there goes the violent trump supporters, juan. >> juan: there is no excuse. there is no way that anybody should be allowed to assault a police officer. it is wrong. and as i said before to you, jesse, it is counterproductive for people who are seeking general social change at this moment in american life. but it is also the case and you hear from conservatives they say, wait a second, when the cops misbehave it is just a few bad apples, but look, if you have millions of people on the street in many cities in america, maybe there are a few bad apples among these millions of demonstrators, and i think the logic has to go both ways. if it does not, then invite

george wallace 1960s type rhetoric or use of force that i think it's going to exacerbate a very difficult situation and make it all the more dangerous. >> jesse: not to be funny, that is apples and oranges, juan. i don't have time to get into it. greg, these liberal mayors are letting these guys run wild and you attacked the police, they don't want to do anything about it. if they were trump supporters, you could be sure there would be a major crackdown. >> greg: i remember the good old days when we were outraged over throwing water at cops. but the fact is if you attacked police officers that means that you are more willing to attack civilians and that's why it is not just a symbol but a warning of the intensity of the recklessness. we demonize police even as shootings have declined dramatically over decades. it has been amazing. there've been hiring programs

and diversity classes, but we demonize them even as they give their lives protecting minority cities. it -- law enforcement has gotten better and has reduced a systemic racism which is what drives me crazy when people bring up systemic racism because we know that there will always be dad. as long as you keep using that as the cudgel, then we will always have riots, because he will say that it will never be perfect, and juan did get at a good point, the defenders say that there are a few bad apples in terms of violence, but a lot of them reject the argument with cops and smear the entire force with the bad apples. so in reality in the protests, there is a lot more bad apples than there are on the police force. >> jesse: dagan mcdowell, what are your thoughts? >> in places like new york, criminals are not criminals and crime is not a crime, you don't

put anything up for anything other than something violent. so a lot of people arrested over the last few days if they got arrested, they are probably already out on the streets, the job is thankless and people do not have the backs of police officers, and i think americans are going to get to see in short order what it is like when the cops just aren't there. >> jesse: dana, we are looking at live shots of new york city, looks like a large crowds are there, not a lot of social distancing, the media does not care about that anymore. what a week it has been. >> dana: one of the things i heard from congressman kinzinger, part of the national guard, he said one of the things that the national guard can do is they can do things like man a barricade so that the police who know their community as well can go and do the actual dynamic policing that needs to be done. so as we have the discussion about the national guard coming

out, think about that. that could help the police do more as the military could actually help on things that they don't need to be doing if they have extra manpower. >> jesse: that's an interesting point, the unrest in america, we will talk about that next. ♪ i am robert strickler.

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this, i won't trap fear and division, i won't fan the flames of hate, i will seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued our country, not to use them for political again. i will do my job and take responsibility. i won't blame others. >> dana: i have been thinking about how joe biden delivering the message, interesting as he has been in office since the 1970s and wants to return and then there will be change. >> dagen: he is going to according to george floyd, his family, the vice president will be going to the funeral next week that i believe is scheduled for tuesday. so expect to -- this is what the former vice president is talking about here, but in terms of the wound, he is going to need to broaden his message to all

americans. people who have actually been hurt, their livelihoods damaged by these violent criminals who were robbing city after city after city. he needs to speak to the whole nation, and he is going to start to have to be a little bit more vociferous about stopping the violence. >> dana: juan, what about the president pushing back against joe biden portraying him as an ally of this lawlessness and of the looters and not standing up for a law and order as he would? >> juan: i must say, i find it, it is so political, dana, on president trump's part, because what i thought today from the former vice president was a strong speech and strong i say because it had so much passion about -- and sympathy, empathy for what is going on in the

country and a sense that we need to come together as an american community and speak to american values that we believe in equality and we believe that people have liberties and those liberties should not be infringed upon even if we are suspect. so i thought, boy, he is giving a very strong speech here, and i must tell you, something struck me, i love hearing him say that america as we know it was built by a strong middle class and again, not by wall street, but by people, essential workers to go out and do jobs every day, and that includes a lot of working-class people who want to be treated fairly by the authorities. and in a moment when you see people getting upset and depressed, they are anxious inducing times, anxiety inducing times, i just think to hear that kind of talk about us as an american community was very

important, very important, and fills a vacuum. >> dana: both candidates are going to define the other, even though we are in the middle of twin crisis of a pandemic and now this. so i don't know if joe biden was just speaking about unity, but he was drawing a contrast in trying to compare himself to president trump. >> jesse: joe biden did not write that speech. if he did, he plagiarized it. at best, he read it. i thought it was sleep bsn. he does not stoke fear and division, okay, you ain't black, they are going to put you in chains, this is joe biden. he has been in washington his whole life, what has he ever done on this issue? nothing, he does nothing on bring in the country together. the country was torn apart under the obama-biden presidency. all he did was point fingers. now he is siding with a movement that includes writers, looters,

and domestic terrorists. he is siding with democratic mayors who cannot keep their country or their city safe. i'm not listening to joe biden for leadership right now, and no one else is, because nobody watched his speech. >> dana: greg, the president is talking about law and order, a message quite reminiscent of 2019 where he said he will be the president that protects you from internal and external threats, will that be the message in the rest of the election? >> greg: i think the way that you combat somebody like biden is you know that someone has no ideas, practical ideas when you ask him a question, what can we do, and they go -- we need to address the long standings problems of systemic racism. and we say we are doing this right now, and we have statistics that we are making progress over addressing systemic racism of the past, what we are asking you is what can we do right now when there

are mobs destroying our buildings and beating up innocent people and attacking police officers and setting fires to stores and trying to attack america, what can you do about that and he comes back and says we need to address the systemic racism, or some overarching thing that is useless, you need somebody who has practical solutions says if there is looting, you have checkpoints at the tunnels, at the bridges. and when a car passes and you see that there is a loot in the car, that person is photographed and publicized, so they don't get a job or they lose their job. you search in the city, out of the city. practical solutions, sending in the national guard to help police the streets, because that works. those are practical solutions, not like i'm going to come here and heal the nation, no, you aren't. you can barely pick your socks out in the morning.

>> dana: i saw this protester in california holding up a sign that said do something. all right. okay. coming up, tucker carlson blasting leaders in charge over the riots in america. >> you do not protect them, or worse than that if you seem like you cannot be bothered to protect them, then you are done. it is over. people will not forgive weakne weakness. >> dana: you will hear more about that up next. ♪

>> dagen: sell attorneys for the family of george floyd are speaking right now along with his daughter. let's listen. >> my brother and daughter have to live without him. this is why i am here. i am through crying. i'm ready to fight. i'm ready to stand for my brother. i'm ready to get justice for my brother. that's why i am here. >> dagen: that was the attorneys for the family of george floyd speaking again, the funeral scheduled for next week. let's move on to tucker carlson taking aim at the president last night criticizing what he is

calling the trump administration's lack of leadership as looting and riots continue to rage across the country. take a look. >> when the mobs came, they abandoned us. what about the president? where is he during all of this? the first requirement of leadership is that you watch over the people in your care. if you do not protect them, or worse than that, if you seem like you can't be bothered to protect them, then you are done. it's over. people will not forgive weakness. nero is the only roman emperor who people mostly remember, why? because he abandon his nation in a time of crisis, and 2,000 years later we still don't forgive him. >> dagen: greg, people are going to hang their hat on those comments about trump, but nobody in leadership was left unfettered by tucker. >> greg: that was the 25 minute monologue, and probably

his finest work as a showman or anger, and he proves how wrong everyone is about whose side he is on. he is a true patriot, which allows him to say anything about everyone. and he described the word state of the societal protections, and how we are destroyed within and where that came from, and i urge left, right, center, you name it, to watch it whether you like tucker or not, you will come away with knowledge. >> dagen: dana. >> dana: my husband and i watched it in full last night, and it was one of those -- usually i'm multitasking and doing other things while i'm watching tv, but we sat and watched the entire thing. i have known tucker since the late 1990s, and i knew him first as a magazine writer, and he i think was probably one of the best writers of our time, but those were long form. to be a great writer, you have

to be a great thinker and you have to have great care. and you have to make arguments and be persuasive. at the end of the monologue i had to send him a text, and greg i said the same thing, it's probably your finest work. >> dagen: i watched it a few times, and i just wrote down quotes from it. "violence and looting are not forms of political expression," that was one of my takeaways and "people need to stop the race-baiting." >> jesse: i thought his finest work was on "dancing with the stars," but this was a close second. i will give him that. [laughter] politicians can't shut down businesses and let them burn. you just can't do that in this country. the country has been through so much to have this happen now when we are coming up after a pandemic, it is just atrocious. there is a total leadership vacuum in this country, everyone is pandering, because everybody thinks, okay, it's not going to come for me.

they came for the cnn headquarters, they came for the afl caa headquarters, they came for nike after nike kissed their you know what, and they are coming for everybody because they are quarantined in their states in the hamptons while they are outside the city and it is all going down. it is really reckless to breathe into the fire and, you know, everybody is to blame. but i think that finally we are getting it under control. >> dagen: and juan, for one thing tucker did at a long part at the beginning of the monologue was touch on the personal stories of people whose businesses had been limited to, damage, people who were injured, it is those people that leadersd politicians and marana coal chatterbox is on television gloss over and forget, that was my take away. he made it a reminder of people

and the devastation. >> juan: i agree with him about safety and protection being an essential part of government. so you have to hold our leaders responsible. i don't think that it should be an invitation for again abusing citizens or taking us into some kind of lockdown situation where we have the curfews and the like. i worry about that. i do think that you have to maintain the peace, but you can't use that as a reason to be in different to the heart of the problem. george floyd, and the notion of police brutality. that's why you had millions of people across the nation even across the world standing in solidarity and saying we have a problem here. let's address it. and it took to my mind, it is so important to also note that we did not show it, but tucker went after jared kushner. and again, you think to

yourself, well, if he says jared kushner is talking down to trump supporters, who put jared kushner in any position of power? it is president trump. >> dagen: we have exactly 3 minutes left, the monologue was what you said 25 minutes at least that, so we did not have any time to play all of it. let's go to lower angle on the protesters in new york city. laura. >> we are on the upper east side right now, we have protests that have been going on for hours all day throughout manhattan, coming to a conclusion on the upper east side. even though you would not know to look at it. the protesters have blocked off alvin whose dominant avenues and streets so far, we are on east 89th street, it has been a peaceful protest, we have been following them all day long as you heard, 8:00 p.m. curfew

tonight in new york city, so in theory these thousands of people are going to have to get out of new york city in the next littl. and we talked to police about the new curfew and the timing being moved back, they thought last night that the curfew worked to a degree, because they did to get an increase of arrest overnight, we will have to see what happens, of course, but this is a scene on the upper east side, this is a very large demonstration and rally that has gone on for hours in the city and we wait for nightfall, one more night to see

sometimes you wonder what is going on between de blasio and cuomo, what is your final

thoughts? i'm sorry, we are out of time. >> jesse: take down the streets block by block. >> juan: this time it is for real, "special report" is up next. hey, bret baier. >> bret: good evening, i am bret baier, america holding its breath as we speak, hoping the violence gripping many cities will subside. but once again the country is bracing for another night of rioting, looting, and mayhem. starting of course with many peaceful protests, but many cases devolving into chaos late into the night. many other cities saw unrest, and a tax on police. and how things got under control in many places, and law enforcement was a target. we want to warn you that some of