for a deep hygienic clean you can see and feel. cascade + the power of oxi. the #1 recommended brand in north america. >> shannon: new charges in the death of george floyd. tonight the officer who knelt on floyd's neck now facing a second-degree murder charge. three other officers facing felony charges as well. protests continue across the country tonight. in some cases long past curfew put in place in several american cities buried hours after curfew kicked in in new york city, police began mass arrests of those who refused to go home. we are going to take you there life. also tonight, the president 'spurs defense secretary james mattis silent no more, leveling criticism of the commander-in-chief calling him a threat to the constitution and as you might expect, the president is firing back tonig tonight. coming up. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night," i'm shannon bream in washington.

we begin the midnight hour here on the east coast with jeff paul out in los angeles on the west coast, good evening, jeff. >> yeah, shannon, it is now 9:00 here in los angeles. that's when curfew goes into effect. especially right here in downtown where there have been just a little while ago thousands and thousands of protesters. this is what's left at the moment. there are still a couple dozen people out here emma but many look like they're starting to make their way home. but standing by in case may be they're going to act on it, you can see the police are out here right now and then further down there there's the sheriff deputies, so i try talking with one of them to see exactly what they're going to do, but they haven't said anything yet. earlier in the day, a very peaceful and thoughtful protest, tens of thousands -- probably about 10,000 people were out protesting and it really was may be the first they got a chance without some of the other distractions happening like the looting to really show what this

causes about, about black lives matter and about honoring the lives of people like george floyd. talked to a few of them coming here so they had to say. >> i think that you know, the police have been doing a bad thing for a long, long time. there's been a lot of action that's needed to happen and nothing has gotten better and i'm just out there to support my black community as best as i can. >> we are here to support them. we stand by them and we are here peacefully by their side. >> take a look at this video, it's pretty alarming and it's incredible that no one was seriously hurt. investigators in newport beach say that the driver of a mini cooper drove through a crowd of protesters. they did eventually catch up with that driver and charged him with suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. meanwhile back here in l.a., it doesn't look like this group in particular is listening to that 9:00 curfew. so far no interactions yet. i didn't even see any earlier in

the day between police and protesters. we will see if that changes here and a little bit, shannon. >> shannon: we will stay in touch with you, jeff paul on the ground in l.a. thank you. so the country festive's biggest city facing enormous challenges, months of covid lockdowns, tens of thousands of deaths and then days of violence and looting. let's go their laughter new york city work correspondent bryan llenas has been covering it all. he gives us an update on what's happening tonight. hey, brian. >> shannon, good evening. it you know the curfew violators, that has been the story tonight. nypd moving in on peaceful protesters, otherwise, but violating curfew over the last four hours. they have been making arrests and we were live on the air on the corner of 50th and third avenue when they moved in and arrested 94 people. they were surrounded by nypd. they were saying f the curfew and sang george floyd and black lives matter as they were walking down and all of a sudden the nypd came in from all directions and they made mass

arrests. this was the scene all throughout new york city tonight. we ran into the chief of the department, the nypd, who explained the importance and the reason why you're making these arrests. >> we've been facing rocks, bottles, bricks. we've been shot at, we've been run over by cars. but they're still out there, you can see, in force. keeping the city safe, being extremely effective out there, doing the job, making sure that this city is our city, we are one with the protesters, we are out there for a justified cause. >> the bottom line, the nypd says obviously these are peaceful protesters, but the fact of the matter is that when you have too many people on the street it becomes harder to protect businesses and to protect and obviously go out there and catch looters and other criminals who have been taking advantage of the situation to commit their crimes. we have seen mass looting all throughout new york city for the

last -- sunday night and monday night mainly and things have calmed down. last night it was quiet. tonight in terms of the looting front it seems to be quiet as well, but if you look over here we are at fifth avenue, i know we've seen this throughout the day, but saks fifth avenue hired a whole team of private security guards to protect the flagship store after hundreds of storefronts are in new york were looted in those two days. you could see the wire, the razor wire and the fence and the plywood on the windows here. it's an extraordinary scene. there's also -- they also have canines, you can see, to protect store. this was, after, again, we saw those mobs of looters for two nights who had their way here in new york city. for business owners, local business owners especially, this is a one-two punch. covid-19 locking down the businesses for three months and now you've got a situation where storefronts were looted, so the city will reopen and begin its first phase on monday when it

comes to covid-19. we will begin the first phase of reopening and we shall see how it goes from there. shannon. >> shannon: yeah, so, tough presence there, security presence at saks. that's an area with a lot of people visit, especially around christmas time and the holidays, it got light shows. it's a very well traffic part of town. really a tourist attraction among other things. 20 or so blocks south from there you were at macy's the other night, that iconic macy's where the parade goes by everything on thanksgiving morning. it's about nine stories or so. it's also kind of a shopping icon. is it a different feeling out tonight with what's happening there at saks based on, you know, what we sought macy's and other places around town that are sort of landmarks that really got hit hard? >> yeah, there's no doubt about it. after what happened especially with macy's getting hit in the middle of herald square. it was such a brazen attack. such a brazen -- you know, criminal act in terms of going

to such an iconic store in the middle of manhattan. i think that really sent a message to a lot of the big flagship stores here that they needed to take it seriously. and we have seen many more businesses put up the wood panels. on their storefronts to protect themselves. you know, it's not just the flagships though. i've got to stress, even in the bronx, local businesses up there, minority communities, black, hispanic communities, a lot of their storefronts also looted, so this is a situation here where there are businesses that will not survive covid-19 on top of looters who have taken advantage of the situation for peaceful protests and going against racism. it's a -- we will see what happens. we've got to hope that people will bounce back but it's a tough situation. >> shannon: yeah, much tougher for those small businesses, mom-and-pop and neighborhood businesses that become like family, much tougher for them to hang on since someone like saks. we will check back in with you.

thank you so much. >> take care, shannon. >> shannon: you too. following two mostly comments are in washington along with a 7:00 p.m. curfew, local officials in the nation's capital relaxed that's my, the mayor pushing it back to an 11:00 p.m. curfew. a little bit over an hour ago. doesn't seem like it's being enforced but folks seem to be peaceful. let's check in with kevin corke, been on the ground for days, back there tonight to give us the latest. hey, kevin. >> evening, shannon. i just wanted to give you this update. going to step to the right here and let you look down the street here as they take a look. we can see some law enforcement now collecting in the area. much as we predict it, once you get beyond the midnight hour, they tend to sort of compress the area where people can be and that appears to be what we're looking at now. i'm going to have you swing all the way around to your right, my friend and just show that we still have a sizable crowd here just to the north of lafayette park. that's not a big surprise. what is a bit of a surprise

though is, given the fact that mayor bowser decided to go ahead and extend the curfew to 11:00, thinking that that would be more agreeable to the folks who wanted to come out here and have their voices heard, you might have believed perhaps that many would be finished being here by now. i've seen a great number of them out here actually since i could walk appear at 4:15 this afternoon. the crowd does not appear to have dissipated very much and though we do have more police presence to my left and to my right and as you just saw from the original shot, so far no movement out of the crowd. we will see if that changes as we continue our coverage here. i should point this out very quickly, shannon, mayor bowser was criticized for how she handled the first couple of days of this particular crisis in the nation's capital. you are the president among the most vocal to criticize the job that she did. she then brought the curfew yesterday down to 7. extended a back to 11 tonight, we will see if there's a major

difference or if the end result is more or less the same, most of the people will go home but hopefully there won't be as much trouble. we will see together, shannon, back to you. >> shannon: looks peaceful tonight, glad to hear that, thank you so much, we will check back from you. tonight federal law enforcement officials are very busy investigating potential criminal actors who are accused of coordinating violent activity during a lot of these protest entities across the country struggle with the uptick in violence. let's assess with former member of the fbi joint terrorism task force from steve rogers and fox news contributor, andrew mccarthy. good to have you both with us, gentlemen. >> hey, shannon. >> shannon: okay, so this is what one justice department official has told us. you see the hallmarks, we are trying to see if there's a coordinated command-and-control. you see the breadcrumbs, that's what we're trying to verify. we had leland reporting in the last hour about stating of bricks and other potential projectiles along potential protest routes that were then

used against law enforcement officers. >> well, shannon, one of the reasons why we might be seeing dominantly peace peace now on our streets is because law enforcement is gathering intelligence and information on these bad actors. some of them were arrested, some of them were caught either making explosives or handing out breaks and once the police arrest them, there you go, there you have somebody who just might -- on other people. you can be sure that it is very, very significant for arrests to be made of the very bad actors because that will lead to more bad actors and the police are being very proactive and probably we are going to hear down the road that several arrests have been made to break up this flow of these weapons to the saints. >> shannon: i want to talk also about the fact that today there were elevator charges against the original officers seen with his knee on george floyd's neck as he was dying and now the three additional officers that have been charged as well. andy, what do you make of the

new charges we saw today? >> shannon, i'd be very concerned about this from a law enforcement perspective. and let me preface this by saying i support bringing murder charges against -- in particular chauvin, but even charges against the other three. here's the problem. the theory that they brought the charges on, which is second-degree murder, we heard all day that they would be proceeding on second-degree murder, which has mainly a theory of intentional murder. that is that you want to cause death. when we saw the charges, that's not the theory they used. the theory they used this felony murder, which is that you caused murder in the course of carrying out an underlying offense and my concern would be that the underlying offense that they're talking about is subduing an arrestee or a suspect who is

resisting arrest. to be clear, i'm not saying that mr. floyd did anything to threaten the police, but there's lots of evidence in the charging documents that indicates he was not cooperative in being taken into custody. and if you are a police officer in minnesota or anywhere else, what you would now have to be concerned about is that the act of physically restraining suspect who was resisting arrest could result in you, the police officer, being charged with assault. i think what they should have done was charged to the police not with a crime i in the act of subduing the suspect, but the method that they used in subduing him was so reckless and indicative of such a depraved mind-set that it violates the murder in the third degree statute, which is a serious murder crime, that's a 25 year offense.

>> shannon: now it's a prosecutor to put together the cases against the four officers. we will watch is that proceeds. meantime, as are looking live on the screen tonight, it's been an hour and 13 minutes past the curfew here in d.c. but folks seem to be peaceful and the police are allowing them to remain on the streets it appears. in denver, a very large crowd continues to grow. we seen tens of thousands on the streets we are told in los angeles as well as many other areas and there is now this growing concern that there could be a spike of covid-19 as just a week or so ago we were told that, you know, we couldn't do things that would return us to normal activity in close proximately with others, so tonight, new york city's top health official there has tweeted out a couple of things saying this. let's be clear about something, if there is a spike in coronavirus cases in the next few weeks, dumpling the protesters, blame racism and is next week, let's from her that police are increasing covid risk by using teargas, hurting demonstrators into tight spaces, putting people in crowded jails.

steve, your reaction? >> well, i've got to tell you, shannon, it would be impossible to enforce any of the rules and regulations that we have to obey several months ago. i just -- i remember the president once telling us don't make the solution into a problem more severe than the problem we are dealing with and when you start putting people together again, whether they be in jails together or institutions together, you're causing a greater problem than the one you're dealing with, so now we are going to probably -- and i to god this is not factual, but they may be ending up with a health crisis down the road as a result of managing it in the way they did. >> shannon: all right, if you two will stay with us, andy and steve, we want to check in with kevin corke because we're seeing something on the screen there in washington, d.c., where kevin is live on the street. i want to talk about it. it looks like this movement here from the protesters, what's going on, kevin? >> you are correct, shannon. a lot of movement in fact, the

vast majority of the crowd over the last 2 minutes just walking north right up 16th. what's interesting here is for the longest time today law enforcement had 16th and k pretty much cordoned off. they backed out of the way that so vast majority of people just walking north right on 16th. as you know, you'll go right from k and on that pretty much at m before you have to go under the tunnel. that tunnel will take you either -- if you go under it will take you all into dupont. if you go around and it will take you into scott circle. that's where we saw plenty of folks over the past couple of days, so we will see if they direct them in that area or if they let them go right underneath. we are going to walk with them and we will keep you posted. spoon okay, please do, kevin. thank you kevin, thank you andy and steve for all weighing intimate. coming up, critics say the military has no place on america's streets. so far that has not happened. but our panel is going to debate that after the break. ♪

♪ >> shannon: the 9:00 hour on the west coast has been an active when the last few nights, along with curfews that have not really been enforced, at least

not uniformly. dan springer is on the scene in seattle where he has been. he's there again for us tonight where i guess there's not a curfew. what can you tell us? >> yeah, that's right. there's still a lot of people out here though. there was probably two or 3,000 people here and we have a couple different events going on here. over the baseball field you can see a lot of people over there having kind of a picnic and if we swing around there's a lot of music being played over here and still the protests, for six days in a row now the people of seattle have hit the streets and for the first night, as you mentioned in several nights, there's no curfew. then again, it wasn't being enforced anyway. there was a huge protest earlier today, the biggest since this began last week. police estimate of the crowd 10,000 people it was completely peaceful from beginning to end. their goal is to have the seattle police department defunded. and they made their demand to the mayor directly at city hall. she wouldn't give in on that issue, but she did accept some smaller demands.

also today, city councilmember announced legislation that would prevent police from using a number of crowd control tools, among them, pepper spray, teargas, flash bang and pepper balls. all the devices that they've deployed on the peaceful protests turned ugly. the last to next a small number of antifa type young people started throwing rocks and bottles after the adjournment protesters are going home. police responded with tear gas and flash bang and it worked to protect officers as they disperse the crowd. they say the tools also protect violent protesters because they avoid times in hand-to-hand fights. but there is support for the measure on city council. >> for the last five nights are police department has used excessive force to quell peaceful protests, protests where folks are out to exercise their first amendment right there being met by police in riot gear. >> those tools allow us the ability to protect ourselves.

when we start receiving projectiles from bad actors who unfortunately at this time are stealing the george floyd narrative away from peaceful protesters. >> nationwide, more than 300 police officers have been injured in these protests since they began. ten of them here in seattle and two officers been killed. the goal of the police tonight has been for all the nights here at this particular location to protect the east precinct police station, which is just past that light up the hill and they say they cannot let the protesters get past them and into that building, shannon. >> shannon: dan springer in seattle again for us tonight, thank you so much. so activities in cities across the country on the same day that no charges were filed against all four police officers involved in the death of george floyd. let's discuss what civil rights attorney robert pattillo, former lieutenant in the new york city police department and former special agent in charge of the

dea's special ops division, derek. thank you for sticking around, good to have all of you back with us. >> thanks for having us back. >> thank you. >> thanks, shannon. >> shannon: so let's talk about what we are seeing on the streets tonight. mostly peaceful, mostly curfews that are not being enforced, but people generally, you know, making the piece, making their statements out there but none of the criminal activity that we have seen en masse in the past. derek, we talked a little bit earlier about whether the police crackdown has made this -- you know, focusing on those outside groups potential antifa or other outside groups that were sort of leveraging and trying to piggyback off of these peaceful protests, the crackdown there seems to have been working as we are told, federal authorities are looking into the organized crime side of this whole thing. derek. >> yeah, so shannon, we had great leadership of the president and the attorney general, the dea, the fbi, homeland security investigations, atf, secret service, they're out there side-by-side with our

counterparts on the current to front lines. they're helping them. let me tell you, shannon, what happened in minnesota with the police station is not going to happen in new york city. the cops are unbelievable, they are very talented and so we have a really good unity right now by law enforcement and we certainly are going to continue to focus on the threats, these domestic terrorists, but one thing i want to mention, shannon, is that this is a criminal network operating throughout the united states and the fbi has the authority based on their terrorism, you know, focus, to go after the command-and-control leaders of these domestic terrorists. identify them and take them out and put them in jail. like right now in new york with the curfew, even if they are enforcing the curfew, the perpetrators are getting out the following day. it's like useless. >> shannon: right. >> it's a political thing and we need to go after the commanders and the leaders. >> shannon: okay. robert, let me go to your next and ask you what you make of the charges today.

i don't know if you heard andy mccarthy little bit earlier saying he didn't think maybe it was the right combination of charges to effectively prosecute this case, what do you think? >> i think the charges actually to light, frankly. part of the narrative from both medical examiner and the outside autopsy and from the prosecution when they first made the charges, said that after they took the pulse of mr. floyd and determined that he had no pulse, the officer kept his knee on his neck for another 3-4 minutes. that shows both an intent to kill because clearly are not struggling with somebody who is still alive. they're giving a kill shot to ensure that individual -- to ensure that individual is dead. that's not only evidence of second-degree intent to kill, where talk about premeditation or malice afterthought, that can be formed in an instant. so the fact that these individuals kept their knee on the neck of a dead man for three

to 4 minutes shows that there was malice afterthought and any first-degree murder charge could very well have been maintained in the case. also with attorney general ellison did was keep the lesser included offense so there's a second surgery charge, third-degree charge and also the second degree manslaughter charge still remain, so they're going to put this to the jury and they will have the opportunity to sort through the facts and determine which of those charges is the best to come back with a guilty verdict on but the idea of these charges being too strict, it is too late and i think that any officer who keeps thingies on the neck of a dead man, they are very lucky to get off with just second-degree murder. >> shannon: yeah, much more to come on that discussion. panel, stick around, derek, you will kick us off next time. don't go anywhere, take a quick break but more live images from across the nation, we will see what's going on when we return. ♪

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♪ >> shannon: as protests were devolving into riots in cities across the country last weekend,

the term "random piles of bricks" started trending on twitter. tonight federal law enforcement officials are looking into reports of prepositioned rocks and bricks that writers then used as projectiles to throw it police and law enforcement. leland vittert witnesses firsthand and he's investigating tonight. good evening, leland. >> event on friday night outside the white house, we were wondering where are these bricks coming from? and we are learning more about how the most violent of the folks on the street are getting their weapons of destruction. federal law enforcement once defined a possible command-and-control structure organized dentures president trump earlier today. >> we have a lot of proof and information and proof, you'll be seeing it in time to come where they are delivering rocks and stones to certain locations and dumping them so they have -- that's their ammunition. and it hurts people very badly, including national guard people or even military people.

>> this right here. this is a set up. >> intelligent centers around the prestaging of bricks and rock for later use, in some cases police have found those caches before they could be used, other times they have not. rocks, bricks and frozen water bottles have hurt nearly 100 park police and secret service officers during the weekend protests. federal law enforcement sources say they're looking into a possible coordinated command-and-control structure to follow what they call breadcrumbs in the search for possible leaders. >> during the day, what you see is coordination. you see phone calls, you see meetings and you see caches of weapons, homemade weapons mainly being stashed around different metropolitan areas so at night when these protests become more violent those weapons are at hand. groups like antifa or anarchists in general. those of the types of people that we see. that's the intel that we are getting back. primarily moving these violent protests in these organizations and up a certain way.

>> molotov cocktails to attack, which all must by definition have to be premade along with water bottles filled with concrete than police say they are investigating burglarized construction sites around manhattan, but rather than taking tools or expose of equipment the thieves left with only the bricks. obviously the bricks are helpful in looting as well. as for charges against those arrested, so far the u.s. attorney here in d.c. has been charged with specific crimes rather than a blanket writing charge. of course, shanna come back at all change of police or federal law enforcement find those organizing the violence and then dropping off the bricks. >> shannon: all right, keep us updated, thank you so much. all right, we are an hour and 3n washington, but a big crowd is still out on the move there. white house correspond it kevin corke is with them. seems to be peaceful but it's moving tonight, kevin. >> it is on the move, shannon, we are in old city, just north

of 16 and q grade if you know where the white houses, which is of course 1600 pennsylvania avenue, 16th street ends right at lafayette park and directly in front of the north portico. we are about a mile and a half north of the white house and as you see, still plenty of folks down here walking, protesting, in their opinion they want their voices to be heard and there apparently, shannon, not ready to go home, despite the fact that we are well beyond the curfew. we have seen law enforcement on either side of 16th street blocking off some intersections, letting them continue to walk north. again, nothing has happened thus far we have heard many people emphasize the idea of a peaceful protest. in contrast to the looting and the shooting in the killing that you've seen in other places and quite frankly in other times here in the nation's capital. so tonight, mostly quiet, we will keep an eye on it for you but for now, back to you. >> shannon: kevin, is there a

planned end point or rally or, you know, any structure to what they're doing right now? >> that's a great question. i don't know that there is an end point but i can tell you, because i'm familiar with this neighborhood, it gets somewhat hilly once you get beyond u street. the alphabet continues to go up, not saying that people would obviously not there and walk up a hill, we are going to slide to the left ear and get out of the way of police cruisers. in fact, let me have you swing around if you don't mind, my friend, so we can show the fox was happening behind the marchers. as you see there, you still have law enforcement, just sort of tracking the group, very slowly moving up 16th. not impeding their progress, but certainly keeping and i on the group thus far. i was mentioning the hills. once you get past you street envy, it starts getting ready hilly, we will see if they want

to start navigating that this late at night or if they want to see if that street is about as far as they want to go. shannon. >> shannon: kevin, can you give me a sense of context for this, law-enforcement that you saw tonight, down by lafayette park right by the white house, that may be a totally different situation than where you are now, but as far as the level of law enforcement or national guard, what have you seen on the streets tonight earlier? >> big difference in location and a big difference in presence. you're right. near the lafayette park we saw national guard from not just washington, d.c., but i believe from other italians around the country. we saw them in a very long line in addition to other law enforcement officials and folks in tack gear, fill part in the shorthand, tactical gear. now that we are up in the neighborhood we are only seen washington metropolitan police thus far. and they are out in march cruisers and i have seen one, to go undercover vehicles, but i know that, maybe the folks who are walking don't know that.

but they're here and they're just calmly walking -- driving in this case, driving behind them, shannon. >> shannon: okay, curfew is in effect. doesn't look like it's being enforced but everybody seems to be okay with where they are tonight here in the nation's capital. we will check back with you, kevin, thank you very much. >> you're so welcome. >> shannon: back with our panel is live coverage of the nationwide protests continues. there next. ♪ hello everybody. it's me, gru.

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♪ >> shannon: let's bring back tonight's panel to continue the conversation about what we've been seeing this week and tonight across america, robert pattillo, thank you all for sticking around tonight and darren, i want to start with you, we didn't get to you in the last round. but to have you guys sticking around. we had talked a bit about defunding police departments in this growing calls and number of celebrities signing on this petition or letter to defund police department. a quote from the letter says this, "despite continued profiling, harassment, terror and killing of black communities, local and federal decision-makers continue to invest in the police, which leaves black people vulnerable and our communities no safer."

former officer on the streets herself, how do you respond to that? >> is a former lieutenant in the nypd, one of the things that has been constantly consistent has been the revolutionizing the training and how the department's work. technological innovations are of necessary importance and how we move forward, so i give you an example. the city of new york has thousands of cameras, police cameras, all over the place. what they do is to capture images of criminal behavior and that information is transmitted to the real-time crime center and then it's directed to the dash within close proximity. we've another innovation -- whenever shots are fired in a particular area, an immediate sensor triggers that information to police where we can dispatch officers as quick as possible. right now it's clear the people are very upset or agitated with policing in the united states and as a result, a level of

reforms are going to be introduced. so based on those reforms that have come forward, it's going to be very costly, so when we look to defunding a police department or taking money away, we're going to take us 15, 20 years behind. we had tremendous strides in law enforcement we've experienced precipitous drops in crimes as a result of the logistics that have been introduced to police. many people have complained of at the militarization of police and i can understand that to a point, but there's so many other aspects for technological components that enhance policing, therefore reducing crime, therefore it's of great necessity that we continue the budgets for police, because we are simply introducing a contract, which of course protects the citizens as a result. >> shannon: okay. i want to reference something that jason riley had a column in "the wall street journal" this week saying that good policing saves black lives. he talks about how you should definitely go after and weed out

individual officers who commit criminal activity. we all agree on that, what he a lot of times when there are investigations or crackdowns of the police report and is very negative light, they worry about how it impacts all of them. they worry about their ability to go out there and do their jobs and he says the studies have shown that you know, when officers pull back because they're worried about being perceived a certain way or getting in trouble, and hurts the black community most. that was jason's point. he says protesters in the political allies insist that policing is a problem but when police pull back, black communities are hit hardest. robert. >> that's a particular concept. let's understand there's not one single gun in his country that has made -- that is made in the black neighborhood. there is not one single cocaine plant or poppy seed grown in the black community. someone where talk about this idea of interdiction and then he for over policing of black communities, the idea that you forfeit your liberty because you're in the black community, they were trying but having

surveillance planes follow people in black neighborhoods around to see where they go the minute they leave the house until the time they go in. spy cameras up. intercepting phone calls. you do not forfeit your liberty rights under the constitution simply because her african-american. in this country we have this concept of freedom and that should be important to all people. and they want to fight crime, fight crime edit source. not simple or take away the freedoms of every american in order to justify the failures of what happens further up the food chain. >> shannon: want to talk about a little bit of breaking news we are getting in. this is coming from reuters. they are crediting this to the new york police department. they say there's been one police officer shot, one slashed in brooklyn, they do say it's unclear if it's related to any kind of protest activities, any but with fencing this week but again, reuters citing the new york police to apartment saying this been an officer shot and one slashed in brooklyn. panel, thank you for being with

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♪ >> shannon: on the right, another busy night here in cities and streets across the country. los angeles out there, 10:00 p.m. curfew will kick in in a few minutes. it's unclear how that will be enforced, if it will be tonight. you may remember if you've been with us the last couple of nights, there have been mass arrests, reporters on the ground have shown us dozens of people have been lined up with zip ties on their hands, and rounded up, and sent off to be processed. so they've had a pretty strong crackdown there in los angeles. we'll see. for tonight, portland, oregon, still a lot of folks on the streets, they've seen really large crowds in denver and othes tonight, as well. new york city, again come a much quieter night than we had a couple of nights ago. the curfew there, the law enforcement let it go for a while, and then at one point,

they said, that's it, we are wrapping up, and we saw a significant amount of rest there tonight in new york city. again, approaching the crowds, who were peaceful, but with zip ties, violating curfew, they were arrested. in seattle tonight, a change because there was no curfew in seattle. we've seen it somewhat enforced, they let it go for a few hours the last couple of nights before they tried to really actively disperse the crowd. no curfew there tonight in seattle. in washington here on the east coast, ours kicked in almost two hours ago, but there are still folks on the streets. they are peaceful, the police tagging along with them as they walked through the city, but no mass arrests, it curfew appears to be very fluid here in the nation's capital. all right, let's head back now out to the west coast, because following two chaotic nights of vandalism, sacrament of california it was announced the curfew will continue through the weekend. i talked to the sheriff about that a short time ago about that and more. what has been the progression of

the last few days in sacramento county? >> i think, like many places, started as peaceful process, and there still an element of peaceful protest, but i got out of hand, something we had never seen before, we are one of the largest agencies in northern california. we are usually sending help to other agencies that request it, but we were in a position that like to call, kind of all hands on deck. i was on the phone with a lot of agencies saying, hey, send me officers. we were outnumbered, more importantly, we were outnumbered by folks intent on vandalism and fires, so it took us quite by surprised, and it took us a minute to figure out a strategy to try and deal with it. >> shannon: yeah, sacramento bee puts it this way come after the peaceful protests ended saturday and sunday in downtown sacramento, small groups of vandals not believed to be associated with the protest went on a crime spree, causing millions of dollars in damages to buildings. what is your assessment of what it will take to rebuild there?

covid was such a serious early concern in california, a lot of these businesses were still in the process of trying to recover from that, beginning to reopen. will they have second thoughts do you think about reopening in sacramento? >> i would. i suppose many of them are having some introspection right now, and you're right, we were in the first week or two of reopening, and everybody was anxious to get out of their house and actually enjoy some time in dining, and doing other things to reopen the county. and here this hits, too, really pushing us back in terms of recovery, both economic, and certainly for the business owners that have suffered and are continuing to suffer downtown. it's definitely -- there's really three kinds of folks. peaceful protesters, they usually go home in the evenings, abide by the culture you imposed by the city. opportunists that see the opportunity to act i was, and then there's an element of organization to these protests that we have not seen before. >> shannon: let me ask you about that, because there has been a lot of speculation with

her outside groups were simply coming into leverage of this. very organized groups, we are going to talk about that more later about planting potential things that can be used as weapons among protest routes, that kind of thing, how challenging is it for your men and women out there on the streets? >> it's a very challenging. i mean, they are very organized. they use intelligence -- a war of intelligence, they are trying to figure out we are doing, we are trying to figure out what they are doing. they are resupplying rocks and bottles, they are moving protesters from place to place, using encrypted communications, staging large numbers of folks in places and then producing them all at once going down the streets. again, these sort of tactics and this organization is or the here in sacramento, which is why i think it was important to call in the national guard, who now are assisting us here in sacramento, the city and the county. >> shannon: all right. sheriff, it's good to see you tonight. scott jones from sacramento county, stay safe out there, sir. we wish you and your folks out there the very best. >> thank you very much.

>> shannon: trace gallagher continues with our live coverage next. most watched, most trusted, most gratefully spent this part of the evening with us, good night for now from washington, i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> what's his name? >> george floyd! >> trace: nine days after george floyd died under the knee of a police officer, there is new hope for justice and peace. in a country torn apart by hate and anger. word of additional charges against the cops whose actions or lack of action sparked a nationwide crisis hitting americans against americans. hello, everyone. i'm trace gallagher in my sandals with continuing live coverage of events that are still unfolding across our country. it is 10:00 p.m. on the west coast, 1:00 a.m. back east, and on wednesday, we got news from minnesota at three fired police officers will