>> what's his name? >> george floyd! >> trace: an answer for desperate cries for justice. there is new hope for peace in a country torn apart by hate and anger. word of additional charges against the police officers whose actions or lack of actions sparked a nationwide prices pitting americans against americans. i'm trace gallagher in los angeles with continuing live coverage of events unfolding across our country. it is 11:00 here on the west coast, 2:00 a.m. in new york city, and wednesday came news from minnesota the

three fired police officers will face charges of aiding and abetting in the death of george floyd. the one who pressed his knee on floyd's neck is accused of second-degree murder, a crime that could put him behind bars for 40 years. the news has triggered a wave of raw emotion over the thousands who have marched in george floyd's name, demanding equal justice and an end to police brutality. protesters were largely peaceful wednesday by day, but as of this hour as we know each night, calm remains uncertain. new york and los angeles remain under curfew and the national guard continues to remain vigil in 31 states. in washington, military troops are on standby in adherence to president trump's vow to use what he calls "a dominant force if necessary." it's a position that has put the commander-in-chief at odds with his own defense secretary. and former president barack obama broke his silence on george floyd's

murder, giving his thoughts on how to turn protests into policy. while at the flash point in minneapolis, the place where george floyd took his last breath, a grieving son expressed his own thoughts. >> every night with my family, no man or woman should be without their fathers. >> trace: and we begin our coverage in minneapolis but mike tobin standing by with the latest. >> trace, it's been a quiet night here in minneapolis after a day of big developments. none of the lease which you mention, the charges upgraded against darren derek chauvin, the other officers in the case pending their first night behind bars, thomas lane, tou thau, the demonstrators, however, say

they are not satisfied. >> it ain't enough. they should be behind bars for the rest of their life. >> this is a situation where they are expressing ourselves, feeling communicated with the community. >> don't know how many things need to be done for us to leave the street, but i know today right now we are celebrating. but it still wasn't enough for us. >> there were a number of demonstrations all across town. the police presence was low, incidents were few. the demonstrations went past curfew tonight but there were no major police crackdown because there was no major trouble. trace? >> trace: mike tobin live for us in minneapolis. the west coast, compelling pictures coming out of los angeles where thousands have gathered in a mostly peaceful protest against the death of george floyd. let's bring in correspondent jeff paul who's in the middle of it all with the latest.

jeff? >> yeah, trey's spirit we are kind of working on our live shot here understandably kind of hectic in downtown los angeles. you've got the national guard over here, and beyond that we've got l.a.p.d. it can be a little hectic at times especially when you have upwards to 10,000 people protesting. not at the moment. but a very peaceful it's well past curfew. but a little bit earlier today, we did have a couple of signs of unity. there was one where there were flashlights to the sky throughout l.a., kind of how their flashlight for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. of course, the amount of time that george floyd was pinned down by police. again, back in downtown, upwards

of 10,000 people protesting. a really interesting sight giving the last four days. there is a lot of talk of looting for these protesters they really wanted to put the protest back on george floyd and black lives matter and some of those issues. it was a way for them to really get the message out. >> i've seen this time and time again where minorities get treated not as the same as whites and it's very disturbing and i think we just had enough. >> at this point with everything that's going on with the economy, the job losses, people being mistreated, they are finally seeing that. it's the tipping point. people have had enough. >> other than just the protest, it was a bit of a scary scene in newport beach, the video. it's terrifying to say the least. the people who were there, 50 protesters sat there and watched as a driver of a mini cooper

plowed through them. the investigators did eventually catch up with that driver and had arrested him and we are told that no one was seriously injured. but back here in los angeles again, things could be heating up. we aren't quite sure what's happening quite yet. police have a line, stopping people from driving here in downtown. still a long night ahead of us, trace. >> trace: jeff paul i for us in los angeles. protest and politics now, former president and former secretary of defense both making ways, criticizing president trump's response to the nationwide protests and calling for reform to the criminal justice system. fox news correspondent lauren blanchard live for us in d.c. >> trace, former secretary of defense james mad doc mattis breaking his silence tonight speaking out against his old boss. criticized the use of force in

the nation's capital. in an article in the "the atlantic," he wrote, "donald trump is the first president in my lifetime who has not tried to unite the american people, does not even pretend to try. instead, he tries to divide us. we are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort." says using force to disperse crowds made a mockery of the constitution, writing, "i swore an oath to support and defend the constitution. never did i dream that troops taking the same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the constitutional rights of their fellow citizens, much less to provide a bizarre photo opt for the elected commander in chief with military leadership standing alongside." and there's no love lost between president trump and the general. he tweeted, "the only thing barack obama and i had in common is that we both have the honor of firing jim mattis, the world's most overrated general.

i asked for his letter of resignation and i felt great about it that his nickname was chaos which i didn't like and change to mad dog. his strength was not military but personal public relations but he seldom brought home the bacon. i didn't like his leadership style and much about him and many others agree. glad he is gone." speaking the former president barack obama, he held a town hall to address floyd's death and the unrest gripping the nation. here's what he had to say. >> bring about real change, we both have to highlight the problem and make people in power uncomfortable. but we also have to translate that into practical solutions and laws that can be implement implemented. >> and we are now three hours into the curfew here in the nation's capital. it is remarkably more quiet tonight than we've seen earlier in the week. the protest had remained for the most part very peaceful. we have seen a lot of military

presence as national guard members out on the streets whether walking around, they've not had the helicopters that we've seen earlier this week. that at least a lot quieter. but it seems these protesters have marched out of the capitol hill area and taking their protests closer to the white house. >> peaceful coast-to-coast so far. live in the nation's capital. as we have the report that all four officers at the scene of george floyd's death. thomas lane, tou thau, and alexander keung keith ellison who also added a more serious second-degree murder call down the against derek chauvin explains why. >> we gathered all the facts we could, we looked at case law, we arrived at these charges.

we believe they are justified by the facts and the law. >> trace: let's bring in the criminal defense determined and former prosecutor. i've got a bunch of stuff i want to talk to you about but i do want to get your take on the charges today against -- the new charges against the three officers and the up charge against derek chauvin. >> i think it was bound to happen. there are nationwide protests going on right now and people are angry. don't give them a proper outlet, there's something waiting to happen, dynamite waiting to explode and incidents happen. look at this incident and compare it to other incidents were unarmed men do the in the past have been killed. let's put it in perspective of the killing of eric garner, the other famous i can't breathe case out of new york.

never charge, stayed on the job for five years, only fired last year getting paid. when people talk about justice for george floyd, what are they saying? all four of these guys are fired right away but now all four of them under criminal indictment. you have one who's been charged with murder. what does it mean? does that mean there should be a public execution? does that mean these people shouldn't get fair trials? no, they all deserve fair trials because they are americans. these protests really aren't related to this. but in relation for locking people for two months. >> trace: i want to play sound from eric garner's mother concerning the george floyd ca case. >> this hurts me so bad because this mimics my case and i'm back on these grounds of minnesota.

it just feels like i'm coming to my son's funeral again. this young man was crying for his mother at the end. that was like my son echoing from the grave saying, mama, you've got to do something, they are still killing us! >> trace: that case went on for five years. we were still paying officer penta people were frustrated about that. this is a compendium of a lot of cases over the last several years. >> look, again, pantaleo should have been charged or he took the man down, charged them, saying i can't breathe but none of the other officers around him were even up for consideration. somebody should've pulled pantaleo off, right? what that led to his peaceful protest. you had multiple people

demonstrating from a lebron james demonstrating saying i can't breathe. here, what is this equipment what does looting, writing, or anything have to do with george floyd? you have the women in new york, a 27-year-old white woman from upstate new york who tried to kill four nypd officers with a molotov cocktail into a car. you have lawyers in new york city who threw a molotov cocktail at an nypd cruiser, nobody was inside that cruiser. but what does this all have to do with justice for george floyd? derek chauvin has been in custody since almost day one. i'm not sure what else, what more there needs to be, when you show protesters saying this isn't enough, what do you want, do you want to string chauvin out and shoot him? >> trace: they say they don't really know if the protesters have the patients to go through this. keith ellison made it very clear today that it's a long process.

legal, the wheels of justice move slowly. this is a long process. the question is do these people have the patients to wait for the process to play itself out? >> look... this is going to depend a lot on whether people can get back to normal, right? where is dr. fauci right now questioning why is he not on tv every day telling people to stay inside and not spread coronavirus? is there some community that protesters get? i'm concerned not seeing dr. fauci at all, what's going on question mike you've got to get people back to work, get society functioning. we are a society that depends on people hugging, being able to go out to bars and restaurants and being normal. if people had been working and not shut down for three months, the extent of this doesn't happen. >> trace: a lot of these people, if there is not a huge

spike in covid-19, a lot of mayors and local politicians will have a tough time convincing people to stay inside because they've got very little backing to draw back on. finally i want to get your thoughts on going forward. do you think that we see more violence or do you think that people believe their message is getting out as we've seen the last couple of days? >> one very positive thing here is the reaction i see from law enforcement. unlike pantaleo's case where the rank-and-file nypd supported pantaleo, it seems like the majority of people i know are condemning this action. again, you've got to look at this case and the say to yourself, okay, none of us know what kind of pressure was put on the neck of george floyd.

was he choking him? was he restraining him? the autopsy now said that he had coronavirus. all these are factors that may lead or could lead to an acquittal in terms of murder. even i thought the initial charge of third-degree murder was overcharging at that. now that they've charged second-degree murder... >> trace: one of the autopsy report also said a 68 in and that's one of the keys -- >> that was the independent -- >> trace: the independent autopsy. if it is admissible, that's very compelling for a jury. i will give you five seconds. >> i'm just saying, no, the state is the one bringing the case of the state has got to use its own autopsy. at this point that to be very interesting to see the state use an outside autopsy. >> trace: great information as always. thank you, sir. >> my pleasure.

>> trace: new orleans quarterback drew brees under fire for comments he made to "yahoo finance." >> i will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the united states of america or our country. and is everything right with our country right now? no, it's not. we still have a long way to go. >> trace: the comments referencing colin kaepernick, and criticism from athletes around the sports world. saying brees you literally still don't understand why kap was kneeling on one knee. has nothing to do with the disrespect of our flag and soldiers who keep our land free. brees' own teammate malcolm jenkins took to twitter to voice his own disapproval. watch. >> i'm hurt. the last place you want to hear it from our the guys that you go to war with and you consider to

be allies and to be your friend. >> trace: hmm. this is in los angeles right now. jeff paul telling us earlier there is a very low crowd, few people milling around los angeles, seems very quiet tonight. people kind of sitting around, mulling around for there have been zero incidents all across los angeles save for a minor car incident down in orange county a little bit earlier today. up next, the question now becomes if you see these crowds around the country, should the dea, right, the drug enforcement administration, be able to surveillesurveil these protesters and gather theo pick out the bad apples? it's a question we will ask ne next.

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>> trace: breaking news, a look at what the west coast looks like on your left-hand side, that's the fox affiliate and those are protesters in los angeles, their hands up, probably 11:22 here on the west coast. there have been some chances. walking around. for the most part there has been zero trouble in los angeles and there were tens of thousands of people marching on the streets

today. on the right-hand side, using portland, oregon, those are police closest to you on the other side of the fence and you have protesters on the far side of the fence. for a couple of nights, they've been tussling over that fence, police saying they do not want the protesters to get near the fence. they set off some smoke bombs, tear gas. tonight, the police have vowed not to do any of that and aside from a dumpster fire that we do not know how it started, the protesters have been on their best behavior. we'll check back in as those two cities go through the evening. national security amid national protest, the drug enforcement administration recently obtained new authority, allowing them to "covert surveillance in cities that are seeing mass protest." in a memo obtained by "buzzfeed news," the acting ministry or for the dea at the department of

justice "designated to enforce any federal crime committed as a result of protest at the result of george floyd. the dea requested this authority on a nationwide basis for a period of 14 days but let's bring in aaron webb, the director of the freedom count foundation. your thoughts on that? >> trace, the dea, they have nothing to do with riots, and that's why they need the ags the trump administration, there has been a lot of pressure to act as liberal cities are basically burning down. local police, they don't have the authority to make the arrest and enforce the law for they are protecting citizens and can't even protect themselves but i think the feds are right to step in here and prevent these riots from progressing further. >> trace: maybe we will not put them on the screen that i want to mention these for these

are the four temporary powers here for 14 days, conduct surveillance, share intelligence, to protect in the synths and spectators, engage in enforcement activity. pretty broad. your thoughts? >> the surveillance piste is the most worrying as you mentioned. notice that it's limited to federal crimes. it's a slippery slope. there is no accountability. i think these antifa thugs need to be arrested but the dea is overreaching with civilian surveillance. we at the freedom foundation, we fight for people's freedoms every day. this is a slippery slope. once you take away people's freedoms, they are impossible to get back. >> trace: and it's interesting because the police would say the upsets. they look at these things and painted this picture of the past

3-4 days saying to us that these agitators, outside groups, have done things like place breaks at various protest sites but there is no construction around. the bricks have been placed here to use, they believe, and commission of crimes. to place bottles, some incendiary devices around there, and what they want to do is tap in and find out why these things are happening, who is doing them, and if this is a possible means to do that, would it make it any more amenable to you? >> no, i don't think so. i want to get these people arrested as much as anybody and it's easy to say that we should do everything in our power to go and get them. but we are a free society and when you start spying on civilians we start to lose those freedoms that are promised to us. that's why i think we need to get the police and the feds the authority to go arrest these people because that's what needs to happen. we need to go get them off the streets. >> trace: there is a lot of

talk about this being politicized. a lot of people saying the aclu comes out that this is the trump administration doing this. the truth is it happened with the obama administration. it happened with the ferguson riots a few years ago and it also happened during the freddie gray riots in baltimore a few years back as well. it's not a one-sided political thing here. both sides have kind of done this type of thing in the past. >> yeah. we need to do it when it's necessary. when you have people breaking the laws, you can go in, that's not what you are getting for cities that have mostly governed -- it's absolutely right the federal government stepped in and protect citizens, protect these businesses who are being looted. >> trace: what about the concerns? are your concerns about the protesters themselves? what about the protesters themselves? are you concerned about some of

them being smeared because of this type of evidence being collected? >> i am in some ways, but i think most of the protesters are peaceful. there are agitators going in, well documented that a lot of people who may or may not be paid to be there and cause trouble. i saw videos today of protesters protecting businesses because they don't want that to be the point of these protests. >> trace: it is all good information. thank you, sir. >> thank you, trace. >> trace: i want to swing back to los angeles because we've seen the camera swing back and forth around a little bit and we see people with their hand up. understanding that there is no arrest underway right now and there might be some but we are not seeing the police out with the hand the ties we've seen the last several nights. los angeles has arrested a lot more people in new york in the thousands, people being put on buses, taken down, processed,

and given some sort of penalty, and let go. we don't seem to be seeing any arrests tonight. when you see people with the hands up, that's part of the protests. keep checking in on the west coast and any other breaking news that comes by. up next, you see all the people gathered together. some of them with masks, some of them without. the question becomes is this a spreader event, these protests around the country, for covid-19 but we will talk with a doctor with some very keen insight on what we might all need to be advised of next. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free.

>> trace: a strict curfew in effect since 8:00 p.m. east coast time. there have been some arrest of curfew breakers and there is word that two nypd officers have been shot and one have been stabbed. the podium there, the reason is we are told that the new york mayor bill de blasio is

supposed to come here and give a news conference concerning what happened to the police officers in brooklyn. our understanding is the police officers have all suffered nonlife-threatening injuries. apparently this was some kind of a different incident. it was not protest related. they were going after a suspect. he had a knife. somebody got stabbed. we are told the suspect is actually in critical condition. the police officers do not have life-threatening injuries. let's go to bryan llenas standing by live with more on this. brian? >> trace, that conference is going to be at the kings county hospital in brooklyn but mayor bill de blasio and the ny pd commissioner dermot shea will be speaking any moment now. unclear though whether or not these officers were targeted, whether or not this was started by a man who targeted the police officer in brooklyn. that part is unclear and that's what we should be getting more

qualification on in any moment. back to the general idea of the curfew, the curfew for the second night has seemed to be working in terms of making the streets a lot less violent and more quiet than it has been in the previous days, the 8:00 p.m. curfew going into effect, the nypd making more curfew violation arrests, we where they are real live when they arrested 94 people in midtown east. there was some pushing involved. the peaceful protesters put their arms up in the air but the nypd arrested them, put them on buses, and this is what the chief said when we were on the scene as to why they were making these arrests. >> we've been shot at, run over by cars, but they are still out there as 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 but we are out there for justice

and equality. >> the idea here if these people are out peacefully protesting after 8:00 and that video we saw was at 9:00 p.m., it is just another thing the nypd has to do and they have to protect the city from looters and other criminals urging people to stay home. but there has been some video online of other situations in and around new york city where the nypd is seen pushing peaceful protesters. to that, jermaine williams, the public advocate of the city, tweeted this. "i can't believe what i witnessed and experienced, the force used on nonviolent protesters was disgusting. no looting, no fires, chants of what happened was completely avoidable. i'm so ashamed of the new york city mayor." from the nypd's perspective. they believe, trace my given

the actions, one being hit by a car, one hit by bricks, cement and water bottles, enough is enough from their perspective and they are trying to get people home peacefully. they want people to follow the rules of the curfew. this curfew by the way 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. is in effect and still monday morning. >> trace: was there a major protest going on in brooklyn at the time? i know they were not related at the time these police officers were injured, do we know that? >> there were protests in brooklyn in and around the time, but we don't know... we don't believe that there was a protest anywhere near this incident. we don't have any indications of anything near that. >> trace: bryan llenas, thanks for that. back to you with the breaking news. when the mayor bill de blasio steps to the podium, we will take him live. amid the concerns of violent protests and national

divisiveness, there is wary about how the ongoing demonstrations could affect the coronavirus pandemic. some health officials warn us to expect an uptick in new cases within the next two weeks due to the mass gatherings we have been witnessing across the country. with us now via skype is pathologist roger klein. doctor, you look at these protests and look at all the people so tightly together, as a doctor who worries about these type of things, what do you think healthwise? >> thanks for having me. so it's obviously a concern. we still have coronavirus and it is out there and you have people in close proximity. we are going to learn how easily it spreads outside. but we look back to new orleans and mardi gras, the outbreak there was attributed to crowds moving together at mardi gras. it's a concern. >> trace: but it is you mention outside, it's been one of those touch points, when

you're inside, all the studies coming out of wuhan, inside is bad, outside is good. so lack of any other reasoning, at least they are not inside an arena when they are protesting, right? >> yeah, i think they are better off outside but they are still in close proximity. and the buses where people are arrested being taken to jail could be sites of transmission as well. >> trace: i want to play the sound by concerning protesters and covid-19. watch. >> leadership, good government, responsibility is more important than ever before, especially in these divided times. covid-19 is still a real threat. we are still battling that. i know it's not on the front pages today, but it is still in

people and in society. we are still battling that. that is going better than it has ever gone in new york, we have the lowest number of hospitalizations ever. >> trace: it's interesting. you go back to denver and the mayor of denver was marching with the protesters in downtown denver. it's interesting why politicians are viewing this gathering with gatherings we have seen the last several weeks. >> yeah. i think that's right. look, we are making a lot of progress and i think we may have overreacted to some. and my view of these protests, particularly the writing and some of quite frankly the criminality, the thievery, has much to do with economics as it does to do with any protesting concerns. we've seen that already with people who acknowledged it. you know, i think we are making great headway with the virus. we are really learning, this

event is going to teach us something. there is a football player at oklahoma state already who was going to protest but tested positive. people who are going to suffer are the grandparents of these protesters. >> trace: doctor, let me pause you right there. switch over very quickly pure police commissioner in new york is standing by about the wounded officers. >> many members of the executive staff. the ceo, thank you, sir, for being here with us but dr. marcus lytle, the head of the e.r. department, the kings county medical center. first of the is going to make some remarks and we'll give you the preliminaries, and ask extremely preliminary information about tonight's incident. >> thank you, commissioner. we are gathered on a very tough night. the commissioner and i went to see two of our officers, saw the

families, the third officer. three of our officers wounded this evening. the commissioner will go into the details. but thank god all of the officers will recover. a number of other officers came to their aid. it's another example of what it means every day for men and women of the nypd. no matter what is happening, the bravery that they show constantly. thank god that is very, very challenging situation and the commissioner will let you hear just how difficult it was, thank god our officers came through safely. i want to thank everyone at kings county hospital taking care of our officers. and everyone look, this is a moment in our history where we all support each other. no matter what else is happening

around us, we've got to be the there. support to protect them, we have to protect the moving forward. no matter how much is thrown at us, the coronavirus and everything else, we have to find a way to come together and move forward. tonight is a story of bravery, courage, and, thank god, a story that ends with day two when our officers will leave this hospital and go home with their families. to overcome the commissioner. >> again, i'm going to tell everyone that this is extremely preliminary information. this is what we know over time. at the bronx, a different hospital, lincoln hospital at 149th street, i went to visit a sergeant from the 44th precinct. earlier this week, you saw the video, was run over in a

cowardly attack. still in critical care and in the intensive care unit but recovering slowly. when i was finished with lincoln hospital, i called the lieutenant several days ago. you have seen that video as well. unprovoked attack by a coward, struck from behind in an attempt to bash his skull in. in that instance too, cops were arresting looters and other violent demonstrators in the middle of a manhattan street. it has been a long month for all of us. and now this morning we are at kings county hospital. i will tell you again, the information is preliminary. subject to change. but one thing is certain, the courageous men and women of this police department who put a gun belt on every day and hit the streets to protect new yorkers.

tonight, two of the officers were assigned in the 70th pre precinct to an anti-looting post to stop people from breaking into stores. it was a post at the intersection of church and flatbush avenue. approximately at a quarter to midnight, without warning, video surveillance showed a male walked out to the officers casually, took out a knife, and stabbed one of the officers in the neck. that officer was stabbed in the left side of his neck. thank god missing an artery, and is recovering here in stable condition at the hospital. about the same time, a block or two away, we know at this time is that we had a uniform sergeant and police officer hearing shots fired that were coming from that initial scene respond quickly to that scene. we believe that when they got

there, they saw the perpetrator with a gun in his hand, which we believe belongs to one of the officers. what we know at this point in time is that 22 shell casings have been recovered from a number of members of the service. we know we had a chaotic scene with a knife recovered as well. in the ensuing, we had the perpetrator struck multiple times. he's here and in critical condition. we have had two police officer shot in the hand, we had the third police officer stabbed in the neck. all police officers at this point in time thank god are in stable condition and are expected to recover. i cannot think enough the staff at this hospital for what you do not just today but every day in taking care of our officers. i'm going to invite patty lynch,

the representative, to speak. we will have more information when it becomes available. >> as i stand here trying to think what to say, the only thing that comes to mind is questions. always surprised? are we surprised we are here in the hospital again? did we doubt because of the rhetoric we are hearing, the antipolice rhetoric, that storming our streets, are we surprised we got this call? i'm not. we said it was going to happen but we said it has to stop. but it really doesn't. all levels have to say it's going to end today. and allow us to go out and do it. we can't ignore the asinine laws that have been passed where we put criminals in and they let them out. that's why things like this happen. it may not be the situation. but it feeds the atmosphere. it has to stop. all levels have to say it. and allow us to do it. >> i'm going to take if you questions.

a few questions. >> did he say anything untoward? >> we know very for luminary information at this point in time. i'm not going t to go into criminal information. information is coming in and we are actively investigating it and we are working with the local prosecutor as well as the federal prosecutor. and we will go wherever the information leads. what we know at this point in time, it appears to be a completely cowardly despicable unprovoked attack on a defenseless police officer. thank god we are not planning a funeral right now. >> [indistinct question] >> exactly my last answer. extremely preliminary at this

point. information coming in. we'll have more to say in an updated coming in later today. at this point in time, i will let my statements stand. the man and women of this police department should not have to withstand anymore, not one more attack. it's going to take all leaders, elected officials, clergy, as i said many times, community leaders, grassroots people that live and work in these communities, i think we are all fed up with what we are seeing on many levels. this violence has to stop, and people have to speak, and words matter, and i shouldn't be at a hospital having the same discussion again. >> [indistinct question] >> i'm not getting into that now. wrong time, wrong place -- >> stay on the topic! >> any last questions?

>> [indistinct question] >> i am not being evasive here. we want to make sure that we don't put out wrong information. we have multiple body cameras that are being viewed. we are describing a completely chaotic rapid situation that is dark and unclear exactly what we feel that we have it much better as the hours progress what exactly transpired. we believe we are going to have multiple officers at that scene. we have 22 shell casings recovered. we also have unfired bullets on the ground. that's all we know at this point in time. i will take one more. there are no suspects we are aware of at this point outstanding. last question. and then we are done. thank you very much. >> trace: there you have it. you have you have mayor de blasio speaking first

and the police commissioner new york dermot that in new york police officer targeted with someone with a knife or the officer we are told in brooklyn, flatbush avenue, he was protecting some stores in that area when apparently a suspect came up and stabbed him in the left side of the neck. and when the other officers walked over, the suspect had apparently gained that the officer's gun. those officers opened fire on the suspect for the suspect returned fire. there were some 22 shots fired. the suspect is now in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds, and you have three police officers, one with a knife wound and two with bullet wounds to the hand. they are all expected to survive. but the big scene here is the police to bartman coming out saying that this was bound to happen because of all the antipolice rhetoric, it was only a matter of time before it happened, before someone attacked a police officer.

and tonight out of the blue, someone with a knife tries to go up and apparently according to the new york police department, to kill a new york police officer. we will continue to cover the breaking news out of brooklyn as it comes in. in the meantime, the death of george floyd once again awakened the nations senses to the decadal problem of police brutality. some put the blame on a culture that's exonerated police police officers we are joined now by jack brewer, a former nfl safety and ceo of the brewer group. jack, you hear about this, coming off of the police officer being attacked in new york. i know that you grew up in minneapolis. you were a gopher, a minneapolis viking. you say that the death of george floyd has been draining for you but so have the protest. explain that to us. >> it really has. when i hear this, the pleas

officer, i just think what happened to our fear of god? we don't have any fear anymore. to sit here and watch a man killed george floyd like that in the now to see people blatantly attacked police officers. where is the love for humanity? to me it goes back to focusing on the enemy. this enemy is evilness. these people are evil. it takes evilness to kill someone that you don't know that ned nothing wrong to you. think about what we are talking about here. it's not like someone retaliating for some violence. people are killing innocent folks before our eyes but we've got to give back to god. we've got to get back to scripture and praying for each other as a nation. we worked so long, many of these politicians, to push god out of our schools and push god out of our policies. this is coming back to hurt us. it's coming back to hurt us as a nation because right now we have kids running around and people running around, police officers running around with no fear of god.

it has to stop. >> you say the protest are not the answer. is god the answer? is there something that you offer to these people that you think might kind of... might alleviate divisiveness in this country? >> let me be clear. peaceful protests are great. you can pray during peaceful protest beer those are amazing. but when you start getting emotions tied into that and it gets away from the actual cause or the issue, the cause is the savior, i think it's really getting back to spirit spirituality in our country. we work so hard to push back spirituality. the politicians, often times many of them don't say any thing to folks because they want to protect the ungodly. literally we are protecting the ungodly in our country and it's ridiculous. we've got to figure out a way to come out of this because we have to comfort people. the bible tells us to comfort

those as comforted us. to comfort folks, we've got to bring love and we've got to bring humanity. you can only find that through the spirit of god. >> trace: you believe we should take the politics out of this altogether? >> you have to. because politics of our policy. politics are from policy to fight, the enemy, you need the word of god. words are one thing but that doesn't mean anything. words are just words. you need action and in order to have action you actually have to go in and change the laws and stick to godly principles again. >> trace: jack brewer, good to see you. very well said. thank you. >> god bless you. >> trace: thank you. you too as well. we want to update the breaking news, protest going around the country. they are from coast to coast and most of them if not all of them were very peaceful throughout the day. and then just minutes ago, we had the new york police department saying that a new york police officer in brooklyn was specifically

targeted by a suspect or the suspect tried to stab him in the neck. in fact, did stabbed him in the neck. he is going to live. other police officers were involved in a shoot out. i'm trace gallagher. continuing coverage of breaking news. "fox & friends" first at the top of the hour. if you are new to medicare, listen up. .. from nationwide companies to help maximize

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>> straight to a fox news alert, officers ambushed in brooklyn, new york the two shot, one stabbed in the neck on the heels of widespread violence against police amid protests over the death of george floyd. jillian: the mayor and police gave an update. thank goodness it appears all officers are in stable condition. >> reporter: exactly right. moments ago new york police department commissioner shea updating us, the