happy birthday dear pancheeto. happy birthday to you. this is "nightline." tonight, break news, chaos on the streets of minneapolis. protesters angered by the death of george floyd, breaking into a police station. >> he was the power of god to really lift people up in this world. >> plus, more than 100,000 lives lost to covid-19. mothers, fathers, children. now, some of the stories behind the faces. never forgotten, forever celebrated. >> i can't thank him enough for the childhood he grave us.

we a we all have big shoes to fill. >> dramatic developments, a third night of protests turning violent in minneapolis, the largest precinct in that city overrun by protesters. cameras capturing the dramatic and at times chaotic scene, hundreds of protesters clashing with police, met with rubber bullets and tear gas while calling for justice. all this comes after the death of george floyd, a black man who died after an encounter with police. scenes of chaos unfolding in minneapolis tonight. eerie images of the police presince in flames after proteste protesters ignited flames. it's the third night of protests over the death of george floyd

following a police encounter. the national guard activating more than 500 soldiers, called by minnesota governor tim walls. apparent looting at this target store. >> turns out, these guys are out here with machetes. cops can't get in here. >> president trump weighing in late on twitter saying in part, i can't stand back and watch this happen to a great american city. these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd, and i won't let that happen. tell governor walls that the military is with him ahe way. >> no justice, no peace! >> violence in denver tonight, as hundreds took to the streets. one protester almost hit by a car. another struck by a rubber bullet. >> man. d get you? >> right eye. >> don't shoot! >> more than 40 people arrested after protests in new york.

this latest outpouring of fury and frustration. the eruption of long-simmering racial tensions in america. ahmaud arbery fought for a jog and george floyd. black men confronted by white people, both ending in death. all caught on camera, providing an unfiltered and undeniable view of two americas, two realities, deeply divided between black and white. lanae o'neill knows that reality well. she penned a tribute to black mothers for the undefeated. what do these incidents, what do they reveal about the state of america? >> they don't reveal anything to mack peop black people, because we've always known what country we live n because we've had to survive. what it reveals is the conversations that migwhite amea is not having. >> so what are those conversations that white america is not having in your view?

>> i think white america needs to ask themselves, why is this acceptable. >> the video difficult to watch, showing the agonizing moments as george floyd's life was ebbing away. >> mama, mama! >> face down on the pavement crying out for his mother who passed away nearly two years ago, a police officer's knee to his neck. >> when you hear george floyd calling out mom, mama, i just knew that he was talk being to me, right? not that i am his mother, but m i'm part of the sisterhood of black mothers who no matter the pain, no matter the injustice, that's our father, that's our husband, that's our brother, those are our sons. i would like to ask the rest of america to try to be a black mother. >> we are just human beings. we just want to be treated with dignity and respect. i just don't have a lot of hope and faith in the system. >> my colleague, alex perez

speaking with one of the co-organizers of the first march in minneapolis. armstrong says their protest was peaceful, walking two and a half-miles from the site floyd was taken down. >> we asked people to leave. the majority of people left and some people stayed behind and other people showed up after the protest and formed their own organic protest. >> what would you sty peopay to who live in the community who feel that their neighborhood has been torn up? >> nobody wants anyone tearing up a neighborhood. the vast majority of demonstrators are non-violent, peaceful protesters. >> in a newly-released transcript of the 911 call that led to floyd's arrest, it that a black man made a purchase and was visibly drunk.

>> give the united states attorney time to do this right and we will bring justice, i promise. >> the investigation into floyd's death, they say, is a top priority. the officer seen kneeling on floyd's neck, on to be arrested. >> do you think that's okay? >> another officer on capture, seen holding back the crowd. records showed he was part of pt complaint in 2017. two of the 18 complaints involving chauvin resulted in discipline. one against thao resulted in one complaint. >> i'm absolutely sorry for the pain, devastation and trauma

that mr. floyd's death has left on his family, his loved ones, our community in minneapolis and the country and the world. >> the police chief says the department is doing an internal investigation into its policies on controlling suspects. robert boyce served as the chief of detectives in the new york police department during eric garner's death in 2014. garner died after a new york city police officer put him in a chokehold during an arrest. >> when you compare this to the eric garner case, you have to understand, there are parallels, there's no question, but there are some distinct differences. when he was taken down by officer pantaleo, he was not arrested, not handcuffed at the time. there was still a fight going on. this is just the opposite of this. >> he believes in floyd's case the officers' actions were inexcusable. >> you present no threat to the officer. how you handle that person has to be as humanely as possible.

cooler heads have to take control of it. i didn't see that there. ? after the garner incident, the nypd changed its training. >> we went forward in a different direction. that has to happen here in minnesota, a complete change in how they do apprehension of prisoners. >> the police chief has apologized, how important is all that in the healing process? >> it's important, and it's a step. and the thing about steps is baby steps, they need to leadtot other steps if you're going to get any place. >> george floyd had only recently moved to minneapolis looking to start a new chapter. he found a home and worked as a security guard at a restaurant, his because also his landlord. >> floyd is the type of security i wanted, to treat people with respect, know how to talk to

people, to defuse a situation when it happens. without using excessive force. he's not very aggressive. floyd is not only my employee. he's my friend. i really love thatf guy, and i miss him. >> floyd found love with court any ross. >> it was kind of a love at first sight kind of thing. floyd would always livft my up. i always felt like i was the type person who would lift somebody up. he was the power of god to really lift people up in this world. and i miss that, already. >> he was a father and a gifted high school athlete. those who knew him say he was mindful of his stature. his friend alvin remembers a time when floyd was pulled over for expired license plates by a police officer who was smaller than he. >> he said i know they get

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always put others first, and i can't thank him enough for the childhood he gave us and the legacy he left. we all have big shoes to fill. >> reporter: his wife kathy. >> at the end of the day or the end ever the practice, he always had the biggest bear hug for them and told them how much he loved them. >> reporter: there have been so many lives lost. the numbers impossible to grasp. the 5-year-old kindergartner, schuyler, her mother a police officer, her father a firefighter. she dreamed of becoming a dentist. there was margaret feldman who survived the holocaust. she lied about her age to the nazis at auschwitz so they would believe she was old enough to qualify for forced labor because younger children so often did not survive, but she did and would move to the u.s. to make a life here and made it part of her legacy to teach young people here about the horror that played out at those concentration camps.

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