rob. and apologize to matt damon. "nightline" is next. thank you for watching. have a wonderful weekend. eight minutes. 46 seconds. that's how long a police office other pressed his knee into george floyd's neck, nearly three minutes as he laid unresponsive, among the last me minnesot minutes of his life, that officer charged with murder as a nation erupts. >> we have to take justice into our own hands. >> we're with those fighting for real change. bu plus, how this week's protests hearkened back to a civil rights

ico icon. >> when people are frustrated van no outlet and have lost hope, that is what happens. >> good evening. thanks for joining us, i'm juju chang. across the country tonight, protests spreading from minneapolis, not just to big cities like atlanta and new york but also places like des moines and memphis, all the way to the gates of the white house, all stemming from the harrowing death of george floyd. officer derriek chauvin chaurrg with murder. >> tense scenes of a city in chaos. marcus moore on the ground of what remains of the police precinct overrun and set on fire. >> this demonstration has moved to this intersection over here. and the protesters have set up a barricade in tir

disperse this crowd. >> across the country, moments like this, playing out from new york to louisville. to atlanta. >> just threw something on fire, chris, a firecracker. we got fire. [ bleep ]! >> where protesters clashed with police at the entrance of cnn. physical manifestations of a seething anger. a nation pushed to the brink. ahmaud arbery out for a jog. brie ahna taylor asleep in bed. george floyd gasping for air. >> no justice, no peace! >> these, the latest names of black men and women whose lives were cut short, exposing hup, don'tl to racial t

action, echoing across the nation, demanding racial justice and police accountability. >> i can't breathe! i can't breathe! >> this video the latest flash point, taken on monday evening. it's difficult to watch. showing the agonizing moments george floyd's life was slipping away. >> you think that's okay? check his pulse! >> tonight that now former officer, 44-year-old derek chauvin behind bars, details showing he had his knee on mr. floyd's neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. nearly three minutes of that after mr. floyd was nonresponsive. and an employer of chauvin saying that he worked security at her club. >> chauvin has been working for me for the better part of two decades as the off-duty of officer, and george worked kind

of as an extra. >> but this is the moment ic ar. >> this is a piece of justice, a first piece. it needed to be done. it's time. now, now go get the other ones. >> our local affiliate, kstp was with george floyd's girlfriend when she got word that the arrest had happened. she called it a measure of justice. is that how you see it? >> it's not complete justice. it's not what we were hoping for, and we are not done fighting for justice. we believe that justice in this case is an actual first degree murder charge, as well as felony murder for the other officers who were involved. >> there are memes going all over the internet. one of the most pop loular oness the tag line "do you believe me now." what does that mean to you in terms of what the african-american community is feeling right now in a sense of

what these videos portray? >> it required a video for people to see the kind of atrocities that go on in the black community the world over. when they say do you believe me now, they're referring to the bloodiest police culture in the modern world. >> the third precinct where chauvin worked a focal point. protesters stormed in and set it ablaze, all captured in this uniformed riot video. >> we are witnessing right now an articulation of anger and frustration and fear and stress. that so many black people have beenender the vulnerable by police and by other citizens. >> just a few miles from those protests tonight, senator tina smith weighing in on the hurt felt in minnesota. >> there are many fine individuals who work at the minneapolis police department. but underneath this, and intrinsic in this department i

believe is some deep issues around systemic racial bias and also a sense of violence and policing that we saw play out. on this video. but it is not new. >> the senator calling for the department of justice to investigate. >> what that means is an independent monitor comes in. there is agreement about what needs to change in the department. and that independent monitor does not leave until those changes have been made. >> in louisville, protests reached a boiling point. >> some in the crowd turned violent, leading to seven people being shot from within the crowd. >> the outcry here, erupting over the march 13th police killing of brianna taylor who was asleep in her apartment with her boyfriend kenneth walker when they heard what they thought were intruders. >> 911, operator harris, what is your emergency? >> somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend. >> okay, where was she shot at?

>> i don't know. she on the ground right now. i don't know. i don't know. >> okay. >> oh, my god. >> they believe they're about to be the subject of a home invasion. and so kenny, who is a registered gun owner gets his gun and go towards the living room area. >> but what walker encountered were louisville police officers on a narcotics raid. >> they breached the door with a battering ram and busted open. kenny shoots at the door, and then the police just open up 25, 30 rounds. >> taylor was killed after being shot at least eight times. no drugs were found, and the officers were placed on streetistreet administrative reassignment. her boyfriend charged with attempt the murder of a police officer and assault. >> connect the dots for me.

what is it that the nation is responding to right now? >> you have the situation start off with ahmad arbery. that was immediately followed by brie onna taylor. people could hear her boyfriend pleading for her life and this gruesome video of floyd being murdered. we can't rely on the same decision-makers. we have to take justice no our own hands. >> for those who knew and loved george floyd their pain still so raw. >> i'm numb to the point where i just can't do anything. watching my daughter hurt. knowing what she's going through. what she saw her daddy go through. it's just not fair. just not fair to anybody. >> rose hudson dated floyd more than 20 years ago.

their daughter too distraught to speak. >> they hurt these girls really, really bad. my daughter had to see her daddy be killed. on live tv. >> it's going to be emptiness that she's going to feel for the rest of her life, and to lose her dad is nothing short of horrific. >> it's a pain emily has been grappling with for almost six years. those three words "i can't breathe", a plea of mercy from her father eric garner on the streets of new york. what do you miss most about your dad? >> i miss going to the parks. i miss koorkicooking dinners. i mi every th,es, the cny tooyneod was on the ground with the knee at his neck, he cried out "mama." >> that was like my son crying

out from the grave. i know when my son was on that ground he was thinking about mel for gwen carr's activism. testifying before congress, not only to keep her son's legacy alive but to bring justice for so many who aren't being heard. >> we have thousands, tens of thousands of people who comes out to support. and soon as the cameras go, soon as the lights go out, the people are gone. but i wanted to let them know that it doesn't mean anything if a camera is there or if it's not. i'm going to be there. >> this afternoon, lending her voice in demanding change. when protesters take to the streets, they chant "i can't breathe." when you hear that, what occurs to you? >> that they didn't let my son

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as the protests in minneapolis sparked uprising across the country, an inflammatory tweet from the white house fanning the flames. abc's steve osunsami tonight with the son of marten luther jr. >> my i've lived here for 15 years and haven't seen nick li anything like this. it's surreal. >> reporter: the images are shocking, disturbing, upsetting,

confusing. to many people in this country, it doesn't make sense to burn down someone else's business and set fire to streets in your own neighborhood. >> no justice, no peace! prosecute the police! >> reporter: all in the name of justice. >> we must confront our shortcomings with both hugh mmi as well as hope. we must restore the peace so that we can do this hard work together. >> reporter: americans with more liberties than others have been asking why? why do this for more than half a century. and the answers are always bourne from america's original sin. first slavery, and after that, jim crow laws meant to keep black americans in their place. then came the civil unrest of the '60s, when most black americans are getting second class had educations from segregatedfr risring to vote in south and still couldn't sit at white lunch counters. in 1968, it was the execution of the greatest civil rigs lde

we've ever seen, looting miami. aaing ofan see some of the debris. these persons here are determined to drive the white cops out of the area. >> dad would not have want td to happen this way, but over 100 cities went up in flames between that period of april 4th to aprille april 8th or 9th when he was actually buried. >> reporter: the oldest son of dr. king says he doesn't condone the violence and looting and burning but understands it. you see on a lot of facebook pages, what good does it do to burn down neighborhoods, much less your own neighborhoods. what do you say to those people who ask those questions today? condone violence, ever.

i do understand the emotions, the anxiety, the frustration that people are going through. >> reporter: it was that question that hung in the air after the death of michael brown at the hands of a white police officer who was never charged in ferguson, missouri, and after freddie gray died in a police van in baltimore, and in 1992, after the acquittal of the white officers who nearly beat the life out of rodney king. >> we live in a society that still sees black people as violent, as dangerous, as immoral, as untrustworthy. so, when they have interactions with law enforcement, we don't get a presumption of innocence. when things escalate even a little bit, we're more likely to be killed. black people are exposed to level ofhathite

people simply are not. >> law enforceme onceool of yonk the water hoses and the dogs being turned on in innocent people, many of them young people. >> reporter: the president came out strong online in what's happening in minnesota, calling the protesters thugs, threatening to send in federal soldiers and tweeting that when the looting starts the shooting starts. the language isn't going over well and twitter labeled the message violent. the statement echoes a former police chief in miami who in 1967 and '68 threatened to crack the skulls of anti-war demonstrators. >> the president hais supposed provide strong ership, but while the city is on fire, the president is rsoline and it's sl

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we've no doubt seen throughout these heated protests a plea for dignity, for racial equity and for justice. but the civil unrest sparked by george floyd's death is now adding to a complicated legacy. that's "nightline" for tonight, we'll see you right back here same time next week. thanks for staying up with us. goodnight, america, have a safe weekend.

>> jimmy: hi, i'm jimmy. it is friday night. the end of another bad week in america. last night in minneapolis there was a protest, that turned into a riot, that turned into a scene you'd typically only see in a country at war.

on monday, an unarmed black man, george floyd became the latest in a series of unarmed black men to be killed by a police officer. for the crime of trying to pass a fake $20 bill, that he may not have even known was fake, an officer of the peace put his knee on the throat of another human being for eight minutes and ended his life. and many millions of americans are angry. especially in minneapolis. the policeman who killed george floyd, and the three other cops who stood there and did nothing to stop it were fired. but none of them had been charged with anything until today which was almost certainly a result of what happened last night. and the fact that no charges were filed for anyone who saw that video was hard to understand. so yesterday, late in the day, the us attorney, the county attorney and the fbi held a joint press conference, which was intended to reassure everyone that justice would be done. but it didn't. it made it worse.

and so again, protestors gathered. they threw rocks, they set