have. i want to thank sean penn. i want to thank lieutenant rob. apologies to matt damon. "nightline" is next. thank you for watching. have a wonderful weekend. >> announcer: this is "nightline." tonight, calling for crackdowns on protest. >> we will end it now. i am your president of law and order. >> the president mobilizing the military to end national unrest. urging governors to swiftly dominate demonstrators. demanding justice for geoe fl plus, f deep pain -- >> ah! >> the plea for peace from a heartbroken brother. >> if i'm not over her messing up my community, what are you all doing? >> what a private autopsy report of floyd reveals. zbl. >> announcer: "nightline." america in crisis. starts right now. with byron pitts. good evening.

thank you for joining us. it is another restless night in america. so many are calling for calm and unity. the president tonight demanding a strong and muscular response from law enforcement, possibly the u.s. military. the death of george floyd setting off a convulsion of demonstrations and dangers we have not seen to this degree in generations. a moment where our nation's young people, black and white, are leading. a brother in mourning. a nation in pain. a president attempting to stop the violence. after seven days of unrest in over 100 cities thousands arrested. president trump today addressed the nation. >> all americans were rightly sickened and grge fld.ter: tha happening moments after protesters were tear-gassed just outside the white house. the president began by acknowledging the death of george floyd at the hands of police officers. >> by administration is fully

committed that for george and his family justice will be served. he will not have died in vain. >> reporter: but quickly turned forceful. >> as we speak, i am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults, and the wanton destruction of property. >> reporter: what we did not hear tonight was a path forward for this deepl divided nation. cameras scrambled as he and several members of his staff walked over to st. john's church across the street. a bible in his hand. >> we have a great country. >> reporter: then posing for photos with five others including attorney general william barr. >> we have the greatest country in the world. thank you very much, everybody. >> that was a stunt. that was a photo op. he brandished a bible like a starlet with a fancy purse on the catwalk. >> it was a peaceful demonstration. they were expressing themselves.

the president wasn't happy. he literally walked over to a church to hold up a bible. and they were charged and tear gas used to clear them out so the president could go there and take a photo. >> reporter: abc's martha raddatz was on the ground. >> it's about 8:00 p.m. now. curfew has been under way since 7:00 p.m. here. the protesters are still going up and down the streets surrounding the white house. >> we're out here because we're frustrated. we're sick of not having our voices heard. we're sick of being treated like second-class citizens in a country our ancestors built. >> reporter: all this following a call with the nation's governors this morning, an angry president trump railing on state leaders telling them they must "dominate over the protests." >> if you don't dominate you're wasting your time. they're going to run over you. you're going to look like a bunch of jerks. >> under donald trump we've seen a ratcheting up of pushing law enforcement to be more brutal,

use excessive force. he has told law enforcement in his own words to hurt people. right? what we know are those people are mostly black people. >> reporter: the president receiving instantaneous praise from those on the right on twitter. but at least one republican governor, charlie baker, broke ranks to condemn the president's response. >> so many times during these past several weeks when the country needed compassion and leadership the most it was simply nowhere to be found. instead we got bitterness, combativeness, and self-interest. >> reporter: more than 1,000 miles away in minneapolis terrence floyd taking the steps no little brother should ever have to take. >> i want to pay my respects for my brother.

i wanted to be able to just connect spiritually with him in that space. just to be in his presence one last time. >> terrence struggling to find his footing as he approached the makeshift memorial for his brother, george floyd. >> still a little numb about it. you know, because just looking at it and seeing it all over social media and just coming e alation that that's my brother. >> reporter: when he reached the street where his brother took his last breaths one week ago today, the sounds of grief -- [

>> don't forget to breathe. >> thank you. >> reporter: then terrence asking his brorkt for strengtth. >> i need you and pops to watch over me. i know what you want. >> you want some water? >> what's his name? >> george floyd! >> what's his name? >> george floyd! >> what's his name? >> george floyd! >> what's his name? >> reporter: standing before the crowd to deliver a message, his voice once again strong. >> if i'm not over here wilding out, if i'm not over here blowing up stuff, if i'm not over here messing up my community, then what are y'all doing? because that's not going to bring my brother back at all. let's stop thinking that outrage don't matter and vote!

>> those are the people who want deep and profound change. they want a new leadership, both at a local level and the national. and they want their families and communities to be safe. >> reporter: black lives matter co-founder patrice culherst knows the suffering of black families all too well. her own brother allegedly assaulted by police. she says she's been fighting for justice for too long. >> they're asking for accountability. they want to see the arrests of all the officers involved. they want to have no more terror, no more police terror in their communities. we barely get a sorry. we rarely get accountability. and we never get change. so what are people to do? >> his cause of death medically was mechanical asphyxiation. >> reporter: this afternoon floyd family attorneys announcing the results of an independent autopsy that contradicted the state's preliminary finding. last friday derek chauvin was

charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, becoming the first white officer in minnesota to be criminally prosecuted in the death of a black civilian. the three remaining officers have not been charged. >> i want to see all of them get punished to the full extent for what they did to my brother. >> reporter: terrence told my colleagueha h ul >> is third degree enough? >> no. >> you want first degree? >> yes. >> reporter: as floyd's family seeks solace, his body returns to his hometown of houston. a nation searching for answers. >> earlier tonight i spoke with black lives matter co-founder patrice callers. what are your thoughts on what president trump said tonight? >> what he said tonight was disturb i

disturbing and dangerous. and with that i think it's time for him to resign. i think we cannot wait for november. folks want him out. >> i imagine it's highly unlikely he's going to resign. he is the leader of the free world. how do his words impact the purpose of your movement and what you're trying to accomplish? >> i think when trump says things like local protesters are domestic terrorists it reminds me of when black lives matter was called terrorists, when i was called a terrorist and our other blm members were called terrorists. this is very dangerous language. and especially under this president who has galvanized white nationalists and white racists in this country, white supremacists. this is dangerous rhetoric that really does impact people on the

ground and it impacts our broader movement as well. >> with that said, how concerned are you about the looters and the law breakers hijacking the movement? what you so deeply want to accomplish. >> i think it's not so black and white. so i want us to be careful of that. it's a question i've received over and over again in the media. i'm more interested in the quef police violence, police terror. it's the reason we're on the streets. we're protesting against police terror. that's what these protests are about. and i think we need to have a conversation about why are law enforcement taking a knee in one media take and then in the next they're beating protesters, they are pepper spraying them? rarely am i hearing media anchors ask, you know, why are police being the aggressors at protests? that's what our concern is. and we need to get back to the

message. this is a fight for black life. >> well, there will be many questions to ask and many nights to ask them. patrisse, cullers, thank you so very much for your time. we wish you continued grace. thank you, ma'am. up next, police and protesters uniting. how they're pushing forward peace in the wake of national protests. >> no justice! >> no peace! >> no justice! >> no peace!

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for days scenes of american cities engulfed in flames and tension. but in striking contrast moments of police and protesters uniting around the country. in houston. >> these young people have every right to be out here protesting peacefully. >> reporter: flint. oklahoma city. and in camden, new jersey, a city plagued by high crime rates md pic cef jeph

wisocki marched with protesters. for some camden residents symbolic steps closer to justice. earlier i spoke with protest organizer yolanda deaver and camden police chief joseph wisocki. chief, i want to start with you. set the scene for us. this weekend amid all the forceful crackdowns across the nation you set a different tone. why? >> we had to connect with the community. and our core of the police department's community policing and working together. we met with yolanda, who's the organizer of the protest, on friday. and she said it was okay for the police to attend. my goal was if i could as a police chief to be part of the protest if yolanda permitted me. but also help deescalate some tensions in the city. people are very upset. >> yolanda, tell me about that moment when the chief asked to join with you. were you surprised? >> police officers have a bad name. unfortunately because there's a

long systemic trend of injustice and things of that nature, police brutality. you know, what happened to george floyd. so you know, unfortunately they do have a bad name. when chief wysocki reached out to me and he let me know he wanted to walk with me, i felt moved and i felt like it was the right thing to do. after watching the video of george floyd and the police officer, i had a horrible feeling in my heart and in my body because you know, i'm a woman of color, i have three sons. that could have very well been one of my sons on the ground. i felt as though i needed to do something. i didn't know what i needed to do but i needed to do something. i wanted to go to minneapolis and, you know, do something. but it didn't look too safe. i decided to have a march here in my city. >> yolanda, you're also a small business owner. what do you say to those

becoming violent and looting across the country? and are you concerned it could happen? k57 in camden? >> this is happening because of what happened to george floyd and the long systemic, you know, police brutality. this is why, you know, people are behaving the way that they are. >> chief, a question for you. what does community policing look like in camden and how do you think that allowed you to divert a violent outcome like we've seen play out across the country? >> after the protest march on saturday we had different locations in the city. we were doing pop-up barbecues. so we brought out like portable basketball nets. we brought out mr. softee, which is a soft serve ice cream truck. we want people to get to see us other than calling 911 in an emergency situation. we want people to see us and to get to know who the officer is and get to know the officers and us to get to know the residents. community policing, it's not a check box for us.

this is something that we do every day. >> so it sounds like you did a lot of the hard work before that viral moment a couple days ago. yolanda, what conversation would you want to have with other police chiefs around the country? >> to try to eliminate racism from their precincts. >> on saturday when we started the march yolanda started to chant "black lives matter." and then she looked at me and said, "sorry." and then she started to chant "all lives matter." and what happened next, yolanda? >> i looked at the chief -- because i didn't want him to think that i was a racist person. and he looked at me and he was like, "no." and he threw up his fist and he started chanting "black lives matter." and it's fine. and he looked at me and he said, "it's fine." you know. then in that moment i gained his trust. i trusted him. and i knew for a fact that he was walking with us in solidarity. and we shared the same views. so he gained my trust right then

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and finally tonight, the family of george floyd is heartbroken, insisting looting and violence is not the answer. our nation pained. where do we go from here? it was martin luther king jr. who said, "darkness cannot drive out darkness. only light can do that. hate cannot drive out hate. only love can do that." that's "nightline" for this evening. "world news now" will have the latest on any flare-ups overnight and more from "gma" in the morning. thanks for the company, america. stay safe. good night.

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