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. peaceful protests return to the nation's street. smaller but passionate as ever. new calls for racial justice in minneapolis for those mourning george floyd's death. >> that's where real justice happens. >> the president orders the national guard to withdraw. also tonight. law and order. the attorney general says the president never demanded 10,000 active duty troops and defends the use of force on people protesting, saying they pose a threat. >> pepper spray is not a
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chemical ircan't tackedic in th spotlight well beyond minneapolis. and later -- >> no justice, no peace. >> voices from the protest front lines. >> broad day light. >> good evening. i'm major garrett. demonstrations sparked by the death of george floyd while in minneapolis police custody 13 days ago have coalesced into what appears to be a nationwide todapl returned to the street falling for police reforms and racial justice. the crowds diverse and overwhelmingly peaceful. jamie youkilis tonight where it all began. >> rtearks a
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week since george floyd died at the hands of fighting against police brutality and racism. crowds returned to american streets again today following yesterday's mass demonstrations, protesting the death of george floyd. overnight it got ugly in portland, oregon and seattle. washington, d.c. congressman john lewis joined the city's mayor to visit the site. going to black lives matter plaza. >> it's been powerful. >>an francisco, ppedraffic al iconic gden gate bridge. a rally with nearly 30,000. not semp inviting change. a map and his wife in mont confronted a small crowd of
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protesters. he's been charged with disorderly conduct after yelling expletives and those shouting peaceful back at him. in virginia demonstrators toppled the statue of a cop fed rat figure. today, the president said he would withdraw some from d.c. . and asked a question. >> minneapolis police department. >> he said he did not support fully defunding the department. before he could finish. minneapolis is a city still trying to come to grips with its past while at the same time trying to heal wounds.
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tomorrow officer derek chauvin will make his first appearance in court. >> thank you. tomorrow president trump plans toor the white house describes as a round table discussion, this over new fallout to the president's response to the protest and nicole kill yam is at the white house. >> reporter: pruch said he's ordering the national guard to start the process of withdrawing from washington, claiming everything is under perfect control. it followed a day of peaceful protests saturday but last weekend, a senior add mpgs tells cbs news the president demanded the military put out 10,000 active duty troops immediately against the objections of the defense second serkt, the chairman of the joint chiefs and attorney general william barr. barr on face the nation. >> completely false, completely false. sunt sunday night --
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>> he did not demand that. >> no, he did not. >> they called the account false and told cbs news in a statement president trump remains confident in esper. pro testifies were forcibly cleared out of lafayette square for the president's photo op at st. john's church. >> this was an operation to move the perimeter one block. >> they message they used was appropriate. >> when they met with resistance, yes. >> colin powell says he agrees with other officials who have condemned the president's actions. >> he has been not an effective president. >> and he said he won't support him in november. >> i'm very close to joe biden on a social matter and on. he's grateful rappels the board
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now who serve through the bush examination did not vote for trump until 2016. major. >> nicole, thank you very much. a remarkable show of solid air protests against racism and police tactics are showing up around the world. elizabeth palmer is in london. >> reporter: in britain, officials had asked people to stay away. but they weren't listening. instead, thousands defied the covid lockdown rules to deliver a message of solidarity with american protesters. >> black lives matter. >> the police stood back and watched. every here knows about britain's racist past. in the city of bristol, the crowd pulled come to a statue of a 17th century slave trader edward coalston. everywhere, george floyd's death
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has struck a mighty cord. >> systemic racism in the uk. this is a chance to make a stand. >> people looking at me and wondering why i'mthere. sunday's demonstration in sunday. all weekend there have been protests like this around the world. >> reporter: in paris, they marched and in rome, silent crowds took knee. in sidney, is australia, the focus was on aboriginal people beaten or killed in custody. in 2015 australia had its own george floyd. david dunge who died in prison shouting "i can't breathe." >> as the sign says, samesty, differentsoil. a few hours after the peaceful demonstration ended, riot police formed up to protect the entrance to the pick and rolls's
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i'm joined by cbs news political correspondent ed o'kiev. ed, a new poll out today says 80% of voters believe the country is out of control. how does this perceptio into president trump and joe biden's campaign? >> it becomes a big part of what they're taking about. the isn't taken on sort of the 1968 nixon law and order vibe. just tweeting those words several times in recent days,
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suggesting that he's getting tough on crime but he's been avoiding direct questions about whether or not he thinks there's systemic racism in law enforcement or in the government, what he would do to address the complaints of protesters. monday he's bodien is flying to houston to be with the family of george floyd. to deal the broader yeshs of racism. general colin powell announced he's not supporting president trump's re-election. he did not support it in fwikt, either. james mattis, john kelly have also raised concern about president trump's leaders a hisab i ses, s unwillingnesso uniteoes this voernts? >> it will resonate with those in the force right who make take
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cues from former military leaders. there are reports that cindy mccain and george w. bush will not support him either. it will create some space for republicans who don't want him to be president again to support him. i can tell you based on my reporting the biden campaign is less concerned winning over republicans than they are making sure the young liberal voters who supported bernie sanders will be votesing for joe biden. >> tropical storm cristobal has caused a state of emergency to be declared. could drop up to a foot of rain. a startling story. a sheriff's deputy killed in an ambush saturday. sergeant damon gutsweller got a
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call about a van filled with explosives. the driver of the van opened fire and set off explosives, killing the sergeant and wounding a second deputy and another officer. the suspect, an active duty sergeant from travis air force base was wounded and is now in custody. new york city is back in business tomorrow. many shops can reopen in the one-time epicenter of this pandemic, but several restrictions will stay in place. infections are still adding up in the united states and today the death toll topped 110,000, the most of any country in the world. the trump administration is expected soon to name five vaccine candidates it has chosen as part of operation warp speed. cbs's meg oliver reports. >> reporter: since january dr. dan ba ruk hasn't taken a day off, working long hours to develop a advantage seep. >> vaccine twomt for covid-19 is
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proceeding at a pace far faster than any vaccine development in history. >> dr. ba ruk is director for the center of virology. he has led groundwork on vaccines. >> are you concerned you're moving too fast. >> the super bowl not to compromise patient safety at all. ultimately a vaccine absolutely must be safe. >> researchers are taking part of the coronavirus dna and transferring it into a weakened common cold virus. the body will produce andy bodies triggering an immune response. >> we know from using this past. >> bruk believes this will allow them to mass produce this
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vaccine if approved. it's a gamble that johnson & johnson is bet on with a commitment to produce a billion doses as soon as it is ready. >> the outcome of the production will start late this year with millions of vaccines as more manufacturing capac up to the ten millions and then the hundreds of millions. >> he's optimistic trials will start as early as august, a step closer, he hopes, to ending the pandemic. >> ahead, george floyd's death puts a banned police tactic in the spotlight nationwide. our pandemic inflicted airlines ready for a revival. after two weeks of protests we will hear from voices on the front lines. my gums are irritated.
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by police departments across the country but not in minneapolis. anna werner reports some officers are being caught using it. >> reporter: this was the moment when san francisco officers took down 19-year-old kay john busby with one officer putting her knee on his neck. they'd come to his house after an argument with busby and the neighbor. >> all i remember is a lot of yelling between officers, me, the lady. >> phillies told him to leave. >> why should i have to leave the area. i live here. >> they put him on the ground and happened cuffed him. >> stop resisting! >> video shot by a by stander showed a female officer and her knee. >> i felt her knee right around this area. >> what do you remember? >> it felt like five minutes but -- >> you do not put your name on that. that's been the standard
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practice for the last at least 30 years. >> john peters is one of four law enforcement experts cbs news asked to review the videos. tleef of the four agreed the efrs officer's knee was on his neck and shouldn't have been. >> that position, we know, can seriously injure someone's cervical spine or break a bone. that's why police training has instructed officers for a lock time not to put direct pressure on someone's neck. >> other alleged knee on neck incidents have come to light, including in chicago. spoe cap and here in sarasota, florida. >> you got your knee on my man's neck, man. >> video clearly shows an officer's knee off the back of a man's neck. the district attorney dropped charges against him and says he's troubled by the officer putting a knee on his beck neck.
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the number of flights for july and bond. but the same airlines are setting for staff cuts. it's a rough flight path ahead. >> after cutting 80% of its schedule american airlines say they're 55% full at the end of may with triple the number of passengers from the month earlier. they began temperature checks, a first in the u.s. >> the state of the u.s. airline industry is recovering from a blow to its gut. >> travel analyst -- >> a lot of people want to see somebody else go first. they want to see somebody else dip their toe in the travel waters, then they'll go. >> do you think they'll go into bankruptcy or go away? >> i don't think so. >> this man says recovery will be slow. >> anywhere between two and four years. >> people will not be used to
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working from home and companies will see this is a big way for them to save money. >> airlines are focussing on reducing coronavirus risks. qatar is outfitting people with ppe. soon they will officer passengers face shields. >> do you think that look may scare people away? >> no. on the contrary. it is showing to people how much we care about their safety but also for my crew to have confidence. >> but when it comes to preflight covid tests and temperature checks. >> look, i think this is another fear exercise. >> is social distancing possible on a airline? >> chris, i think this is a lot of baloney. i don't think sitting next to somebody in an air plain with proper protection for yourself it will be any different. >> a debate over fly's new normal that's still taking off.
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no dmabd, less talking and more listening. this perspective will be about voices that don't speak from a desk. >> it's 2020 and i still can't breathe. >> he was lynched in broad day light by a public official during a plague. that's why i came out here. >> i think force is necessary at times. >> i want to say no, but obviously it is. >> why have real bullets, real bullets at protesters. all i have a camera, brother. >> this isn't the end. is it going to come in our ly ? lifetime? i hope so. >> i'm done hoping. i want action. i want change. i'm going to bring it.
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>> i don't think we can change the system in one day but if we continue to educate ourselves and hold everyone accountable, all those things will come into place. >> black lives matter. >> we just want justice. we want to stop being killed. we want to have children and ouanotingck are g yw. we will show up every day until black lives matter. >> this is the first lane out of all four nights i see something different. >> this is a peaceful night. i hope it stays that way. >> we're all here for the better, ok? >> that's the overnight news for this muhammad. for some of you the news continues. for others, please check back later for cbs this morning. l, mor garrett.eme on cbs
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this is the "cbs overnight newsd tratparked by the death of george floyd while in minneapolis police custody 13 days ago have coalesced into what appears to be a nationwide movement. again today people rurmd to the streets calling for reforms and justice. the crowds, diverse and overwhelmingly peaceful. jamie eukis in minneapolis where it all began. >> reporter: tomorrow marks two weeks since george floyd died.
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his death has sparked movements in at least 150 american cities. crowds returned to american streets again today following yet's mass demonstrations protesting the death of george floyd. overnight it got ugly in portland oregon and seattle. washington, d.c. congressman and civil rights icon john lewis joined the city's mayor. renamed black lives matter plaza. >> i think in d.c. and around the nation, mighty colorful message to the rest of the world. >> in san francisco demonstrations blocked traffic along the iconic goldin gate bridge. a rally drew nearly 30,000. not everybody is inviting change. a man in white fish, montana, confronted a small group of
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protesters and yelled expletives and hit the signs of those chanting peaceful back at him. in virginia demonstrators toppled the statue of a federal general in virginia. more than 32,000 members of the national guard have been activated to keep crowds under control but today the president said he would withdraw some from d.c. >> many of the demonstrations came on the same day george floyd was mourned in north carolina. in minneapolis where floyd was killed, marchers stopped outside the mayor's house and asked him a question. >> will you be going to mals? >> he said he did not support fully defunding the department and before he could finish -- >> go home! >> minneapolis is a city trying to come to grips with its past while at the same time trying to heal wounds for a better much. tomorrow officer derek chauvin
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will make his first court appearance. major. >> thank you. tomorrow president trump plans to have a round table discussion, this amid fall out over the president's new comments. >> reporter: president trump says he's ordering the national guard to start the process of withdrawing from washington, claiming everything is under perfect control. it follows a day of peaceful protests in the nation's capital saturday. last weekend when demonstration turned violent, a senior administration officials tells cbs news the president demanded the military put out 10,000 active duty troops immediately against the objections of the defense second, the chairman of the joint chiefs and attorney general william barr. barr on "face the nation." is that accurate? >> no. it's completely false, completely false. summed night -- >> the president did not demand that? >> no he did not demand that.
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>> the white house called the account false and told cbs news in a statement president trump remains confident in secretary esper. the attorney general also defended the response monday against pretefrs who were forcefully cleared out of the square by the president. >> this is not a response to that particular crowd. it was an operation to move the perimeter one block. >> and the methods they used weren't appropriate? >> when they met resistance, yet. >> colin powell says he agrees with other military officials who have condemned the president's actions. >> he has been not an effective president. >> and says he won't vote for him in november. >> i'm close to joe biden and he is now the candidate and i will be voting for him. >> the president called powell a real stiff and highly overrated. >> biden tweeted he's grateful
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for his support. he did not vote for president trump in 2016. he supported hillary clinton and before that, former president obama. major? >> nicole, thank you very much. i'm joined by cbs news political correspondent ed o'keefe. ed, a new poll finds that 80% of voters feel things in the country are out of control. that's not the traditional right track/wrong track. how does this figure in? >> it's become a big part of what they're both talking acts. the president's taken on sort o vibe. in fact just tweeting those words several times, suggesting he's getting tough on crime but he's been avoiding direct questions about whether he thinks there's systemic racism or what he would do to protect
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protesters in the streets. joe biden monday is nighing to houston for a private meeting with george floyd, a sign that he expects to continue to talk about and highlight concerns about the needs for police reform and to deal with the broader issues of racism. >> former secretary of state and gene colin powell said he's not supporting president trump's election. he did not support it in 2016, either. officials have raised concerns about president trump's leadership and his inability, in some cases his unwillingness, they say, to unite the country. how does this resonate with veterans? >> it certainly will. there are reports that people like george w. bush and cindy mccain, the wife of the late senator, aren't going to support him anymore. it might create some space for
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moderate republicans who don't necessarily want him to be president again to support him. based on my reporting, the biden campaign is less concerned with winning over republicans than they are making sure younger liberal voters are voting for joe biden in november. >> thank you so much. cristobal is crashing into the louisiana coast tonight. nearly 9 t million people are under tropical storm warnings. a state of emergency has been declared. kris balance could drop up to a foot of rain. now a starting story. a sheriff's deputy was killed in an ambush saturday near santa cruz, california. sergeant day bhon lbout a suspicious van loaded with explosives. the driver of the van opened fire and set off explosives, killing the sergeant and wounding a second deputy and another faef. the sect, an active duty sergeant from travis air force base, was wounded and is now in
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i'm major garrett reporting from washington. thanks for staying with us. for two weeks protests over the deaths of george floyd have pushed the coronavirus out of the headlines. in keeping track of the spread of the coronavirus is the job of a little known federal agencies, the survegs digital service. when top white house officials need statistics from the coronavirus task force, the
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the george floyd protests have shiepd a light on another battle ground in the fight for racial justice, confederate mop umts. the virginia governor announced that confederate robert e. lee statue in richmond will be taken down. anthony mason has the story. >> the war heroes of the confederacy have lock lined richmond's monument avenue. the biggest of all, six stories high, the statue of gemer e. has stood since 1890. yes that statue has been there for a long time. but it was wrong then and it is
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wrong now. >> the governor said virginia could no longer honor a system that supported slavery. >> so i am directing the department of general services to remove the statue of robert e. lee as soon as possible. [ applause ] >> the monuments have become a focal point of protests in the aftermath of george floyd's death. wednesday night an image of floyd was proemgd on the base of the lee statue. >> we're glad. they're taking action and they're taking what we're saying seriously. so we're glad that our voices are being heard finally. >> i hope that real change comes. >> the former capital of the confederacy raised the statue 25 years of the south lost the civil war. in 1890.
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>> from the beginning there was no secret about what the statue meant. almost every one of those 150,000 people waved confederate flags that day. >> even general lee's decent end, the reverend robert w. lee iv back to the decision. >> it's a symbol of oppression and if it becomes a sill bol it becomes an idol and if it's an idol i'm equipsed as a christian the idols must be torn do you know. >> the state senator, a republican candidate for governor, reacted on facebook. >> it's all about shoving this down people's throats and erasing the history of the white people and i think that's wrong. >> but 's mayor, lavar stony wants all the confederate statues removed. >> i don't think they should be
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on grand blvls. i think should be found in cemeteries and battlefields. >> this artist came face-to-face with them for the first time a few years ago. >> what did you see? >> i saw a spectacle that felt dreadful to be in a black body walking through the streets of richmond and to see something that signifies the enslavement of your people, that's a little more heavy duty. >> best known for painting president obama's portrait answered with a 27-foot high bronze sculpture of a young black man on horse back unveiled in december with virginia's museum of fine arts in front of thousands. >> who is this map? well, he's anyone and no one. i any it meant a lot to me to be able to say that in the 21st century, we as a society can say yes to a monument to a young
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black man in a hoody. >> you want your statue to speak back to those statues? >> i want my statue to speak back to the people looking at those accepts to have something exist on a monumental level because this is a monumental conversation the country needs to have. the fight for racial equality is not only outside on the streets. for many of us here at krbtsz, it's personal. michelle reflects on her own experience in our series "the race for justice." >> ferguson, missouri. le stanford, florida. charlestop, south carolina. cities that are scarred. what they've come to represent, say protesters, is police misconduct, up hernt bias or outright hatred. dmopers say they want a change in how black people are
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perceived. in charleston, shame, it seems, moves south carolinians to bring down a flag that flew high above the cradle of the cop fed ra si white supremacy across the south. shame removed in weeks what decades could not. the system that allows police brutality, high rates of up cars race and rests, are much harder to dismantle. but to do that, say protesters, is to acknowledge the systematic discrimination. born into the unrest of the late 1960s, i was raised in south central los angeles, a product of an interracial union. a fact they do not acknowledge. an early less op for me came from my grand mother. she warned me to steer clear of
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police officers. my father, a doctor at aiming 22 had placed his hopes in a senator running for president. campaigned with him, only to rush to his side when an assassin's bullet felled him moments after he won the california primary. when bussing came to california to write dright the wrongs of uneducation, that little girl was me. i didn't feel i fit in. my first job out of college was at the los angeles times and short reply after came the vape beating of rodney king. we all game eyewitnesss then. here was evidence to decades of claims. but the acquittal of four lapd officers proved society seized something dichbts. and yet in that despair was hope, too, in a pickup game of basketball between and four whie police officers on break from pa control.
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>> i saw hope again in new orleans a few years later. a city with the highest murder rate watching first as a journalist and then as first lady. the city found a way to root out bad cops, bad policing, and cut the overall violent crime rate by more than half. as hurricane katrina so a dentally proved that disparities still existed. i found the voices speaking for amgs of change and a movement recognizing the rootsing out racism takes a life long commitment and an acknowledgement that its cloak of indy advise ability. everyone must see who she was and who she is in order to decide who she wants to be. we are living with the remnants of her original sin.
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government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to ks have tested the moral strength of our nation and shown its compassion. as steve hartman found out on the road. >> by now, you've seen this. and this. by now you've probably seen all the most intense and shocking moments. but did you see this? actual footage of protesters just walking. this march happened to be in waco, texas, but we found lots of remarkably unremarkable video of largely peaceful protests across the nation.
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small towns like we matchy washington to big cities like newark, new jersey. we saw punches thrown, mostly at the sky and outrange chamd mostly into chants. black lives matter. >> we saw a lot of police doing nothing wrong and a lot of protesters doing everything rights. >> we can do this peace fully and we can do it because wie got strength in numbers. >> in los angeles, they took the notion of a peaceful protest to a whole new level, adding in yoga. in houston, some mampd on horseback while on maui they gathered on surfboards at sunset. so it was. until their own way in all 50 states, people of all colors, all joined together often by the thousands or in this case by herself. 80-year-old leta austin foster was the only one to march in
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palm beach florida on tuesday where a police officer cited her for not drinking enough fluids and gave her a water bottle. those are just some of the moments that have gone unreported this week. moment of tolerance, fortitude, and restrapt. still, no signal moment can sum up the wild week that was. whether our nation deinvolved or evolved will lie in the eye of the beholder, but no matter what your take away, i believe you will find hope in this last scene. newark new jersey, a guy with a baseball bat, seems like he's about to bash a window when out of nowhere a flock of better angels swoopes in to give him a n ♪ and a second chance. >> a hug and a second chance. a good first step. steve hartman, cbs news, on the
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road. ♪ somebody to lean on ♪ >> and that's the pt spoed by s >> garrett: tonight: peaceful protests return to the nation's streets. smaller, but passionate as ever. new calls for racial justice in minneapolis, for those mourning george floyd's death. ustice inu going to show up at the polls? that is where real justice happens. >> garrett: in the nation's capitol, president trump orders the national guard to withdraw. and new york's mayor lifts the city's curfew. but overnight, clashes in portland and seattle. >> leave now. >> garrett: also tonight, law and order. the attorney general says the president never demanded 10,000 active-duty troops, and defends the use of force on peaceful protestors, sayinghey posed a ist. >> garrett: with the world watching, demonstrators here
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