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i had to do my job, which is protect the community. >> reporter: sergeant jamie jones is with the decatur police department in alabama. 130 people are on the force, 19 of them are black. >> i think if you don't study one's culture or no someone else's background that you're dealing with, you can see them as a threat when they're not a threat. >> reporter: do you think that happens? i believe that does happen. there have been times when i've been out of uniform where i have been treated differently. i keep those stories at home or away from work. >> reporter: when you're not in uniform in town, are you ever concerned for your safety? >> out of uniform, i'm just another guy. i'm a black man first. all right. and if they have any issues with, you know, the black race or what they see on tv, then they may feel threatened a little bit by just the sight of me or being in close proximity of me.
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>> i think overall black officers don't speak about what's happening in the black community with white officers and i think it's an underlying fear of what will it mean pabt my relationships? the policing relationship can be close. you need each other. >> do you think you would share with some of those white colleagues the experiences you might open their eyes? >> i believe someone would sympathize with me and understand. like i said, it's just personal preference. >> reporter: in 2016 a pew study found 92% of white officers believe the u.s. has made the necessary changes to assure equal rights for african-americans. while only 29% of their black colleagues agreed. that same study found 86% of officers felt high proifl fatal encounters between police and black people made their jobs more difficult. chief hawkins acknowledges it's
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challenging but said she's unwavering in her position as a black member of law enforcement. >> if they are not in this profession, who will we leave it up to? it's a hard position to be in to know what i stand for and to know what it should be lining and to know what it's going to take to eradicate the wupds that should not be in this ooumpl. but i need the good ones to stay strong. i need the good ones to speak up and know we are going to change the world with george floyd. so yeah, it's hard. but it was never promised to be easy. >> reporter: sounds like you think you can do more from inside the police force? inside the police force? >> absolutely, ever since darrell's family started using gain flings, their laundry smells more azing than ever. ah, honey! isn't that the dog's towel? hey, me towel su towel.
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♪ round and round! ♪ what comes around, goes around. ♪ for bundling made easy, go to geico.com >> the vaped death of george floyd with the knee of a white police officer pressed against his neck shocked the nation. and it triggered a level of protests and outrage this country hasn't seen in decades. president trump's military response to the demonstrations in washington only added fuel to the fire. so how did our nation get to this point? the whitaker spoke to they are lynn eiffel. of the ncaa legal defense fund on 60 minutes. >> race lies at so much of the core of what is problematic in our society today and that is so easily exploitable, because we
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have not had the kurmg in this country and particularly most white people have not had the courage to really decide that this is your job every day as a citizen is to deal with the fractures that ultimately, if we don't confront them, will destroy us. >> we met her at the national constitution center in philadelphia. it's closed to the public because of the pandemic. the center sits just across the mall from independence hall and just down the street from scenes of protests and violence that racked the city of brotherly love like so many others. >> i can't breathe. >> reporter: seeing the life squeezed out of george floyd by officer doerk derkerek chauvin' his neck has brought to the fore front the ugly reality of racial injustice in america. >> why was this incident such a spark? >> i've been doing this work for a long time and i've seen a lot
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of terrible videos. and this one actually struck me differently also. >> reporter: what was different about it? >> it was long. it was long and to see someone's life being taken from them with that kind of excruciating deliberation, the officer looking out at us like that. >> reporter: looks at the kwaerm, knows he's being recorded and doesn't seem to care. >> that's important. it was believed and said by many that now that we have the videos things would be different. so i think one of the reasons why the george floyd video set us off so much was the realizatioot different. we've seen the videos. and the videos seem not to make a difference, and that's why that officer could look like that. he wasn't afraid of being videotaped. he wasn't trying to hide what he was doing. >> reporter: what about the
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other officers? what is their complicity? >> the officer who killed george floyd most directly derek chauvin, who had 18 misconduct kplapts against him already, nothing can be done with that officer. but when i looked at the officers around him, they seem to me like more of the people who probably are police officers, who stand and watch, who are bystanders. that's why the other officers are so important, because we will hear wins again that this is about a bad apple. a bad apple. and it's not about a bad apple. it's about a system, a system of actors and those who are complice it with those actors. there are moments i this country when there are photographs that aroul of this . they almost hold up a mirror to this country. and when we see this picture of the nonchalance with which america will put its knee on the
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neck of black people and make itself deaf to our suffering, deaf to our cries, deaf to our desperation, that's the snapshot. that's america. that's america that can see african-americans suffering from disproportionately from covid infection and covid death can see us subject to housing discrimination, can see us as the lowest wage workers, can see us being victims of voter suppression, can see our desperation and still won't change, still won't let the knee up one bit. >> reporter: george floyd's killing reveals an america we haven't seen in generations. armed soldiers guard the lincoln memorial. looting across the country on row dayo drive in beverly hills, on kensington avenue in philadelphia.
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and like the storming of the bastille, the third precinct police station headquarters for the officers who arrested george floyd was set bu as the smoke c mimgs that emerged were these. americans of every color, aiming, and gender filling streets across the country in daily massive peaceful protest es. like the one in front of the white house monday that turned to mayhem. when attorney general bill barr approved plans for federal officers and armed troops to forcefully clear the streets. on monday night after seven straight days of protest all over the country, president trump said i am the law and order president.
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what did you make of that? >> it was frankly among the most appalling displays of power i really have ever seen and certainly have ever seen in this country. rea constituted a moment of tremendous debasement for this democracy. >> what do you mean? >> i mean that the president wanted to show that he was strong. he wanted to do a photo op in front of a chump holding a bible. and he wanted to show and to demonstrate his version of strength. which is tear gassing peaceful protesters outside the white house. >> reporter: when you say his version of strength, it sounds like you don't think that that showed strength. >> well, we call them strong men because that's they're goal is to appear strong.reof in the willingness to lead a true democracy. you are strong because you can
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hear dissent. and it is not strong to gas people and to stand in front of a building with a bible. that's not strength. that is a performance. >> is that your bible? >> it's a bible. >> reporter: the president is called the violence across the country domestic terrorism and he has said that he will be dominating the streets. >> you know, more concerning to me than the president saying we have to dominate the streets was listening to that phone call and hearing our attorney general, bill barr say but we must dominate the streets. the attorney general of the united states saying that on a phone call with governors. part of the thing that has been so alarming is not mr. president trump himself but the amount of people who have been willing to go along with things that we would have regarded as beyond the pale and who have been willing to be parts of this up raveling of our democracy.
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as more states move to reopen, many businesses are turning to high technology to stay safe. nichelle medina has a look. >> these drones could be valuable in sports. they developed the flying machine to spray covid disiinfect ent. a number of businesses are embracing technology. this robot at hong kong international airport sprays disinfect endened used u.v. light. at pittsburgh international airport this machine is equipped with u.v. technology. so is this robot that a company in belgium is building. this mall in thai lapd has a
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robot that mop tors shoppers by taking their temperature. and in south korea smart machines with serving coffee. the robot creates some 60 different kinds of drinks. tables are placed at a distance and an ah top muss card is used to deliver the order. no human workers planned. they plan to open another 30 cafes in south korea in the coming months. nichelle medina. >> one low-tech device used to keep us safe, facemasks, can also cause problems. naomi ruccum spoke to the experts. >> reporter: across the country health workers are sharing photos like these showing whack happen after wearing a mass. >> these bumps around our masks, breakouts around the chin. >> the itchiness, the redness. >> reporter: some nurses have
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copied the term masking. >> i would have breakouts around my mouth which never rlly en from. >> reporter: with many areas encouraging people to cover their faces in public, many of us are also dealing with skip irritation. dermatologist at baylor college of medicine says when selecting a mask, it's important to choose the right material fore your skin type. >> if you're prone to acne, you might want to stay away from polyester that traps liptd and that might lead tocne outbreaks. on the other hand,nd, if you'vet sensitive skip or a tendency to exuma, you might want to think about cotton. >> washing those reusable masks regularly is critical because they collect sweat and microbes from your skin and dr. kata reminds that washing your face and using a good moisturizer is key for healthy skin.
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krksz. >> and that's the overnight news for this ning spoed by cb >> o'donnell: tonight, the final farewell to george floyd here in houston. ♪ ♪ >> o'donnell: the 46-year-old laid to rest as his casket is taken to the cemetery on a horse-drawn carriage. his family says floyd wanted to change the world, and he has. >> when he took his last breath, the rest of us will now be able to breathe. >> o'donnell: breaking news tonight: floyd's former co- worker tells cbs news that fired officer derek chauvin had a history with floyd. >> reporter: how well did he know him? >> i would say pretty well. >> o'donnell: new video emerges of a black man in austin who died in police custody heard
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