good evening. i'm ali velshi in minneapolis. our coverage of the protests across america continue. i'm here in a crowd of people. that is the fifth precinct of minneapolis police department. this was a precinct that was under focus last night after protesters left the third precinct, which is a few miles down the road and came over here. this was the precinct that was the center of attention shortly after midnight last night, the governor sent in more

reinforcements, national guard reinforcements. yesterday there were 500 national guard reinforcements. at night the governor brought another 200 in, this morning announcing another 1,000, bringing a total of 1,700 national guard reinforcements and later today the governor announcing that every single national guards person in the state has been activated. some 13,100 troops will be taking to the streets after last night's failed attempt at a curfew. the curfew is supposed to go into effect at 8 p.m. local time, 9 p.m. eastern, two hours from now. last night it had become clear that if all four police officers involved in the death of george floyd were not arrested, the protesters would not abide by the curfew. what happened 24 or 22 hours ago is the police announced the curfew, sent tear gas into the crowd and the crowd just continued to push forward, bringing the police way back, many miles, to this point at

which point the police largely dispers dispersed. there were more fires set. there's still one burning just to my side. this is, like it has been every day during the day, this is a peaceful protest in minneapolis, protesting police violence, talking about black lives mattering, announcing charge all four. the concern is what happens if there are police or national guards people around. there aren't any right now. as you know, there were many, many protests across america last night. we have new announcements from the mayor of los angeles that there is a curfew in police tonight for all of los angeles. the mayor of philadelphia has also imposed a curfew with all of philadelphia. i'm going to be in this crowd this evening with morgan let's listen in to what they're

chanting. let's give you a perspective of what's going on there. that's the 5th precinct. those are jersey barriers, concrete barriers, on top of which there are fences. that's what was protecting the 3rd precinct and protesters toppled that and made their way into the precinct. we do know there are police in the precinct. we've seen them. they put some barricading materials. what tends to happen, if protesters get too close, they get up on top and try and defend it by send being out what we call flash bang grenades and tear gas. that's where they send it out f from. the tear gas was not particularly effective last night. morgan, i can't see you. i don't know where you are right now but i believe you're somewhere close to where i am around the 5th precinct. >> ali, you're exactly right. i think i'm on the other side of

that crowd. we ended up in this place by walking here with a group that had gathered near the death of george floyd. that intersection of that fateful site on monday evening. that crowd that gathered there this afternoon, ali, had to have been at least what couple thousand strong and they gathered in that area to spread a message they feel has really been overshadowed by the damage and destruction that we've seen over the past several days. they said that justice has not been met so far, that the arrest of one officer is not the arrest of four and that those third degree murder charges facing derek chauvin are nothing more than a slap on the wrist. that was certainly the temperament of some of those we talked to along the way. about 80% of those in the crowd are from minneapolis, others from surrounding suburbs. they came here today, some for the very first time, both to see what's transpired in this city over the past several days but also to take part in what they say should not just be a

movement for this week or next week or even next month but a sustained movement forward to cause a serious change. and, ali, the big question right now is what's going to happen in two hours when that curfew goes into effect. everyone getting on their knees right now in the crowd, following the chants from the man with the loudspeaker here. >> let's listen to the chants. >> they're naming people who have died at the hands of police. they just said eric garner. denzel brown. tamara rice. morgan chesky, i want to

characterize for the audience, there have been a lot of talk from people from the outside about the violence that's been going on. this is a peaceful protest. you've been following it for a little while. it is peaceful, it is protests in nature, signs and chants. there have been discussions about outside influences that come and influence the violence later in the night. have you seen anything that looks like violence or aggression in this protest? >> ali, at least what we've witnessed during the daytime hours today, we have not. people are going out of their way to make sure that they are perceived as a peaceful protest as well. i had a chance to speak with an african-american gentleman. today was his first day out. he brought his entire family. he's a caterer who lives in minneapolis and brought a cooler full of food just to hand out to people because he said this is how we need to be seen. we don't need to be lobbed in with that group that does so

much damage overnight. and i think we've seen shades of that every day we've been here, ali. but unfortunately when the sun goes down, a very different thing happens. with the creation of that curfew last night, we thought that that was going to change and unfortunately it did not. >> okay. that's important to keep in mind because in two hours, that curfew will go back into place here. we'll of course keep a close eye on how that develops. i want to go back to the studio in new york. my partner and friend yasmin is holding the fort there. this is an issue going on across the nation. they followed a similar party last night in which they started out peaceful and some got a little bit unruly. >> i got to say that moment that we just observed there honoring the lives of those lost was an incredibly moment to say the least, ali. across the country we are monitoring protests everywhere. let me give you the latest as of 6:30 p.m. or so.

in atlanta, the first arrest was made in a crowd outside the governor's mansion. los angeles, the mayor imposing a curfew, 8 p.m. until 5 a.m., two lapd cars on fire there. louisville kentucky andy beshear activating the national guard. new york city, brooklyn pro tessers fates protesters f protesters facing charges for throwing molotov cocktails. we have philadelphia, cars exploding in that city, lake shore drive shut down. that brings us to washington, d.c. where we saw some pretty powerful protests in front of the white house. the president is currently not there as he was in florida for the launch of spacex. that's where we find our

reporter garrett haake in front of the white house right now. good evening to you. bring us up to date as what you've been seeing so far. >> yasmin, had the president been in the white house this afternoon, he absolutely could have heard the waves of protesters out here. my colleagues in the white house tell me the protesters were very clearly audible as they came through this part of downtown d.c. in two separate waves, largely fairly well organized protests, anger, tense moments with the uniformed secret service. at one point protesters getting over this first degree of bike racks behind me, pushing the police all the way back. even soy never escalated into protest violence like we have seen in other cities. ultimately police cleared the square. one group of protesters marched out, another marched in.

there protests at times were largely silent, fists raised, adding to the chants we've become used to with the name floyd. this is a scene of protests that happens here in washington every couple of months it seepms, evey couple of years it seems having these same conversations. particularly the d.c. flavor of this, frustration with the president who doesn't seem to get it, that his tweets are misguided, that it doesn't address the needs of this community. remember, washington, d.c. is about 50% african-american and a lot of these folks who are at this protest today said the president is not talking to them or for them and they wanted to convey that. of course perhaps in a bit of poetic irony that same president not here to listen to them today. but the protests will continue as we saw last night, likely into the night. i can see in part of the park

that i cannot get into police staging in different areas we're going to check that out. the president is expected back here shortly. i think there will be quite a lot of folks here to greet him. >> just quickly, any curfew in place yet in washington, d.c. or any plans to put a curfew in place? >> reporter: not yet. there's an interesting wrinkle in all of this in washington, d.c. this is probably -- i could live to regret saying this -- but one of the safest big cities to protest in. we have major protests in this city on almost a weekly basis. the patchwork of different police departments who patrol this city generally know how to handle it and the protesters know how to handle it. it's an active city. so nothing in place yet but the night is young. >> garrett haake, thank you very. very much appreciate it. i want to send it back to ali. earlier the attorney general bill barr saying these are radical left protesters, these folks that are looting and

lighting buildings on fire, these on antifa radical left protesters but then you had the governor of the state in which you are in saying, no, these are white supremacists coming in from out of state. the question is who are these individuals? what you are seeing behind you is these folks are peaceful. they're peacefully protesting honoring the lives of those that have been lost. >> reporter: and that's what i saw yesterday and that's what i saw the day before. let me give you a piece of news that's just come in. we were on that overpass right there, highway that you can see behind me. that's where we were broadcasting from last night. the minnesota department of transportation has just announced that they are closing all highways into minneapolis tonight. you can get out but you can't come in. to the extent that there are people who might be coming in for protests, the highways are going to be closed. let's have that conversation a little bit about who these people are. there's a lot of tension, particularly around the

destruction of public property and people who own small businesses are saying why has that happened? how does that further the cause. i want to bring in paul butler and maya wiley into this conversation. they have been with us over the past few days trying to make sense of this. we have to say there are shades of gray at any protest. there's the idea that there are those who are protesting a very deep cause. in this case it may be the death of george floyd and the way it was done and the delay in arresting the first officer and the three officers have not been arrested. you've written a book on the choke hold and the way in which george floyd died. and then there's the issue of police brutality and violence, particularly as it affects african-americans, something we've seen several times in the last few weeks and then there's one yet bigger complaint and that is about social injustice and economic inequality that has gone back for a long time. and when you combine that together, when you look at this

crowd, which by the way, it's black, it's white, it's asian, it's all sorts of colors, i saw somebody on twitter saying because there's so many white people in here, it must be outside agitators. that sort of belies a misunderstanding of protests and their nature. >> absolutely, ali. i mean, look, one of the strengths of the civil rights movement was the fact that there were white allies, including college students who went down south and helped register people to vote. the black lives matter movement has had multi-racial support since its inception. the point has been coalition building. the request has been for alliedship among those who may have more protection from the police than others. so that's actually been a specific organizing strategy, alliance-building strategy. several organizations, including

the anti-defamation league have spoken out publicly and tracked anti-black violence, not just anti-semitic violence, anti-muslim violence as well. this is part of what's happening on what i think we've heard sometimes derisively called as the left is really a call for us to be a more perfect union, to recognize that we're all not treated the same within our democracy, even though that is the promise and the aspiration of our democracy. and i just want to make one other point quickly, ali, about this question of antifa and violence. in 2018, every single murder from an extremist was from a right-wing extremist. all the data shows that left-wing violence has been on the wane for decades and that the predominant amount of violence we're seeing, certainly

that we've seen during the trump administration, has come from far right. and that's something that should disturb us. and when we hear an attorney general calling our attention to only one possible group of extremists on the left, what we should be hearing is a distraction and blame on one si side. >> >> reporter: it the mostly peaceful. there are fires. fires don't set themselves, no question about that. generally speaking, the majority of the few thousand people who

are here are peacefully protesting. they've got signs, they're kneeling when they're going to kneel, but there is a complaint here, that is the complaint about police violence that leads to the death of african-americans increasingly when there is video evidence. that's the big game changer, right? we thought a few years ago if you have video evidence, that's a game changer, right? that's going to do things. what a lot of people here are angry about, paul, is there was video. there were three angles of video. if you go to msnbc, we've got 11 minutes of the entire sequence of it. why was that not enough to have the arrest of the other three police officers? >> there is enough for the arrest of the other three police officers. that's my question, too. why has there not been an arrest? we know that as the life seeped out of mr. floyd, one cop held him down by the neck, another

cop held him down by the back, another cop held him down by the leg, and a fourth cop prevented the crowd from providing assistance to mr. floyd, including a first responder who wanted to help. now we have the arrest of the cop who held mr. floyd down by the neck. that's one down, three to go. and until those four officers are locked up, people will continue to take it to the streets, and a democracyh. this is how change happens in the united states. >> i want to just take you to a picture of something going on in los angeles right now. there are demonstrations under way including what appears to be the burning of a police car. mayor garcetti in los angeles has imposed a curfew from 8 p.m. local time to 5 a.m. local time. and these are immediate developments that are going on right now.

there are tear gas and flash bang grenades being deployed near west lake center right now. there are protests under way in brooklyn, new york. those have continued since last night. there's some tension going on right now in cleveland, hohio ad in philadelphia. the new york police, our colleague is reporting, is that there are protests with pockets of violence have begun in new york city. they started actually a few hours ago. they've already seen some violence with bricks. maya, let talk about the expression necessary. for a lot of people involved not just in the protests but in some of the violent parts of it, i'm trying to understand. you've worked in civil right and you're a lawyer. i'm trying to understand how society is supposed to see that. are we supposed to see it as empathy for people who do not think the system has worked for them from a justice perspective or social justice or social

security your economic perspective or is it important for people here who are trying to get remedies who say that can't be part of the movement? >> yeah, i think paul is absolutely right about the sense and about the role of protest to bring attention to problems that are not getting solved and where you have to make a demand to solve them. i think the only way to look at the protests that are happening both in brooklyn, new york, where i live and across the country is that this is about both the murder of george floyd, but it's about the fact that for far too long people have been trying to elevate and bring attention to very significant problems of police misconduct that go unaddressed. you know, just standing from the perspective as a new yorker and someone who worked in city hall and who worked on police

oversight, i will tell you that we have so much disrespect, cases of people being disrespected and mistreated that are low level. once. we get to this kind of violent crime as we saw with george floyd, there has already been a long simmering demand for justice and for attention to how we bring police and community together more effectively, how we make sure there's accountability over the tremendous amount of power that those in authority wearing a badge have. and these are expressions of the very common experience that far too many have, that they are not protected. if i have so many young people who say to me i don't trust the police, and we need a relationship for public safety of trust. and these are expressions of how

we have to get to one another. and i will tell you something else. there's been some video of this online, but i've also been sent other video clips where we have seen police -- a police officer in more than one instance, different officer, aggressively and apparently without reason violently pushing down a protester, protesters whose hands are up and who are backing up and following police direction. now, i've also seen in that same image in another instance one police officer grabbing the arm and pulling another officer backward in what appears to be an expression of calm down, pull back. we need to see more of that. >> and i want to remind people that while we are seeing interaction between police and protesters in a lot of american cities right now, that has not happened yet. we have gone from 700 national guards people last night to 13,000 tonight.

we're not sure how that's going to play out when the curfew begins in about an hour and a half. maya wiley, thank you for pointing out, maya whiiley was board chair of the policing review and both of our guests know a great deal of what they speak. we're going to take a quick break right now. i'm just going to ask my control room if that's the right thing to do. yeah, that sounds like the right thing to do. i'm ali velshi in minneapolis. . muy diferentes. (vo) verizon knows everyone in your family is different. there are so many of us doing so many different things. (vo) that's why verizon lets everyone mix and match different unlimited plans. so everyone gets what they need without paying for things they don't. the plan is so reasonable, they can stay on for the rest of their lives. aww, did you get that on camera? (vo) plans start at just $35, our lowest price on unlimited for everyone. plus, get up to $900 off the motorola edge+. the network more people rely on gives you more.

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good evening. i'm ali velshi in minneapolis. what you're looking a the pictures of right now are miami. continued protests across the country in many, many cities. these are protesters in miami surrounding what appear to be some police cars. we have no reports of violence there, but they are under way. i want to take you to louisville

as well, where there are protest there is. now, those protests on thursday became quite serious. in fact, seven people were shot in those protests this has a slightly different feel to it because there's a protest about the death of a woman named brail breonna taylor, who was killed on a no-knock warrant. mayor garcetti has imposed a curfew. let's look at what's going on there. we got police on a vehicle. they are -- they do appear to be firing canisters. i don't know whether they're flash bangs they appear to be flash bangs from the cartridges that you can see rolling out. they do not appear to be gas. but appears to be flash bang grenades. there are protesters there. the curfew has not gone into place yet in los angeles.

8 p.m. pacific time is when that's supposed to happen. right now there are tensions between police and protesters. andrew blankstein is there. what's going on there? >> there was a protest earlier in the fairfax district of los angeles. for those of you who have been there, it's the area around the farmers market and the grove. protesters took to the street. there were a number of police vehicles that were either vandalized or set on fire, at least three vehicles by our last count, and there are clusters of protesters in the street, in and around that area. there's skirmish lines that have been set up by the land but it's very fluid, as you can see from the aerial pictures, people on the run, police officers on the move. and it's a surreal scene because this is going on as the mayor of

los angeles is speaking to the city, imposing a curfew, but i want to note that that curfew applies to the downtown area, which was subject of the violent protests and looting last night where there were more than 500 arrests. so what's going on now, still unfolding, even in nearby beverly hills, there were warnings of protests there and urging people to stay home. earlier in the day i heard there was going to be more of a suburban footprint to the protest and that seems to be bearing out. >> andrew, keep us posted on this. there is still some time to go before the curfew goes in effect and it does seem the protests between police and protesters are getting pretty hot in los angeles. i want to stay with that picture and bring in lieutenant genera s

el -- general russell honoree. what are you seeing tonight in america and what are you suggesting be done about it? >> well, we are facing a two-front war. remember, two days ago we were trying to survive the covid-19, and now we're trying to survive civil disturbance and many of our american cities are under duress under the mondiker of no justice, no peace. i think it's time to make the move in minnesota to go on and charge the four officers, get that off the table and give the police a chance, along with the national guard, to reestablish

civil control in minneapolis and st. paul. and today the governor of minnesota mobilized the entire state of national guard of minnesota, led by the 34th infantry division, the red bulls. the red bulls are significant because they were in mississippi when katrina hit. they were training to go to iraq. it's a well-trained unit. the biggest part of that unit is the armored brigade. they'll well trained, well equipped and hopefully they will be able to help the governor and the mayors of st. paul and minneapolis solve the issue with presence and people will go home tonight. this two-front war is causing much disturbance and we still have a large number of elderly people dying from the covid while this is simultaneously happening. we're going to have to change a lot to get this fixed, ali. >> general, i remember during

katrina you telling the governor at the time do not tell law enforcement to shoot to kill your own people, and i remember a very distinct image in my mind of you moving through some guardsmen and telling one of them put your damn gun down, don't point your gun. these guardsmen are people who were home a couple of nights ago. their job they don't think of as enforcing the law amongst their people. many of them are very young. in what we have seen in the last couple of days, they're standing there with their guns, with their fingers on their trigger in a tense situation that could become overblown just because people are tense. what do you have to say about that? we've got 13,000 guardsmen activated in minneapolis right now, in minnesota. >> absolutely. over the years, as you can see

they can have limited effect and the police can be overrun by numbers. what the guard do is bring enough people to be able to control and move people in directions and/or arrest them and take them off the street. and that's what they may have to do tonight. they may have to move in with a couple thousand troops, surround people, take them off the street. the governor ment is going to h to take charge of the street. we can't allow people to burn their own house down. >> you have a fundamental respect for protests but you earlier said this protest has been infiltrated by some violent actors and you're warning the protesters not to be used by extremist groups who are trying to sew anarchy. >> absolutely. you can do civil disturbance by sitting down on the street. because what that do is force the government to act.

this type of civil disturbance, bushing bui burning buildings and in some cases where people are getting shot, that's anarchy. and anybody caught in the execution of that could be charged under federal crimes. people need to understand that. so the protesters, use your right to protest. if you're going to do civil disobedience, you can set down on the street like gandhi and martin luther king did. but burnings building is a nonstarter. that will not be allowed. it will escalate and they could bring more troops in beside the entire national guard of minnesota, they could bring federal troops in. but peace must be reestablished and civil control must be met. i think the message, the american people has heard the message. something need to happen. the justice department need to charge these officers and by tomorrow night get people back home so we can focus on this

other war and let the justice department do its work. >> that is a very clear message that we're getting from protesters around here. they're calling for the charging of the three remaining officers. general, thanks always for being able to join me to give some analysis of the situation. you're looking atpictures. we got los angeles, miami, violence in chicago at the moment, we've got arrests in new york occurring, philadelphia has got a curfew starting at 8 p.m. we've got a large crowd here. this is a substantially larger crowd than we had last night in minneapolis in one place. we are at the 5th precinct in minneapolis where there are police inside and there's a very, very large crowd outside. i want to bring in the ceo of the center for policing equity. phillip, thank you for being with us. i've been sort of discussing for the last couple of nights that some of this protest is about

general social and socioeconomic inequality against african-americans and the type of stuff that's been going on that has been unfair for them in some cases for decades and years. but a lot of it, including these protests here at a police station and those at the 3rd precinct yesterday is very specifically about policing, it's very specifically about police brutality, it's very specifically about the policing of african-americans in this city. give me some context on that. >> yeah, i had a chance to talk with my friend earlier this morning. i think he put it very well. policing is so often the spark. it's not either or, it's not these list of things, it's all together. so there's no such thing as racial inequality, racial discrimination in the united states if you take out policing. the police are those who are

responsible to enforce the law. i'm looking at all the images tonight and as awful as the damage is and as scary as some of the images are, i hope the viewers are realizing that we are now in day five and the officer was just charged yesterday. ask yourself this question -- if we don't have these protests, is the officer charged? we have three other officers who are still out. if they had been charged at day one, would we be looking at this? now all over the united states. >> hold that concern for a second. phil, i have to ask you to hold it for a second. the governor of minnesota is speaking right now. let's listen in. >> these are not our neighbors. these are not the people that put in all of the work to build lake street, to build community. so minnesotans, you must stay in place tonight. in approximately 20 minutes, the

major freeway systems will be closed. stay off the roads. stay at home tonight so that we can remove the folks, restore order to our streets. don't go out, don't go ing, don't drive. we don't want innocent people who simply want to express their frustration and rage over a situation that has ignited this across the country. parents, call your children, give them that call. friends, call other friends. don't go down looking to see if this would be something to see. it's not the place to be. so i would ask you all and the media will again we want to make sure is out there getting good information, and i would tell folks the coordination that has been stood up, the ability to move these operations evolves hour by hour. we have capabilities of airborne

surveillan surveillance, and one of our top priorities tonight in making sure that we can respond as quickly as possible, especially the folks here of using arson as a means of terror and destruction and then move. so, please, don't go out of your homes. don't make this more difficult. don't take resources away by those things of folks who are just minding their own business. if you see criminal activity or need it, of course dial 911. bca's number, 651-793-7000. i want to say something i saw before night comes in that rally. the amazing thing is the sense of solidarity, trying to channel grief, rage and anger into something positive. large numbers of the people there did bring things with them

to that rally. they didn't bring improvised explosive devices, they didn't bring fire arms, they didn't bring molotov cocktails. they brought brooms and shovels and wheelbarrows to clean up for people that they didn't even know but know that they're their neighbors. i can tell you that you'll see the best of minnesotans rising, you'll see opportunities for people to show the best of who we are, and we simply ask for cooperation to help us reestablish order on our streets to make it clear that the force that has been put on the ground is there for the long haul, that this is not a place where violence is in any way going to step on or dilute the message that we've got work to do around racial injustices. we've got work to do to bring justice for george. and so please know that we will do everything we can to do that. i am proud of the people who are out there delivering that. you're going to hear from the

mayors of minneapolis and st. paul working closely and in the operation center making sure things are done the way they need to be done for their citizens. and what i'd like to do tonight is to give you a little bit of the overview of this as once again present major john jensen, the general of the minnesota national guard. >> good evening. i'm reminded tonight that one week ago today minnesota guardsmen stood in six communities across our state to include minneapolis and st. paul. our mission was significantly different then. a week ago today in support of the department of health, we offered free community covid-19 testing. a week later we still stand with the citizens of minneapolis and

st. paul. while it may be in a different role, we are there for the citizens and for our two mayors. in accordance with the governor's full mobilization of the minnesota national guard, we've been mobilizing minnesota guardsmen throughout the day, specifically in their local unit of assignment with future movement into the minneapolis/st. paul area. that effort will be ongoing through today and through tonight and will continue until fully completed. once completed, those soldiers and airmen can be expected to be fully integrated into the police departments of minuneapolis and st. paul, as well as county and state resources as well. beyond that, we're also hand in hand with our fire departments and our emergency management systems as well, fully integrated to meet the guidance of the governor while we're fully mobilized.

thank you and at this time i'll be followed by mayor frye. >> thank you, general. thank you, mayor. we saw a showing of love in minneapolis today. thousands of volunteers, residents, community members taking action, helping each other pick up the pieces from last night. it was pure compassion and an outpouring show of support. that's what was on display. those are the groups that represent minneapolis. that is who we are. the groups planning on being out tonight do not support us in any way, shape or form. these are forces that run antithetical to our values, forces that over the last 48 hours have overrun our streets. i cannot tell you how completely

that has broken my heart. that we are being invaded by those who use the tragic murder of george floyd to tear at the seams of what george himself held to be most true to break our city. that is crushing. we need to hold officers chauvin and the other three responding officers accountable. we need justice. we need systemic change. but first we need to save our city. as the governor mentioned, we are now taking extraordinary steps, over 120 minneapolis firefighters will be available throughout the city ready to respond to anything that comes their way as quickly as possible. and with the support of 35 jurisdictions, officers will be active throughout our city.

we will prioritize situational awareness and we will be working as part of the unified command center to respond as the situation demands, we will be ready. we know the situation will demand the very best of our first responders. the situation will demand the very best of our residents. so please, minneapolis, please, support our first responders tonight by giving them the space to protect us and stay home. mayor. >> from the beginning of this my goal has been to provide timely and accurate information to our residents, to our constituents, to our members of the media. this morning i shared with you arrest data received in my morning police briefing, which i later learned to be inaccurate. i have taken further steps to

safeguard the ability -- our ability to provide relevant and accurate information and will ensure that those steps are taken in the first place and taken in the future. and i take full responsibility for that. looking forward, we have work to do. tonight, tomorrow and a foreseeable way into the future. people have asked me this week is the arrest of officer chauvin enough? people have asked me this week is the public statements from our elected leaders me this we if all four of those officers convicted, get arrested and convicted, is that enough? i think they're asking me because they know that this is a movement that i'm rooted in. i think they're asking me

because i've shared my own experience as maybe one of very relatively few elected leaders in the country who knows what it feels like to be pulled over for driving while black. maybe they're asking me because they know our administration has been rooted from the beginning in working with our police department and our police chief in ensuring that we are the model of relationships between police and community across the nation and across the world. when folks ask me if those measures are enough, my answer's all the same. there's no such thing as enough when it comes to protecting human life. there's no such thing as enough when it comes to preserving the relationship of trust and credibility that must flow between our police officers and our community members. there's no such thing as enough when it comes to ensuring our children that when you see someone in a badge and a uniform, that that someone is

here to help you in an emergency, in a crisis or in any other situation. there's no such place as enough when it comes to pursuing justice for george floyd and so many of the unarmed, unaggressive african-american men who we have demanded justice for. when we say there's no such place as enough, though, what that means is the responsibility is ours to act in a constructive manner, to act in an effective manner that will be effective at building forward for the future that we know that our children deserve. it's our responsibility to act in a way that will help to make a better world, will help to usher better relationships, will help to usher stronger bonds between our communities and the

public servants that serve them, that protect and serve us. over this week i've had a chance to talk to leaders in our community of color, faith leaders across our city state, business owners, workers, employees. and no small amount of police officers. i can tell you every single person i've talked to looks at that video of george floyd having the life squeeze out of him, and from every officer to every ceo to every activist in my neighborhood we all look at that and say that's unacceptable, we have to do something to make a better world. my hope today and tomorrow is that our focus remains on that. my hope today and tomorrow is that our focus remains on

telling the world that mr. floyd should still be alive today, on telling the world that those responsible for taking his life must be held accountable, all of them not just one but all four of them. and for telling the world that we as a city, we as a state, we as a society are redoubling our effort to ensure that we stop seeing these things happen. unfortunately, events of this week have taken our focus away from those critical missions. events of this week have distracted us, have sought to exploit the death of mr. floyd for the purposes of further destroying the communities that have been most traumatized by his death. we will not accept that as normal. we will not receive that as acceptable. as i said earlier we live in a world, we live in a city where

we neither accept the death of an unarmed african-american men, the wrongful killing of unarmed african-american men. nor do we accept the willful destruction of our neighborhoods. those are not opposing goals. they're one in the same. this is a moment in which we get to rehearse our shared humanity. as i talk to our neighbors, to our presidents, to our advocates and everyone else i hear some people say even in america the accused get a right to fair process, that, you know, don't rush to judgment to those officers too quickly. and hear them say make sure he has a chance to be, you know, have fair process. don't be judge, jury and executioner. make sure he has a chance to have a say. every time i hear that it reminds me we're all in the same

humanity because the other thing that i hear very loudly is a cry, a wish, a prayer, a demand for george floyd, for eric garner, for anton arbery for that same privilege. we're in this together. we have to know we're in together. we're committed for those dual missions of protecting the rights of those who peacefully protest, to demonstrate their first amendment rights. we saw that in action in a powerful way today. we are just as committed to ensuring the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for every resident in every single neighborhood of our community, and i look forward to demonstrating all of those commitments tonight, tomorrow and into the future. we have work to do, and i know. i know mayor frey knows and

governor walz knows in as much we are doubling down today to address the how, the methods that people are using out in our communities this week that we also must address the why, that we recognize that there's a legitimate why, that there's an understandable anger, that there's an understandable frustration. and that frustration and anger will continue until we meaningfully address the why. i am here with you in that fight, and our governor -- i know mayor frey is here with you in that might. we must engage in this work in a way that will help us to build our neighborhoods, in a way that will help us to build our economy, in ways that will help us build the jobs in the neighborhoods right in the communities that have been hardest hit by our pandemic, by our economic crisis, by the

trauma of the video we saw this week. and yes, by the unrest we've experienced across our state and across our country over the past days. those of you who like me want to keep the focus on george floyd. those of you who like me want to keep the focus on making a better world, on ensuring those who are responsible for the wrongful taking of life are held responsible for those actions, we must stand together today by staying home so that we can separate ourselves from those who seek to destroy. let's work together to create a better future. thank you, mayor. >> that's the mayor of st. paul after hearing from the mayor of minneapolis. very interesting thing he sort of slipped it in there but apparently that number of people arrested, all of whom were outside the minneapolis area the mayor now says was based on incorrect information. so, again, they didn't release names.

they didn't tell us where they got the intel from. the governor has been saying all day that these protesters or at least those who were arrested were from out-of-state and were agitators. i want to reiterate to you i've met a very large one here that is 100% peaceful. and the point i've been making over the last few nights is not there's not been violence or destruction of public property, which there has been. and there are a lot of people in the city very upset and hurt by that, there are businesses that have been destroyed. but the majority of the people protesting are peaceful protesters. that's the point. when i say these are mostly orderly and peaceful protests, that doesn't mean there are not people that are not peaceful and orderly, but the majority of the people here are protesters, they're delivering speeches. they've got signs, grievance, they've got confusion. that is how we are having to take a look at this. there are signs, though, across the country tonight of violence. we're seeing it in miami, los

angeles, in philadelphia. we're seeing it in new york, cleveland, in seattle. we have live pictures in miami. there are curfews being put into place in los angeles, in philadelphia tonight, obviously here in minneapolis, st. paul. we've got curfews as well. we'll continue to cover this through the night for you. i'm ali velshi in minneapolis. i'm ali velshi in minneapolis. when you think of a bank, you think of people in a place. but when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. so, when you get a check... you can deposit it from here. and you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. you can detect suspicious activity on your account from here. and you can pay your friends back from here. so when someone asks you, "where's your bank?" you can tell them: here's my bank. or here's my bank. or, here's my bank.

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