violent confrontations with the police of buildings torched and looting across the united states as americans vent their rage for a 4th day over the death in police custody of george floyd. would you do. this this is. signed an executive order intended he says to protect freedom of speech online as twitter flags one of his tweets as misleading and glorifying violence.

special status as china imposes a new security law on that the region designed to quell the protests there. broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us it is a busy news night let's get right to it civil unrest is spreading across the united states as anger over the death of george floyd at the hands of minneapolis police boils over demonstrations have erupted in cities across the country since the fatal incident last monday and the situation is tense right now in los angeles.

police have been firing rubber bullets added the crowds of their with authorities using photons on demonstrators as well during clashes several patrol cars were vandalized the city has seen large scale protests with over 500 people arrested on friday night back in 1902 similar scenes unfolded in l.a. when the city was at the center of infamous riots following the brutal police beating of rodney king and now the death of george floyd has sparked outrage again . i from one of this where are now joined by selwyn jones who is an uncle of george floyd who is currently at a demonstration in south dakota. thank you very much for being with us here on our team international i'm really sorry for your loss and sorry that you and out of these circumstances if you don't mind talk us through how did you hear about what happened with george what were your immediate feelings and how did you process all this someone there was your absence it was absolutely crazy. i am.

we're a lot carolina in the middle of the country and we sort of can i have seen her dealt with certain situations like this before racism is in and you know it's up to the color. i don't ever used a black college but it was just the situation. i'm what i wake up at 7 o'clock in the morning my mother in law calls my wife and says hey somebody in minneapolis. somebody in minneapolis got harmed by ops leaks and. i you know. i wake up i've got to get television and i'm looking at the television and i'm getting out i'm give me outrage this. and i and my wife looks at maine and my sister calls me on the phone the same time when i'm just seeing this that she's like fiji and you seen any didn't know what. was going on air and i was like what

are you talking about and then i seen my. cousin. big a big this man for 5 minutes and 27 said. i can't breathe i need some order please. let me yes and. this young man stand job or you know what he's what is me on his neck. and. the whole process was 9 minutes and 27 2nd and it's he had never seen anybody executed. by 100000000 people in the world. when it's you had security because he called for his mother asked her years ago tomorrow and. he went blank and. he's never said another word and this young man that stood over him with his knee on his neck he had

a. a monster look in his eye like you know what. this is my job to gaze at literally that's what it is same like. a didn't have no emotion he didn't have any did not get any remorse in that like he was housed in after a big animal keel a big gang was telling what it looked like you were just standing there. just absolutely blank. they said that my nephew died at the hospital well. there was troubling 30 people standing around there's an angel and her name is darnell frazier that took the video and i'll talk to her and she's told me she's like maci don't like. either lights what do you know what we've got some in common what you just young lady because i seen their ways and you know you can't come in your nephew's eyes you. know on the streets of minneapolis minnesota

at 5 o'clock in the military afternoon his young men literally executed my nephew and he didn't look like he. cared whatsoever. and they came as a risk to be him the particular one the head is the on his neck yesterday. and the other 4 there was 4 and the other 3. has not been. has not even been approached show it and. then you you mentioned you've had a lot of support from the family and you've mentioned that you've all communicated with each other and it has to be hard you also talked about the video that has gone around the world. the autopsy found that george died because of preexisting medical conditions aggravated by the actions of the police officer what are your thoughts on that. sheriff. if have you seen pictures of my nephew yes of course

my nephew was a little tot he was should split 5 to not get a 45 pounds he worked up properly. the week and. i never now am dad he used to be a dad down near close to a professional athlete. and that wasn't one thing in the world. that i can say what physically wrong with my. nephew. and you know in certain situations excuses have to be made because decisions people made and. it how we're going to hear the thing about him having drugs in his system we're going to hear the thing about treat conditions treat existing condition what we know sure is we literally watched you've seen it and i think mccown is like a 100000000 now and saying this video. is disband. and it's

officers taken my nephew out of back of a s.u.v. walk him to the sidewalk straighten me sitting him bits on the wall take him to the police car and literally killing him. because about that officer. who has been charged with 3rd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter do you think that these are appropriate charges or sure let me ask you question. if your cousin. was laid out in the middle of the street. a memorial day. and one particular individual was the one that you seen my cousin go from begging to suffering and dying. if we were detected consensus it seems like that would be. a murder and with

that with the information that we had gathered about him and this op lace officer working at the same nightclub which i've been to numerous times with george. that's a heck of a coincidence. you know. i i watched it and you saw it and 80900000000 people have seen this video of my nephew literally getting murdered and the middle of the street and minneapolis minnesota populous up by 4 police officers. and if you have any if you watch the video you'll see the place officer to head over to whatever same his head is me on this throw you see him positioning himself get roland my. nephew are you saying and put his hand in his pockets we could get more push. he had control of my nephew lies delivered.

and he chose to literally murder him in the middle of the street to me afterwards. they say that apparently my nephew was. it was. forgery you know it was right a $20.00 check shirt do you honestly think that the ever seen anybody. executed over $20.00 in the middle of the street in front of the world and this dude had eat eat. who would ever think that somebody would literally murder somebody in the middle of the street in a broad daylight and he had no remorse it didn't look like he wanted to stop when he was dead i mean when he died so he had no intentions in written down which really. what about the national reaction from citizens all across the country in different cities there have been protests and there have been riots not necessarily the same thing we don't want to confuse protests and riots as being the

same thing what do you think about the international reaction. i knew 'd as a american and. a man of color of the way of just being a human being. that a lot of people in this world are sick and tired of. people of color getting to it in bad situations by unfortunately. caucasian talks. we had a beautiful protest today and i and rapid city south dakota we had about 2000 people you figure and. there was not one thing dad say i'd be able to show of unity. there are people people are taking advantage of a bad situation it's main people doing many things and we're not going to let

the bad apples hold the show because we've got a. we've got a message to law extend to the world and that message is let's have a nice let's figure out a way so we can stop. people of color getting brutalized ah in the middle of the street at night while they're running. and being mistaken as often. as something that they're not. because my nephew was obviously mistaken as somebody that was a bad person and. didn't do anything. was an aggressive only thing he did was do what they tell you he could do and you know what the outcome was he died a gun was. thank you for taking the time to talk to us and uncle of george

floyd sorry about your loss and please stay safe sir thank you sir all right the western coast in oakland protests saw a police officer shot and killed while stationed outside the city's courthouse authorities are currently investigating the incident at least $7500.00 protesters were out in force there to demonstrate over the death of george floyd. last night in oakland california an assassin cowardly shot to federal protective service contractors as they stood watch over a protest. one officer was killed and the other is in critical condition the f.b.i. the oakland police supported by the department of homeland security are investigating that attack when someone targets a police officer or a police station with an intention to do harm and intimidate that is an act of domestic terrorism. amid looting torched buildings and violent clashes with

police and the mayor of minneapolis where floyd died has announced the full mobilization of the national guard it is the 1st time that has happened since world war 2. if they don't want to get this stuff they're not going to be any peace so let's go we are tired his name is george clooney. i want i want change we all want change. we got white people thank you storm national building in the state in the country's capital a yours but if they see us with a rock they can susan if they see the rubber bullet if they see us with anything that looks like a good they can kill it on a daily basis. this

is what you get when you don't hold other cops accountable when you let them kill other people when you let them kill us when you don't hold your partner accountable this is it this is. over 30 cities in the us have seen protests curfews have been imposed across minnesota but also in denver louvel and portland the national guard has been drafted in. for a number of states as well over in brooklyn new york thousands took to the streets and clashed with police freelancer journalist william whiteman was following it for us i'm now standing in front of a line of police as you see. just moments ago with a tank just completely unprovoked these are different police than what we've been seeing the rest of the march like the beginning of it there was no middle east offices no weapons or nothing like that and we now have police with billy clubs and

they attacked demonstrators completely unprovoked i would be people who are completely you know. it was a very very aggressive show of force the police said differently a lot more militarized now i'm going to take you through down to the from we got a line of protesters with their hands are. very proud. right still covering all of those developments for us in new york is freelance journalist william white men again live for us you've been there covering the situation for us for quite a while wasn't the situation like right now in brooklyn and how has it changed over the time that you've been there. so in a moment. everyone is still on the move. basically doing your sort of moving around

the city very very quickly around brooklyn very quickly and shutting down into sections and if i turn the camera around perhaps you can see just up ahead of me they carry in bits of fence they've got bits of metal fence they're using to shut down intersections but the police has really stepped up its game they are mobile they're everywhere there's a line of police with just the right here now. a while ago. just before we crossed but book i'm walking along beside. my left. this is. african-american working class neighborhoods. i have seen the organizers here reading so i'm cool. from direct confrontation with the polling so but actually seeing them. you know

a couple of moments so an individual so i had to. get some good news as you can see now they know setting down. the line of. people trying to cause as much to start soon as possible. illegal. so done as many of simpson's as possible causes much of the city so. in order to make. everyone not stand who can save the company place will. go nowhere. look i'm a little bit well. i'm. quoting things ok so you

want my. i'm. going to go to hell when i get down we want. we want to. lose. we're going to bring it. when we were down we were going to. go to look we're. going through the crews that are actually responding for the protesters but

approaching serious crimes so he's in a place now. where the one saying with a line of protest. well . i am. that's amazing well police i actually would. i know i did get groups but this is the i want. us at the moment. almost i guess we're not good at it you know but.

i know in your level. all right william white men there we're having some trouble with the connection there he's a freelance journalist in brooklyn seeing across situations for us there in new york we will come back to him through the night as the situation there develops obviously some incredibly harrowing images we hope you stay safe as well. after protests overnight on friday the new york police department claimed agitators were at play in the city. we not just the police department but all of new york city suffered last night after professional and organized agitators cause havoc on the city resulting in violence injured police offices and the destruction of property police violence against america's black community has long fueled calls for reform and yet the country still sees a significant number of deadly incidents we spoke with educator and activist toby wright was and died after an incident involving the police. usually there is no

outcome that includes justice we're dealing with the fact that our skin is a certain tone that people treat you differently and it doesn't matter if you are walking your dog in central park and you're a harvard graduate or if you live in boise idaho and you are you know whatever your background is as long as you are in the skin you know some people call it that the skin that you're in is the sin and so you're treated as less equal you're treated as equal and so imagine being a large black man being the strong physically strong looking black man you automatically being approached with. with with violets as a 1st resort and it's just a ongoing pattern of abuse the amount of pressure that black people go through every day you you know people would be a jumping off a bridge every day if they had to live in the skin that we live in. but what has to

happen is that police officers need to be held accountable for their actions they need to be and other police officers when they see wrongdoing need to actually speak up and say something is wrong or something caught them to want to have you know this code of silence that happens where police officers are not speaking up and in this case we see a lot of police officers in other cities speaking up but we really need to see minneapolis and st paul police officers speak up and say that this is wrong because anybody with any kind of sense can look at that video and see that that is a murderer. the governor of minnesota has urged the public to stay home amid the unrest saying it's the only option to avoid the chaos. i just i am bringing out everyone who's voice in community is so much stronger than mine i'm bringing out lived experiences to tell people it is going to be incredibly dangerous we have trained professionals out there but the people that are there don't wear uniforms

don't play by rules and don't share a values they will intentionally create chaos we will do our very best to preserve ignaty rule of law but we have got to clear our streets we cannot show up patience for people who care nothing about anything. now the mayor of minneapolis is urging the public to stay home explaining that large crowds give cover to people intent on committing crime they also called in the violent riots of domestic terrorism many of the areas that have seen protests over george floyd's death have also seen significant looting here you can see scenes in portland where people are emptying out an apple store. and anybody comes by for the water you know so they can feel welcome and hopefully

you know this will help put it it will come and destroy our property here. the right way to listen to it right you know. pretty clear is in your gut this is actually going to go back down there are certain people businesses are going to like this. but you got to sit together together do. in his latest speech u.s. president donald trump slammed the riots and protesters while hinting that the unrest will end very soon. the mobs are devastating the life's work of good people and destroying their dreams right now america needs creation not destruction. cooperation not contempt security not anarchy and there will be no anarchy.

my administration will stop mob violence and we'll stop it cold. or we can cross to live it to market kimberly who is a columnist for the website the black agenda report thank you very much for being with us here on our to international and. so over the last 2 decades the u.s. has seen many cases of police brutality involving the black community do you still hold hope that the situation in the u.s. can improve. it can only improve with fundamental change you cannot have a society that is unjust in so many different ways have a just law enforcement system we have police brutality we have mass incarceration and they're all tied together this this man george floyd was being arrested for he was accused of having

a phony $20.00 bill but people are arrested for that and even less every day in this country and they're fed into this mass incarceration system more than 2000000 people the u.s. has more people in prison than any other country in the world and and the us is the world's worst abuser of human rights so we have to have a fundamental change. that says that of gretchen bromide and at home and you cannot have justice at home an injustice abroad they are tied together you must have. cut the military budget stops and close these $800.00 military bases around the world and also empty the prisons the prison population could easily be cut in half so you can't have any quality clip tucker seeing mass incarceration aggression abroad and have just police system

that is not going to help them shamefully in many cases the situation with george floyd has turned political and there been some severe dog whistles being blown if you will what about your reaction to president trump and his response to the killing of george floyd has it been adequate has it been lacking what are your thoughts. well it has been lacking but he's like his predecessor on this this happened and i think it was 2015 in baltimore man named freddy gray was killed by the police and there was a popular up. rising the rebellion and president obama called the protesters thugs so donald trump we see once again is not the outlier we are told that he is his behavior is in keeping with that of his predecessors and that's one of the fundamental changes of the practice of the presidency so the presidents are not

going to be better than the system that we have they may speak. more softly mike obama they may be blustery like the bull in the china shop with no manners like trump but in me and they all defend this system which kills people in so many ways 3 people every day a 1000 people are killed by the police every year most often not on camera but we have people dying of covert 19 because of our. inadequate health care system people dying because they have suffered with low wage work there are all sorts of things that shorten people's lives in this country so i would urge people who are so moved and i am glad that people were so outraged at. witnessing this man's murder but there is a much bigger picture that has to be attacked if we want to and the scourge of

police brutality. going to this incident specifically the officer who knelt on george floyd that has been charged with 3rd degree murder. i'm going to ask you to go down the rabbit hole with me just a little bit if you don't mind is there any chance he'll be sentenced. it's possible it generally does not happen but i think we have to thank the protesters you know everybody says they want peaceful protests but i am convinced unless the night before he was finally arrested protesters burned down a police precinct in minneapolis and i am convinced that it is that kind of action which drove them to arrest him they are trying to mollify the public but if the public does not show its anger there is no action taken so we have to think the protesters we have to thank the people who burned that precinct we have to thank the people who protested outside.