g thank god that's all they did here. >> reporter: communities left picking up the pieces once again. >> our thanks to alex. earlier today i spoke to d drnizer, antiviolence activist who grew up on the south side of chicago and found herself at the stand-off with police at the unrest sunday night. dr. matthews, thank you so much for joining us. what's the feeling on the ground now in the community tonight since time has passed? >> you know, time is passed as far as the hours of the day, but there hasn't been change, so time really hasn't passed. we're still stuck in that pain. we're still stuck in the devastation because of the policing, of the lack of security, lack of trust from the police officers. and, yes, the looting -- the looting happened, and i'm not minimizing that, and i'm just so grateful that it wasn't any lives that was lost. >> certainly the frustration in chicago goes back decades. but like in much of america in this moment, it's been a challenging summer for the people of chicago, facing a global pandemic, protests in the wake of george floyd, and now an uptick in gun violence. where do you go from here? how do people -