joining us now is andrea jenkins, minneapolis city council vice president. ms. jenkins, thank you very much for being here, i know it is a whirlwind right now in your city. thank you for taking the time to be with us. >> thank you, rachel. happy to be here. >> first, let me just ask you, we've seen you speak publicly over the past couple of days, we've been watching from afar, watching the streets of minneapolis and saint paul, and worrying, frankly, can i just ask, how you are, how you are holding up, and how you think your city is holding up now after what's been three very, very hard days? >> wow, rachel, you know, with this opportunity to be on national television, i do want to just take a moment to say, offer my condolences to the floyd family, the brothers and sisters, the friends, the girlfriend. words cannot express my deep sympathies. i, like the rest of my community, we're reeling. we're in deep pain. we feel that collectively, our lives don't matter. the very people that we paid to protect and serve our communities, it seems like, you know, i was looki

cities. and now, of course, minneapolis, particularly the twin cities area, is dealing with a whole other layer of crisis on top of that. tonight, as we've been covering here intensively on msnbc, the eyes of the nation are on minnesota, and minneapolis is still reeling tonight, following the death on monday night of an unarmed 46-year-old african-american man named george floyd who died in police custody. mr. floyd was seen on tape repeatedly pleading that he couldn't breathe, as an officer pinned him to the ground with his knee, jammed into mr. floyd's neck for minute after minute after minute after minute. since the day after george floyd died, protests have been taking place throughout minneapolis and in other cities across the country, too. these are live images that you're looking at right now in terms of what is going on in minneapolis tonight as we head toward nightfall. the neighboring city of saint paul, the capital city of minnesota, they ordered the state capital evacuated today. they ordered everybody out of the state capital, to get out, there were violent protests today in saint

minneapolis. parts of the city, as we have been seeing, are still on fire. there you see the smoke and the flames in the background. one of the places burning, one of the precincts of the minneapolis police department. this is the third night of protests in minneapolis. it is a city that has been reeling from the death on monday of an unarmed 46-year-old african-american man, george floyd, who died in police custody. george floyd was seen on tape repeatedly pleading that he could not breathe as an officer pinned him to the ground with his knee jammed into george floyd's neck. of course no charges have been filed yet, and it was earlier today at a news conference this afternoon when we heard from federal and state prosecutors. a lot of people in that city hoping for word that there would be charges leveled against those officers, but prosecutors brought no new details about the case. last hour, the minnesota national guard said it had activated more than 500 soldiers to minneapolis, to its sister city st. paul, and surrounding communities to, quote, protect li

on the situation in the minneapolis the city where mr ford was killed last week from stephane z. months stefan tell us where you are and what's happening there behind you. here hi now we are in downtown minneapolis and at the capital state capital or on their state capitol grounds right behind me as you see protesters a few hundreds are gathered and this is almost like a family event there's children and for. please with children and people from all walks of life minorities white people asian americans fricken americans and so on so this is making their voices heard it's about more than more really more that's what they tell us. george floyd it's about systemic racism and racism in minneapolis and many other cities in the united states in the united states systemic racism and people here and seemingly in other places too in the united states just had enough of this well some protesters are voicing concerns that outsiders undermining the demonstrations and some local and state officials also said have you noticed any of that in the days that you've spent that. yeah we did we have n

minneapolis. parts of the city, as we have been seeing, are still on fire. there you see the smoke and the flames in the background. one of the places burning, one of the precincts of the minneapolis police department. this is the third night of protests in minneapolis. it is a city that has been reeling from the death on monday of an unarmed 46-year-old african-american man, george floyd, who died in police custody. george floyd was seen on tape repeatedly pleading that he could not breathe as an officer pinned him to the ground with his knee jammed into george floyd's neck. of course no charges have been filed yet, and it was earlier today at a news conference this afternoon when we heard from federal and state prosecutors. a lot of people in that city hoping for word that there would be charges leveled against those officers, but prosecutors brought no new details about the case. last hour, the minnesota national guard said it had activated more than 500 soldiers to minneapolis, to its sister city st. paul, and surrounding communities to, quote, protect li

minneapolis. people are gathering in other cities. this is denver, colorado. ere this the number of people have gathered within the last couple minutes has grown a lot. we're keeping an eye on denver, phoenix, columbus, minneapolis and st. paul. phoenix, arizona. no justice, no peace. you can hear protestors chanting there on the street of phoenix. your anger is a gift. one of the signs reading. i want to bring in now the author of new memoir called my vanishing country. i'm in the middle of reading it now. it's fascinating. and it couldn't be more time lie. thank you for writing it, i'm enjoying reading it. i no e this is hard day for you. you are angry and fed up. another black man has taken his life taken from him. tell us what you're going through and how it translates to the rest of the country. >> i'm channelling -- i'm sick and tired of being sick kp tired. first of all, thank you for giving me this platform. two black men in the front of the world discussing this. we have to define what racism is. defined as this, he said if you want to lynch me that's

let's first talk about the city of minneapolis. e city of minneapolis has experienced, you know, these killings before and as a result, the department of justice after the last incident of unrest in the city of minneapolis actually did a study and released a report that provided a whole set of recommendations about how to deal with these kinds of issues and particularly civil unrest. i've read the report and seen recommendations and see no evidence the recommendations have been implemented to try to quail some of the more extreme measures that the police have taken in terms of the unrest. then secondly, this police department has a terrible record. the racial disparities in the use of force and police brutality are extraordinary. this is a police department that in my view in any other time i would say chris, is right for a department of justice pattern and practice investigation. we know this department of justice has virtually abandoned any effort to investigate structural discrimination in police departments. so we have very litt

minneapolis's mayor, who called for the arrest of now-fired police officer derek chauauvin over the killing of georgege floyd. trump tweeted -- "i can't stand back & watch this happen to a great american city, minneapolis. a total lack of leadership. either the very weak radical left mayor, jacob frey, get his act together and bring the city under control, or i will send in the national guard & get the job done right. " in a follow-up tweet, trump attacked protesters as "thugs" and added "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." twitter responded by labeling trump's tweet with the warning -- "this tweet violated the twitter rules about glorifying violence. however, twitter has determined that it may be in the public's interest for the tweet to remain accessible." on thursday, president trump signed an executive order that could be used to punish social media companies, including twitter, for how they monitor content. thisis comes after twitttter tok the unprecedented step o of addg a fact check label to two tweets in which trump erroneously attacked mail-in voting. mark zuckerberg defended his companies -- company's refusal to regulate misinformation, including false and deceptive po

bring in marq claxton, a retired new york city police detective and ask you if you're there, what your reaction is to what you're seeing, first in minneapolis, now in new york city, and we see frank is with him as well, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence and nbc national security analyst. but start with you because of your new york city and police experience, if i can. something changed according to ali velshi tonight, he said strategic change. he had a crowd much less agitated but much larger crowd of police very quick to engage. what do you make of what you saw? >> quite obviously, based on information that's been released in minneapolis, there's been a dramatic increase in manpower and resources, they're utilizing that to redeploy to critical infrastructure targets perhaps. clearly want to take back certain sections or sectors of the area there. they want to absolutely be more assertive and proactive. don't want to get caught on their heels as has been the case past several days. part of the reason they say that caught on heels, lacking resources. they're making a clear statement, taking back to areas and committing to

city of minneapolis in a 3rd night of demonstrations over the death of a black man at the hands of police and the protests have spread to at least 5 major u.s. cities 7 people have been shot in louisville kentucky. where i'm fully bacteria watching al-jazeera live from our world headquarters in doha also coming up school openings delayed south korea rain poses some coronavirus restrictions after a spike in new cases pacing back at twitter as fact checks donald trump's executive order aims to remove some of the neagle protections given to social media companies . thank you very much for joining us 3 days of protests over the killing of an unarmed black man in the u.s. city of minneapolis have exploded into a new night of violence across the country the police station where the 4 officers involved in the arrests of george floyd worked has been set ablaze a large crowd began gathering outside the building a few hours ago and several other fires were late in the area and national guard has been called into the city and the man has declared a local state of emergency for 72 hours. there is a l

and then work together to restore order across the entire city of minneapolis. just as a side note, we had a couple missions a couple places last night. of course our responsibility at the state capitol. and we also assisted the city of st. paul with some lawless behavior occurring on university avenue with some of our mobile response team assets. one thing i'll note is we have troopers from all across the state of minnesota. there was an opportunity to we afforded the governor to make a staffing boost that is within the purview of the kmektive branch and within the ability of the state patrol on short notice. hat's off to the troopers that responded. the dnr officers that responded from all across the state of minnesota. they've come for an unknown period of time and make minnesota what we believe it should be. a safe place for everybody. >> we'll try to make sure we answer every question or as many as you need to ask. i would note to the reporters here in minnesota, it was three weeks i passed in front of you and said that on about the 29th of may we would pass

mayhem in minneapolis overnight, city blocks nearly burned to the ground, a man shot dead on the street as violent protests rage on. >> all in the wake of george floyd's death, the unarmed black man who died as a police officer kneeled on his neck. we are live with the violence that continues to boil over. >> obligations on the nursing home, they say

a gas main and there were concerns about continued looting and fires burning throughout the city of minneapolis. different than our first night, there were comparable concerns of looting and fires being set in the city of st. paul and so we had to divide our resources to meet the needs of both the twin cities. the task the governor gave me was pretty simple actually. it was to hold together a team that could go in, keep the peace, protect people, protect their safety, protect their lives, protect their liberty and to protect property that was being burned up, literally every minute that we delayed. the hennepin county sheriff was one of my first calls. sheriff hutchinson immediately moved into action to give us support. we already had dnr. we already had state patrol. we all already had minnesota national guard. we have them available but we hadn't tasked them with what we needed them to do and we needed to create a plan. the ovum police chief offered support. the chief of police for metro transit offered support. with that team together, we put together a 250 ballpark cadre team to go in and r

anger spread from minneapolis itself where there have been four nights of riots, to other major citiesding los angeles, new york, atlanta, houston, louisville and denver. this was the scene as dawn broke in minneapolis, with police still on the guard and fires burning in the streets. our correspondent barbara plett—usher is there. minneapolis is under curfew, but the city is still burning. outrage over the police killing of an unarmed black man has consumed people here for four days, with street protests but also arson and looting. the state deployed the national guard to restore order, and local officials moved unusually quickly to charge the police officer with third—degree murder and manslaughter. he's the one in the video kneeling on the neck of george floyd for nearly nine minutes while mr floyd cried out again and again that he couldn't breathe, and then stopped moving. the governor of minnesota has said that he expects swiftjustice, but the question is whether that will be enough to quell the rage that was ignited here and is now spreading across the country. america is looking

let's take a look once again at the live pictures from minneapolis where a police precinct in the city is burning as protests over the death of george floyd rage for a third straight day. protesters focusing their attention on the minneapolis police department's 3rd precinct, which was the base of the four police officers who were fired after george floyd's death in their custody on monday. and then protests broke out in other cities around america tonight. in denver what started as a relatively calm protest escalated into chaos after someone fired gunshots near the state capitol. that sent demonstrators scattering across the city, police firing tear gas canisters and pepper spray. hundreds gathered in downtown phoenix but for what were more peaceful protests. throughout the evening the crowd chanted "i can't breathe." which of course is the phrase that george floyd repeated over and over and over again to officers. it's the same phrase eric garner said in the moments before he died while an officer held him in a choke hold in new york city back in 2014. and then there's louisville, wh

i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us in the united states the city of minneapolis has been shaken by a 2nd day of angry demonstrations and looting following the death of a black man in police custody the mayor of the city in the state of minnesota has asked the governor to send in the national guard he's also called for criminal charges to be filed against the officer who arrested george for the u.s. department of justice says it has launched an investigation. minneapolis is a city on fire and outpouring of rage over the death of a black man at the hands of police this auto parts store is one of several businesses in the city that was sit ablaze by angry protesters. elsewhere there was vandalism looting and clashes between demonstrators and riot police. in the minneapolis police department has praised its offices for showing restraint in their response. you know our officers. did not do not intake and i have people you know our officers were there they were present and reactionary and i will tell you that. it's amazing the amount of restraint. by. all of law enforcement out there

the city at the center of it all, of course, is minneapolis. local officials say they're overwhelmed after responding to hundreds of 91 calls about gunfire, property damage and burglary in the last couple of days. as our own ali velshi continues to stress most of these protesters are not destructive or violent. but a little more than an hour ago despite that relative peace police fired tear gas where ali was reporting in minneapolis, an action he said was unprovoked by protesters. >> nobody was doing anything. they opened fire, they're aiming their fire now, they're working towards us. get back, get back, you're hit, he's hit. step back. watch it, guys. we got gas here. all right, back up, back up, back up. they're now moving toward us. they're now moving toward us. yeah, they're shooting, guys. put your helmets on. miguel, stay with me. we got gas. >> highly dramatic situation as you can see and tensions have flared in other cities from pennsylvania and pittsburgh and columbia and freeways were blocked, windows shattered and authorities deploy

jillian: a fox news alert, mayhem in minneapolis overnight, city blocks nearly burned to the ground was a man shot dead on the street is protests rage in the wake of george floyd's death, the unarmed black man who died as a police officer kneeled on his neck. the violence continues to boil over. rob: the connecticut college students wanted in a murder spree captured. the days long manhunt leading police all the way to maryland. we are there live. jillian: a zebra dies into the state, the investigation into michael flynn's unmasking the unravel new problems for the obama administration. "fox and friends first" starts right now. todd: a good thursday morning. jillian: thank you for starting the day with us. let's get to this fox news alert. george floyd protests turning nationwide violent. todd: outraged americans demanding justice for the killing of the unarmed black man looters lighting businesses on fire and trashing police vehicles. [crowd chanting] jillian: new development of what the governor calls an extremely dangerous situation. >> reporter: we now know a man was killed outside a

minneapolis police. angry crowds have gathered in several cities. they have demanded justice and accountability. minneapolis protestors took to the streets for the third straight day. they set the precinct on fire.

and in minneapolis, a city on edge now after the killing of 46-year-old george floyd, the unarmed black man who died in police custody after being pinned down to the ground by a police officer. the video of floyd's death setting off a chain reaction of events including the firing of the four officers involved, and the launch of a justice department investigation. we want to show you the video, but i need to warn you, it is difficult to watch. it is graphic. in this video, you will see the officer with his knee on floyd's neck for several minutes while he calls out for help over and over saying i can't breathe. he was declared dead at a nearby hospital shortly afterwards. just the anger felt by the community spilling out into the city streets for a second straight night of protests. some of which turned violent as demonstrators and police clashed. the floyd family, who described him as a gentle giant, is urging calm for future protests and in an emotional interview, his younger brother spoke to cnn about his pain and what he wants to happen next. >> i grew up with him. that was my oldest

city police detective. and i also want to ask you, marq, if you're there, what your reaction is to what you're seeing first in minneapolis, now in new york city. and we see frank figliuzzi, who is with him as well. frank a former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence and an nbc national security analyst. but i want to start with you because of your new york city experience and because of your police experience if i can. something changed according to ali velshi tonight. he said a strategic change. he had a crowd that was much less agitated but a much larger crowd of police who were very quick to engage. what do you make of what you saw? >> quite obviously and based on just information that's been released in minneapolis, there's been a dramatic increase in manpower and resources. so what they're doing is utilizing that additional increase in manpower and resources to redeploy to some critical infrastructure targets perhaps. clearly they want to really take back certain sections or certain sectors of the area there. they want to absolutely be more assertive and proactive. they don't want to get caught on their he

city of minneapolis the unrest was sparked by the death of a black man in police custody on monday. until gail welcome to the program china's national people's congress has overwhelmingly passed a plan giving beijing the power to impose new restrictions on public protest in hong kong pro-democracy advocates say the north violates the freedoms of hong kong special one country 2 systems status in a joint statement the united kingdom the united states australia and canada said the new legislation would curtail people's liberties and dramatically erode the chinese territories autonomy. disorder in the hong kong legislative council a democratic lawmakers struggled to get past security guards with a bag he said it contained a russian plant symbolizing what he said was the decay of hong kong's rule of law. and way of life china's latest move against disobedience is imposing national security laws on hong kong the national people's congress approved plans to move forward with laws against things china sees as a threat to its authority over hong kong the law would allow mainland security age

when that officer kneeled over his neck and the man suffocated later died now for 3 nights minneapolis the city of minneapolis has been on fire there have been protests all around the country and you may ask yourself what's the reason for this throat. it's not just the killing but the fact that the 4 policemen who were involved in this unfortunate event in this death of george floyd. indeed fired by the minneapolis police but the people in the streets they demand that they should be in jail. nevertheless the situation is very serious it has reached the u.s. president and the authorities and let's listen what they have to say. this attorney general f.b.i. and the attorney general to take a very strong look and see what went on because it was a very very bad thing that i saw. the department of justice has made the investigation a top priority and has assigned experienced prosecutors an f.b.i. criminal investigators to the mountain. it's not just president trump and the authorities who are reacting to this this nightmare whole happening in minnesota right now but also different celebrities justin

and an easy calm in minneapolis the city where george floyd died after being pinned to the ground by a white police officer since his death the city has seen 5 straight days of protest and it's reeling from almost as many nights of violence the state governor blamed outside as and urged people to obey the curfew. i'm asking each and every minnesotan to be clear about this 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. the governor activated the state's national guard its 1st full mobilization since weld war 2 throughout the night dozens of protesters were arrested. many other cities across the country also imposed curfews the sunderland's declared a state of emergency after incidents of looting one national retail chain is temporarily shutting store was in several states. many protesters hope the lawlessness will not drown out the message. a lot of people are trying to change the subject focus on the right to work with the city with a lot less i want to parse it o

about a gas main, and there was concerns about continued looting and fires burning while the city of minneapolis, and different from our first night, had comparable concerns of looting and fires being set in the city of st. paul, so we had to divide our resources to meet the needs of both of the twin cities. the task the governor gave me was pretty simple actually. because it was to hold together a team that could go in and keep the peace, protect people. protect them, protect their safety, protect their lives, protect their liberty. and to protect property that was being burned up literally every minute that we delayed. then the county sheriff was one of my first calls. sheriff hutchinson immediately moved into action to give us support. we already had dnr. we already had state patrol, minnesota national guard. we had not tasked them with what we needed to do yet. we created a plan. the police chief offered support. the chief of police for metro transit offered support. and with that came together, we ballparkher a 250 catchall team to go in and restore order on lake street. we created a missio

that the group of writers who had attacked the city of minneapolis and the city of st. paul and the surrounding burning, salting, robbing and looting, that their numbers were great and that they and a tactical advantage over us in the early days of last week. yesterday, minnesota's -- chiefs of group police, sheriffs, federal law analysts,t, intel fire and ems, and the minnesota national guard all came together to take a different approach to how we were going to keep the peace, which i think is the most fundamental job of any cop. i always tell people i do not think of myself as a police officer. i think of myself as a piece officer -- as a peace officer. we created a different organizational model at the coordination center. we briefed that model and we set throughoutving teams the twin cities area to targets we knew were of high value and high probability of attack. we worked the intel. we worked with the community. i want to emphasize that. we worked with the community to identify where those high valued targets would be. we pre-positioned staff so they would be imm

that tweet saying it violates its rules about glorifying violence minneapolis is marriage a code for a pushback against saying the city and its leadership were far from weak donald trump knows nothing about the strength of minneapolis we are strong as hell is this a difficult time period yes but you better be damn sure that we're going to get through this. while the protests are spreading across the u.s. at least 7 people were shot in louisville kentucky where crowds turned out to demand justice for a buy on a tailor a black woman fatally shot by police in her home back in march in other news the reopening of hundreds of south korean schools has been suspended in some others have been forced to close after a spike in new coronavirus cases 58 new infections have been announced most of them from seoul and link to an online shopping warehouse wearing a mask in public is not mandatory 11 on a $14.00 fine faces anyone seen without $12000003.00 masks have been distributed by the government in the past 3 days 7 you called it 1000 cases were reported on thursday pushing the total past 1100 as well as nearly 30 deaths. brazil

unarmed black man in police custody 46 year old george floyd died as he was being detained in the city of minneapolis earlier this week one of the police involved officers involved has been charged with murder demonstrations have been spreading across the country with some turning increasingly violent like here in new york city where police made dozens of arrests crowds also gathered in front of the white house with many people chanting black lives matter there are clashes in atlanta too where protesters had fire to a police car several 1000 people. also rallied in houston texas the city where george floyd grew up. well d.w. correspondent stefan siemens has been out on the streets of minneapolis and he sent us this report. we're at a walgreen's drug store here in minneapolis and this store got looted ransacked and pretty much destroyed 48 hours ago there was a curfew supposed to be in place national guard and police would have according to the theory security and protect that the store but the curfew never happened police and national guard just vanished. and now for someone to just set it on fire. w

minneapolis. thousands of protesters marching through the city, calling for justice.nesota governer, tim walz, said he's called in the national guard to help keep order. community leaders also called for calm after yesterday police fired tear gas at rioters and looting took place at some stores on wednesday night. the police chief has apologised to the family of the victim, george floyd. video showed him saying he couldn't breath as a police officer knelt on his neck. four officers have been fired. nada tawfik has more. america's long and painful history of police brutality has always been an open wound. don't shoot! in minneapolis, for the second day, demonstrators spilt into the streets after the death of george floyd — their protests an outlet for the emotional trauma of watching unarmed black men die at the hands of the police year after year. george floyd! but as the night wore on, the peaceful chants were drowned out by violence. as the unrest spread, a rush of people began looting and vandalizing property. for hours at this store, crowds took down the aisles, s

city after being placed in a police choke hold. of course, will continue to monitor the situation in minneapolis throughout the morning. also about an hour ago, the city of minneapolis' twitter page, their official page, says there's unconfirmed reports of a gas line being cut as well as other explosives in the third precinct and asking if you or anyone you know is in the area to please leave just in case the building does explode. and following that tweet, the mayor, mayor frey tweeted saying they are working with the departments to deliver resources to the city and he said, "we need to work together to ensure the safety of our friends, family, minneapolis residents, and working together means clearing the area." i'm ashley strohmeyer in new york. we will send you back to regular programming, which is "the ingraham angle." w >> i'm asking the attorney general, fbi, and attorney general to take a very strong look.we that was a very bad thing that i saw. >> let me be really clear here. no one in america should feel like he h or she is being treatd unfairly by law enforcement because of skin color or any other characteris

twin cities of minneapolis and st. paul are under mandatory curfew, just hours after murder and manslaughter charges were announced against the police officer leaning on mr. floyd's neck as he repeatedly said i can't breathe. began more than four hours ago, yet some protesters still in the streets of this hour. we saw minneapolis authorities trying to push back demonstrators with tear gas and flash bangs. they're reeling tonight, not only cities facing unrest. peaceful protests in atlanta turned violent earlier this evening with buildings damaged and police vehicles set on fire. thousands gathered in new york, flashes breaking out between demonstrators and police. more than 700 miles away in louisianaville, kentucky, protesters taken to the streets for second night of demonstrations as the city reels from the death of george floyd and brianna taylor, medical technician shot by police inside her home earlier this year. nbc news correspondent jake ward, you were on with joy, we saw what happened there, police pushing pro

over justice for george floyd tensions mount from minneapolis to new york city atlanta and also washington d.c. it follows the death of the 46 year old black man into police custody in minneapolis earlier this week. don't forget you can always get the w. news on the get go just download our app from google plus or on the app store that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for a new breaking news and if you're part of a news story you can also use the d w app to send us photos and videos of what's happening. as the latest from news this hour omarion and stealing from me and the team in berlin thanks for watching. passion drama competition rivalry marketing numbers atmosphere by intuition love money. fans primes 5 stamps and sounds. like a meal. more complete 2nd season.

city of minneapolis the rest was sparked by the killing of george floyd and on our black man by police on monday. the bundesliga has its 1st big blooper since the restart did this goalkeeping error cost the country berlin and important victory. i'm sumi so much god it's good to have you with us china is under fire after taking another step to increase its control over hong kong and so do public protest beijing's national people's congress overwhelmingly passed a plan that gives the chinese government the power to impose new restrictions on hong kong pro-democracy advocates say the law violates the freedoms promised under hong kong special one country 2 systems status japan the u.s. britain and other democracies have criticized china's moves. chinese government said the implementation of the security law was for the long term benefit of hong kong's prosperity and stability. one country 2 systems is china's basic state policy. the central government has all along fully and faithfully implemented one country 2 systems under which the people of hong kong govern hong kong with a high degree

concerns about a gas main and concerns about continued looting and fires burning while the city of minneapolis and they had comparable concerns of looting and fires being set in the city of st. paul, so we had to divide our resources to meet the needs of both of the twin cities. the task the governor gave me was pretty simple. it was to hold together a team that could go in and keep the peace, protect people. protect them, protect their safety, protect their lives, protect their liberty. and to protect property that was being burned up literally every minute that we delayed. hennipen sheriff was one of my first calls. >> the police chief offered support. and the chief of police of the metro transit offered support. and with that team together, we put together 250 to go in and restore order on lake street. we created a mission. it was very specific. i'm a mission-driven person. we talked about the fact that we were going to be respectful of people's rights and we were going to keep the peace and make people safe and we were going to follow our training and protocols by making a public announcem

"i can't stand back and watch this happen to a great american city, minneapolis. a total lack of leadership. either the very weak radical left mayor jacob frey get his act together and bring the city under control or i will send in the national guard and get the job done right. these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd, and i won't let that happen. just spoke to governor tim walz and told him that the military is with him all the way. any difficulty and we will assume control but when the looting starts the shooting

minneapolis has seen four nights of riots. violent protests have also hit other major cities including los angeles and new york, atlanta, houston denver. this is the scene as dawn breaks in minneapolis with police still on the guard and fires burning in the streets. we have got these pictures in the last few minutes and you can see smoke billowing from the buildings and afire smoke billowing from the buildings and a fire down the street. 0ur correspondent barbara plett—usher is there. minneapolis is under curfew, but the city is still burning. 0utrage over the police killing of an unarmed black man has consumed people here for four days with a street protest and also arson and looting. the state deployed that national guard to restore order and local officials moved unusually quickly to charge the police officer with third—degree murder and manslaughter. he is the one in the video kneeling on that neck of george floyd for nearly nine minutes while george floyd cried out again and again that he could not breathe. and then stopped moving. the governor of minnesota has said he expects swift justice but the question is whether that

i can't stand back and watch this happen to a great american city, minneapolis. total lack of leadership. either the very weak radical left mayor jakob frey get his act together and bring the city under control or i will send in the national guard and get the job done right. then he added -- these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd and won't let that happen. any difficulty we'll assume control but when the looting starts the shooting starts. that's a historical reference. let's talk about it with our chief media correspondent. brian, harsh words from this president, talk about what he had to say and the tone. >> obviously incendiariry words from the president, not what you want to hear in a situation like this. reminiscent of the days in the riots in charlottesville when the city was on edge and he made the bad situation worse. i fear that's what he's doing now. i don't claim the protesters in minneapolis are monitoring every word the president says, that's certainly not the case, however, the lack of leadership will be a problem in the hour a-- hour

and it was concerns about a gas main and continued looting and fires burning throughout the city of minneapolis and different than our first night of comparable concerns of looting and fires being set in the city of saint paul. we had to divide our resources to meet the needs of both of the twins cities. the task the governor gave me was simple. it was to hold together a team that could go in and keep the peace and protect the people and protect their safety and lives and liberty and protect property that was being burnt up every minute that we delay. sheriff hutchinson moved into action to give us support. we had dnr and we already had state patrol and the initial guard. we had not passed of what we needed to do and we had to create a plan. police chief offered support and metro transit offered us support. with that team together we put together a 250 ballpark team to go in and restore order. we created a mission. it was very specific. i ha i am a mission driven person. we talked about the fact that we'll be respectful of people's rights. we'll keep the peace and make people safe. and that we

city of minneapolis.testers gather in response to the death of an unarmed black man in police custody. presidenent trump calls the protesters thugs. warned theent has company's survival is at stake. france eases coronavirus restrictions. restaurants will be allowed to reopen next week. in paris, diners will have to sit outside. those are headlines this hour. you are watching "france 24." a police station has been set on fire by protesters in the u.s. city of minneapolis during a third night of violent unrest. protests erupted over the death of an unarmed black man in police custody. george floyd was filmed struggling for breath while a white policeman stood on his neck. theident trump who called video of his death shocking also took to twitter to call the protesters thugs. the third precinct in the apple us in flames as police face the anger of a wounded community. the police station was evacuated afteter crowds fororcibly enterd the building and set it ablaze. elsewhere, businesses were looted and cars w

growing as more people in most cities feel justice in america is far from equal victoria gayton be out there well let's speak now to alison who is a journalist in minneapolis and allison you live in the city you've been out on the streets while all this is being going on you know the city well just print the picture for us what's the scene. well i went out early this morning the 1st i will go to i text from. my ex partner who said his work was on fire and it's one of those businesses that is just getting a corner to the minneapolis 3rd precinct building so i went down bare and i talk with people i know who you know people that had been there all all you thinking i talked with one woman who was at that very difficult because you can really patients it's an indigent space where indigenous you know here in the city it's been there for over 40 plus years i talked with her last night i talked with her this morning and she said that she was there until about 2 in the morning about 2 to 3 tutoring in the morning and she saw no national guard or state trooper presence and that really the only people that were protecting that building were the american people and p

the minneapolis police chief is apologizing to his grieving city today after the death of floyd. bystander video of his arrest is very graphic. and in it, you can see the police officer is pinning floyd to the ground with his knee on floyd's neck, even as floyd pleads that he cannot breathe. he died shortly after this and we are learning new details about one of these officers and a previous excessive force claim. we'll have more on that in a moment. >>> but first, the fires still smoldering in minneapolis where protesters clashed with police. riots erupting overnight, at least 30 fires reported. some buildings burned to the ground. stores destroyed and looted and at times, police responded by deploying tear gas and rubber bullets. demanding the four officers involved be arrested and charged with murder. in the last hour, minneapolis city councilwoman called for a state of emergency. >> as we stand here grieving, yet another loss of black life, a sense leless tragic loss of bk life. i really don't have many words, but i know that something's got to change. and so i am asking my c