Defends Police Officers who drove. Into a crowd of protesters. And the protests have now spread beyond the United States but thousands gathering in both london and. A very warm welcome to right wherever youre watching us youre watching International ImDaniel Hawkins thanks for joining us this hour. Now another night of violence and cities set ablaze amid protests by the death of george floyd at the hands of police 1700 people have been arrested across the United States in minneapolis where floyd died police have been struggling to maintain their curfew there with officers resorting to ever more heavy handed methods. You got the problem you got the gold. Piece into. A makeshift memorial has been set up for George Floyds mourners have been paying very respectful leaving flowers and messages the site has also become a place for peaceful protest against Police Brutality contrasting with the anger that has been borne over in other parts of the city and so how will some whose George Floyds aunt told us she never expected this scale of support. He was like the only family i say here and im still trying to cope with the fact he is no lonely here because when we take you dont we play and you think. You know dont overwhelm me. And and how much people here. I think i mean you dont look so much because to be good everyone at work watching hated shia you know why dont you be the one down in front of you. Any if you have 100. 00. You know if you have a heart beat you dont love youre going to your brain. It cant do anything for a change because there were people that told me they wanted to reach through the t. V. 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Rock Davis Williams who says he worked in my club in minneapolis where both george freud and the Police Officers charged by ways death worked as well as they shared his reaction with us to whats happened. I knew by a problem pretty well i work with floyd as well we all knew him by. I was there work in the club the day his 1st day coming in back in 2000 and my plea 15 Something Like that when he 1st came in he was there i was the head of security i wasnt aware i was in point it was hiring but the moment i saw him i knew i needed that guy in florida who rose very genuine. What i mean that this guy would give you the shirt off in fact it was such a nice. Game for being such a big star he was truly in touch i was so dereks even oh say you also worked with him in a nightclub tell us more about hand. And lets be clear about this that people together its a club because its not like you working shoulder to shoulder this cost to sit in this park was outside the building at the time you dont even know whos in the squad cars they show up they stay outside they dont come into it on assist ok. Just want to. Come out so we dont really do that nature but we are employed by the same people ok so their childrens relationship with floyd was very short because that was it except for the role that was. Shot in. The day also i did clear that id do you think they should even recognize floyds during their arrest. Its possible that maybe if they did not go in that money can you think of my sister recognizes you in my Business Security that usually gives you some type of insight but with that officer some type of common level with that officer that usually helps you out in situations so you got called over. And you respect meeting you newly off secure what with the measures that can help you get out. So no not for soup we usually help you now you. 7 know i do not believe that there was any previous marriage between these 2 and i would like to clear that up but i do not believe so knowing both of these men how did you feel what was your reaction when you 1st saw the video. I was horrified but i mean come on that was. On every level. It was it was horrifying. Who was quite aware of this scene in the video i just didnt understand. Why he was doing this i never knew he was good to people of course Something Like that so i was actually shocked and horrified i was relieved to say. You know. Im still. Ok fuz have now been imposed in 28 cities across the United States meaning people are brought here with and from being outside after 8 pm and that didnt stop writing reportedly 75 city seoul protests spill out into the streets 10 states called in the National Guard in new york city alone 30 officers were injured in clashes with 350 people arrested. Oh. Please thank you thank you thank you thank you. Lets go live now to new york and betty about mona whos afraid of covering events there for us just after a 5 pm local time there now in new york wasnt initially the focus of the protests but things that have been pretty heated i dont know whats the latest where you are. A little higher i am group in the live in proclaim from. Run down the plaza which is one of the most important where. Brooklyn there are 3 to 400 people protesting in the peak way year. In year in game there are a lot like my other sign i dont read signs all in new York Police Department is not here now they just pass through the drop through the square or for a moment and then the last i want to show you. Left on the side is more very very small. Cameras so the are checking remotely whats going on here and you something is going wrong theyre going to come back this process. Or a nice very very cool with a lot of violence yesterday in plot which is a neighborhood in the southern part of brooklyn. So far. Kind of quiet people driving are cheering the protestors and and the situation is is in peace so far but there are many different small gatherings. The city so well see what happens in the next few hours. I mean when you said last night what was heated obviously there were quite shocking pictures of those police cause dropping in to protest the new york where came under criticism for defending the polices actions in that case do you think thats going to make the protests was tonight whats the mood there like are things quieting down or is the potential for things to get more serious. Can become more serious last night. I mean those were very very violent actually and police used the 4 to push back the protesters across the city in particular in that was with no. Warning and and people. Fighting each other. Yes i was in any deliberately. Morning one of the we are the car so i think that today so far is more quiet the last day yesterday at this time for. More very very aggressive now the nation looks to be calm. Its very its a very fair or just wish and then you can change every every time in every moment Police Department new york what is the farm and up there last night is under investigation for someone so well see what happened. In this square and these officials looked to be more quiet and yet every protest across the city has been quite different hasnt it some of been very very peaceful we saw the protests george burleys memorial they were very calm all the places we saw as you said the shops cars being set on fire looting would you say were you was where youve been over the last 24 hours most protests have been peaceful has it been just quite a small number of people sort of hijacking them always that quite a lot of people engaging in in rioting and looting. I think that the most of the protests so i mean people in a riot so there was a sam so peaceful marches across the city and both in black bush where they were being and 2 days. So i say that most of them were aggressive but of course the result. Of the protesters like for the people here now that the are just standing and speaking out in support of the. Royal family and all the africanamerican people of the country today the majority of people in protesting peacefully last night. After 7 pm the situation was very very different than what. You can hear people hearing the protesters so far i will say that the majority of the people today protesting peacefully. Perhaps you can just slip your camera around so we can see a bit more whats going on whats happening in the crowd i cant see many police around whereas yesterday there was quite a large number of police on the streets do you think its its a new perhaps a tactic by the police to take a step back to not be so heavy handed to perhaps try to take some of the out of the situation because right now there doesnt seem to be that much police there where you are. Yes yes it can be. Yes the world. In which another one in union square. New. York. And of course that was another kind of response today there are more of course as you can see show you 2 police cars here that we are likely to confront in the situation but they are very far from the protest i dont think that theyre in patients. Are also the 1st to be more. Yes it. Looks to be more general and you can see there in. New york. We have to remember that the c. D. C. In full because of the growing number of. People are doing at. The last. Last night that was the epicenter of the process. Now ill just mention that. My men are covering events for us there in new york thanks for that update and i think well get back to you im sure but it goes on. Thank you. Well in the process donald trump has said he will designate the left wing but its a group ante for a terrorist organization blaming us for the current violence and destruction across the country and journalist and t. V. Host ben swan told us that trump songs on t. V. For backfire. Its got a lot of pressure on the president to move against in secret for some time there are a lot of people who believe that it does act as a terrorist organization i actually think its a very poor precedent because what happens is even though there are a lot of conservatives in this country who would say well thats a good thing we need to label this group of that as a Terrorism Group but as soon as your guy is not in office the more and you get someone from the other side to that they will then want to turn around and label any protest movement on the other side also a terrorist group the establishment of the country is not sure what to make of these protests i think a lot of it has to do with its impart a black lives matter issue its in part a response to Police Violence against unarmed black men because weve seen this over and over but i also believe that or seen this in relation to the lockdown that happened in the United States there are a lot of people who have been frustrated with the Financial System theyre frustrated with not having jobs not being able to make money theres a lot thats going on thats creating frustration and then to see another blatant example of another black man killed at the hands of Police Officers and its not just one officer by the way theres video that shows 3 other officers for some time around george floyd and the fact that there are 4 other officers in total who could have intervened and simply chose not to when protesters were saying on friday night and saturday night that their biggest frustration is that one officer has been charged but others have not been charged and they believe those officers should also be charged with murder youre seeing big coalitions of people coalescing around this particular issue which is a specific issue and import from one really to be protested but i think that there are other issues as well so i suspect we wont see at least for several days maybe even a week these these protests died out on the u. S. President s residence in washington d. C. Hasnt escaped the unrest ivan protests that have been gathering outside for 2 days and have clashed with secret service agents. That. Was ok ok. Thanks. I. Cant believe ive been around for 2 months all they do is corruption is corruption on top of corrections of oppression they cause more problems and they have. About taxpayers dollars we are paying them our money to protect us this is what this is about to end today thanks for protection. Oh ok. Were going live in money and songs in houston from the 100000 poets for change movement i mean thanks for joining us so much good to have you on the program today oversleep very dramatic images from across the United States multiple cities. Savants of heavy handed tactics from the police a lot of people are saying whats been your experience of the protests so flaw and how do you think things could get. My experience has been that every every protest ive been to is been peaceful theyve been well organized and everyone was there to have their voice heard and to see change we want change at a legislative level not just marches but actually laws changed and consequences for the officers involved i dont know whats going to happen in the future i dont think anybody does but i do hope that there is change so that my grandkids you know other generations do not have to do what were doing today. What about the other saw the people you know bored about the rioting the looting that are saying you know is that really the right way to get the message across i mean everybody supports peaceful protests everybody what one strange i think is universal agreement on that but do you think that the peaceful protests perhaps all being hijacked oh i definitely think that peaceful protests have been hijacked. Basically stories about and. Other white supremacist organizations getting involved trying to create violence and detract from the message but i have a problem with putting more emphasis on the looting that everything that led up to it you know my grandparents marched my parents march now im marching you know people have been marching for hundreds of here so. To be upset about 5 days of looting when we had in america over 400 years of violence towards minorities is a little misplaced in my opinion. Do you think the focus of the protests is still on George Floyds death i mean the minnesotas governor he said excessive violence is no longer about not issues that under protest about that do you think theyre on all the things people are angry about as well that the you know injustice inequality that kind of in general here or do you think people take advantage of someone saying to just engage in unruly behavior. I cant speak to everyones motivation but i think that george it was a camel that wrote im sorry the straw that broke the camels back. Just in what i know there were 4 incidents on the memorial day weekend. There were 2 killings just in the few weeks before george lloyd and Joshua Johnson was killed and there was briana sailors in there with them are buried there so. George floyd was the last one and the one that people just it was just too much it was just too much it was too much just it was too much to watch another happen. It was just too much and people needed to make their voices heard and say ok there are consequences people act like things happen in a vacuum they actions have consequences and those consequences should have been that all 4 of those officers should have been arrested immediately thats what the consequences should have been they were not. And so now you have thousands of people with been arrested went on them for needed to be arrested that particular incident and there were others that needed to be arrested and other and that is what the focus should be on. The people in power have the power to stop these things before they even start by using the power of law effectively to protect the people that is supposed to protect the citizens. You mentioned that people want change at a level of level not just one officer being arrested or some sort of was the support people want real change what do you think it will take for top and what will it take for people to leave these protests and say ok this is the the outcome we have which weve won today its been achieved obviously one of us has been charged. The others are not under investigation have all been fired but people want something more done what is it the people want what kind of change. I think some of the changes that would help would be for example the k. K. K. To be classified as a terrorist organization it has never been. For officers who lose their immunity they have this im not sure exactly what the term is but they havent a minute the prosecution and for them to lose that and basically if they break the law there is no immunity for them just like there is no immunity for any other person everyone should be equal under the law and so i think those are the 2 things and also to tie if you are convicted of any kind of crime as an officer to basically say you lose your pension you lose there needs to be a fear of overstepping your boundaries and i think at this point there seems to be no fear at all so there needs to be consequences if if youre a teacher and you do something you lose your job and you can lose other you know you can lose the ability to get a job anywhere as a teacher but as an officer we see these officers get fired and get rehired and very soon after getting fired so there seems to be no real penalty firing them is not enough because they can be rehired by some other Police Department in the same state. So there needs to be some systematic change so that people do feel as if the people who are supposed to enforce the laws are actually following the laws and have consequences when they dont follow the law. Ok good to get your go take him whats been going on the money to jones from houston 100000 poets to change thanks for joining us on the program today good to have you with us thank you. Protests spread beyond the United States borders with thousands gathering in Trafalgar Square in Central London as well as in a german capital correspondent in but in peta all of the european reaction. Well theres been outrage here over the killing of george floyd that video of the black man gasping for breath as a white Police Officer knelt on his neck ignoring his pleas has been seen by many people here and thats been seen in the demonstrations and the demonstrators that have come out on to the streets of cities like berlin we saw demonstrations on saturday and on sunday where they marched from the courts burg region of the city to the u. S. Embassy near the Brandenburg Gate holding up signs like silence is violence hold cops accountable and who do you call when the police murder. Emotions running high here in the german capital as well as what what has been going on in the United States. Did not do enough. And. Yet. On the whole berlin wall in my hour park here in the german capital a mural depicting george floyd has gone up over the weekend that includes his words i cant breathe which he repeated over and over to the Police Officer that was kneeling on his neck at the time away from germany in denmark theres also been demonstrations in copenhagen outside of the u. S. Embassy and in belgium those words i cant breathe were seeing spray painted by a graffiti artist along the side of a brussels train theres also being thousands of people out on the streets of the british capital in london scenes outside of the houses of parliament to follow the square on the u. S. Embassy there as well where we understand 5 people were arrested on sunday. Its part of that demonstration again of people coming out and saying theyre outraged at the killing of george floyd and what they see as violence towards black people in the us from the police there. Was. People being snotty to the streets and that the people can be tom and i think the word is what she was you see is not exactly the right here because im from Miami Florida and actually even if i took my and im just proud that here in the u. S. May care enough about it but not. So. Well as weve heard from contribute to this in the program so far who are in the United States this doesnt the violence certainly the demonstrations that are ongoing dont look like theyre going away any time soon and well be looking to european leaders particular monday to see what reaction they have to the ongoing situation in the United States but set the south join us again if 30 minutes for the latest headlines with you and i will see about 10. Is the United States hell bent on selfdestruction a pandemic a dramatic economic turndown and no massive civil rest all point to decline could this have been avoided also targeting hong kong watch a little 4 species playbook in. The world is driven by shaped by. 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