You needed money. Get a job. Like i do. Martha that is lucy. And in all of these places tonight, the leaders are pushing plans to Defund Police departments, so radical it was only seen in antifa manifesto. But tonight the idea is on the look of these leaders as well. This is minneapolis, the Council President lisa bender. She says yes, we are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety. In los angeles, the mayor said he would like to cut his budget for police by 150 million, but some researchers say that after these widely seen awful videos of the Police Brutality surface, the pullback in policing that tends to follows as kirby involvement is met with a spike in Violent Crime so the pullback in the police as we saw in ferguson after the death of Michael Brown in baltimore come after freddy gray died in police custody, the lack of the pullback connectivity leads to an increase in crime and homicide. Still, as tensi
Campaign the most progressive in modern history . The case will be made when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. If you went back to the beginning of this year, 2020, and as the ball was dropping, you predicted we would have had a once in a century pandemic that would shut down the entire economy, kill more than 100,000 americans and be the leading cause of mortality for weeks at a time, every part of it would have seemed incomprehensible and this is where we are. 100,000 americans died. The only real nod the president made to any warning or empathy for the fallen is to lower flags at federal buildings and monuments to half staff for three days. Now they are back up. Now they are back up. Hes bored with dealing with the virus. Hes moving on. He wants us to move on, too. The president is mad at the virus for screwing up ree lux whi reelection which is obvious from his public pronouncements and a source telling vanity fair trump was in a rage saying this
Effect. Businesses were broken into and looted. Multiple fires burned with no sign of first responders. This morning, the front page of the star tribune calls it a state of agony. At one point, the governor called in the National Guard to respond to what he described as arson, rioting and looting. But there was very little sign the authorities had any handle on the chaos. It wasnt until dawn we saw the National Guard and state police show up and try to regain control of the situation. I want to go right to my colleague Shaquille Brewster who has been on the ground in minneapolis since the protest started. And i want to remind our audience, shaquille and his team are protected with security there. Shaq, lets start with that. How are you . Doing okay, stephanie. Just want to point out the scene that you see right now is much different than what we saw when our team first arrived here. When we came here, we were doing a morning joe live report and tried to do it from here but you saw buil
A move youre going to continue to have this mark claxton, jim cavanaugh, thank you both for your expertise and thoughts as both of you understand very well whats going on, particularly mark for your sources on the ground. We do appreciate it. It is 1 00 a. M. Here on the east coast, midnight in minneapolis. Im chris jansing, and youre washing msnbcs continuing coverage of the unrest in minnesota. Lets take a look at the live pictures from minneapolis, where a Police Precinct is burning, as protests over the death of george floyd rage for a third day. Protestors focusing on the third precinct, which was the base of the four Police Officers who were fired after George Floyds 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
With police. Now this social and political element is slamming right into an economic and health crisis. The centuries old challenge of racism is meeting an unprecedented tragedy of 102,000 people dead from coronavirus in the u. S. And more than 40 million americans are out of work. Right now were showing you some of the video from across the country. The protests from coast to coast. Most of them, many of them nonviolent. You likely have seen in your city protesters and police clashing. Some of these have ended in death. One person died last night in indianapolis. A young man died in detroit on friday night. Were seeing Law Enforcement pushing back with strict new measures. The National Guard being deployed in a dozen states, and millions have been put under curfew. Were still seeing some of the looting and vandalism weve seen throughout the week. After scenes like this one, this is target. Target said they temporarily closed 175 Stores Across the country. 71 of them in minnesota wher