Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis that officer derek shop and. Whose knee was on George Floyds neck has been fired. And is now facing charges. This is his mug shot. Here in the bay area anger and frustration with floyds death has reached a fever pitch with local protests, turning violent. One San Jose Police officer was hurt as you can see there a group of nearly 100 people stormed highway one oh one in san jose shutting down traffic across all lanes as we mentioned 8. 80 in oakland is shutdown kron fours also the money and live in our newsroom. With the latest on the protests l a. Theyre granted vicki so frustration of course has increased here in the bay areas well thousands of miles away from minneapolis and although were seeing these images of damage and violence we also do not want to lose sight as to the message here. Unfortunately, the demonstration though in san jose started out peaceful and then quickly escalated to what you saw there an officer knocked down lying beside a
Protests against george death has broken out across the country, including here in the bay area. Hundreds of people posttesting in oakland and san jose tonight. The demonstrations, at times, pretty violent. That outreach spreading across the country tonight. Thank you for joining us. And tonight, in oakland, protesters were out on the streets. Protesters were blocking the highway at 880. You can see in the video this is from the broadway exit. You can see here that people were on the freeway. At one point traffic had to come to a screeching halt because the protesters ran onto the freeway. Here is a live look from sky fox at the protest happening right now in oakland. We saw a short time ago someone set fire to something. It appears that other people who are a part of the demonstration put out that fire as well. You can see fire trucks on the scene. We are not clear what that was about. But we have learned multiple officers were hurt earlier tonight at seventh and broadway. Always say
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