Jason carroll in louisville for a closer look at the case. Jason . Reporter well, anderson, weaver just now left Jefferson Square park. You can see behind me a fire has been set. Fire was set, two small fires in Jefferson Square park and another fire being set as you can see right here. Some of these demonstrators setting fire to this bush in a tree. Up the road a little bit, they smashed a bus stop, a small group proof test tors now have proeken off from the square are continuing to march at this point. They say they will march right through the curfew that is less than an hour away. Former detective Brett Hankison faces three charge of wanton endangerment and two other officers that responded with gunfire, Jonathan Mattingly and miles cosgrove were investigated but do no face any criminal charges. According to kentucky law, the use of force by mattingly and cosgrove were justified. Based on the evidence, there is nothing conclusive to say that detective hankisons any of his bullets h
Closer just why washington still resembles an armed camp and just who ordered all those armed unidentifiable forces onto the streets there. Plus, in the wake of former defense secretary mattis calling the president a threat to the constitution, were joined by another retired fourstar general, the former commander of u. S. And nato forces in afghanistan, general john allen who warns that the president s crowd clearing to enable his bible stunt on monday, quote, may well signal the beginning of the end of the american experiment. We have a lot to get to tonight starting with cnns Miguel Marques in minneapolis. Oh, praise god noug reporter moments of prayer and reflection. Everybody wants justice, we want justice for george. Hes going to get it. Hes going to get it. [ applause ] i want you to know he would stand up for any injustice everywhere. Whew. Canall please say his name . George floyd. Thank yall. [ applause ] reporter as the city and the country mourn floyd killed by minneapolis p
Raised from third degree to Second Degree murder. In a moment ill talk with attorney general ellison. Also president obama adding his voice to the debate in a virtual town hall. And tonight well talk with Kareem Abduljabbar. Hes both a basketball and civil rights legend. There is other breaking news on the military response to the demonstrations. A stunning rebuke from james mattis, the president s First Defense secretary and a retired marine corps fourstar general. General mattis not only slams the president s photo op at st. Johns episcopal church, but his entire approach to the military and governing. The president he says is the first in his lifetime who, quote, does not try to unite the American People, does not even pretend to try. Let me just repeat that. The man hand picked by the president to be his First Defense secretary, a man who spent his life in service to this country and to this countrys constitution, now says that the president of the United States does not even prete
Good evening. At a moment of Sweeping Change in this country, on the question of race and justice, the president of the united states, today, signalled his resistance to it and showed in ways well talk about tonight how out of step he appears to be with where a significant part of the country now is. Hes been building up to this for days now as senior advisers battled over whether he should give some kind of address on the subject. And one cabinet secretary said, stay tuned. I believe youre going to be hearing from the president this week, on this topic, in some detail. And i i would ask you, maybe, to reserve judgment until after that time. Well, the question tonight. Did we just witness that moment that dr. Ben carson was saying stay tuned for . Where his remarks, the president s remarks this afternoon to a handpicked roundtable in dallas all there is . Because if so, nothing much has changed. The president began today by praising himself. From day one, i have been fighting for the f
Continuing to make arrests here last 40 or so minutes weve seen this. Police moving in. Could see more Police Officers running. This has significantly escalated here in the last 40 minutes. As you can see, we are being pushed back as well. Protesters and police here right now, police challenging the protesters. Weve seen pepper spray from the nypd here at some of the protesters. Seen officer with his now out. And now bottles, water bottles, glass bottles being thrown at police and Police Coming in again, chasing people down as theyre throwing bottles at them. This started peaceful, anderson, but something changed, and then the police, who mostly were not did not feel any kind of threat, let the protesters go. Then all of a sudden, everything changed and police moved in with riot gear, wearing helmets. Another bottle just thrown, thats been going on last hour, more police moved in. Protesters became more agitated. Pepper spray, several people with pepper spray all over their face. Red e