Im jim sciutto. And im poppy harlow. Were glad youre with us on this critical morning in america. Pain and anger in this country. Right now cities across the nation preparing for another day and night of mass protests. These protests largely remain peaceful during the day, marred, many of them, by violence at night. Many acts of violence, also peaceful protests during a time of police support. There has been looting, there have been fires, there have been stunning images just days after a white Police Officer pressed his knee into the neck of a black man, george floyd, for nearly nine minutes, killing him. The police chief kneeling at a memorial for floyd. Theres that powerful picture there, his hat off. He says he thinks the officers involved, those stood by, not just the one that had a knee on the neck, they were complicit. We have reporters across the nation. First lets go, though, to omar jimenez. Hes in minneapolis. Omar, do the best you can to give a picture of the broad range of
The citys police chief abruptly resigning as surveillance and body cam footage of the incident came out yesterday. Protests overnight shutting down a highway with dozens of people arrested. Jonathan serrie is outside of the win des, now burned in protest of the killing. Jonathan, break down what we know happened here . Yeah, arthel. It unfolded in this wendys here. You can see protesters are gathering again today. It started out as a routine nuisance complaint, reports of a man who had fallen asleep in a car that was blogging the drivethrough of this wendys that you see behind me. Authorities say he failed a field sobriety test and when police tried to arrest him, he resisted, grabbing an officers taser. Take a listen. He runs a relatively short distance, looks like its probably fine, six, seven Parking Spaces distance and at that point turns around and appears to to the eye that he points a taser at the atlanta officer. At that point, the atlanta officer reaches down and retrieves his
Making to you now, to the calls of our family and to the calls ringing out across the streets around the world. The Minneapolis Police chief said today he will withdraw from negotiations with that citys police union to conduct, quote, a thorough review of the contract with the police. As cnns sara siger now reports. Reporter history is being written now. Im determined to make sure that we are on the right side of history. Reporter Minneapolis Police chief Medaria Arradondo laying out a plan for his tarnised Police Department to move forward following the death of george floyd at the hands of now four former minneapolis officers. People are tired. They want action. Reporter without ever mentioning the four officers involved by name, the chief revealing two key measures of his plan to change the department, one, the immediate withdrawal of contract negotiations with the Minneapolis Police union until a thorough review of how the contract can be restructured to provide more Community Tran
To the entire world. Reporter a big jump, though, this talk now about how to contain and ultimately and defeat isis as the lives of other american hostages hang in the balance, from january, when president obama referred to such groups in an interview as a jv team when compared to al qaeda. Would you still agree with his assessment of a few months ago . As theyve become better funded through various funding streams including what theyre able to sell in terms of oil and gas, the ransomes theyve been able to obtain, and that has developed their capacity in a way that has increased the threat and they pose a greater threat today than they did six months ago and were taking it very seriously. Reporter the administration does agree, though, that isis is still mainly involved in regional operations, not the 911level planning of al qaeda and today a bulletin was sent out to Law Enforcement across america saying, there is no credible Homeland Security threat linked to isis, but warns, isis is