The supreme court. That will play out over the next couple of minutes. Well bring you that news as well as soon as it unfolds. Our team of reporters have been gathering all across the country as 50 states have now seen protests and demonstrations as a result of the killing of george floyd. At the same time, the National Guard has been deployed in about half of those states including right here in philadelphia. Were going to talk about that in a moment as well. We do want to begin with our nbc news reporters. We have ali velshi in minneapolis, ron allen in new york, craig melvin in washington, d. C. , and blayne alexander is in atlanta. Minneapolis obviously the epicenter of all of this, walk us through what we saw over the past 48 hours or so and where we are this morning there. Reporter yeah, waking up after a quiet night in minneapolis. Police did approach it in a much more orderly manner. I think we are up to 300 276 arrests between sunday night and early morning. This is the site a
With no Police Presence again tonight. Reporter yes. In fact, i would argue, brian, that there are more stretches of the city without Police Presence than there were last night. It was a remarkable scene that started in the 9 00 p. M. Eastern hour right when that curfew began, about ten minutes before it. The police announced, youll be arrested if you dont move. They started firing tear gas, and then something that nobody expected. The police and the National Guard these are state police, various other agencies. I didnt see any Minneapolis Police at all. And the National Guard all started moving backward. They walked backward for well over a mile or mile and a half as far as i can see. At one point, they stopped and sort of did running battle with the protesters with tear gas, and the protesters just did not pull back. I had a mask, but the protesters didnt have masks. They just stood there and stood there and kept on moving forward, and eventually the National Guard and the police hav
Thats dealing with economics, dealing in education, dealing in criminal justice . Theres so many ways that we can, like you said before, goi on hold right now because okay. You can see that car away after having its rear windshield busted out by some of the protesters. We saw a protester go up to oh, it looks like this man, this driver who had his windshield busted out is now screaming at police. I notice he stopped near the chp, across from them. He is yelling right now. Folks, if youre just joining us here, weve been covering this developing situation in san jose on highway 101. A protest over the death of george floyd in minnesota has led to the shutdown of 101 there near alum rock. A large group of protesters has formed, and it started out fairly peaceful. Opleryg sign of,
bunow we e seeing some yelling, confrontations, and then at least in the case of one driver and one truck, he had his windshield busted out, and the man you see right there had gotten out of his vehicle at one po
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