Many protests peaceful, but many anything but savvy. Police skwaquaring off with citizens. The pictures have been troubling and jarring at the same time. These protests started, of course, as a demand for justice over the killing of george floyd at the hand and knee of Minnesota Police officers. To this point, since floyds death, 4,000 arrests in those protests across the country. Heres some of what weve been seeing in cities across the country from philadelphia to new york, atlanta, chicago, los angeles, and of course minneapolis. But the protests have not just been confined to big cities. People in communities large and small finding their voice. But for all the violence, tear gas and looting, there have also been some compelling stories of compassion, like this one, shreveport, louisiana. A Police Officer there stepping in to support a protestor overcome with emotion. Some police dropping their batons in riot here, joining the march for justice and peace, finding common ground. Like
Attorney general bill barr telling foxs Maria Bartiromo the talk, clock is ticking for seattle authorities to end the chaos. I dont want to get into specifics, but we are obviously keeping an eye on it. As the president said, in due course we may have to do something about it, but we cant let it go on indefinitely. Melissa this is outnumbered and im Melissa Francis. Here today is fox business anchor dagen mcdowell, host of kennedy on the fox business network, kennedy, syndicated radio host and fox news contributor, leslie marshall, and joining us today, Washington Times opinion editor and fox news contributor, charlie hurt. Ill start with you, because whats going on right now is undeniable. I have to say, for my own part, yesterday i ran into my neighbor on the street from my same block who was held up at gunpoint recently as a result of everything that is going on. Its terrifying, and we are seeing it in so many cities across the country. Whats going on . Charlie well, it is a brutal
Floyd, the man who died at the hands of Minneapolis Police officer one week ago. We have seen looting and police vans on fire and clashes between protesters and we have seen scenes like this in queens, officers joining and taking a knee to show solidarity with those protests. I want to show you that image here at the front page of the daily news of the officers leaning down with the new york post. You know the city conflicted by this taking a different position they want focusing on more of the violence. Whats the latest today . Reporter yeah, thats it, john, you mentioned these moments where there were unity and Police Officers were joining in with protests. There were a lot of peaceful protests the entire weekend and into the night. As the commissioner said when it got dark out, it got ugly quick. I want to show you whats behind me. The end of the highend shopping area. You can see dolce gabani, looters came and tore this wood down and went into the store and stole a bunch of items.
Theyre just totally ignoring the curfew. And after what we saw last night, what could that bring . Lets collect a bryan llenas on the Upper West Side of new york city. Brian, things look like theyre taking a turn near times square at the moment. Tell us. Laura, good evening, or getting reports about downtown and times square. What we have seen thus far though is that there have been protesters that were out throughout the day. It is different than what we saw at this moment last night with large groups of looters that were just going in and out of midtown manhattan. Behind me is what is a blockade. They are blocking they are blocking cars right now from entering manhattan. This is part of a new aggressive action that they are taking tonight given what happened yesterday with the looting. The curfew now is at 8 00 p. M. Last night it was at 11 00 p. M. They are now blocking anybody who is not a resident or essential personnel from coming in. Last night we saw so much looting and people
Those who wish to destroy use the cover of darkness to carry out their crimes. At least 40 cities have tried to quell the violence by issuing curfews which have been largely ignored. The National Guard has been deployed in roughly 26 states. There were deployments overnight to rally, north carolina, and sioux falls. Jay gray, talk to us about what you have been seeing overnight on the streets of minneapolis after we saw what took place this weekend. Yeah. There seems to be a change here if at least for one night. Large pockets of the city were either boarded up or burned out. For the First Time Since his death, there was a calm here. While there were still several thousands out, there was not the fires, not the violence, not the things that have become unfortunateliel familiar in this city over the last several days. There were people here expecting to get arrested. No real issues overnight. Thats the first time weve been able to say that since floyds death. What is the plan for the ci