The manner of death or did it take you to take you to minneapolis to hear what those demonstrators are demanding tonight all right its time to boost your news i. Q. Less than 24 hours after protesters were met with tear gas outside of the white house today they are back on the streets of washington d. C. The growing crowd of demonstrators as demanding changes to the way blacks and other minorities are being treated in this country and just a little while ago the curfew went into effect for protesters here in d. C. Sending them all home that argues for an fronsac has been covering those protests all week and tonight protesters organized a vigil for george floyd. You know we are just about 2 blocks north from the white house here and k. And 16 that you could see behind me there. There are thousands of protesters from all walks of life you have black lives matter you have white people brown people you know all of them in the name of peaceful protesting now moments ago the video to show yo
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] flex we go live now to the me Minnesota State capitol, st. Paul. Internationally, a society that does not put equity and inclusion at the center of it is certainly going to eventually come to the places we are at. Inflection,ment of a real change, a moment where the folks out there demanding this are not going to take a commission or a report. They are going to want fundamental change. That is one of the exciting things in the middle of all of this. You can feel a sense of optimism coming back. I want to say to you will hear from the updates, i dont want to paint the picture that its over but i do want to paint a picture that we as minnesotans have regrounded ourselves and it looks to me that there is a clear delineation between the ands are rightfully pained angered wanting to see change and e
Good thursday morning, everyone. The city of minneapolis is preparing to honor the memory of george floyd today. At the same time this afternoon the former Police Officer is now being charged in his death are scheduled to appear in court. All four officers at the scene that day are now in custody. Prosecutors have upgraded the most serious charge against former officer Derek Chauvin. Overnight, this powerful scene. Protesters shining the lights from their cell phones, the crowd in denver fell silent for nearly nine minutes, the amount of time chauvin kept his knee on floyds neck. In a Bombshell Development from washington, former defense secretary james mattis is now speaking out slamming President Trump for the way he responded to protesters. We will get to that in just a moment, but first abcs Megan Tevrizian with the scenes unfolding overnight. We have been being killed all over, you know, all over the place, everywhere, you know, our black men are being killed. You know what im say
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