Arrested for mr. Floyds death. First of all, thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the press. Myself and my friend mike freeman want to share information with you. I want to begin with a reminder. That is, we are here today because george floyd is not here. He should be here. He should be alive, but he is not. About nine days ago, the world watched floyd utter his very last words, i cant breathe. He pled for his life. The world heard him call out for mama and cried out, dont kill me. Two days ago, when i became the lead prosecutor in this murder, i asked for time to thoroughly review all the evidence in the case. We looked at the evidence that is available and the investigation is ongoing at this time. I also said that i know what is i know it is asking a lot of people to give us time, particularly people who have suffered for decades and centuries of injustice, to be patient. We did get that time. Together, a very strong , experienced team which included the county attorney mike freeman,
Across the nation. Good evening. Thanks for joining us tonight for kron 4 news at a time can why im pam moore more than a week of demonstrations across the world all in the call for justice for george floyd tonight all 4 officers involved in his death have been charged in addition to derrick todd and the other 3 former officers who either helped hold floyd down or stood by watching have been charged with aiding and abetting seconddegree murder all 4 officers face the same maximum time behind bars for a murder charge and the aiding abetting charge both carry 40 year maximum sentences there are active demonstrations taking place across the country right now in new york city and washington dc and this picture live from los angeles shows a large crowd marching through the streets of l a were continuing to monitor these kinds of acted activities here in the bay area and across the country as the night goes on and there are more county wide curfews in effect tonight across the bay area Alame
Says they should be in jail for murder. Twitter takes action. The social media giant obscures the president s latenight tweet on minneapolis saying it violates rules on glorifying violence. How it raises the stakes in a free speech fight. And coronavirus job crisis. The pandemic puts more than 40 million americans out of work. What one hardhit city is doing now to get people back on the job. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. George Floyd George Floyd riots and violence across the country with people outraged over the death of george floyd. In minnesota, the stores all over the state have been looted. Businesses have been damaged, and cars torched. Protesters have set fire to a Minneapolis Police precinct. I have not seen black people this upset in 20 years. Longer. President trump signed an executive order that takes aim at the Legal Protections for social Media Companies. If twitter were not honorable, if youre going to have a guy like this be your judg
Protesters. And the artist and known simply as crystal was dying to be age of 84 he became famous for wrapping buildings and landmarks to take a look at his life and work. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us of another night of on rest in the u. S. With protests and dozens of cities after the brutal death of a black man in Police Custody the National Guard has been deployed in a number of states curfews were extended in major cities as Police Struggle to contain the situation a memorial gathering took place for george floyd in his home city of minneapolis. America is burning for 6 nights in a row anger flooded streets across the deeply divided country. This scale of civil unrest has not been seen here in decades. In georgia floyds home state protesters marched against systemic racism and police brutality. All these voices are. The same thing keeps happening over and over again its the new lynching you know and its new coded language in a way that our president represents
Really are ramping up our testing efforts. But we also saw an increase in hospitalizations and ive talked with our heart Health Officer doctor erica, hahn and shes quite concerned by this increase in cost for patients, shes not at this time planning to roll back the recent loosening of restrictions but she is going to proceed very cautiously before see allows any additional or new activities so please the current restrictions to be in place remember that the most recent shelterinplace order from Alameda County does not have an Expiration Date was just let weve got to hunker their continue to sacrifice the way that weve been sacrificing for the health of ourselves our families and our community. Mayor you mentioned that that Alameda County seems to be a new covid19 hot spot in the in the bay area. What is the Health Department and the city doing to try and bring that back into a into some type of a form that everyone can deal with now. Well listen we are painfully the impacts of Health