Now faces an upgraded charge of seconddegree murder. The news comes as the floyd family visited the site where he died. Nadia romero is in minneapolis with the latest. The family of george floyd celebrating his life where he took his last breath. It just le foll them. And no, no man wants us to. And without their father. Last week Minneapolis Police officers hand the 46 yearold father to the ground one officer derek shot and pressed his knee into floyds neck for police say was nearly 9 minutes. Shaaban is in custody charged with floyds death today arrest warrants were issued. Former Minneapolis Police officers. Shaking thomas lane and to town we. Absolutely billy that he was tortured. In their last 8 minutes and 46 seconds of his life. The killing prompted protests across the country and around the world as people demanded racial equality and an end to Police Brutality like the demonstrators minnesotas governor says injustice needs to being at the heart of this him. And seeing the comm
Jonathan mccall the scene is unfolding tonight in the area of kelloggs street in cornelia street in sassoon city. We do know that homes have been burned, but we do not know right now just exactly how many homes have been burned right now. This is a residential area and theres also a large area potentially dry vegetation a large grassy area people are now being asked to stay away from the south of cornelia road right now we do know that Crystal Middle School has been designated as an Evacuation Center for people in that area. Cal fire and vallejo fire crews are also helping soon city fire crews. Battle this fire. Once again this fire continuing to burn out of control. We are working to gather more from crews there on the scene hoping to get a getting contact with the fire chief there is a sin city in the next 10 minutes or so as soon as we are able to get to him get more information well bring it to you live right here on the kron 4. And across the hour actually lets just stay right her
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
Jonathan. Pam demonstrations, remaining very peaceful at this hour want to take you to a live stream that we are looking at from the protest in oakland, this demonstration, not only calling for justice for george floyd once again a live stream of that demonstration in oakland tonight things very peaceful people obviously very upset and frustrated. And they are just wanting justice as well thats demonstration kicking off at around 8 oclock tonight. The folks here not only calling for justice for george floyd there also ups said about the curfew that was put in place there in Alameda County. We want to show you some video from earlier this evening as those protests were Getting Started around 8 oclock. Many of the speakers say they are fed up and frustrated with the lack of change with regards to Racial Equity in this country and in the bay area. This protest as we mentioned also a protest against the curfew in Alameda County which ironically is in effect right now as of now it appears t
Saw. When i saw you you were on the al um rock bridge overpass over just thank you. They had just gotten folks off of the freeway, this was one of the ways that they were protesting was by halting traffic and i thought it was really important for me to be there to witness it, to be part of it, to stand in solidarity with our folks who are protesting, but more than anything to stand in solidarity with the country that is in mourning over what we saw the horrific video where we all witnessed a murder take place. And i took my son who just turned 17, its important for him to also be a part of happening. Its a movement that is taking place all throughout the country. The outrage thats being felt is real and it comes from it comes from a very deeprooted place of pain. The historical i taken place re whatever section you want to point at. The Police Department is one that were now dealing with because of what we saw, but this comes from a place of disappointment, of great despair, of feeling