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[gun shots]. john: multiple gun shots ringing out. more from our team on the ground just a moment. floyd s death sparked much of protests across the country. some turning violent. sparked a push on the left to defund and dismantle police departments. since then, crime has spiked in many cities including minneapolis. texas senator john cornyn is standing by with more. we begin with garrett tenney in minneapolis. quite a morning. yeah, our crew was there in george floyd square. the autonomous zone where police are not welcome when the gun fight broke out. the associated press set up next to us caught it all live during one of their reports. they wanted this bill of comprehensive police reforms to be just have to be careful with gun shots.
reform, polishing policing as it stands today, that is not helpful. that is what is driving crime. john: i want to play a little sound from george floyd square in minneapolis today. listen here. this will be capitol hill with gunshots. john: those are multiple gunshots george floyd square in minneapolis which brings me to the wall street journal op-ed by mcdonald s, open season in minneapolis. she writes al sharpton and civil rights benjamin crump down town minneapolis with the first anniversary of george floyd s death. mr. sharp and crump did not visit memorial hospital where two recent victims of the explosion of violence in minneapolis on life support. one of those victims is ten years old and the other is nine. both of them were shot in the head. what happened to george floyd is
enforcement, there s a trust deficit there. tim scott, the senator from south carolina, has spoken eloquently about the different experience that people from different backgrounds and different communities have with dealing with the police. one of the most important things we need is accountability. there s nothing that a good cop hates worse than a bad cop. we ve seen in the case of george floyd a criminal prosecution and trial and a conviction for a police officer overstepping his bounds and causing the death of george floyd. so i think we have come a ways but still have further to go. gillian: so it seems now sort of everywhere apparent that with this surge in violent crime in american cities over the last couple months that efforts to defund the police, to reallocate police department funding in various cities is being watered
for change both to police account ability and overall systemic racism. john? john: real quick, did the police respond to the gun shots? i can tell you we didn t see or hear the police there. we know they said one man was dropped off at the hospital afterwards. we saw the vehicle speed past us as we ran and hid behind cars. never heard any sirens at all. john: stay safe for us. thanks, garrett. gillian: wow. let s bring in the texas republican senator john cornyn. on this one-year anniversary of george floyd s death, i want to give you the opportunity off the top to weigh-in with your reflections on how that event has sort of impacted american race relations over recent months. one of the things we learned is, many of the communities being policed by law