In other News Coronavirus deaths in brazil pass 27,000 overtaking spain to become the country with the fifth highest death toll. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Violence has broken out in many cities across the united states, in protest at the death of an unarmed black man in Police Custody in minneapolis. The Police Officer filmed kneeling on George Floyds neck for almost nine minutes has been charged with murder. There are angry demonstrations across the country here in minneapolis where the curfew which came into operation three hours ago has been ignored. And in boston, new york, denver and washington where the white house was briefly under lockdown. In atlanta there was violence outside the cnn headquarters there. The citys mayor appealed for residents not to take to the streets. You are disgracing our city, you are disgracing the life of george floyd and every other person that has been killed in this country. We are better than this we are better than this as a city. We are bette
Showing several officers on the ground as floyd is being held down. No charges have been filed in this case, and that, to many people, is the problem. A News Conference today was frustratingly newsfree. Well have much more on all of it just ahead. For the very latest from minneapolis, we want to go back now to correspondent ali velshi, who is on the ground in the middle of tonights protest. Ali, having watched your live coverage, you were at the scene of that huge fire earlier. Weve watched fires start back up, and obviously youre in the thick of it again now. Reporter let me tell you whats happened. We are now right in front of the third precinct. This is the third precinct. We saw early protesters had gotten in. Now they made their way through on that side. The fire was about a block and a half over there. The protesters are continuing to try and get into the Police Station. Now, this is where the tension has arisen between the police and the protesters because as the protesters have
Streets outnumbering officers on the streets even though Additional Resources were brought in including more National Guard troops, state police and other boots on the ground but unfortunately for local authorities they say they were out mine and outnumbered and underestimated the ones in distraction and size of the crowd that in some cases according to authorities was firing weapons at them forcing the police to adjust their tactics to avoid being shot and killed on the streets of minneapolis as they tried to corral the more violent protesters. We are seeing these demonstrations across the nation tonight and the cities are burning and authorities are wondering where this is going. Certainly in minnesota governor said theres a proposal to bring in army troops and special teams but he does not want to see these troops squaring off with people on the street so what happens now, will appeals for calm be heard, we simply do not know. We have seen your correspondent mike tobin on the phone.
500 soldiers heading to minneapolis and st. Paul and the surrounding region. Who do i have . Sara sidner back with us . We dont have sara sidner. Lets put up these pictures and talk about whats happening as we have been talking to our people on the ground and our Law Enforcement folks. Of course this is over the death of 46yearold george floyd in police custody, an officer with his knee on his neck. The community is frustrated. Protesters began to protest, and then it got out of control sometime this evening. And as you can see, the fire started and then they went, according to our sara sidner, and tried to knock down a fence that was erected recently and temporarily around the Police Station to protect that Police Station. That did not work. Protesters started knocking on the Police Precinct, on the walls and trying to get into the precinct. They evacuated all the personnel according to the Minneapolis Police department, evacuated the personnel there. And then the protesters set the b
The streets to a place where we can restore the justice so that those that are expressing rage and anger and demanding justice are heard. So i want to just call out very, very clearly. As we put our presence on the treat to restore order, it is to open that space, to seek justice and heal what happened. Joining us with the latest on the ground in minneapolis, nbc News Reporter Shaquille Brewster and shaq, perhaps one of the best ways to quell some of these demonstrations is some action from prosecutors. Where are we on that . Reporter still no action, chuck. We heard right now the investigation is in the hand of both faib and state investigators and we heard from them a little bit yesterday. There is no action, no decision has been made yet. When you listen to protesters thats what they want to hear. Thats what they are awaiting for, arrests of the officers. Within the past two hours we heard from the governor of minnesota and one thing he said is that he pleaded for folks to restore o