Jones but others call for a deeper understanding of whats behind the frustration. There is a pandemic of police brutality. Liftoff. Jones also tonight, historic lift off from american soil. The Supreme Court allows californias virus restrictions on church, and later, School Bus Drivers in a st. Louis suburb hit the road for a proper sendoff. This is the cbs weekend news. Jones good evening. Im Samantha Jones reporting from kmov in st. Louis. Tonight cities across the country are bracing for a fifth night of protests following the deadly arrests of george floyd in minneapolis. Today President Trump urged authorities to get tougher. In tallahassee, florida, today, a pickup drove enter a crowd protesting police brutality. Witnesses say the driver revved his engine before moving forward. No serious injuries are reported. It was one of several demonstrations across the country. Cbss jeff pegues begins our coverage in minneapolis. Reporter over the last few night, minnesota has seen its shar
Watching fox and friends first on tuesday morning. Doubling down on support for the badge, the president slamming calls to defend and disband Police Departments during a big meeting with Law Enforcement officers. Democrats are giving mixed reactions. A new debate on how Police Reform measures can happen but some top lawmakers are pushing back against the idea of Defunding Police thinking it wont do much to help Police Departments nationwide. Some protesters continue to hold up signs that say defend police, we heard from attorney general william barr yesterday in a fox news interview. He said this will not do much to bring true reform. It the opposite of the way we should go, Defunding Police, holding the entire Police Structure responsible for the actions of certain officers is wrong and dangerous. Donald trump agrees, he says defunding is not a viable option and while the white house may try to use this as a wage issue with voters joe biden says he too is against defunding. I dont sup
And stores were destroyed and looted. Lets go to omar jimenez for the report on the latest here. Omar, this is the police chief saying even though the Police Department let the community down, hes not going to let them be harm and affecting individuals there. Reporter thats right we heard from the police chief and the mayor of minneapolis jacob frey. They spoke about a change in m dynamic that we saw in regards of the protests we saw last night. The one last night did largely start eventually evolves into rioting and looting. This autozone was fully functional last night and just within a matter of hours was eventually on fire and burned down to the ground. You see fire crews continue to work on it as we speak. Firefighters reporting at least around 30 fires during just the protest alone and in just these few blocks here. Thats a scene when we got here in the Early Morning hours there were multiple buildings on fire, fires seemed to be jumping from building to building. Over here this
Right now you are looking at live pictures of the current scene in minneapolis, minnesota as a city, a state, and a nation brace for potentially another night of potential unrest following last nights awful, destructive events. Weve just learned that the city has imposed a curfew slated to begin in a few hours. Of course, this is all unfolding in response to the death of george floyd by a Police Officer who this afternoon was charged with murder and manslaughter. Welcome to friday. It is meet the press daily i am chuck todd continuing msnbcs breaking news coverage. In just a moment well be speaking with the former Vice President and apparent democratic nominee joe biden who faces an ugly and Bitter Campaign as a divided country is consumed by a once in a lifetime collision of social, political, economic and Public Health crises at once. State and local officials in minnesota are pleading with demonstrators for a safe and peaceful scene tonight after the devastation and destruction of l
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