a close eye on the crowd as you can imagine, fred, so will law enforcement. all right, we ll check back with you from boston. today a public memorial service being held for virginia state trooper jay cullen. he along with trooper burke bates were killed last saturday when their helicopter crashed during last weekend s deadly rally in charlottesville. the funeral for bates was yesterday, governor terry mcauliffe was among those who attended the service, cnn correspondent diane gallagher is in chesterfield with more on the service. diane? yeah, fred, you know obviously a very somber occasion here. you mentioned governor terry mcauliffe. in a bit of a unique situation, he had a very personal relationship with lieutenant hj cullen and trooper burke and bates, they were part of the aviation unit. lieutenant cullen actually commanded that unit. so he dealt with him quite frequently. they flew him around the state. he had a very personal
for a free speech rally. and these two demonstrations or rallies are to meet. e they may not be in close proximity to one another but one organized a free speech rally for some time and hundreds more have turned out in what they re calling a counterprotest, all just one week from what happened in charlottesville, virginia. there was a show of unity at last night s seahawks game as one nfl player supports his teammate in a protest during the national anthem. andy shols has more on all of this. michael bennett will sit for the national anthem this spire season to protest social injustice. he said earlier this week that for real change to happen some white players would also need to join in on this protest. that s exactly what happened last night before the seahawks preseason game. bennett sat on the bench during the star-spangled banner and this time center justin britt
my producer telling me, they re able to hear some of the chanting from people saying stand up and fight back. we continue to watch the developments there in boston. one week away from what took place in charlottesville, virginia. we will keep close tabs on developments there. so much more straight ahead in the news room. thanks to our panel, we leave you now with more pictures out of boston. for your heart. your joints. or your digestion. so why wouldn t you take something for the most important part of you. your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is now the number one selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember.
hate. because contrary to what the professor has indicated, what we see these statues doing is mobilizing people who want their own present form of racism and bigotry. these things continue to be radioactive, so in that sense they are live, living, breathing reminders of a heinous past that continues to exist in america and until we confront them and pull those monuments down, put them in a museum somewhere, talk about them in classrooms as horrible representations of who we are, we will continue to give life and breath to those bigots in america. now one week away from what we saw unfold in charlottesville, here we re looking at live pictures as we speak of boston and the hundreds, what seem to be hundreds of people who have descended on that city. there are dueling rallies, some in the name of free speech, others in the name of peace and love. do you believe this kind of
virginia. in the wake of charlottesville, a growing question of whether confederate monuments should continue to stand across the u.s. the southern poverty law center says there are at least 1500 that dot the nation, last last night in winston-salem, north carolina, a confederate soldier statue was defaced. in durham, eight have been arrested for tearing down a memorial. and the mayors of baltimore and birmingham removed or covered confederate statues earlier in the week. the nation s largest confederate memorial is at stone mountain, georgia, a place dr. martin luther king jr. made reference to in his i have a dream speech let freedom ring from the stone mountain of georgia. today it s a place of many uses and points of view. with the bird s eye view of atlanta, just 20 miles away, the nation s largest monument memorializing civil war confederate leaders. the 90-foot tall carving of jefferson davis, robert e. lee