night of protesters in the streets of brooklyn center, minnesota. and we re watching at this hour because there s a curfew going to take effect in one hour. and usually around this time things will start to happen because it gets close to the curfew and people are confused what time had curfew had been. they d been moving it up and moving it back. here s what the protesters are demanding. they re demanding justice for daunte wright. he s the latest black man to die in an encounter with police. i want to get right to sarah snyder. good evening to you. you ve been out there covering this since the beginning. what are you seeing tonight? reporter: we have seen early on the crowd being a bit more angry earlier. and you re seeing sort of the exchange that happened. somebody there firing less than lethal rubber bullets. we ve seen several people hit with those bullets and also seeing people you can see there they re spraying pepper spray just over the fence. there s a lot of folk
americans. you don t have to look in history to see racism. just watch the news. the question is, are we finally ready to do the work that makes america the just, equitable and great place it s always claimed to be? the first episode of united shades of america. such an innocent time. i know many of you remember. what about the kkk? america doesn t have racism anymore. hmm. you re right. it s gotten way worse. [ chanting ] and that was all before covid-19. and before four cops in minneapolis killed george floyd rather than just treat him like a human. protests, a police station burning to the ground. african-american men through it all, president can t handle any of it at all. look. america s white supremacy. let s start basic. these are white supremacists. 44 white presidents out of 45 in a land originally 100% native america is white supremacy. white supremacy is a big complicated web of systems and institutionings set up to keep power and privilege with one
george floyd. the court is at lunch break. of course we will get back to trial the second they sit down. let me bring you up to speed. last hour we heard from the chief of police in minneapolis who really became a familiar face to all of us covering this story last summer. he is the man who fired derek chauvin. and he was asked about the department s training in terms of use of force. just remember this is all in the context that then officer derek chauvin knelt on george floyd s neck for nearly 10 minutes. this morning the jury heard from the emergency physician who initially treated george floyd when he arrived at the hospital. this doctor revealing he found none of the internal indicators that typically cause a heart attack and that this doctor says he believes georged floyd died from lack of oxygen rather than as we ve been hearing from the defense, that his own heart was failing him. mr. floyd had been in arrest for by this time 60 minutes. i determined that the likeli
6th insurrection, let s go out front. good evening, i am erin burnett. heartbreaking testimony today from the youngest witness from the killing of george floyd. one witness only nine years old. it felt like he was stopping his breathing and kind of like hurting him. you can t see her on camera because she s nine, under age. the day george floyd lost his life and we heard the toll that floyd s death is taking on them. each of them testified about watching george floyd s final moment. derek chauvin was seen kneeling on floyd s neck for nearly 10 minutes. here is darnell frazier. she was 17. s this is the video she took. i heard george floyd saying i can t breathe, get off of me, i can t breathe. he cried for his mom. he was in pain. it seems like he knew it was over for him. the jury also hearing testimony from a firefighter who broke down after revealing the police would not let her check on floyd s condition. when you could not do that, how did it make you feel?
shimon prokupecz, take it away, what are you seeing? reporter: yes, so don, the police continue to fall these pepper balls at protesters who are still gathered here. as protesters get closer, they are firing these pepper balls and tear gas. sorry, we are looking around and trying to stay out of the way. plor police officers trying to clear this area. this is what they are doing. they re pushing people back and coming in. you can see there they re making an arrest. this is ongoing now for over an hour now where the police have been and there you see shimon, can we listen in a little bit? we ll move over this way. you need to move back now. yes. shimon is there on the ground shimon, are you getting tear gas? reporter: i am okay, it has been constant but it does not last very long because of the rain and the precipitation in the arir. our crew and producer and security team all just been here for the last hour and this has been constant from the police here, the