See this protest is on the move. We are in downtown martinez, and we have 700 people, perhaps more than 1000 gathered in the downtown streets. This is the black lives matter rally. You can see from topper five it is a significant crowd marching to this town of 30,000 people. Why are they here . Many of the protesters said they were compelled to come to martinez after a video went viral. It shows a white couple painting over a black lives matter street sign. The couple has since been charged with three misdemeanors, including a hate crime charge. This is not happening in my town. She was going on about kerrtown. This is our town. There are minorities in it and the town needs to start taking some sort of stance one way or the other to make it very clear where its values lie. Orr t w,what is going on is they have gathered at the courthouse. They are moving down to the waterfront of martinez. This is a peaceful protest, as it has been all along. As a matter of fact, demonstrators have been
Can reopen. Erica fears with each passing day her clientele, and with it, her career is disappearing. I feel my career slipping away. Ive spent over 10 years in this industry building up clientele that took me a long time to keep and right now they want to get in, they want to get their hair done and theyre not going to wait any longer. Ericas message struck a nerve to dave day to owns two barbershops and wants to know why is barbers, licensed by the state and trained and good hygiene are not given the green light to reopen. We feel is not fair, its not fair and our livelihoods are being taken away in a major way. So a lot of us feel like the rug has been pulled from under our feet. Reporter adding to the frustration is the fact that salons and many nearby in neighboring counties like san mateo the contra costa, santa cruz and now San Francisco are open, or soon will be. They were clear on the date allowed to reopened. What we knew 3 1 2 months ago is we were shutting down to help flat
Demanding reform. Good evening, i am alan martin. I am elizabeth cook. Kpix 5s devin fehely here with some of those making the demands about what reform would really look like. Reporter its not a new question, who is going to police the police . There are even more newer and nuanced versions. What is the best way to police the police, how do we ensure there is a kind ability for what officers do in uniform . Five years ago many thought the answer was body cameras. But now realize that was not nearly enough. We are either in this together or we are going to perish. Reporter two weeks of protest and unrest has made one thing clear. Police and the culture of Police Departments across the u. S. Needs to change. For reverend jethro moore, head of the Silicon Valley naacp, that means citizen oversight. You are part of the community, part of the fabric of the community and its time to act like this is a relationship and not tyranny. Reporter activists outlined a number of reforms they believe
Is not yet known, but it does appear that fire was located in the basement of the church. No one was inside the church at the time of the fire. California senator Kamala Harris joined protesters at Lafayette Park in washington, dc. She wore a Face Covering and cap and on a twitter post senator harrison said people are in pain and we must listen. There have been violent protests across southern california. It was a fourth consecutive day of violence and vandalism in los angeles county. California National Guard members were on the streets of los angeles after the mayor called a state of emergency. We must not allow any who feast off of chaos, who hunger for division, who want to replace peaceful protest with images of a nation coming apart. We must not let them win. Several Los Angeles Police Department Patrol cars were damaged and more than 500 people were arrested during the last two days. About 25 miles away in long beach a cvs store was broken into and set on fire from the inside. T
Oakland, demonstrators chose to stay still instead pretty group gathered this afternoon for a sit in at freckle gobble plaza in front of city hall. Our top story at 5 30, redeployed workers, thousands of city and county workers in San Francisco getting reassigned to completely different jobs during the covid 19 pandemic good evening, i am alan martin. Sharon chin shows us it is part of the largest disaster redeployment in the citys history. Reporter is Branch Manager of the public library, Bernie Sanders usually moves books. Im not usually moving potatoes into a bag. Reporter one of more than 100 Library Staff reassigned to the food bank to deliver food to 12,000 Senior Citizens a week who are sheltered at home. There is definitely a need for food delivery and we are thrilled to help. Reporter other Library Staff monitoring Homeless Hotels and shifting to covid19 Contact Tracing at you cfs. It is one example how City Employees are reassigned as Disaster Service workers. In a disaster,