Activated the National Guard to try to restore some sense of calm. Here in new york, largely people protest gave way to violence as writers clash with officers smashing windows and ransacking highend stores. Recounting the scene. We have found officers deployed last night, made radical shifts literally from all ends of the department. In terms of protests and in terms of balancing the protests that respecting people rights to peacefully assemble, that was going all day throughout new york city in large crowds at smaller crowds in queens, significant crowds in manhattan, but that it turned dark and it turned ugly and it turned that way fast. Ed fox News Coverage now, standing by with the latest from our Nations Capital but we begin live in new york city where they are still trying to dig out this point. Good morning. Multiple stores were damaged and looted overnight for hours. Take a look behind me. This is the montclair store, and you can see that the looters smashed right through the
And yet the protest being held in his name show no signs of fading. Across the country, the front pages once again tell the story of a nation on a knifes edge. On monday, the president insisted that state and local officials needed to, quote, dominate the protests or risk looking weak. We need to remember that the vast majority of these protests have been peaceful. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out in city after city to march and hold signs demanding justice for george. Yet there were pockets of chaos, absolute chaos after dark. Police officers were shot in las vegas and st. Louis. Widespread looting was reported across new york, despite a curfew put in place last night. All of this came after the president spent the entire day threatening to use more aggressive tactics against law breakers. He said he was an ally of those looking for justice for george floyd. But when it came to washington, d. C. , authorities there used rubber bullets and tear gas, not on a mob of looters bu
Cities. Look at this melee here in new york city. Police surrounding one man. And when he starts to fight, others jump in. Some throwing punches at the cops. Look at this. Unbelievable. And now tonight for the first time we hear from officer wilson, that he felt he had to shoot Michael Brown because he believed that Michael Brown would kill him. Watch. He threw the first punch . Yes. He threw the first one and hit me in the left side of my face. You know, some of the witnesses have said that they saw you trying to pull him into the car. That would be against every training every taught to any Law Enforcement officer. I just felt the immense power that he had. The way ive described it, it was like a 5yearold holding on to hulk hogan, thats how big this man was. When i said get back or im going to shoot you. Then his response immediately, he grabbed the top my gun. He said youre too much of a [ bleep ] to shoot me. While hes doing that, i can feel his hand coming over my hand and get ins
Cities. Look at this melee here in new york city. Police surrounding one man. And when he starts to fight, others jump in. Some throwing punches at the cops. Look at this. Unbelievable. And now tonight for the first time we hear from officer wilson, that he felt he had to shoot Michael Brown because he believed that Michael Brown would kill him. Watch. He threw the first punch . Yes. He threw the first one and hit me in the left side of my face. You know, some of the witnesses have said that they saw you trying to pull him into the car. That would be against every training every taught to any Law Enforcement officer. I just felt the immense power that he had. The way ive described it, it was like a 5yearold holding on to hulk hogan, thats how big this man was. When i said get back or im going to shoot you. Then his response immediately, he grabbed the top my gun. He said youre too much of a [ bleep ] to shoot me. While hes doing that, i can feel his hand coming over my hand and get ins
Cities. Look at this melee here in new york city. Police surrounding one man. And when he starts to fight, others jump in. Some throwing punches at the cops. Look at this. Unbelievable. And now tonight for the first time we hear from officer wilson, that he felt he had to shoot Michael Brown because he believed that Michael Brown would kill him. Watch. He threw the first punch . Yes. He threw the first one and hit me in the left side of my face. You know, some of the witnesses have said that they saw you trying to pull him into the car. That would be against every training every taught to any Law Enforcement officer. I just felt the immense power that he had. The way ive described it, it was like a 5yearold holding on to hulk hogan, thats how big this man was. When i said get back or im going to shoot you. Then his response immediately, he grabbed the top my gun. He said youre too much of a [ bleep ] to shoot me. While hes doing that, i can feel his hand coming over my hand and get ins