George floyd 4 minneapolis por uses to similar but a different kind of restraint blamed for killing floyd. As calls to defund the police grow louder some democratic lawmakers say the message is often misinterpreted a los angeles representative Nanette Barragan says the idea is to invest money taken from police and put it into things like housing and education, supporters argue that some cities are overspending on police and at the expense of other Community Investments. Senator Kamala Harris is arguing that more Community Investment is a way to make neighborhoods safer. We have confuse. Having safe communities with hiring more cops on the street. The White House Press secretary says Defunding Police does take away essential resources from law enforcement. She says theres just no interpretation of this proposal that the president will support. We talked today to San Franciscos police chief to get his take and well have more on that coming up. Time for another check on the forecast lets
Glad youre with us on this monday im Frances Rivera and im philip mena that breaking news overnight, nascar has opened an investigation after a noose was found in the garage of nascar driver Bubba Wallace it happened yesterday in alabama. Wallace is nascars only fulltime africanamerican driver for the latest on this, we turn to dara brown in our newsroom. What can you tell us about this . Reporter good morning. Details are breaking overnight it was discovered sunday afternoon before the geico 500 was postponed due to bad weather. According to espn, wallacer in saw the noose. It was seen by a member of his team and responded to nascar, which responded saying, we are angry and outraged and cannot state seriously enough how seriously we take this heinous act. As we stated, there is no place for racism in nascar, and this act only strengthens our resolve to make the sport open and welcoming to all late last night, Bubba Wallace tweeted a statement saying reporter he goes on to say reporter
Early today starts right now the Intelligence Briefings took good morning im phillip place perhaps once or twice a mena im frances rivera. Week i dont think hes fit for breaking news overnight. Nascar said it opened an office i dont think he has the investigation after a noose was confidence to carry out the job. Found in the garage of nascar theres no guiding principle i driver Bubba Wallace was able to discern other than it happened yesterday at whats good for Donald Trumps Talladega Superspeedway in reelection. Alabama. Wallace is nascars only reporter the white house said bolton has zero fulltime africanamerican credibility. That he was trying to push the driver derek brown is following the president in areas where he did not want to go latest for us from the newsroom. They are pushing back pretty hard on this book. Reporter details are on capitol hill democrats and breaking overnight and it was discovered sunday afternoon republicans are pressing why before the geico 500 in boll t
Statues last night, former president ulysses s. Grant. It comes amid growing debate of the legacies of historic figures. Christie smith joins us live with more from golden gate park. Reporter the city says the crew came out here and worked through the night after the statues were pulled down. I want to step aside so you can see what it looks like out here. Basically just the pedestals remain here and at another location. Now, today people keep coming by to see what happened. City crews removed spray paint from pedestals. I think that those should have been taken down a long, long time ago. Reporter statues of Francis Scott key, ulysses s. Grant are gone. We obtained video of the monuments being pulled down. Last night hundreds of people showed up and bottles were thrown at officers. Established missions and accused. Scott key composed the star spangled banner and was known to have owned slaves. And grant, the 18th president , had a history with both. Havent seen any representation of o
Tonight the county medical examiner is calling his death a homing restrained by police. The georgia family says a private autopsy found he wasn officers kneeled on his neck and body for more than eight minutes. Tonight protesters calling for justice for floyd are already out in force nationwide. Including thousands marching through the streets of baltimore tonight. Hundreds are also gathering outside of the white house, where military vehicles and troops are now surrounding the complex there. As we come on the air, 23 states as well as the mayor of d. C. Have called up the national g new york, washington,s, and los angeles, have curfews. It is all part of an effort to prevent the type of looting, vandalism, and fires that destroyed neighborhoods across the country this week. Well, tonight the president is speaking out about the crisis after blasting the natve corlr t they looked weak and that they needed to dominate the protesters, even as many of them called on him to deescalate the s