Cities on the news burning. We made the decision to not give up. Reporter the 8 pm curfew garcia called extremely helpful to quell the violence has been lifted by city council. A move that is a difficult balancing act. If the city and continues to live under a curfew for any time, this is not a state of martial law, that is not what we are going to be come. We will use this in a targeted way if we use this again. We see those that abide by the curfew or decide to go home or decide to stay. When that happens and you have a large crowd and the violence erupts with an even larger crowd there is a possibility and innocent people get hurt. Reporter some of the protesters are right behind me, another group has marched around the city block several times. They have been out here for several hours in the sweltering heat. Mid90s this afternoon but they say they plan to stay here as long as they can because they know the curfew has been lifted. As for the mayor, he said this is a daytoday situat
Lets get live in downtown oakland where protest that started at franco gala positive is now on the news. Andrea. Reporter these protesters were here for about three hours listening to speakers and then the all got up to march through the streets of oakland. They marched a telegraph and started coming back to the plaza moments ago. The crowd has grown considerably since they left an hour ago organizers were clear. This is a peaceful event and they do not condone any violence or destruction of property. This protest has remained very peaceful. They want the focus to be on demanding justice for racial Police Brutality such as the death of george floyd. If we continue to fight in various ways. Voting and being knowledgeable and sticking together, then i feel like we will get to where we are supposed to be. To wear black lives do metal do matter and equality for all of us. As you can see over there there are some Police Officers there on the scene but for the most part they have stayed back
At the hands of police back in the bay area, a number of curfews have now been lifted take a look San Franciscos curfew ended this morning at 5 oclock. Alameda and contra costa counties have also list of their curfew orders. However, some cities such as walnut creek remain under curfew orders even though the county order has been lifted. We have a complete list on all of the curfews in the bay area you can find it at kron 4 dot com Peaceful Protesters continue to take a stand in oakland, several groups gathering outside of city hall and eventually making their way onto city streets for a march kron fours dan thorn was at that protest joins us now live in the studio with more dan. Ok, the Peaceful Protesters want to show solidarity by coming together and letting it be known that Police Brutality and racism will not be accepted they want to spread a message of diversity and positivity not anger and violence. Protesters march down telegraph avenue in oakland. The group is rallying for jus
Now at 11 00. Breaking news in the south bay were a man with a machete has set a series of fires tonight. We said that the person out there starting fires. One of my friends was yelling get out of there, stop it. The effort to stop the fire from reaching nearby homes. Organizers of this particular protest major this one remained peaceful to send out a clear message. An emotional memorial for the man whose death sparked a movement. When he would wrap his arms around you you would feel like you are everything would just go away. I am alan martin in for ken. We saw large protests in two of the areas biggest cities tonight. In both, san jose and oakland it was a more subdued crowd then we have seen. Were joined now at Oakland City Hall were a peaceful protest ended early tonight. Reporter this is the first time that it has been empty without a single protester insight. A peaceful sit in protest happen in front of city hall for two hours into the demonstration protesters got up and marched
Get out of there, stop it. The effort to stop the fire from reaching nearby homes. Organizers of this particular protest major this one remained peaceful to send out a clear message. An emotional memorial for the man whose death sparked a movement. When he would wrap his arms around you you would feel like you are everything would just go away. I am alan martin in for ken. We saw large protests in two of the areas biggest cities tonight. In both, san jose and oakland it was a more subdued crowd then we have seen. Were joined now at Oakland City Hall were a peaceful protest ended early tonight. Reporter this is the first time that it has been empty without a single protester insight. A peaceful sit in protest happen in front of city hall fo they made it clear from the start that tonight was going to be peaceful and they didnt want any violence or destruction of property. Thats how this night ended. Peacefully. A lot of people are united against the system that has been systematically op