Country dont stop. And then in an unprecedented move donald trump takes to the streets to survey the damage inflicted on the church during the protests. Were disgusted and cannot normalize the pain not only on the Entertainment Industry calls for a blackout on a georgia florida. Well its been an unprecedented night in the United States as protests continue for a 7th day over the killing of an unarmed black man they were chaotic scenes outside the white house as police cleared protesters using tear gas and flash bang stun grenades at that exact moment in the white house gardens President Trump threatened to deploy the military nationwide a mistake governor as get to the sometimes violent demonstrations under control. We cannot allow the righteous cries of Peaceful Protesters to be drowned out by an angry mob. The biggest victims of the rioting are peace loving citizens in our poorest communities and as their president i will fight to keep them safe i will fight to protect you i am youre president of law and order and an ally of all Peaceful Protesters but in recent days our nation has been gripped by professional anarchies violent mobs arsonists looters criminals rioters and tiefer and others and then surrounded by secret Service Agents the president took the very unusual step of walking out of the front gate of the white house making his way to a nearby church that have been damaged in sundays protests well she had the chance he joins us live now from washington d. C. She had you hearing us at all because youre live on air now but just saying that she had the optics were remarkable werent they i mean just as the president was speaking at the rose garden we saw that and 2 riot measures taking place outside the white house you a caught up in it smoke tear gas stun grenades tell us what happened. Its clear now why suddenly the the police moved in with the usual online and sways of anyone in that area peacefully protesting would be caught up in the tear gas and the start of grenades as we were. The fascinating thing about it as you said he came over he had his photo opportunity he brandished his bible and then he asked members of his cabinet. To line up with him for a photo opportunity which i suppose will be used in some advert for the election perhaps or Something Else but its interesting now because were getting more reaction to what he did from authorities 1st of all let me read what they mayor of d. C. Has just tweeted i imposed a curfew at 7 pm a full 25 minutes before the curfew and without provocation federal police used munitions on Peaceful Protesters in front of the white house an act that will make the drop of d. C. Police Department Offices more difficult shameful d. C. Residents. The very angry were also hearing from members of the White House Press corps that theyre hearing that president trunk was reportedly upset by the media reports about him into the white house bunker and thats why it when he ordered the part cleared for the photo opportunity those are just some media reports from members of the White House Press. Rather intriguing i suppose and then this is the most intriguing thing the bishop whos traction that is the right reverend. Shes bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of washington she said she learned of trumps visit by watching it on the news quote i dont want president trying to speaking for syndromes im outraged im the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of washington and was not given even a Courtesy Call that they would be clearing with tear gas so they could use one of our churches up as a prop holding a bible one that declares that god is love and when everything he has done is doing. The not doing any good she said the church disassociates itself from the messages of the president we hold the teachings of our sacred text to be so grounding to our lives and everything we do and its about love with our neighbor and sacrificial love and justice 0. 03. She added that there was a dozen clergy of the church all day to support the protesters and they left when the curfew was cool so its not going down well with the base but it hasnt gone down particular well with Episcopal Church in washington d. C. Or the mayor and were getting some insight into some of the thought process is if the White House Press corps to be believed that led up to that that these these comments or these reports about donald trump in the bunker of the white house were going down to well yes you have been and you are now still out on the streets i mean after the president made that dramatic unprecedented move of crossing Lafayette Square and heading over to st johns things seem to have quieted down just talk us through whats happening now and where you are. So there was there was a. About 2 dozen protesters who are still there still near the church theyve been cancelled in and we understand that one by one theyre being arrested interestingly this time around the police were careful to escort the media out during the protest the inauguration which i covered they didnt they just arrested the kettle devereux on their arrest everyone several journalists were. Arrested for felony writing which took years in prison with all the charges thrown out of court eventually they seem to have learned a thing or 2 they let the media out which was also a bit because whats going to happen to the people who are left behind but we understand theyre being theyre being arrested right now about 2 dozen people the interesting thing was well weve been standing here we saw several dozen protesters on 14th street and thats about 2 blocks further up 3 blocks from where we owe moving northwards now and im seeing on twitter that perhaps there are people still marching on 14th street about a mile a mile and a half away from us up north and that has happened in the last few nights of the protests then you tend to spread around the city were not sure i mean it does seem to be a lot quieter clearly than it was last night around this time so i mean right now near the white house were just getting sporadic reports of other protests perhaps moving up and others are and all the areas of washington d. C. Just a final thought i wanted to ask you about some of the sort of politics of the symbolism of what the president did earlier as you say he went over and held on to that bible in front of cent johns you know you said perhaps appealing to his base what what what did you take away from that in terms of the symbolism. Hes hes defender of the face i mean hes basically saying that this is now a religious war almost you suggesting i mean its immoral between good and evil i dont know if that is not the implication i mean its you know the semiology is dependent on these watching i suppose but i mean that would suggest a man brandishing a bible in front of a church having just tear gassed a bunch of Peaceful Protesters to get out the way when you tell me that you think was the symbolism i think its pretty clear this is interesting because again weve heard there was a debate in the white house as to whether he should be more conciliatory he should be could be more unifying clearly that has just gone out the window and this is now about a line in the sound and donald trump calling the governors earlier all of a week constantly threatening to bring the military on to the streets and saying that hes not going to put up with this anymore as far as we know he hasnt actually invoked the insurrection act yet which would mean that he would then be able to deploy more military into the streets but he certainly threatening it more and more is something that noise is making noises about it more and more and sometimes you wonder whether thats part of the point and whether whether he will actually go to such a step that we havent seen since 93 in the rodney king the rodney king uprising in los angeles but well have to see because it is also clearly a black mark on all the president s middle of the other but all of the other stupendous events that weve seen over the last couple of years now to be a president who brings the u. S. Military into the streets of america. Live for us in washington d. C. Thank you for that all right lets leave washington now and head over to minneapolis john hendren is right there standing by john just talk us through 1st this private postmortem carried out by the george floyd family they found that he died of asphyxiation but oddly not that differs from the preliminary official report by the county medical examiner doesnt. That your idea official report says that the police contributed to George Floyds death but it says he died of a heart attack and that he had preexisting conditions and the private report says in fact he. s fixation and the police were directly responsible and that it was a homicide but if i can bear and id like to just walk you around a little bit of the scene where we are because these day protests have been entirely peaceful this is the floyd this is the george floyd memorial over here that is the spot where he died and people have laid flowers there but its a combination of kind of somber and festive all at the same time over here people are giving speeches thats what that loud that large crowd is over there and if we can move the camera over this way that you can see 6 food trucks and you can see the smoke from a barbecue that people are giving out food its all free. There was over here a Firearms Instruction not long ago by a gentleman who wanted everyone to learn how to have a concealed weapons permit and as we move over here i want to introduce you to someone who is as a Community Organizer her name is naleo schlager dos santos can i get that right and i just going to ask you a little bit about what brings people here and what the scene is yours so i know you why youre here im here because im from minneapolis and i grew up here and so my whole life here in atlanta for a little bit so ive seen policing. In other places still but specifically here right here fairness and justice are here to bring our Community Together and protect our needs. And how the people here feel about the police and about what happened to george floyd we the people are tired of being police because the idea of what were seeing in this country has never been about our safety its never been for the safety of people or i mean any way and ive been really playing the idea of what safety even means and to. The last few days weve been here my friends and i have been out here every day for the last week so were tired. But were really really sick and tired of being sick and tired of the police so i think a lot of people dont really understand the difference between what happens here in the day in these protests and what happens after curfew the confrontations with police none of whom are here right now just describe that difference for me and what its like when the police come in so its really interesting to hear and see the media talk about where the police are because weve been out every night in the streets protecting our community and we see the military and i see them nowhere where there are no Police Officer this is completely peaceful but at night people have been coming from outside of the city outside of the state to terrorize our community and burn things down. We dont do that so the military presence at night is. Everything compared to here right now but youre also on the bridge yesterday when the step from the highway they fired tear gas and thats rubber Blood Pressure and how scary was that that was frightening so we were on the highway when the truck plowed through people to which was. Our home. Very upsetting their families there. And then the Police Rushed in and then they started shooting people and tear gas in people with rubber ball trying to get away if shooting people cover bullets and tear gas and people in the face which both of which both of those materials are also supposed to be aimed at the ground so in no way as must be aimed at people there into peoples faces there blinding people and you can die thats lethal so all right i want to thank you and all you for talking to riyadh and you know this isnt always proven. But. We also heard from the brother of george floyd today he stood right over there any talk about what his brother would have wanted this is what he had to say. Right out and out. Probably. Oh youre. Not going to hear from him. And i said. You know. You dont even know you. Know i dont know i dont know. And i would not want to be doing. And im not a fan of people who want to. Tonight will be another chance to who controls the streets of minneapolis for the 1st for 90 percent definitely the demonstrators and those people that i know you were talking about who set fires and looted stores they controlled much of downtown the police didnt even have enough control to come in and escort fire trucks or they could put those fires out in the past 2 nights or been 1700 National Guard troops thats a 1000 more than there were prior to that and they shut the city down police came in very aggressively i heard in ali its on about a rubber bullets and the tear gas that they used to clear out the crowds and we are expecting that again tonight when the curfew moves 2 hours later from 8 pm which is a little after the time it is now means its 10 pm so in a couple of hours that curfew will happen and well see a Police Crackdown as they have the past 2 nights. John hendren there in minneapolis john thank you for that all right lets head over to the west coast sadly because theres been a series of protests throughout the day in los angeles lets talk to rob reynolds again he joins in that rob so so where are you now and tell us whats happening that. Well the most interesting thing about where i am here now karen is what you dont see because if you say 45 minutes ago there were hundreds of protesters in this spot you could see behind me a california National Guard truck which is most likely full of National Guard troops but. As the curfew approached everybody just packed up and left and so they are respecting the curfew it was an entirely peaceful event here there is a curfew that extends across the entire county of los angeles which numbers 10000000 people and i think 88 different towns and cities that the curfew is in effect now and people have at least here been respecting it inferred also reports of other peaceful marches in the city through the hollywood district and elsewhere weve heard that in. Ventura county or van nuys which is to the north of los angeles there has been some outbreaks of ransacking but it didnt appear to be terribly serious so at the moment it looks pretty quiet here there are no protesters at this spot we are not hearing any reports of protests protesters actively defying police as they did over the weekend when the curfew went into effect we are not hearing at this stage any reports of burning buildings or Burning Police cars or anything like that so i think that the Community Leaders here have got their fingers crossed that that will stay the case for the next several hours as it grows dark the mayor of los angeles the governor of california all have been say pleading for calm striking a quite different sort of note and tone from that of President Trump. When we heard from him earlier this afternoon the governor to Gavin Newsome saying its not black people who are responsible for whats going on its its all of us as a society as American Society and that for years we have treated it as something we just sort of metaphorically pruning the branches here and there with little snips but not ripping up the the the tree of racism by its roots so. Again. What i think is remarkable about what youre seeing here is what youre not seeing there and yet robin you were telling us earlier that some Police Officers in california have been showing solidarity with the protesters by taking a knee. Yeah thats right i mean you know there were all sorts of Different Police responses and responses by protesters there was a very troubling incident. On sunday when a Police Vehicle in Downtown Los Angeles sort of accelerated in into a crowd and knocked some people over fortunately they werent seriously hurt but around the same time in sacramento there there was a line of police and protesters facing off as weve seen so many many times over the past several days one of the police when went over and engaged a protester in conversation and then knelt beside him taking symbolically taking the need which has been such a. Symbol of. The demand for Racial Justice and that ended in hugs all around and handshakes and claps on the back which might have been not the best thing for a social distancing but it certainly seemed to work to diffuse the situation at that particular moment all right to live for us in Los Angeles Rob thank you for that. Well social media has captured thousands of encounters between protesters looters and the police some 3 to white demonstrators committing violence and vandalism while ignoring pleas from black protesters to stop and thats opened a tense conversation about the role of nonblacks in this movement on his or castros mill was a black woman tries to cry stop to a group of white leaders in oakland but the chaos drowns her out this man a black one who put him back managing to nonblack protesters vandalize a cafe but the africanamericans whose lives are actually on the line fear theyll pay a little bit down down dont break them oh you want to go behind that people couldnt and black p