there were protests overnight in the streets of brooklyn center, minnesota. some clashes with law enforcement. officers deploying tear gas and flashbangs to enforce a curfew across four counties. and remember, all of this is happening right on the border of minneapolis, just ten miles away is where the prosecution is expected to rest today in the derek chauvin murder trial. the defense will then begin to present its case. the judge denied the defense s attempt to completely sequester the jury and question them about that police shooting, the shooting that killed daunte wright this week. it is not clear whether the developments overnight will impact the judge s decision, but it does not seem that way. we begin with the breaking news. our adrienne broaddus live on the ground there in minnesota on all that has happened since yesterday. reporter: poppy, good morning to you. the unrest boiling over here in brooklyn center. you see as water behind me from the sprinkler system f
draconian voting restrictions. texas just advanced a bill that among other things would make it a felony, you heard that right, a felony for an official to give a voter an absentee ballot application if they didn t request one. as of march 24th they ve introduced 360 voter restriction bills in 47 states. in many states these restrictions will specifically be hard on black voters. look, i want to make this clear. this is not just in response to the 2020 election and the big lie. the voting rights of black americans have been under attack since the 15th amendment was passed, even if lawmakers don t explicitly spell it out, we see you. jamel boulie of the new york times wrote this about the jim crow era. there was no statute that said black people cannot vote. instead, southern lawmakers spun a web of restrictions and regulations meant to catch most blacks as well as many whites and keep them out of the electorate. and in a throwback to that time a writer for the conservative
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it is a job. sure. you might imagine that that is the sort of job where there aren t many surprises, there aren t many shocks, there aren t many world changing shocks in the course of your day. but then, one year ago now, you had one of those world changing shocks, because you, as a corporate pr person, showed up at work, your regular day job at the company that makes lysol and you ended up having to put up this. imagine the discussion in the office about how to work this. first word reminder, is it okay if we start the tweet with the word reminder as if we ve ever had to say this before? okay, let s just do it. reminder, lysol disinfectant and hygiene products should only be used as advised. and imagine what the conversation was like in the office to come up with that exact wording. reminder, hey, just, you know and you can see under the text of that tweet they posted this big along, beautifully cooperated very lawyered statement quote, as a global leader in health and h
offering up any resistance to the officers they could have ended the restraint. while we believe a fully vaccinated people can travel at low risk to themselves, cdc is not recommending travel at this time. don t let the vaccines and the sunny spring weather give us a false sense that we are in the clear because we are not. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. an amazing benchmark. over the past day the u.s. administered more than 4 million doses of covid-19 vaccine, that is a record and it brings the 7-day average to more than 7 million doses a day but the cdc says hospitalization rates are starting to tick up and some areas after weeks of decline. cnn s evan mcmorrison-santo ro joins me from new york city. i see behind you there, evan, seems like people are out and about. reporter: i can show you better than tell you. this is times square on a saturday. frankly,