Far, and in new york city the scene for last night continuing to unfold throughout the morni morning. Weve had a significant number of stores broken into. We have still out there, actually, as we speak, making arrest. This is one of the most challenging times are seen in nearly 30 years of policing. I can tell you we have thousands of officers deployed last night. Melissa meanwhile, on the west coast, cleanup efforts are underway in Southern California the morning after looting and the santa monica area. Thats where we find william la jeunesse. What do you sing on the now right now they are cleaning up and boarding appear in the the santa monica business district. Behind me these were broken windows, no they are preparing for potentially round three. Santa monica, long beach, huntington beach, san francisco, l. A. , all areas where police were overwhelmed and outnumbered by protesters. They were protecting buildings along with the National Guard. In the meantime, the looters and thugs
Streets outnumbering officers on the streets even though Additional Resources were brought in including more National Guard troops, state police and other boots on the ground but unfortunately for local authorities they say they were out mine and outnumbered and underestimated the ones in distraction and size of the crowd that in some cases according to authorities was firing weapons at them forcing the police to adjust their tactics to avoid being shot and killed on the streets of minneapolis as they tried to corral the more violent protesters. We are seeing these demonstrations across the nation tonight and the cities are burning and authorities are wondering where this is going. Certainly in minnesota governor said theres a proposal to bring in army troops and special teams but he does not want to see these troops squaring off with people on the street so what happens now, will appeals for calm be heard, we simply do not know. We have seen your correspondent mike tobin on the phone.
Reinforcements, National Guard reinforcements. Yesterday there were 500 National Guard reinforcements. At night the governor brought another 200 in, this morning announcing another 1,000, bringing a total of 1,700 National Guard reinforcements and later today the governor announcing that every single National Guards person in the state has been activated. Some 13,100 troops will be taking to the streets after last nights failed attempt at a curfew. The curfew is supposed to go into effect at 8 p. M. Local time, 9 p. M. Eastern, two hours from now. Last night it had become clear that if all four Police Officers involved in the death of george floyd were not arrested, the protesters would not abide by the curfew. What happened 24 or 22 hours ago is the police announced the curfew, sent tear gas into the crowd and the crowd just continued to push forward, bringing the police way back, many miles, to this point at which point the police largely dispers dispersed. There were more fires set.
We called and they came. And literally, it was that it doesnt make it much more complicated than that. I said im going to need you and im going to need you here in the city. Im going to feneed you for twor three days and i cant tell you what im going to need you to do yet but i know i need you. And they came. They began preparing readiness to be able to move folks from all over the state of minnesota literally from miles and miles away to be prepared to help us keep the peace. Over the course of the day, i met with my counterparts in minneapolis and st. Paul to talk about what missions they needed the state to help them fulfill. Calling to say we are here to support you. We are your partners. Tell us what you need and we will back fill and fill in the gaps. Tell us what you need for resources and we will help you get it. We did get some specific missions. We got no real mission at all. And in the absence of a real mission, we began to identify where the critical needs were. We tasked t
Of the social media giant and his action. William la jeunesse in los angeles looks at the demonstrations in several cities around the country but we began with Senior Correspondent mike tobin in minneapolis tonight. Good evening. The streets from no police presence, mom ruling the street, the state troopers in riot gear. National guardsmen, rifles at the ready. Still you have an angry group of protesters despite the announcement of an arrest, with the common belief that if george flight was white, it wouldnt have taken four days. The Minneapolis Police officer seen around the world pressing his knee in the neck of george floyd is behind bars. Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin has been charged by the Hennepin County district attorneys office. He had remained free after he and three others. County attorney mike freeman said the arrest and third degree murder came faster than any of the case involving a Police Officer. Floyds family said we expected a firstdegree murder char