Stunning scenes in more than 100 cities with soprotests peaceful with heavy Police Presence and the National Guard called up in some places. By our nbc news count, demonstrators appeared in 111 american cities. We have correspondents on the streets with live reports from many of those scenes. Then in our sunday closer, a conversation about george floyd, minneapolis and a painfully familiar sight to many of our fellow americans. And lets begin this morning right there in minneapolis where there was another citywide curfew, but protesters were out for most of the night. A different scene, though, than what that city saw on friday night. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has been in minneapolis all week for us. Good morning. What does it look like there today . Reporter good morning. The overnight crackdown appears to have worked. This is the Police Precinct downtown, heavily fortified with concrete barriers right over there. After days of chaos, the governor here in minnesota activated the states enti
First, we need to save our city. President trump weighs in. We have our military willing and ready and able. My guest is keith ellison. Atlanta mayor, washington, d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and florida congresswoman val demming. Its put more than 40 million out of work as much of the country is trying to return to some form of normalcy often ignoring social distancing. You see no fear. We are embracing it. Prompting fears of a second wave. Every community is one wild weekend from falling off the cliff. Joining me is msnbc anchor joshua johnson. Maria teresa kumar and pat mccrory of north. Welcome to sunday. A special edition of meet the press. Good sunday morning. America is waking up to two crisis. One is so new its called the novel coronavirus. The second institutional racism is with us for some 400 years. Overnight protests in dozens of cities across this country. Anger erupting over Police Brutality over africanamericans. Most demonstrations were peaceful with few incidents. Others
Good morning, and welcome to this week. As we come on the air this morning, america is emerging from a night unlike any in decades. Demonstrations in at least 75 cities the National Guard activated in 16 states. The anger sparked by this horrific scene. George floyd dying with a knee in his neck. I cant breathe. Has now exploded across the country. Here in manhattan, demonstrators set fire to a police vehicle. Another patrol car plowed into protesters in brooklyn. Stores were destroyed in los angeles, echoes of the rodney king riots in 1992. In philadelphia, at least 13 officers injured. One person killed in indianapolis. There were flames inside nashville city hall. And across from the white house gates. Inside, President Trump sent a latenight tweet laying blame. Quote, the National Guard has been released in minneapolis to do the job that the democratic mayor could not do. Then joe biden weighed in. Were in a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us. Were a nati
Fact it is filled me with emotion it did me with emotion that so many people of every race and creed from city across the nation protesting the murder. Africanamerican man at the hands of Law Enforcement in minneapolis. You know it it actually brought a lot of emotion to me. On the other hand some of what i saw in los angeles and other cities the looting the rioting absolutely unacceptable you know people have said. That we have to understand that people are angry yes were angry and thats why we march thats why we need to vote thats why we need to be about ive been involved since i was 15 years old larry since i was a kid taking you know started with the black Student Union united Mexican American students and i school with the farmer boycott standing up for immigrants i understand the fight for. Economic and Racial Justice the fight against racial oppression but the people that were rioting were marching. Peacefully and importantly they were marching against racial oppression they wer
Reaction to that now from our good friend antonio of the hour ago also the former mayor of los angeles lets start right there mayor what what was your reaction to his threat to call in the u. S. Troops. Unbelievable the language that he used ive never heard a president talk like that at least the president of United States of america and that some banana republic. Even his defense secretary. Tried to walk away from those comments and indicated that they werent considering putting troops in our cities against our people who were constitutional right to protest. And i thought as i said it was unbelievable it was it was actually quite scary. Morning i mean to make of the reaction weve had in america protests riots all of them it doesnt seem to calm down well it doesnt seem to calm down and i think when yesterday for a good part of the day i saw. Demonstrations and marches all across the country in fact it is filled me with emotion it did me with emotion that so many people of every race a