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States as protests continued for a 4th night across the country some of the demonstrations were peaceful but still more than 1400 people have been arrested in 17 cities the protests demonstrations began against the death of an unarmed black man in Police Custody but now its real work and National Outrage over racism sometimes at the hands of the police 1st mike hanna has this reports on what was a long night for many people. What started out as peaceful protests in dozens of cities around today in violence in Los Angeles Police vehicles were set on fire sending plumes of black smoke over the area similar scenes in cities ranging from seattle where a 5 pm curfew has been set to miami where thousands gathered through the day and where like in so many other areas a standoff with police ended in clouds of tear gas in chicago where demonstrators held signs carrying messages of protest that were repeated throughout the nation. In new york a city that is still to emerge from the ravages of the pandemic a series of protests took place throughout the 5 boroughs and in minneapolis the city where george floyd was killed and where the National Wave of protests began. The president left the white house in the morning to attend the space x. Launch and afterwards expressed his sympathy for george floyd and his family but also had this to say about the protesters. The memory of george floyd is being dishonored by riders looters and anarchists the violence and vandalism is being led by n. T. For and other radical left wing groups who were terrorizing the innocent destroying jobs. Hurting businesses and burning down buildings this in the wake of a tweet saying if protesters had broken the secret service ring outside the white house they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs and most are ministers weapons i have seen the reference to vicious dogs seen by washingtons mayor Muriel Bowser as a throwback to the police use of dogs on African American civil rights activists decades ago and in an extraordinary tweet often the mayor lashed out at the president in the white house saying and i quote while he hides behind his fence afraid alone i stand with people peacefully exercising their 1st amendment right after the murder of george floyd and hundreds of years of institutional racism there are no vicious dogs and ominous weapons there is just a scared man afraid alone. Into the night crowds continue to gather within sight and sound at the president s residence clashing with police and secret Service Agents on several occasions washington d. C. Became one of more than 11 cities where the National Guard has been mobilized and amidst the flickering of flames and swirling smoke curfews were declared in a number of areas the same a nation just emerging from a months long lockdown in the face of a pandemic mike hanna aljazeera washington. Ok lets go now to john hendren our correspondent whos covering the story where it all began the city of minneapolis this is what a curfew is supposed to look like few people on the street few cars in relative quiet but it was a far cry from that just hours ago. Police and demonstrators faced off in an area they have been trading control of a night ago the police controlled an intersection behind me and then. Demonstrators took it over in the day well in the evening the police came back in force marching toward the protesters shooting helots and firing tear gas it all took about 15 minutes to disperse the crowd we spoke to some of the protesters and this is what they had to say they treated state drawing gas so lets not. Have a bullet if you know me ive got picked up in the now. We need our justice we need our justice the city would not rest until we get out just no justice no peace does that mean we are one officer has been arrested and charged with murder but there were 4 officers involved in the arrest of george floyd that ended in his death now the crowd says they want to stay out here in the streets of minneapolis despite the curfew despite the Police Presence until all 4 of those officers are arrested. Will protests have continued into the night in los angeles with some people looted stores and lit fires National Guard troops were called in to help the police use an irritant similar to a gas as well as rubber bullets to disperse the crowds Peaceful Demonstrations were held earlier in the day this sheriff is a journalist in los angeles she says many processed as became concerned when they had offices from immigration and Customs Enforcement or ice on the scene. Was a line of white protest the standing between the police. People of color purchases of color and they were linking arms to try and protect these protests the problem the police on i have also been seeing people you know really panicked talking about the pot they put the ice is being cold on the news coming to the area i saw a lot of people to start off i dont know if it was a very minor affair is that i saw a lot of people discussing leave the protests off about a mile on but that also being quite a few instances of white protests is throwing objects actually on the protesters of color its turning around and putting and this is a few so far its really going on inside parliament because this is a peaceful process this is about justice and this is about a lot of. You were trying to punish him for something that is violent which is not what we want will for decades incidence of Excessive Force being used on black people who have lets talk led to talk of reform but little action in march of 1991 video of rodney king being beaten in los angeles with world constant on the world the acquittal of offices involved spawn days of riots in february 2012 Trayvon Martin was shot dead by a member of a Neighborhood Watch group that led to the launch of the black clubs matzoh movement there were several high profile events involving Police Officers in 2014 including every gun and Michael Brown and a 12 year old tama rice in 2015 for degree died in a police van in baltimore also in the custody of 6 Police Officers and just over a year ago Philander Christie was shot and killed during a traffic stop earlier we spoke to Rosa Clemente a Community Organizer with black lives matter a group formed after the death of Trayvon Martin 8 years ago in florida she says people are now at breaking point. Every 28 hours in the United States of america an African American native person south asian person or brown person let the you know are killed by the police every 28 hours george floyd unfortunately was something we have to watch for 9 minutes but we could talk about Briana Taylor and teen who was working during the Global Pandemic where police entered her house while her and her boyfriend were sleeping they thought they were being rot and her body was so riddled with bullets and this is last month in louisville kentucky that they had a hard time even putting her back together i can name you. Tony make day a black trans man that was just killed 2 days ago by the police in men says and i could spend 5 hours with you all and i could not even answer or we wouldnt even both to the lists of multiple Police Killings this is a not only a Tipping Point its an explosion and within against this Global Pandemic until all those cops are respite until they go to trial until they get jail time and then serve that jail time i think were going to be seen this a lot more for many many weeks here in the United States. Al jazeera correspondent Gabriel Elizondo is in new york he says events there were calm all day until small groups sought to cause him trouble as night fell. Chaotic scenes here in new york city late in the evening i mean Union Square Area of the city you can see that some of the protests turned out to be violent in a way this is where the real heart of the major conflict between police and protesters were was held after nightfall at one point more than 2 Police Vehicles were set ablaze we saw helicopters are still at this hour buzzing over the air and there are groups of protesters still roaming in certain areas but earlier in the day we saw tens of thousands of Peaceful Protesters take to the streets in new york to have their voices heard at one point they peacefully protested right in front of trump tower in front of a heavy Police Presence and then moved down the streets of broadway down to downtown new york city where one point they were greeted by applause by onlookers these were mostly young people all of whom said that they were out here for a reason im here for george floyd im here for all of those out lost their lives hes the taliban im here for black america im here for me im here for my family im here for all the america and im here for those who cant be here today well i think that america is sick and we have to root out racism and i think that white people need to stand up and do something instead of sitting on their couch and posting on their Instagram Stories this is a manifestation of anger as one man just told me says this is what happens when people get fed up many are exactly that here in new york they say stuff like this is just property that can be replaced but the life of george floyd cant be. Brian levin is director of the sense of the study of hate and extremism in California State University in sunbonnet do you know he was also a Police Officer in new york he says Fringe Groups stoking disorder. We are fooling ourselves if we believe that the systemic bigotry which takes place in the United States and elsewhere is in some way just limited to police but i think what weve seen here is we had in rapid succession 3 horrible deaths of africanamerican people who were on arm and. The country is demanding an answer. And i think theres a difference in whats going on a lot of white people like myself feel oh thats a terrible thing but what we dont feel is it is going to happen to us most of the protesters have been nonviolent thats the story behind the story and what we seem are interim loper looters and extremists from from different sides trying to exploit this but i can tell you that im hearing from my friends across the country whove been involved in nonviolent protests that the majority of these protests have in fact been peaceful in till such time that this the smaller number of people exploit that and what that these people do is tarnish the moral imperative of the effort that all of us have to do with rolling up our sleeves to advance racial equality in this nation. The former Vice President joe biden says the past few days have made it clear that the u. S. Is a nation furious about injustice Donald Trumps democrat rival thats what he is as well for the white house said violence cannot be tolerated the act of protesting should never be allowed to overshadow the reason we protest it should not drive people away from the just cause the protest is meant to advance lets get the views of one american expat now whats happening in his home country he is Keith Richburg hes director of the university of hong kongs journalism and Media Studies Center he joins us from hong kong Keith Richburg welcome to the news or as an expat do you see these pictures as being unsettling when you when youre sitting down and seeing absorbing whats going on back home. Absolutely absolutely unsettling you know because weve been weve been dealing with more than a year an hour and a half of protests here in hong kong and stealing see at least in general be against protest years and journalists not receive the i turn back to the u. S. You know its equally distressing and i have to say you know im you know i think i remember being one years old in 1970 when the train had one of the worst riots in American History we were just up until that point in time i believe and and seen those images of people burning down going up their own neighborhoods there are shops there on which are stories that all barber shops you know whats this precedent 1st of all will see people doing that again but and secondly distressing because you know only detroit right of 67. Could do something called the current war that took a look at Race Relations in the u. S. And it said that america was moving towards 2 societies one separate or both separate and unequal one black one white and its just distressing to see that a lot of why many years later were 50 years later were still dealing with the same problems all other multiple narratives in play here though i mean is this disintegrating into Something Else were seeing losing with seeing what looks like the police overreacting in certain locations to certain small scenarios and Community Leaders going on International Television saying look come down protest is protest criminality is Something Else. Absolutely dont criminality dont looting burning down Shopping Centers stealing things that has absolutely nothing to do with the legitimate cause of Police Brutality and as weve been witnessing here in hong kong you know the same thing happens where you have peaceful protests against what they consider you know rollback of their freedoms and on top of it you see a smaller break away from that and they start smashing banks they start setting fires that were a mile off cocktails that gives people reason to try to the spread of the entire peaceful protest movement and im afraid thats what i see sadly happening in the us not where all the peaceful protests against this horrific murder of george floyd were not being overshadowed by the violence one op ed just gives that gives one sided chance to say theyre all just were all just loans i think even the president that were loans and its we. Weve seen race riots in the states before weve seen race riots of course around the world before as well is it your sense that youll country is no more than ever before at some sort of Tipping Point but its difficult to define what that Tipping Point actually is. And i would put it exactly that way we always think were at a Tipping Point but i thought we were at a Tipping Point because 1st you at this point demick going on and then on top of that you have a greatest economic crash since the Great Depression want to claim thats near the near that they are over 20 or 30 percent this one like that its ridiculous levels and they are on top of it and by the way i would say that that one form of black hole and well that 90 s. Was affecting minority communities more than others and the top of that you have this minneapolis Police Officer from by and they still assassinate a black man with his knee on his neck and that just you know i think were all a combination of that exploded things we havent seen riots like this a compass in a company so many cities since 1968 thats whats going to amazing about this you have the rodney king riots of 1902 but that was largely confined to los angeles riots in baltimore because of a great killing but all of these kind of were isolated to one area once that ferguson was very well seemed to be spreading down to big cities but also smaller towns you know in North Carolina and South Carolina and indiana so it seems like theres this sort of combustion thats going on here people were just angry fed up that up quickly as Police Killings of black men that have attacked also the Economic Situation going on it seems like something combustible that says and again we dont need leaders or putting out gasoline on the embers understood when you talk about politicians sending out tweets and pouring gasoline on the embers was 6 months away from a general election in your home country is somebody who studies the media the message and the m