Transcripts For KPIX CBS This Morning 20240713 : vimarsana.c

KPIX CBS This Morning July 13, 2024

Says they should be in jail for murder. Twitter takes action. The social media giant obscures the president s latenight tweet on minneapolis saying it violates rules on glorifying violence. How it raises the stakes in a free speech fight. And coronavirus job crisis. The pandemic puts more than 40 million americans out of work. What one hardhit city is doing now to get people back on the job. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. George Floyd George Floyd riots and violence across the country with people outraged over the death of george floyd. In minnesota, the stores all over the state have been looted. Businesses have been damaged, and cars torched. Protesters have set fire to a Minneapolis Police precinct. I have not seen black people this upset in 20 years. Longer. President trump signed an executive order that takes aim at the Legal Protections for social Media Companies. If twitter were not honorable, if youre going to have a guy like this be your judge and jury, i think you shut it down as far as im concerned. Twitter has now flagged the president s tweet saying his line about looting and shooting in minneapolis violates twitter rules. New yorks governor promised to sign an executive order allowing businesses to deny entry to anyone not wearing a mask. That store owner has a right to protect themselves. The Boston Marathon has been canceled for the first time in its 124year history due to the pandemic. All that whoa. Sweet meeting between two unlikely friends. Thats a very good thing for the donkey theres a glass separating the two. All i care is we get out of this pandemic as quickly as possible. New york Governor Cuomo teaming up with rosie perez and chris rock. I just got tested to come out here. I got a 65. So just passed. On cbs this morning. Amazing grace what weve seen and the emotionridden conflict is the result of so much built up anger and sadness that has been engrained in our black community, not just because of five minutes of horror but 400 years. If youre feeling that sadness, that anger, its not only understandable. Its right. Welcome to cbs this morning. It has been a very disturbing and frightening 24 hours. Chances are things have changed from the time you went to bed last night to when you woke up this morning. And thats where we will begin in minneapolis. Three days of rage over the death of a black man in an encounter with Minneapolis Police have left parts of that city in ruins. This is a look at a line of officers in riot gear. These pictures were taken this morning after a direct attack on police last night. Protesters set fire to the Police Station where four officers were fired after George Floyds death used to work. Other businesses in the area were attacked and looted even after minnesotas governor activated the National Guard. Disperse. Stop all disruptive behavior. You can see National Guard trucks on the street this morning telling people to go home. Anthony . President trump overnight said he cannot stand back from whats happening and accused minneapolis mayor of, quote, a total lack of leadership. He followed this with another tweet that twitter flagged for violating its rules about glorifying violence. The president wrote, these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd and i wont let that happen. When the looting starts, the shooting starts. Mayor jacob frey says the president , quote, knows nothing about the strength of minneapolis. Were gonna getet through this. Jeff pegues is at the scene of last nights worst violence. Jeff, things clearly worsened overnight. Whats it like there this morning . Well, it is still tense. This morning, anthony, so much has happened. In fact, down the street, 20somethi 20somethingyearold man walked down the street. He wanted to go home. We kept telling him you cant go that way. He went that way. Police are down there at the line theyve drawn. Theyre talking to him and threatened to arrest him. Well see what happens but that is part of the story here right now. You see in this neighborhood smoke billowing because there is still a fire somewhere over there. In the foreground, thats a shopping center. Not anymore. Its a shell of what it used to be. You see the building all tagged up. Theres graffiti all over the place. And here at this corner where weve been pushed back, this Dominos Pizza restaurant, its been torched. I can still feel the heat. That and also down the block arrests. The National Guard moved in about an hour and a half or so ago. Theyve been firing tear gas. Some of it in our direction. Theyve also arrested a cnn reporter. So it is still tense this morning as it has been for the last 48 hours or so. From the beginning of the unrest, the third precinct remained a symbol and a target of protesters anger. It finally spilled over just after 10 00 p. M. Last night. The mayor jacob frey ordered police to abandon the building as if first hundreds, then a thousand descended on the site. Some throwing rocks and lighting fireworks. Protesters remained throwing wood and other debris, feeding the fire that burned out of control for hours. The mayor last night defended his decision to let the precinct burn. The symbolism of a building cannot outweigh the importance of life, of our officers or the public. Brick and mortar is not as important as life. The governor ordered 500 National Guard soldiers into minneapolis to tamp down the violence. Earlier, protesters outside a target store in nearby st. Paul destroyed the windows of a Police Vehicle and used shopping carts as weapons, forcing customers inside to evacuate. Longtime Community Activist spike moss who has called for calm said this is what happens to a Community Without answers. But does this violence help . It doesnt help anything but it lets you know that they are tired. Theyre tired of being oppressed, being misused. Being abused. Being murdered at will. I kant breatcant breathe. Reporter at the heart of it, the lack of charges against the four officers, including Derek Chauvin seen nailing on floyds neck while floyd repeatedly said he cant breathe. Chauvin has had 18 complaints against him in his career but only faced discipline for two. Hennepin county attorney Michael Freeman called the death senseless but wont rush the states investigation. That was excessive and that was wrong. The question in my business is, is it criminal . Thats what i have to prove. Reporter early thursday we met korboi valla who invested his life savings into opening this sports bar. Looters came back to try to steal his safe. It hurts me. Its not fair. Its not right. You know, weve been working so hard for this place. This is not just for me. Its for my family. Reporter his cousin janelle called on them to focus on Justice Without harming the community. You try to come in and we show you youre black and were black youre trying to steal. Its so disrespectful. Im so embarrassed of my city. Reporter he also spoke to lexxie erdahl. Is looting for justice . No. Is setting things on fire for justice . No, but i think its a message and something that i couldnt as a white person fully put into words, i guess. If their only means of a message is this, then i stand with them. Reporter typically, the media is granted access to locations like that, but this morning, we saw a cnn crew getting arrested. They were even handcuffed and taken away from the scene and tear gas was fired in our direction so it is still a tense situation here in minneapolis. Tony . Tense is the word for it, jeff. Thank you very much. We want to show you page one of this mornings minneapolis star tribune. It calls the violence a state of agony. Joining us now is Minnesota Attorney general keith ellison, a former congressman from the district that includes minneapolis. Attorney general ellison, thank you for being with us. Theres so much to get to. I want to begin with your reaction to those protests overnight, as well as your reaction to the president and people who may agree with him that these people are thugs who, in some cases, may deserve to be shot. Well, calling people thugs and calling on people to get shot is stems from the same sort of attitude that resulted in the death of george floyd. The tough guy, macho man, im going to make you do what i want you to do attitude. Its the heart of the problem. And we need the president and everybody else who thinks that you can get to a better place through threats of violence to stop it. I think violence begets violence and trumps angry words feed an ugly cycle that is going on in my beloved city, which im so proud of, but im just paining for now. Look, heres what i would say to the people who are protesting. You have made your point. Do not let people who want to burn or break things distort the message of justice for george. The fact is, he deserves to have his case heard. Justice needs to come forward. Bu we cant now the conversation has shifted to, you know, what has happened in the streets as opposed to whats going to happen to these officers who so horrifyingly, you know, treated him on the corner of chicago and 38th. So we need to refocus our attention on what really matters. And we need to ignore the calls of people like donald trump, and we need to really start to put our city, our great city back in back the way it was and try to be in a better place. So mr. Attorney general, on that subject, getting to a better place and justice for george floyd, what does justice look like in your view . Well, look, when you are in the business of prosecution and investigation, prejudging what youre going to do before you have facts is not a good idea because we do have a sixth amendment right to a fair trial. I dont want a defense attorney to get up and say, oh, they all were against my client from the beginning. Thats not true. But we have all seen the videotape. Its deeply disturbing. It looks very, very much like george floyd was abused, mistreated. And it looks like that knee on the neck may well have caused his death. Those facts are in front of our eyes and the whole world at this point. I think we need to move forward in an expeditious but thorough way to complete whatever investigation is needed and to bring charges, if warranted. Now, of course, i have my own opinion about whether those charges are warranted. I clearly do. But i am not going to start announcing those things in order to prejudice an investigation and hand the other side a defense. So i am going to just say were going to follow the evidence. And i think this case needs to be moving forward in the most expeditious manner. The protesters are calling for charges. If charges are warranted, there is no reason that we should stop and halt and not move forward with that. So those are my views on that. Mr. Ellison . Mr. Ellison . Yes. I think everybody wants to make sure that justice is done here. And i think part of the problem is, if it was a normal citizen who was seen on tape doing what this Police Officer was doing, we keep hearing about, you can arrest people on probable cause. Can you help us all understand right. Why this Police Officer, and then the video from the other side, mr. Ellison, where you see two other officers hold playing floyd down while hes begging and pleading for his life. Why havent these men been arrested and the investigation continue . It happens all of the time when you see somebody that looks like they committed a crime, and were all watching. Thats why theres so much pain and so much anger in your city today. You have to help us understand. Maam, im very well aware why theres pain and anger in my city. I lived here. I lived my whole adult life here. I raised my four kids here. Ive represented this district in congress. I know about my city, okay . But i will tell you, that it is true. That probable cause can support a criminal complaint and the jurisdiction that has primary responsibility for charging has decided up until this moment not to do so. The Minnesota Attorney Generals Office is not legally authorized to charge unless and until the case is referred to us. At which time we will handle the case according to law in an expeditious and thorough manner in accordance with justice. Thats what we will do. But youre misunderstanding my question. Youre misunderstanding my question. I am not asking about the attorney Generals Office. Im asking as someone who understands the law, why these Police Officers havent been charged. Im not saying im not trying to tell you why there is anger in your city. May i answer . Yes, please. May i answer, please . The answer for making the charge authority has not done so. That is the answer. Do they have good reasons . I assume so. Thats the answer. All right. Attorney general keith ellison, well have to leave it there. Of course, theres more to discuss. Thank you for your time. Anthony . Now to the fight between President Trump and twitter that escalated overnight as we mentioned. The company flagged a president ial tweet about demonstrators in minneapolis. This happened hours after mr. Trump signed an executive order targeting twitter and other social media platforms. A twitter spokesman told cbs news, all we have to say about the response to the president overnight is in the tweet thread. Paula reid is at the white house. Paula, how does the president justify this order . Good morning. Anthony, the president claims that twitter, a private company, is trying to censor him, and he wants to use his power as president to crack down. But only congress has the power to curtail twitters Legal Protections. I think we can say that were going to regulate. Reporter the executive order targets Liability Protections which shield companies from being sued for most of the content posted to their sites. The move came two days after twitter, for the first time, added warnings to two of the president s tweets inviting readers to get the facts. If it were legal, if it were able to be legally shut down, i would do it. Reporter but the president does not intend to stop tweeting. And has done so dozens of times since being flagged on tuesday. Theres nothing i would rather do than get rid of my whole twitter account, but im able to get, to i guess, 186 million people, when you add up all the different accounts and add facebook and instagram. Reporter but an executive order cannot change federal law. Legal experts say this move is effectively toothless. After the announcement, social Media Companies defended their platforms. In a statement, facebook warned this would penalize companies that choose to allow controversial speech and encourage platforms to censor anything that might offend anyone. And twitter calls it a reactionary and politicized approach to a landmark law that would threaten the future of online speech and internet freedoms. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the order is just meant to divert attention from the devastation brought by covid19. I see it as a distraction from what is the challenge at hand, which is to save lives. Reporter today he will try to divert attention to china. The president says he will announce new action against china after they passed National Security laws meant to curb freedoms in hong kong. Tony . All right, paula, thank you. Ahead some good news. Ill say that again. Some good news in the coronavirus pandemic for the city that was the epicenter of the crisis i your bank can be virtually any place you are. You can deposit checks from here. And you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. And pay bills from here. Because your bank isnt just one place. Its virtually any place you are. Just download and use the chase mobile app. Visit chase. Com mobile. Ive tried the 200 creams, the 400 creams Olay Regenerist microsculpting cream makes my skin feel so hydrated. I can face anything with my olay. And my latest beauty secret. For bright, smooth skin. Olay regenerist cream cleanser. Its starting to people are surprising themselves the moment they realize they can du more with less asthma. Thanks to dupixent, the addon treatment for specific types of moderatetosevere asthma. Dupixent isnt for sudden breathing problems. It can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as 2 weeks and help prevent severe asthma attacks. Its not a steroid but can help reduce or eliminate oral steroids. Dont use if allergic to dupixent. Serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, which is severe. Tell your doctor right away about signs of inflamed blood vessels, such as rash, shortness of breath, chest pain, tingling or numbness in your limbs. Tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection and before stopping any asthma medicines, including oral steroids. Du more with less asthma. Talk to your doctor about dupixent. We have much more news ahead. Well talk to George Floyds sister about her brothers death. How her family is doing and the violent overnight protests in minnesota. Plus, well hear from timberwolves assistant coach Kevin Burleson about why his team has been vocal about floyds death. Youre watching cbs this morning. In this time of social distancing, when taking a break from everyday life is critical to everyones health, there is one thing we can all do together complete the 2020 census. Your responses are critical to plan for the next 10 years of health care, infrastructure, and education. Lets make a difference, together, by taking a few minutes to go online to 2020census. Gov. Its for the wellbeing of your community and will help shape americas future. Capital one knows life doesnt update you about your credit card. So meet eno. The capital one assistant that looks out for charges that might surprise you and helps you fix them. Whats in your wallet . Thwhere does your almondmilk almond breeze starts here with our almond trees in our blue diamond orchar

© 2025 Vimarsana