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Atlantas mayor is accusing President Trump of making violent protests across the u. S. Even worse. He should just stop talking. This is like charlottesville all over again. He speaks and he makes it worse. Protests spreading internationally. Protesters in london hit the streets to stand in solidarity with americans. All that the First American astronauts to launch from u. S. Soil in nearly a decade are now on board the International Space station. The thrilling moment in space history and the possible dawn of a new age in space travel. And all that matters. It gave us hope for our entire nation. Our entire nation that weve been dealing with all of these things and, look, we just sent people from this soil up to the up to space. On cbs this morning. Amidst the chaos, there have also been moments of inspiration and solidarity. Thank you yes the cops are kneeling. Yes welcome to cbs this morning. Welcome to this first day of june. It went from a painful week to what i think was a soulcrushing weekend. And thats where we begin. The rising anger over the alleged Police Murder of george flo floyd in minneapolis has exploded with protests in all 50 states. Demonstrators in cities across the country confronted police for three straight nights over the weekend overshadowing peaceful protests. Some set fires, and there was widespread looting. Police have arrested thousands of people in many cities have put overnight curfews in place. Washington, d. C. Called out its entire National Guard after multiple nights of street violence. 22 states have also summoned guard troops. Peaceful protests in portland, oregon, turned rowdy after midnight while looters in Southern California emptied stores in highend shopping areas. Jeff pegues is in minneapolis where the National Guard patrolled the city all weekend long. Jeff, what are you seeing there now . Anthony, what we are seeing is a lot of destruction. The kind of destruction thats going to take years to recover from. That was a restaurant down there. There are stores this way. Overnight, it was a lot calmer, and youre going to hear officials today talk about that. Were getting reports of just one fire. And that is an improvement. One week after George Floyds death. Whats his name . George floyd reporter in minneapolis last night, the memorial to george floyd stretched from the curb where it started out, into the street. Peaceful protesters gathered defying an 8 00 curfew demanding their voices be heard. Were not going nowhere until we ready to go home. Thats right. Were grieving. Were hurt. We have the right to hurt. Somewhere safe. And thats here. Reporter but other cities around the country saw far more violence. Like here in san diego where Police Declared this gathering an Unlawful Assembly using flash bang grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowd. In philadelphia, cop cars were set on fire and looters broke windows and sansacked shops. In atlanta, Police Used Tear Gas to drag a pair of College Students out of their car for allegedly breaking the citys curfew. The students were not charged but two of the officers were fired for using excessive force. Back in minneapolis, a tanker truck nearly mowed down hundreds of protesters marching peacefully on this highway. The driver was yanked from his truck, beaten and later arrested. Minnesota timberwolves assistant coach Kevin Burleson was part of the peaceful protest on the highway at the time. I was like, this is not happening in this city. It was so peaceful for the whole entire hour. Why did this man come here . Run through the crowd with a semitruck . I cant fathom it. Reporter all of that, a stark contrast to the vast majority of nonviolent demonstrations happening nationwide. Black lives matter reporter here in West Virginia where an officer march with protesters. So far only former officer Derek Chauvin has been arrested. The other three officers remain free. During a live interview last night with floyds brother, a cnn reporter passed on his question to the Minneapolis Police chief who had just shown up to the george floyd memorial. They want to know if the other officers should be arrested in your mind and if you see that they should all four be convicted. To the floyd family, being silent or not intervening to me, you are complicit. If they are one solitary voice, they would have intervened and act. Thats what i would have hoped for. I spoke with rodney who called on protesters to stop the violence. Im asking for peace. The same way my brother would ask us to if he could see the situation if he was here. Peace. Peaceful protests is the best option we have to bring justice. Reporter and there say pattern with these protests that we have seen. They start off peacefully and then someone incites violence. This was arson. Investigators believe that many of these incidents are being sparked by extremists. Tony . Jeff, thank you very much. Lets go to washington, d. C. , where kris van cleave is just a short walk from the white house. Good morning. What happened with protesters there last night . Well, good morning, tony. It is cleanup right now. Look at the building behind me. A window was busted out. A monitor destroyed. You are hearing sirens because a building an out building near the white house in Lafayette Park is smoldering. Tire trucks are continuing to pull up here. Were literally 3 doors dothreen from the white house. Tensions began to rise around 11 00 p. M. As new groups of people joined protesters in Lafayette Square for hours. 11 00 p. M. Is when the district went into a curfew. Some of those people threw stones at police. Others lit fires and smashed nearby store fronts. There were reports of looting throughout the district. Officers shot tear gas and flash bangs to disperse the crowds. Even as the landmark st. Johns church where president s have gone to worship since James Madison was vandalized and set on fire. Now this all marked a stark contrast from earlier in the day as thousands of people gathered to protest peacefully. Overall, the tone during the day was one of solidarity and unity. Participants cycled through. Several chants. One simply pleading, stop killing black people. Gayle . Yeah. Thats what were all saying. Kris, thank you. President trump is calling for a crackdown on protesters and hes slamming local leaders for not being tough enough. Were learning the president himself was evacuated to a safer place at one point. Weijia jiang is at the white house. What happened there . Good morning, gayle. A Senior Administration official tells cbs news that President Trump was briefly moved to the white house bunker on friday night during the protests out of an abundance of caution. The president has not acknowledged that he was moved to the shelter, but on saturday morning, mr. Trump tweeted that he could not have felt more safe. Mr. Trump has been empathetic over the death of george floyd but sunday, as he remained out of sight, he berated democrats and his rivals as he tweeted for more law and order in response to some of the violent protests playing out across the country, including that the u. S. Military is ready to intervene. The president said radical left anarchists, namely antifa, are behind the rioting and looting and would designate the Extremist Group as a terrorist organization. But without any clear leader or organization in the antifa movement, its unclear how such a move would actually be executed. Plus, Law Enforcement is still investigating exactly who is behind the violence. Back here at the white house, the west wing is operating under limited staffing due to security concerns over these ongoing demonstrations. President trump has so far resisted giving a National Speech and his advisers are split over what role he should take in addressing the unrest. Anthony . Weijia, thank you. An independent autopsy requested by George Floyds family will be released today. According to the familys attorney. The medical examiner in minneapolis found the combined effects of being restrained, possible intoxicants and Underlying Health issues all likely contributed to his death. Jamie yuccas is at the memorial for floyd in minneapolis. Good morning. Anthony, good morning. The floyd family and their attorney released a statement saying they reject the notion that the knee from the Police Officer on georges neck for almost nine minutes was not the proximate cause of his death. They want Derek Chauvin to be charged with firstdegree murder. The former minneapolis officer was charged with thirddegree murder and seconddegree manslaughter for floyds death. According to police documents, chauvin had 18 complaints filed against him in his nearly two decades with the department. 16 of them were resolved without discipline. New video apeerpears to show th officers struggling with someone inside a Police Vehicle before floyds death. Floyd does not appear in the video. The video has not been independently verified. Minnesotas attorney general Keith Ellison and mike freeman announced yesterday a joint effort on this case. It came after criticism freeman waited too long to bring charges and does not have the publics trust. Chauvin is expect inside court june 8th elellison suggests the other three officers may be charged. The Minneapolis Police department has been criticized many times for alleged racial bias and misconduct by officers. It was investigated by the Justice Department in 2015. The year that Loretta Lynch became president obamas attorney general. Now during her term, she investigated other Police Related deaths, including eric garner here in new york and freddie gray in baltimore. Loretta lynch joins us now from new york city. Its very good to see you, madam attorney general. I want to start with this. What did you think what did you think when you saw the tape of the death of george floyd right before our eyes, and what did you see when you looked at officer chauvin . To me, those are two different questions. The first thing i thought when i saw it was this was an abject failure of Police Culture. This was a uniformed Law Enforcement officer acting with an attitude of, not just nonchalance but impunity. And snuffing out the life of an american citizen. Not only in broad daylight but in front of other americans. Seemingly protected by other officers. That was the first thing that i saw when i thought about it, when i could get over the heartbreak of seeing it and focus on it. It was to think that this was ultimately a picture of, not just one officer going off the deep end but also a failure of culture, a failure of accountability, and i think that is what everyone else has seen as well. That attitude of not just impunity but nonchalance. This is the straw thats broken americas back when they consider this case out of all the other examples of Police Misconduct that weve seen. I think for a lot of people, just seeing the officer with his hands in his pocket which is the ultimate of, im very comfortable here. Lets talk about the other three officers on the scene. None of them intervened to say thats enough, please stop. Do you think or are you surprised that the three others have not been charged at this time . Well, im notterminated. I think those officers showed an abject failure to recognize that one of their own had turned against the code they all swore to uphold and was harming someone in front of their very eyes. I do think that the those charges are going to be under consideration. My understanding is now the state attorney general is involved as well. So i know theyll look at everything. I would not be surprised to see charges against those officers also. This really also deals with the issue that we hear so many times about wheth or not this is a systemic problem or just the actions of a few bad officers. Its clearly more than just that because if you have a few bad officers, you have to ask yourself the question of, who hired them . Who trained them . Who promoted them . And not only that, who is protecting them . Here in the video of mr. Floyd losing his life, we saw an officer, not just snuffing out a citizens life, but other officers standing by and preventing the crowd from intervening. Listening to the crowd reacting. Telling the crowd to get back. Essentially saying your voice doesnt matter here. And thats what people heard and saw, and thats what they are reacting to. What can you tell us about Police Culture and what needs to change . I know youve done a lot of work in that area. Yes. And the added tragedy to all of this, gayle is that we know what to do. We have seen Police Departments turn things around. We have seen Police Departments become better, become accountable to the community. Become partners in the community. Weve seen them do the hard work that this requires. And it is hard work. First thing it requires, gayle, is the courage to face this issue. That this is a problem. That so many citizens in this country, mostly minority, but not limited to the black community at this point in time, have lost faith in Law Enforcement. And when that happens, when people feel that theres no one to for them to turn to, no one there to protect them, those people are already living in a desert of anarchy. And its laumw enforcements responsibility to reach out and bridge that divide. It takes courage to face the fact that history has gotten us to this point. That years and generations of Police Actions have tainted Law Enforcement to the point where this is the image of policing in america. You know, even the good officers are you optimistic at this point . By this officer and what he did. Im realistic. Are you optimistic at this point that things could change . Im realistic because and somewhat optimistic only because ive seen it change. Ive seen Police Departments turn around. Ive seen them sit down with the community and have those hard discussions about the pain that they have caused. Ive seen them listen to what the community has to say and ive seen them turn things around and become better and stronger for it. But it requires a strength of will. It requires a commitment to continue those actions long after the smoke has died down from this weekend and long after people have gone back to their homes, exhausted from this most recent round of misconduct and protest and everything that goes with it. It requires hard, hard work. It also requires Law Enforcement speaking out and taking responsibility for this. Which we are now seeing, and im glad to see that. Yeah, i am not looking for a comparison here between president obama and President Trump. They are two different leaders, but im wondering your thoughts about how he is handling this situation, briefly, if you could. Well, look, i think that what we look for in our leaders, and what we hope for in our leaders, particularly our president , is to be heard. We want them to hear us. We want them to hear our pain. We want them to lead the entire country. We want them to look at us, even if our experience is not their experience, we want to see empathy and an ability to connect. And an ability to say, even if im not experiencing what youre experiencing, i do see the pain that this is causing, and we as a country will come together and work to heal. Thats what we look to see. All right. And i leave it to people to decide where that message is coming from at this point in time. All right, Loretta Lynch, thank you very much announcer this National Weather report sponsored by t o announcer this National Weather report sponsored by toyota. Many Toyota Service cens are open to help keep your vehicle in top shape. And may even offer nocontact vehicle dropoff. If you need a new vehicle, toyota is offering 0 financing and attractive leases on our most popular toyotas, like camry, rav4 and tacoma. You can even shop and buy online from the comfort of your home. Its our promise to you. Today and to