Hear us and has been making her slow way through the island of manhattan. And, chris, mostly via social media, some of it the new York City Police department, we are just now learning just how many businesses have been hit and how great the damage has been. Reporter its extensive, and its the numbers continue to be counted. In fact, we asked because on the drive over here from macys, brian, we saw a Police Officer being loaded into an ambulance, and we asked how many injuries both of civilians and Police Officers. All of those numbers continue to change. Everything is happening so fast. This is one of the most expensive strips of Retail Real Estate in the world, madison avenue. Theres a fire truck going down. There are a number of police cars that went flying down here. The Upper East Side is the latest area of the city to be hit, and i want to walk over here because this is one of the iconic stores along madison avenue, the hermes. Theyre known for their scarves. Some vandals tried to get in here. They were not able to breach the glass, but you can see that it was pretty well shattered. All up and down madison avenue, these storefronts that people love to visit, love to look at, love to aspire to in many cases, many of them as you can see over there, the ballys store has already been covered in plywood. Whats hard to determine is if theyre covered to protect them or if theyre covered because they have had some sort of vandalism. The other thing weve seen throughout the course of the night tonight, i think i mentioned to you an hour ago, brian, how the breitling store had been broken into. Vandals tried to get in there. By the time we came back through an hour later, it was completely covered. You would never know there was an issue there, that there were arrests there, that police had given chase there. It was just another of the many stores that were boarded up. So much of this city is unrecognizable, and its such a stark contrast to what we saw today, which was mostly peaceful protests. In fact, those protests that went on for hours and hours and went through miles of the city with thousands ever people, the only incidents we really saw were outside of where you and i normally go to work every day, which is 30 rock, brian. There were a few stores there that were breached, and Police Quickly came in there. And then we also saw there were some barriers that were dragged into the street. And what happens and this is repeated time and time and time again. These small groups of vandals show up. Thy try to get into a place. In some cases theyre looting. They hear the sirens, the police come, and they take off. They run. At 11 00 tonight we were told there were about 200 arrests. Since then we have personally witnessed at least a dozen more, and thats just in the areas of the city where we have been. I want to just make one more point about this sort of tail of two cities, the one at night, which has been horrific tonight with the number of shops that have been hit, with the number of arrests that have been made, and the day side, the people who really care about what is happening in america, who really care about issues of inequality, issues of police who are killing blacks in our country, who say it has to stop. When you go to them and you say, why are you here marching through the streets mile after mile after mile, they tell you almost to a person, we have to have police stop killing blacks in america. Theyre passionate about it. Theyre angry about it. They want it changed, and there was a moment and what kind of moment you think it is probably depends on how you view all of this. But down at Washington Square park, a large group of those protesters, maybe as many as 1,000, met up with a group of police, and they started chanting take a knee, take a knee, take a knee. And actually the c. O. Hugged the black lives matter organizer, and the Police Officers took a knee. What people mostly told me in that group, brian, is they were glad it happened, but it doesnt change anything. What they want to see is real systemic change across america, and most of them also believe that what were seeing here across new york and so many cities, the looting, the vandalism, the arrests does not necessarily help with that message. It brings attention, but it brings attention that they think is the wrong kind of attention. Brian. And thank you for that powerful message. Chris jansing on madison avenue in new york city, which has been transformed tonight beyond the closures, we should point out, that already took place during the pandemic were in the middle of. We are very happy to be joined tonight by dr. Cornell west. He is a professor of public philosophy at harvard. For good measure, he is Professor Emeritus at princeton. For extra good measure, he taught at yale just to keep everybody happy. Personal note, im tired of seeing him hang out only with Anderson Cooper on tv. I have been thinking about him since the start of this story and this drama. Dr. West, it is good to see you again. Lets establish, number one, that the Movement Never stopped and is still ongoing every day. And, number two, birth is painful. Is that what were watching . Are we watching the birth of something new here . Well, my dear brother, its hard to say. Its certainly one of the lowest moments in the history of this nation. I think that brother trump is in the process of becoming an american version of george iii, with pharaohs and Pontius Pilate versions of biblical religion. What i mean by that is there is disregard of the law weve already seen. There is a sowing of the seeds of greed, hatred, and corruption, and you reap the chaos. Thats what brother martin said. Chaos or community. You know the great rabbi abraham used to say, the very future of this nation depends on how we respond to the legacy of dr. Martin luther king jr. And what he had in mind is what are you going to do about your poverty . What are you going to do about your racism . Not just about black people, but against indigenous people, against asians, against jews, against muslims, against mexicans and latinos. What are you going to do about your materialism, your addiction to spectacle and superficial things of money and commodity, and what are you going to do about your militarism. Internationally, the military base, the drones. Domestically, the militarizing of your police and the ways in which that has a disproportionate impact on the weak and the vulnerable, who tend to be black people and other peoples of color, and poor and workingclass whites, but disproportionately black. In this moment of reckoning, my dear brother, means were at a fork in the road. Right now theres a massive crisis in the legitimacy of any leadership. Whos actually speaking out . Of course the Republican Party is following the gangster who is the leader. The democratic party, well see what brother biden has to say, but its hard to believe hes going to be able to come through with what is necessary, even though hes so much better than brother trump. We must have a spiritual, moral, and democratic awakening among all of the citizens who care, recognizing were going to disagree in the Public Square but recognizing that we are losing our democracy. And anytime any society can no longer mobilize the best of its past it could be lincoln. It could be frederick douglass. It could be walt whitman. It could be toni morrison. It could be i wont go on and on. But do we have what it takes . Its hard to say. If our system has become so choked by greed and hatred and contempt that it doesnt allow for reform, then the choice is between violent revolution, violent explosions that occur over and over again. And im opting for nonviolent revolution. By revolution, all i mean is what Martin Luther king meant, which is the fundamental sharing of power, resources, respect, and wealth. Redistribution of wealth, what brother bernie is talking about. But we are in this together. We hang together, or we hang separately. But we are also a part of the world, and the world is looking. Chinese empire against our own empire. Can it undergo the kind of democratic awakening because it needs fundamental change as well. What about our brothers and sisters in latin america . What about our brothers and sisters in the middle east . Oh, precious africa. It is a global affair. Weve got ecological catastrophe waiting for us, and if we have leaders that view it as a hoax, then the whole planet goes under, and its all over, and all youve got is the cockroaches. Thats where we are now. But i do have hope. Im a blues man. Black people been through slavery. Black people been through neoslavery called american terrorism and lynching, and weve been through so much hatred, and weve always produced magnificent love warriors like don coltrane and the toni morrison. Love forces us to take off the mask we know we cannot live within but fear we cannot live without. Yes, those love warriors, where are they . Where are the love warriors to teach our young people, no matter what color, put love and justice in your struggle and get that revenge out. But we acknowledge the pain. And tell them those at the top, that the days of your weeping, this chaos based on your greed is producing precisely the opposite of what amos, what esther, what jesus, i would add mohammed, is all about. Justice, justice, choose ye justice. Let justice roll down in waters like a mighty stream. Thats hebrew scripture. Jesus running the money changers out of the temple, knowing its their greed thats choking the best of what was going on in jerusalem. Thats what we need. If we dont meet that challenge, brother brian, a world of trouble. Oh, were in a world of trouble, all right. A blues man like you no doubt knows my favorite, which is no shoes by john lee hooker. Oh, yeah. In which he writes about being at the very bottom in life. Just there are no shoes on his feet and no food for his family. And what we are seeing in the streets is the kind of desperation that comes with easily 50 million of our american citizens unemployed, north of 100,000 of our fellow americans dead in a pandemic that happens to be slicing, way overindexing through communities of color and poverty. Am i correct in saying that some of the destruction were seeing and some of the looting were seeing right up to and including tonight is the intersection of anger and opportunity . Well, the intersection of anger and massive neglect, massive poverty, dilapidated housing, decrepit school systems, not enough jobs with a living wage, no access to health care, and the collapse of family, the collapse of community, the collapse of schools. And so you get these precious individuals and i love my brothers and sisters in the street wean when theyre long, but i love them enough to correct them. Gangsters come in all forms. I got a lot of gangster in me. But the challenge is the gangster isnt at the top. Its been sucking so much of the wealth going to the greedy, so much of the power going to its connection to the greed. No democracy can survive when its public life, its public goods are so privatized and militarized and individualized. John dewy taught us that, one of our great philosophers. Weve got to look at the best of our past in this moment and see whether we can mobilize it for these new circumstances. If we can, well make it out like lincoln, like fdr, like lbj. But if we dont make it out, then we just become another empire that had high democratic possibilities that understood itself as the great city on the hill, the grand exemplar of liberty, but never came to terms with your slavery, never came to terms with your jim crow, never came to terms with your working class that was unable to gain access to jobs with a living wage, never came to terms with the humanity of the vast majority of humankind, women, never came to terms with the rich humanity of our precious trans and gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, never came to term with the new immigrants. I believe weve got a whole lot of magnificent human beings in this country. The problem is, is that its hard for that to spill over given the rigidity of our structures. And thank god that those in the street, especially during the day, come from all colors, all gender, all sexual orientations for the public lynching of our black brother george. It sparked something deep in the souls of every color, every jenldzer in this nation. But we do have to acknowledge the degree to which weve got to keep track of the best of who we are and render accountable everybody at the highest level as well as those on the ground. Please remember all those watching that we rang in the first moments of june 2nd, 2020. Here we are 16 minutes after midnight on the east coast. Thanks to our friend dr. Cornell west. Dr. West, thank you for spending time with us. Its been too long. Love you, brother. God bless your parents, man. Thank you. Thank you very much. Best to you and yours as well. While dr. West has been speaking about all the things that are going into this night were chronicling, weve been alerted that cal perry has a development in the story from louisville, kentucky. Cal, as we go to you, i just wanted to tell our viewers well be updating them on a situation that is sadly deteriorating in seattle right after this. But, cal, go ahead. Reporter yes. We heard from the mayor, who has talked about five days of violence and death here in louisville. On thursday, seven people were shot. On friday, we had those fires. Saturday, at least five Police Officers were targeted. Then late last night, david mcatee, a 53yearold man who serves barbecue on the west side of town, was shot and killed. The circumstances of that are still very confusing. Theres an investigation under way, but we do understand from the mayor that the Police Involved in that shooting did not have their body cameras on. Thats whats led to the violence that we saw tonight. It was about two hours ago when police swept through this park, Jefferson Park here in downtown, and were able to clear it. The question now, of course, is what will it be like tomorrow . The streets are empty now, brian. The concern is that the violence will continue. Again, five days of gun violence now confirmed by the mayor here, who fired the police chief over how things have been going here. He was replaced we heard with the interim chief police, who has been talking about the continuing violence and the need for the National Guard to stay here. We do understand tomorrow there will be that same dust to dawn curfew in effect, brian. All right. Cal perry, thank you very much. A note to our viewers, while dr. West was speaking, we labeled some video of trouble and tear gas, sacramento. We have since learned and relabeled it seattle. Jo ling kent was reporting for us from what we all celebrated together was an orderly and peaceful demonstration that has devolved. And, jo ling, it now looks like youve taken your position on an Athletic Field adjacent go ahead. Reporter can you help me in . Jo ling, we can hear you. I want to make sure your mask is on. Reporter hey, guys, were in the capitol hill neighborhood of seattle right now. I dont know if you can hear me, but we have police now advancing on protesters. Oh, my gosh. Were moving. Were moving. Oh reporter were moving. Go this way. Go this way. Lets go. Lets go. To our viewers, we have a Security Team with all of our correspondents. Reporter we are backing up. There is fireworks being deployed by seattle police. Were retreating. Jo ling, i dont love having you against a fence. Do you have a way out of there . Reporter lets go. Guys, we need to move. Run okay. Maybe the best thing to do here is for jo ling and her crew to be sure about their safety, and we can surmise the rest from her reporting. As often happens, something went haywire. A peaceful protest became the opposite. It appears jo ling was hit or grazed by what we believe is fireworks, which has been in a lot of these protests the only thing they have to fire back at some of the projectiles being fired at them. Nonlethal, sometimes gas, sometimes smoke by Law Enforcement. So it looks like jo ling was at least grazed. She did not indicate any injury, but we would sure like to know that they are out of that tough spot and at least closer to an exit or safety because it looks like police are on the move. To our control room, the question where do we move on to now . Stay with me here. Were going to do what we do in situations like this. Veteran viewers know this trick. Were going to take a break. Our live coverage continues on the other side. You doing okay . Yeah. This moving thing never gets any easier. Well, xfinity makes moving super easy. I can transfer my internet and tv service in about a minute. Wow, that is easy. Almost as easy as having those guys help you move. We are those guys. Thats you . The truck adds 10 pounds. In the arms. Okay. Transfer your Service Online in a few easy steps. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Transfer your service in minutes, making moving with xfinity a breeze. Visit xfinity. Com moving today. Ahh, the weirdest. You make everyone around you crazy. People are normal and then they hang out with you and then theyre Jack Nicholson in the shining. Im gonna tell my mom you tried to drown me. Its an above ground pool. Youre like eight feet tall. Shaquille brewster by the way, to our viewers that just left that drama that we saw unfold with correspondent jo ling kent, all are well. They are getting to a position of at least relative safety where they can catch their breath and continue to report on what is and what was obviously a moving fastmoving situation. Shaquille brewster has been in the very neighborhood adjacent to the very corner where george floyd was killed at the knee of that Police Officer. Shaquille, i am praying that youre going to tell me that that familys pledge and request to keep that neighborhood a sacred, Peaceful Place has held tonight. Reporter it has, brian. This was the area where Terrence Floyd, the brother of george floyd, came earlier today, participated in a vigil, and pled with the community and the country to remain peaceful, to stop the looting, to stop the destruction. And this is the scene right now. People are just standing around. Before you had people sitting down. About two minutes ago, folks we