Some of those are ignored. State officials warn could see more violence and destruction than anything the city has seen so far. In washington, d. C. , the scene is described as riot territory as people smash windows and burn at least one car more than 100 p them have been arrested during the protests, the mayor held a protest short time ago with a message saying its time to go home. Initially a peaceful protest turned vial with some demonstrating turning police cars an in chicago demonstrators swarming the trump tower. Mayor Lori Lightfoot with this to say. I want to express my disappointment and really my total disgust at the number of others who came to todays protest armed for allout battle. You dont come to a peaceful protest with a bowling ball or a hammer or a shovel or a baseball bat. You dont come to a peaceful protest with bottles of urine to throw at Police Officers. I applaud the vast majority of individuals who came here to make true and lasting change peacefully. Joining me now is msnbcs reporter who has been on the ground in minneapolis throughout this crisis and now it is midnight here, just after 11 00 central time. Give us the lay of the land and what youve been seeing since we last spoke to you 15 or 20 minutes ago. Well, things have changed quite dramatically downtown minneapolis. Were now downtown. Weve come here at the intersection of north 1st avenue and 5th street. North 5th street, if anybody knows downtown minneapolis. As you can see it actually is empty. There have been Police Vehicles going around the city with National Guard generally speaking with the back up of National Guard. They have moved areas where people have been convening. The crowd i was with of a few thousand appears to have dispersed and any little gatherings are broken up by police. They did that effectively earlier by firing tear gas and tracers and rubber bullets into the crowd, which also hits, earlier. But it has had the desired effect of enforcing curfew in minneapolis. We havent seen the fires weve seen over the last few nights, those fires were not able to be put out because the firefighters were unable to go in without the protection of the National Guard. As you know theres many, many, many more National Guard. All police leave has been cancelled, paid time off for police and firefighters in minneapolis is cancelled. So everybodys on the job. We saw ambulance escorted by National Guard. We saw several fire trucks escorted by the National Guard. There are still some fires and protest activity around the city but seems to have largely died down. This city has been dealing with protests tuesday, into tonight and tonight was peaceful with no looting or smashing going on and the Police Taking most aggressive role of all week, the governor and mayor of st. Paul and minneapolis have said they are bringing in reinforcements to keep the streets of minneapolis quiet tonight, and it looks, chris, like they have achieved that. All right, well, that is one good thing, a little peace on the streets. There will be a lot of questions asked tomorrow for sure. Yeah. We again were so glad youre okay and your crew is okay, and were grateful for you being out there to report for us, thank you. We also want to go to new york city now. Theres been a lot of activity there as well. Were waiting to get richard. Do we have a picture . There what you are seeing is obviously a lot of heavy Police Presence there. Do we have richard louis. Can you hear me. Yeah. Yes i can hear you. Thanks richard. Whats going on . All right. First we have a person on the righthand side here who is injured. I dont know, ronnie, if you could pull to the right on the ground here. Its been really quiet. It got very small a number and then all of a sudden bottles were thrown and project isles were thrown and then the police again move towards the crowd and there are at least three or four individuals that fell to the ground. You can see one right there at the moment. So what was a very quiet like you came to us ten minutes ago you could hear a pin drop but as you know with these protests as they disperse them, 15 or 20 minutes later they come back. They come back. So we have one individual here who is injured that we just walked past and the police now are trying to get everybody away from the same intersection that we were in before when we were on air together when the crowd ran towards us. So were in the very same location at the moment and it is another flash point and on an evening like this, a saturday night, where its warm, and there is no curfew, as you know, unlike some of the other cities that youve been following this evening. Weve seen the crowds ebb and flow. Like i said just 15 minutes ago, quiet. If you talk to us at sunset, quiet. But now here in brooklyn as we are on the outskirts of downtown, not too far away from Barclay Center, you can see roughly about 100 officers confronting a group thats not that large. A group, though, that has confronted the police. Occasionally, bottle of water or some small projectile and then the police decide to pursue that individual. Whats been pretty consist here for us is that groups are gathering, if they are on the streets, and if if they so desire they ask them to step out of the streets and then the groups are allowed to stay on the sidewalk. What has been consistent, this is not unique to brooklyn certainly, is that the protesters are quite, some of them, not all of them, you understand the diversity of all of these groups in terms of different intensities that the ones in front clearly screaming out on tenity obscenities and challenges for confrontation. That certainly doesnt help the situation. But at this moment we have seen at least one injured, which you saw earlier on camera that we walked past. We are now, well, i guess well be at the front line, again, where the police are with what is now a he have small group, as you can tell, maybe about 50 or 60 protesters. So another quiet moment. Potentially. Maybe not. You mentioned, richard, some of the exchanges that have been going on can you hear me okay, richard . I can. Lets see if you can hear any of this. Eff the police just generally. Sounds like just general yelling between some of the protesters and the police. We are recording everything. You are not giving clear orders. You are not giving a clear order. No police [ indiscernible chanting ] george floyd really loud george floyd. Say it louder. George floyd. Louder george floyd louder george floyd come on, lets go. Move, move. Move. You got to step back. It seems it seems richard lui, for all the yelling that the police were not provoked and people are moving now. Yes, thats right. Up to this point what we seen, the confrontation all of a sudden went flash. And of course were a little bit over midnight right now and the intensity is certainly accelerating. You can see here now the captain is leading in front trying to get all of the protesters to take a step back, his officers behind him. But it looks like all of the protesters, a majority of them are now taking steps back and listening to law enforcement. Were following them to see what might happen but it certainly is a stark contrast to what you saw, what, nine minutes ago. And that was the change. Like i said, if you took our camera just moments ago before the top of the hour, quiet. And everybody was dispersed. But after it dispersed everyone returned. So here we are in front of a very iconic, if you are a brookl brooklynite you know juniors, one of the favorite eateries just down the block. This happens to be the location, perhaps from todays history, that these brooklynites will remember. So a quiet moment for a second at least, chris. Well, lets hope it stay thats way. You take good care you and your crew richard lui, well get back to you as the situation warrants. Thank you so much for that. As he pointed out there is no curfew in effect in new york city. Thats not the case in los angeles where the National Guard is deployed where looting and violence is worsening. I want to bring in a member of the Los Angeles City council representing the 5th council district. Thank you so much for being with us. What are you hearing about the situation in your city tonight . Well, most of the violence and vandalism has taken place in my district, in fact in my neighborhood, the fairfax area, were all devastated about the senseless and vicious death of george floyd. But i think the message has been completely eclipsed by the violence and vandalism that were seeing. Just about every building is graffitied, many were broken into, some set on fire, police cars and other vehicles have been set on fire, were trying to get this under control. Ive called for and weve gotten a curfew. I asked for it to be in this neighborhood but its now citywide, which is great. Ive asked and we have now requested support from the National Guard and our neighboring Sheriffs Department and were doing everything we can to protect our residents. Do you have a sense, councilman at this time what specifically if there is something specific or who may have sparked this level of vial snens violence . Its not really clear. Its probably a combination of peoples anger towards what happened and the fact that people are angry anyway because theyve been couped up due to coronavirus. We really just began opening the city and this weekend was supposed to be when our Retail Stores and our restaurants would be open for the first time this weekend. So i think theres a lot of anger in the air in general. And i dont know how many people were participating in this looking for violence. I think most of the people intended to protest peacefully and i know our Police Officers responded to that in that way. And have done a very good job of balancing the rights of Peaceful Protesters and at the same time making sure we protect against those that are intent upon committing crimes. So its been difficult but we have mobilized our entire force. We have thousands of officers in the fairfax area. Were doing whatever we can to get a handle on this. Fortunately there really hasnt been a lot of physical damage to people. There havent been any deaths. There havent been a lot of protesters injured. Ive seen several lapd officers that have been injured and taken away by ambulance, which is quite unfortunate. But nobody, i believe, has their lives threatened from whats happened today. I think thats part of the effectiveness of a better lapd then we had when we had the terrible things happen to rodney king, which set the city on fire and on edge 28 years ago. We want to make sure that doesnt happen to this city again. And we dont take decades to recover from it. You mentioned some of the activity that was going on. Im just checking some of the reporting in the l. A. Times counc councilman they report that nordstrom at the grove, a big shopping area there, were vandalized and looted. Someone took a hammer to the front of the whole foods and while some were cheering others were screaming, dont do that, please so obviously you have some people inciting problems and others there peacefully that dont want to see what is do you feel confident now that youre in a situation in los angeles where you have, on the ground, what you need to control the situation . Its not completely clear, especially if it spreads to other areas. Were controlling it as well as we possibly can. We have a lot of iconic shopping areas within a short distance of each other, all in my neighborhood. We have the grove. We have the beverly center. The beverly connection. Farmers market. Cbs studios. Canters deli. We have a lot of very notable sites and theyre all in danger. So were trying to keep those all protected and keep our residents protected. Were trying to keep all of the Small Business storefronts protected. But that is a lot of activity. So while i think were handling as well as we can, i wouldnt say were out of the woods. I think its important that we call the curfew and that were enforcing it. But as this protest moves to other areas i think we need to be as wellprepared and even more active in making sure it doesnt spread the way it has today. And were seeing a large fire burning in los angeles where it is 9 17 p. M. One of the many and there are obviously fire crews on the scene. I dont see in that area that there are any signs of protesters but we dont have a large, wide shot of that area. One of the things that mayor garcetti said today councilman, when you watch the pictures of the protesters youre occasionally struck by the fact were still in the middle of a pandemic. There are people wearing a mask but plenty of people who are not. And people who have masks but are pulling them down. And one of the things that the mayor said he was worried about was the obvious lack of social distancing. This is a city who like much of california and much of the country has worked hard to come back and be able to reopen in the middle of a pandemic. How worried are you about what we might see two weeks after these protests with potentially a spike in cases . Well, im very worried and im already frustrated. I lent the effort to require masks any time people leave the home. And it took a while longer perhaps than it should have, but we did put out that order. I have seen a lot of noncompliance with that. I hear its because as we decide to open up that people dont realize that putting on masks and social distancing actually will make that more possible and make spread less likely and rather looking at it and saying, well, everythings okay, if we can open retail and open restaurants, i guess we dont need to can this any more. Need to do this any more. But im fearful, large gatherings with everyone in one place mostly not Wearing Masks could encourage the spread. Not all of our officers have masks either. Its not a recipe for good health. Well, councilman it is a beautiful city and incredibly beautiful neighborhood you live in in fairfax. We wish you the best and well keep our eye on whats developing in los angeles. We thank you very much, councilman for being with us tonight. We want to go now to atlanta where Blaine Alexander is standing by where there was a state of emergency that was spa expanded today. Whats going on in the streets atlanta. State of emergency. The governor is authorizing as many as 1500 National Guard troops to come out and help to keep the peace, because of a bunch of chaos we saw last night but its very different tonight from what we saw last night. If you look here, this say big reason why. These barriers were put in place. This area behind me you see the plywood and broken out windows, is this is one of the first places to get hit here in downtown atlanta, by the iconic cnn center there. We see big difference. One resources. We know theres more National Guard officials. You can look over here and kind of see some of the vehicles, see some of the atlanta Police Officers who are still going through and working to clear the streets. The other thing is that stricter rules were put into place tonight, chris. We have a 9 00 p. M. Curfew in effect for atlanta and we know really about ten minutes or so before 9 00 we saw those armored vehicles. We saw them actually announcing, saying, hey, you got ten minutes, youre going to be arrested if you dont disperse. It was after that we saw tear gas go into the crowd and then saw a clash between protesters and police. It was so much more contained than this time last night. I do need to say right now theres one Atlanta Police officer who is in the hospital being treated because of a very, almost like a skirmish that we saw earlier today. Police have largely cleared the streets but there was a rider on an atv who ran into an officer at a highrate of speed and that officer sustained significant injuries. Hes in stable condition tonight here, chris. Blaine alexander in atlanta for us. Were also showing that picture of that fire thats raging in los angeles. 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