THEIR NUMBERS JUST WOULD BUILD
FROM WHAT I FELT AS THEY LOST
THIS MASSIVE PRESENCE OF
SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE.
WE ARE A LITTLE BIT FURTHER IN
THE BACK NOW.
I FEEL IT DOES KIND OF SHOW THE
SCOPE OF JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE,
HOW MANY HUNDREDS HAVE BROKE
OFF.
AGAIN, I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO
FIGURE OUT WHERE WE ARE HEADED.
DOWNTOWN IS WHAT'S INSIGHT AT
THIS MOMENT.
I DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING IN
PARTICULAR WAS PLANNED FOR
DOWNTOWN LIKE IT HAD BEEN THE
PREVIOUS DAYS.
THIS IS MY FIRST TIME WE ARE
SEEING ACTUAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.
STATE PATROL HAS PULLED UP HERE
AT FRANKLIN AVENUE AND
LAKELAND.
I AM NOT SURE WHAT THEY'RE
DOING BUT THEY ARE GETTING OUT
OF THEIR VEHICLES.
THE OFFICERS APPEAR TO BE IN
RIOT GEAR.
THAT'S CAREFULLY GET A LITTLE
BIT CLOSER.
THEY ARE DISPERSING THE CROWD.
OR AT LEAST PEOPLE ARE STARTING
TO RUN OUT OF FEAR OF WHAT MAY
OCCUR.
STATE TROOPERS HAVE GOTTEN OUT
OF THEIR VEHICLES.
IT APPEARS AS THOUGH THEY ARE
TRYING TO PREVENT THIS MARCH
FROM -- TEARGAS HAS STARTED.
AGAIN, WE ARE AT THE
INTERSECTION OF FRANKLIN AND
NICOLETTE, JUST SOUTH OF
DOWNTOWN.
STATE PATROL CAME FLYING IN.
WEST, DOWN FRANKLIN, CUTTING
THIS MARCH OFTEN HAVE.
NOW, THEY HAVE EFFECTIVELY
PREVENTED THIS MARCH FROM GOING
ANY FURTHER.
IT HAS BEEN SPLIT INTO TWO.
THERE HOLDING THE LINE.
LOOK HOW QUICKLY THEY GOT INTO
FORMATION AND CAUSED THIS GROUP
TO SCATTER.
THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN THAT
IMMEDIATE INTERSECTION WERE MET
WITH FLASH BANGS AND TEARGAS.
NOW, THIS WHOLE ENTIRE
SITUATION HAS BEEN FRACTURED
RIGHT IN THE CENTER.
OKAY, WE HAVE NATIONAL GUARD
MEMBERS POINTING -- OKAY, WE
ARE GETTING TEARGAS.
WE ARE GOING TO BACK UP A
LITTLE BIT.
IT DIDN'T MATTER THAT THERE ARE
CAMERAS ALL OVER THE PLACE.
THEY ARE THROWING TEARGAS IN
OUR DIRECTION.
WE NEED TO BACK UP.
WE'LL TRY TO GET THE
HELICOPTER OVER THAT.
BE CAREFUL.
Reporter: YEAH, WE ARE.
IT IS COMING RIGHT UP ON US.
ABSOLUTELY.
IT APPEARS AS THOUGH THERE IS
NO SIGNIFICANCE TO WHETHER OR
NOT WE HAVE A CAMERA.
THEY ARE SPREADING THIS GROUP
OUT AND PREVENTING THIS MARCH
FROM GOING ANY FURTHER.
THAT LOOK REALLY INTENTIONAL.
DID THEY CUT THAT GROUP AND
HAVE?
HE SAID THEY DID.
Reporter: ABSOLUTELY.
IT WAS OUT OF NOWHERE.
IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I SAW
LIGHTS AND SIREN.
I SHOULDN'T SAY SIRENS, BUT SAW
LIGHTS AND ASSOCIATED WITH AN
AMBULANCE.
THAT WAS FAST.
WE SAW TWO WHITE CARDS.
OFFICERS JUMPED OUT IN RIOT
GEAR AND I BELIEVE IT MIGHT
HAVE EVEN BEEN -- IT WAS A
MIXTURE OF NATIONAL GUARD
MEMBERS AND STATE PATROL.
LET'S MOVE OVER HERE NICK IT'S
A LITTLE HARDER TO BREATHE WITH
THE WIND.
YEAH, IT IS JEFF.
I SAW THE UNIFORMS.
ARE THEY ARRESTING PEOPLE THAT
ARE KIND OF TRAPPED IN THAT
CORRIDOR THERE?
Reporter: NO, I THINK
THEY'RE JUST KIND OF HOLDING
FORMATION AND PREVENTING PEOPLE
FROM MARCHING ANY FURTHER.
AGAIN, IT LOOKS LIKE NATIONAL --
NOW THEY ARE MAKING A PUSH
TOWARD US INCLUDING THESE NEWS
CREWS.
THAT GENTLEMAN JUST TOOK A HIT
FROM THAT GUN.
HE WAS BEING INTERVIEWED. HE
WAS BEING INTERVIEWED BY THIS
NEWS CREW AND GOT HIT I THINK
IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR
MEDIA BADGE OUT.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR
CREDENTIALS.
Reporter: I'M NOT SURE OF
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT.
WE ARE JUST GOING TO CONTINUE
BACKING UP.
WE COULD BE MORE THAN -- WE ARE
ABOUT 40 YARDS AWAY.
THAT IS NOT STOPPING THE
NATIONAL GUARD'S MEMBERS FROM
LAUNCHING THEIR TEARGAS IN OUR
DIRECTION.
THAT WAS AN INTERESTING THING
I'VE SEEN.
THAT TEARGAS LAUNCHED --
WHATEVER THEY SHOT IT SAYS IT
THREE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF
TEARGAS CAME OUT AT THE SAME
TIME.
JEFF, YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF
THERE.
Reporter: WE ARE SEEING
PEOPLE WITH THEIR OWN FIRE
EXTINGUISHERS TRYING TO PUT OUT
THIS SITUATION.
WE ARE BACKING UP.
WE ARE BACKING UP AS QUICKLY AS
WE CAN.
ALL RIGHT.
Reporter: OKAY, OKAY, IT
APPEARS AS THOUGH THE FURTHER
BACK WE HAVE GOT NOW, THE STATE
TROOPERS HAVE HELD BACK FOR A
SECOND.
JEFF, YOU NEED TO GET TO
SAFETY.
Reporter: WE ARE, WE ARE
FURTHER BACK RIGHT NOW.
WHAT IS SURPRISING IS IN THE
PREVIOUS EVENINGS, WHEN WE HAVE
SEEN THE USE OF STATE PATROL,
IT WAS USUALLY FOLLOWING SOME
SORT OF ROCKS BEING THROWN,
LASERS.
THERE WAS A CLEAR INSTIGATION
BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE
PROTESTERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.
THIS REALLY HAPPENED QUICKLY.
WHERE STATE TROOPERS SWOOPED IN.
WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE WERE
BEING PEACEFUL, THIS APPEARS TO
BE THAT CLEAR ENFORCEMENT OF
THE CURFEW.
THERE IS ONE MAN HOLDING HIS
ARMS UP IN DEFIANCE.
THIS SWIFT ACTION REALLY CAUGHT
A LOT OF PEOPLE OFF GUARD.
I THINK THIS IS SENDING THAT
MESSAGE THAT THE GOVERNOR WAS
TALKING ABOUT.
THEY ARE NOT GOING TO WAIT.
IT WASN'T UNTIL ALMOST MIDNIGHT
THAT WE FINALLY SAW STATE
PATROL NEAR FIFTH PRECINCT. I
HAVEN'T CHECKED THE TIME, WHAT
IS IT A: 30?
ALMOST A: 45.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE
SEEN THIS TYPE OF ACTION IN
DAYLIGHT SINCE THOSE EARLY DAYS
OF THE THIRD PRECINCT WHEN
POLICE STILL HAD CONTROL OF IT.
I KNOW YOU SAID THEY
INTENTIONALLY --
Reporter: JUST SO YOU --
THEY INTENTIONALLY SPLIT THE
MARCH AND HAVE.
DID YOU NOTICE WHERE THE OTHERS
BEHIND YOU WHERE THEY RAN?
THEY JUST DISPERSED ALL AROUND?
Reporter: WE WERE IN THE
BACK HALF OF.
WE WERE CUT OFF, AND WE ARE ON
THE SOUTH PORTION OF THE MARCH.
I CAN LOOK AHEAD NORTH, WHICH
ARE CAMERAS CAN SEE.
THAT'S WHERE THE OTHER GROUP IS.
ARE THEY ARRESTING PEOPLE IN
THAT WHITE VAN?
ARE THEY PUTTING PEOPLE IN THAT
BAND TO ARREST THEM?
Reporter: I CANNOT TELL.
IT IS HARD TO SEE.
THE CAMERA IS GOING TO HAVE TO
INTERPRET THAT FOR YOU.
GIVE US A STEADY SHOT AND WE
WILL TAKE A LOOK.
Reporter: IT'S HARD WHEN
YOU'RE ZOOMED IN ESPECIALLY.
I'M SY.
IT IS HARD FOR US TO TELL AT
THIS MOMENT.
I DO SEE THE BACK OF THAT VAN
IS OPEN.
IT IS HARD FOR ME TO TELL IF
THAT MEANT PEOPLE ARE BEING
ARRESTED.
THIS ALL HAPPENED SO QUICKLY.
I WILL TELL YOU THIS MARCH WAS
PEACEFUL.
THERE WAS NO -- NO ONE WAS
LOOTING, OR THROWING THINGS AT
WINDOWS.
THERE WAS NO LAW ENFORCEMENT
FOR THEM TO LASH OUT AGAINST.
THIS ALL JUST SUDDENLY HAPPENED.
THE ENFORCEMENT WAS QUICK,
SWIFT, AND STRONG.
IT SURELY MADE AN IMPACT ON
THIS GROUND.
ALMOST EVERYBODY THAT HAS BEEN
IN THIS GROUP IS ALREADY
MARCHING FURTHER SOUTH.
WE HAVE SEEN PREVIOUSLY WHERE
IT'S LIKE THE GROUP OF
PROTESTERS GETS PUSHED BACK.
AS THE OFFICERS MOVE BACKWARDS