TODAY MARKS ONE WEEK SINCE GEORGE FLOYD DIED IN MINNEAPOLIS POLICE CUSTODY.
AMERICA HEADED INTO A NEW WORK WEEK WITH NEIGHBORHOODS IN SHAMBLES AFTER SIX STRAIGHT DAYS OF UNREST.
DESPITE CURFEWS HERE IN THE TRIAD AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY, DEMONSTRATIONS HAVE BEEN DESCENDING INTO VIOLENCE.
GEORGE FLOYD’S BROTHER SPOKE TODAY AT THE SCENE OF HIS DEATH.
A MEMORIAL IS GROWING AT THE SITE.
TERRANCE FLOYD WAS OVERWHELMED WITH EMOTIONS.
HE IS PLEADING FOR PEACE IN THE STREETS, SAYING VIOLENCE IS NOW GOING TO BRING HIS BROTHER BACK.
>> IF I’M NOT OVER HERE MESSING UP MY COMMUNITY THEN WHAT ARE Y’ALL DOIN WHAT ARE Y’ALL DOING?
Y’ALL ARE DOING NOTHING BECAUSE THAT IS NOT GOING TO BRING MY BROTHER BACK AT AL IT MAY FEEL GOOD FOR THE MOMENT JUST LIKE WHEN YOU DRINK.
BUT WHEN YOU COME DOWN, YOU’RE GOING TO WONDER WHAT YOU DID.
BRIANA: FLOYD’S FAMILY SAYS AN INDEPENDENT AUTOPSY FOUND.
HE DIED OF ASPHYXIATION FROM SUSTAINED PRESSURE ON HIS BACK AND NECK.
TONIGHT, A NEW AUTOPSY REPORT FROM THE HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL RULES FLOYD’S DEATH WAS A HOMICIDE.
THESE REPORTS DIFFER FROM THE ORIGINAL AUTOPSY THAT RULED OUT ASPHYXIATION OR STRANGULATION.
OFFICER DEREK CHAUVIN HAD HIS KNEE ON FLOYD’S NECK FOR NEARLY NINE MINUTES.
HE’S CHARGED WITH THIRD DEGREE MURDER, BUT THE FLOYD FAMILY ATTORNEY SAYS IT SHOULD BE FIRST DEGREE MURDER.
DEMONSTRATORS WANT THE OTHER THREE OFFICERS INVOLVED, TO FA MURDER CHARGES AS WELL.
IN RESPONSE TO RECENT INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE, INCLUDING GEORGE FLOYD’S DEATH, PROTESTS HAVE SPARKED ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY PEOPLE HAVE BOTH PEACEFULLY AND
VIOLENTLY DEMANDED JUSTICE.
THOSE DEMANDS FILLED THE AIR IN DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO TONIGHT, EVEN AFTER THE MAYOR’S 8:00 CURFEW WENT INTO EFFECT.
OUR KENNY BECK IS KEEPING TABS ON THE SITUATION THERE.
KENNY, WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN POLICE AND PROTESTORS TONIGH KENNY: THE SHORT ANSWER IS THERE WAS NO BIG CONFRONTATION.
A FEW DOZEN PROTESTERS AND DOZENS OF POLICE OFFICERS, SOME IN RIOT GEAR.
BUT THERE WAS NO CONFRONTATION.
THERE WAS NO BIG MOMENT.
ULTIMATELY JUST ABOUT ALL THE PROTESTERS ENDED UP DISPERSING WITHOUT INCIDENT.
THAT DOES NOT MEAN THERE WERE NOT A LOT OF TENSE MOMENTS.
WE ARRIVED AT THE INTERSECTION OF FRIENDLY AND ELM.
WE GOT HERE AT 8:00 TONIGHT JUST AS THE BRAND-NEW CITYWIDE CURFEW WAS GOING INTO EFFECT.
WE SAW WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW.
MANY PEOPLE HOLDING SIGNS, MANY PEOPLE CHANTING.
WE KEPT WATCHING AND WAITING AS THE CLOCK TICKED AFTER 8:00.
BY 8:10, WE HEARD FOR THE FIRST TIME OVER A POLICE LOUDSPEAKER THERE WAS A CURFEW IN EFFECT AND PEOPLE NEEDED TO BEGIN TO DISPERSE.
BY 8:40, WE SAW POLICE PUTTING ON RIOT GEAR.
PROTESTERS SAW THAT AS WELL.
FROM THERE, WE WONDERED WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
ALL OF THIS GOING DOWN RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS CENTER AND MUSEUM.
MANY PROTESTERS REFERENCED THAT.
MANY REFERENCED THEY WERE THERE TO BE PEACEFUL, NOT TO CAUSE TROUBLE.
BY 8:48, WE HEARD FROM THE POLICE CAR THAT THIS DEMONSTRATION IS OVER.
YOU ARE IN VIOLATION OF CURFEW.
IF YOU ARE ARRESTED, YOU CAN AND WILL BE DETAINED FOR 24 HOURS.
POLICE OFFICERS CONTINUED TO MOVE IN THE DIRECTION OF THE PROTESTERS.
PROTESTERS BACKED UP.
IT DID NOT APPEAR THAT ANYONE PUT HANDS ON ANYONE AT ANY POINT.
THEY ENDED UP TURNING A CORNER RIGHT NEAR THE NATHANAEL GREENE STATUE, WALKING DISTANCE FROM THE GREENSBORO POLICE BUILDING.
AT THAT POINT, IT APPEARED AS THOUGH JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY DISPERSED.
THERE WAS NO CLASH.
WE ENDED UP SEEING ONE PERSON THAT WE FILM FROM AFAR BEING LOADED INTO A WAGON.
AS FAR AS WHERE THINGS HAPPEN, THIS CURFEW IS IN EFFECT.
POLICE HAVE MANY INTERSECTIONS BLOCKED OFF.
YOU CAN SEE LIGHTS OVER MY SHOULDER.
MAYOR NANCY VAUGHN SAYS THIS WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL IT IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT OR MODIFIED.
BRIANA: GLAD THINGS ARE CALM.
HIGH POINT CITY LEADERS HAVE ALSO ISSUED A CURFEW.
IT RUNS THROUGH 6:00 EACH MORNING SIMILAR TO GREENSBORO’S.
THE HIGH POINT MAYOR DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
OUR LIVE TEAM COVERAGE CONTINUES NOW WITH BRANDON BATES, LIVE IN WINSTON-SALEM, WHERE PROTESTERS MARCHED THROUGH DOWNTOWN EARLIER THIS EVENING.
WHAT WAS THEIR MESSAGE?
BRANDON: THE BIG MOMENT, THE THING THAT WAS INCREDIBLE TO SEE DURING THIS PEACEFUL PROTEST THAT HAPPENED IN DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM, TWO RIVAL GANGS TYING BANDANAS TOGETHER, UNITING
AS ONE.
ONE OF SEVERAL THINGS WE SAW DOWNTOWN TODAY.
>> WE HAVE TO STOP THE VIOLENCE IN OUR CITY OVERALL.
BRANDO OVER 100 PEOPLE TOOK TO THE STREETS IN WINSTON-SALEM MONDAY NIGHT TO PROTEST POLICE BRUTALITY AFTER THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD.
>> THE MAIN MESSAGE TODAY IS WE CAN’T LET GEORGE FLOYD BE THE ONLY REASON WE COME TOGETHER.
WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER EVERY DAY AND ALL THE TIME FOR YOUR COMMUNITY.
BRANDON: FRANKIE GIST HAS HELD MULTIPLE RALLIES AND VIGILS IN WINSTON-SALEM OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
HE SAYS MONDAY NIGHT HE SAW SOMETHING HE’S NEVER SEEN BEFORE >> TODAY, WHAT GOT ME WAS THE GANG MEMBERS COMING TOGETHER.
THE BLOODS AND CRIPS TING THEIR FLAGS TOGETHER.
IVE NEVER SEEN THAT DONE IN PERSON.
WHEN I SAW THAT IT BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGHT FOR FOR THE LONGEST IN THE CITY.
YOU KNOW?
GOING INTO THESE NEIGHBORHOODS.
THEY CAME TOGETHER TODAY.
I HEARD ONE OF THEM SAY, YOU ARE MY BROTHER AFTER THIS.
BRANDO OSHIANA CAME FROM GREENSBORO TODAY AND WAS THE MOST VOCAL PERSON IN THE CROWD.
>> PEOPLE HAVE DIED FOR LITERALLY THE DUMBEST STUFF POSSIBLE.
IT IS TIME FOR US TO HAVE A VOICE TO SPEAK UP FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT SPEAK ANYMORE.
BRANDON: THE PROTEST WAS PEACEFUL.
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