tens of thousands of people have
demonstrated in an eighth night in
cities across the u.s. over the killing
of an unarmed black man George Floyd
while he was being restrained by police
the mainly peaceful marchers took place
in Los Angeles Atlanta New York and
Washington some in defiance of evening
curfews in George Floyd's hometown of
Houston his relatives including the
mother of his young daughter joined a
rally to honor his memory
meda tell fake reports this is when he
would never grow up graduate he will
never walk down if it's a problem she's
a man and she choked with emotion the
mother of George Floyd's six-year-old
daughter Gianna speaks of the gaping
hole left by his death Roxie Washington
said he was a good father who continued
to take care of his family after he
moved from Houston to Minneapolis what
she wants now is justice for him and
Gianna sharing in their pain and the
pain of the nation tens of thousands
marched through the streets of downtown
Houston alongside them 16 members of the
Floyd family who again urged protesters
to remain peaceful
the fight was going to be more like a
marathon and we hope the child continued
to support us as we seek justice for our
one victory to come out of the demand
for widespread change the state where
mr. Floyd died Minnesota announced a
civil rights investigation of the
Minneapolis Police Department governor
Tim waltz said that police policies and
practices over the last 10 years would
be scrutinized Minnesotans you can
expect our administration use every tool
at our disposal to try and deconstruct
systemic racism that is generations deep
and as we move forward we're going to
need to do it with the community but I
think the thing I'm hearing from the
protesters is well no we're not watching
and we don't care what you say we care
what you do
protests across the country showed no
sign of waning Tuesday night in New
York's Union Square nurses took to their
knees to show solidarity with activists
health care workers have been shared
daily for their efforts fighting the
coronavirus but they thought it more
appropriate to applaud and honor those
fighting a different kind of disease
after months of eerily quiet streets New
York once the epicenter of the corona
virus outbreak is finally starting to
reopen but as it does American cities
are facing another epidemic racism and
the consequences of ignoring decades of
injustice and inequality
Netta tell Phoebe
well let's take you live to New York now
we can speak to another of our
correspondent Samira Hussain who is
there for us what's your assessment of
the evening Samira it seemed less
violent well if you want to speak about
New York specifically the violence was
not really as present as we've seen
especially on Monday night according to
police the world only about 200 arrests
and that was largely due to violating
curfew remember in New York City the
mayor of New York had actually put in a
curfew to begin at 8 p.m. and it was
going to continue for the next several
days and already we're hearing from
officials that perhaps that actually did
help kind of quell the kind of violence
and looting that we had seen on other
nights there were protests right across
the country from Dallas to Seattle and
Atlanta and it was the same scenes in
those cities too
there were some protests there were lots
of protests lots of people in the
streets
lots of people violating curfews but in
large part the protests were peaceful is
there a sense though in New York Samara
that the process are coming to an end
certainly not just because we've already
seen violence starting to come down and
we're not seeing the kind of looting
that we had seen on Monday
there is no sense that the anger that
these protesters have is going to abate
anytime soon for many of these
protesters there need to see some kind
of actions some kind of movement some
kind of is some some sort of justice and
until you see that it's not very likely
that we're gonna see these protests
abate anytime soon Samara thanks so much
for joining us from New York and from
New York to the streets of London live
right now we can show you what is
happening here in the UK where there is
a black lives matter protest taking
place this is central London Hyde Park
where protesters and activists have
gathered to and I think you can see a
reasonable amount of social distancing
happening there
- because there are still huge concerns
here about covert 19 of course but it's
a black lives matter protest and
everyone attending has been told to move
in a socially distant military formation
so this is the scene live in Hyde Park
right now people there expressing
solidarity with what they are seeing in
the United States