>>> GET BACK OUT TO OUR
REPORTERS FOLLOWING THE
PROTESTS FOR YOU US
DOWNTOWN.
LET’S GO AHEAD AND CHECK IN
WITH HANK.
HANK?
>> SANDRA, GOOD EVENING.
YOU CAN SEE POLICE HERE JUST
MADE ANOTHER ARREST.
THEY’RE TAKING SOMEBODY INTO
CUSTODY HERE.
ONE OF THE PROTESTORS.
LET ME TALK YOU THROUGH
WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING HERE
FOR THE LAUGH FEW MINUTES.
WE’RE HERE NEAR POLICE
HEADQUARTERS RIGHT NEAR THE
MGM GRAND CASINO THIS IS
WHERE POLICE AND PROTESTORS
CLASHED ABOUT 30 MINUTES
AGO.
WHAT CAUSED THAT?
WELL, THE PROTESTORS THAT
WERE ON ONE SIDE OF THE
STREET STARTED FIRING
OFF FIREWORKS AND THROWING
DEBRIS AT POLICE.
THAT’S WHEN POLICE DECIDED
TO FORM UP AND MAKE THEIR
MOVE ACROSS THE STREET.
TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE
VIDEO SHATT SHOT AT ABOUT
10:30, 10:45 THIS EVENING.
WHEN THIS ALL CAME TO A
BOILING TONIGHT.
AS A RESULT, POLICE DID SAY
TONIGHT THEY MADE HANDFUL OF
ARRESTS.
THEY DID ALSO SAY THERE WERE
NO SERIOUS INJURIES.
ALTHOUGH WE DID NOTICE SOME
PROTESTORS THAT APPEARED TO
BE SUFFERING FROM SOME MINOR
INJURIES.
BUT THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM
CHIEF CRAIG TONIGHT IS THAT
HE BELIEVES THAT POLICE HAVE
BEEN ABLE TO CONTROL THIS
SITUATION.
THAT’S THE GOOD NEWS.
HE ALSO BELIEVES THAT THERE
WHERE NO SERIOUS INJURIES
AND THAT THERE ARE A FEW
ARRESTS.
YOU CAN SEE ANOTHER ARREST
HERE AS POLICE WORK TO TAKE
SOMEBODY INTO CUSTODY.
WE’VE SEEN THIS PLAY OUT A
HANDFUL OF DIFFERENT ARRESTS
HERE WITHIN THE LAST FIVE OR
10 MINUTES.
POLICE MOVED MOST OF THE
PROTESTORS TO THE NORTH OF
US HERE BEYOND THE D.T.E.
ENERGY HEADQUARTERS.
UNCLEAR RIGHT NOW WHERE THE
LARGER CROWD OF PROTESTORS
ARE.
I CAN TELL YOU SINCE ABOUT
5:00 THIS EVENING, THAT’S
WHEN THIS FIRST STARTED.
THE ORIGINAL PROTESTS IN
FRONT OF D.P.D. IT WAS PEACEFUL.
THAT CROWD MADE ITS WAY DOWN
TO MEXICAN TOWN.
AGAIN A PEACEFUL PROTEST.
IT SEEMED AS THE EVENING
WORE ON AS IT GOT DARK
THAT’S WHEN THINGS KIND OF
TURNED THE CORNER.
THAT’S WHEN CHIEF CRAIG AS
HE WAS TALKING TO THE MEDIA
A SHORT TIME AGO SAID THAT’S
WHEN HE FELT HE COULD FEEL
TENSIONS RISING AND THAT IT
WAS AN OPPORTUNITY WHERE HE
FELT THAT POLICE NEEDED TO
MAKE THEIR MOVE TO CONTROL
THIS SITUATION BEFORE IT GOT
OUT OF CONTROL.
A FEW MORE ARRESTS HERE JUST
OVER MY SHOULDER AS POLICE
WORK TO TAKE SOME WHO,
OBVIOUSLY, HAVE BEEN CAUSING
SOME ISSUES INTO CUSTODY.
MOST OF THE OFFICERS NOW
MAKING THEIR WAY BACK TO
THIS SIDE OF MICHIGAN
AVENUE.
I’M SORRY?
>> THEY WANT YOU BACK.
>> WE WANT TO JUST MOVE BACK
A LITTLE BIT.
WE’RE JUST BEING TOLD FROM
SOME PEOPLE THAT THE
PROTESTORS MAY BE MAKING
THEIR WAY TO ANOTHER
LOCATION.
WE’RE JUST TRYING TO GET THE
LATEST FROM POLICE AND MAKE
SURE WE’RE IN A SAFE
LOCATION AND WE’RE EXACTLY
WHERE THEY NEED US TO BE TO
MAKE SURE THEY CAN DO THEIR
JOBS EFFECTIVELY.
MY COLLEAGUE LARRY SPRUILL
WAS TALKING WITH CHIEF CRAIG
A LITTLE BIT EARLIER AS THIS
ALL DEVELOPED AT POLICE
HEADQUARTERS HERE JUST OVER
MY SHOULDER.
LARRY, I’M GOING TO SEND
IT OVER TO YOU.
LARRY?
>> Reporter: THANK YOU,
HANK.
WE’RE AT THE INTERSECTION OF
MICHIGAN AND THIRD.
LIKE I SAID I JUST SPOKE
WITH CHIEF CRAIG.
THE REMARKABLE THING ABOUT
ALL OF THIS THAT THERE ARE
NO INJURIES YOU BUT HIS
OFFICERS SHOWED AN EXTENSIVE
AMOUNT OF PATIENCE THIS
ENTIRE TIME.
WE HAVE BEEN OUT HERE SINCE
4:00 WHERE PROTESTORS STARTED AT D.P.D. MADE THEIR
STARTED AT D.P.D. MADE THEIR
WAY DOWN 375.
THAT’S WHERE THEY PRETTY
MUCH INVADED AND TOOK OVER.
WE HAVE VIDEO AS YOU CAN SEE THAT VIDEO RIGHT NOW OF THEM
THAT VIDEO RIGHT NOW OF THEM
WALKING DOWN 375.
AND JUST POLICE WERE
ALLOWING THEM TO EXPRESS
THEIR MESSAGE.
KNOW THAT THEY SUPPORT THE
PROTESTORS THEY JUST WANT TO
MAKE SURE THAT THINGS DID
NOT GET OUT OF HAND.
UNFORTUNATELY, IT DID.
NOW IF WE CAN JUST COME BACK
OUT HERE LIVE.
YOU CAN SEE D.P.D. IS REALLY
FOCUSING ON THIS
INTERSECTION RIGHT OUTSIDE
OF D.P.D. OF MICHIGAN.
I WANT TO JUST SHOW YOU SOME
OF THE DAMAGE THAT WE SAW
WHEN ALL OF THIS REALLY JUST
WENT DOWNWARD SPIRALLED.
IF I CAN HAVE MY
PHOTOGRAPHER JOEL SHOW YOU.
PORTA POTTIES TURNED OVER,
ORANGE BARRELS JUST SIMPLY
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD.
THEY SIMPLY JUST GOT FRUSTRATED AND DIDN’T SHOW
FRUSTRATED AND DIDN’T SHOW
ANY SIGNS OF LETTING UP.
CHIEF JAMES CRAIG SAID
THAT’S WHEN THEY NOTICED
THEY WERE ARRANGE AT A
TIMEORS AND THEY SHUT THEM
DOWN.
THEY SHOWED RESTRAINT THE
ENTIRE TIME.
A LOT OF MANPOWER WENT OUT
HERE YESTERDAY,
TONIGHT THEY’RE EXPECTING
THE SAME THINGS TO HAPPEN
TOMORROW NIGHT.
HOPEFULLY THIS WILL NOT BE
THE ENDING.
BUT CHIEF CRAIG DID SAY THEY
ARE READY AND THEY WILL NOT
ALLOW ANYTHING, ANY
TOLERANCE WHATSOEVER ANY
DISRESPECT, ANY HARM TO THEIR OFFICERS AT