TOLERATE A FACE COVERING AND
PEOPLE WHO ARE EATING AND
DRINKING WHEN AT A RESTAURANT.
WE WANT TO GO TO OUR BREAKING
NEWS ON DETROIT’S WEST SIDE. VICTOR, WE HAVE BEEN TALKING TO
VICTOR, WE HAVE BEEN TALKING TO
YOU ABOUT, WHAT ARE YOU SEEING
NOW?
>> JUST MORE AND MORE PEOPLE,
GUYS.
AND THEY’RE CONTINUING TO MAKE
THEIR WAY DOWN LIVERNOIS, NO END
IN SIGHT. ONCE AGAIN, WE HAVE NO IDEA
ONCE AGAIN, WE HAVE NO IDEA
WHERE THEY’RE GOING AND NO IDEA
WHERE THE POLICE ARE AT THIS
TIME, BUT THIS IS THE SITUATION. WE HAVE SO MANY STARTING TO JOIN
WE HAVE SO MANY STARTING TO JOIN
AND IT’S ALMOST A SNOWBALL
AFFECT. THE MORE THEY’RE THERE, PEOPLE
THE MORE THEY’RE THERE, PEOPLE
ARE JOINING IN, THIS IS LUCKY
ENOUGH AND PROTESTERS SENDING
THE TEAR GAS BACK.
AND ODD FOR ME NOT TO HAVE
POLICE PRESENCE.
THAT’S WHAT WE’RE SEEING, IN A
WAY THEY’VE TAKEN OVER THE
STREETS FOR THE MOST PART.
A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR
CARS WITH THEIR FIST UP IN THE
AREA AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE
EVEN DANCING IN THE STREET AND
SEEING IT AS A VICTORY TO GET
THE POLICE TO RETREAT AND
THEY’RE WALKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET WITH NO TYPE OF
THE STREET WITH NO TYPE OF
PRESENCE FROM POLICE, NO ONE DD
WE’LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH
THIS, HOW IT WILL END.
WE HAVE A FEEL AS THESE PEOPLE
ARE CONTINUING TO WALKMENT
POLICE MIGHT ON THAT OPERATE OTHER END.
OTHER END.
AND WE WILL SEE WHO WERE MEET.
BACK TO YOU GUYS.
>> KAREN: VICTOR, IF PEOPLE ARE
JUST JOINING US, THE PROTEST IS
REFERENCE TO THE DEATH OF HAKEEM
LITTLE TORN
LITTLETON.
OFFICERS WERE LOOKING FOR
SOMEONE IN A SHOOTING THAT LEFT
SOME DEAD. THE AUTOMOTIVES APPROACHED AND A
THE AUTOMOTIVES APPROACHED AND A
AN OFFICER PUT THE MAN IN A
CHOKE HOLD.
THE MAN OPENED FIRE AND THEN
POLICE OFFICERS TOOK OUT THEIR
GUNS, LITTLETON WAS BROUGHT TO A
HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS DECLARED
DEAD.
THAT’S THE SCENE, THE
INFORMATION WE’RE GETTING FROM
DETROIT POLICE.
WITNESS AS, AS YOU MENTIONED, THEY’RE SAYING THAT LITTLETON
THEY’RE SAYING THAT LITTLETON
DIDN’T HAVE A WEAPON.
THE QUESTION IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN HE APPROACHED THE MRIFS.
WHEN HE APPROACHED THE MRIFS.
THESE PROTESTERS ARE ANGRY AND
THEY’VE BEEN CALLING FOR BADGES,
DEMANDING FOR INFORMATION FROM
THE SFARMENT.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE SCENE AN HOUR
AGO, IT WAS DIFFERENT.
DETROIT POLICE WERE TRYING TO
CONTAIN THE CROWD AND THE
SITUATION.
THAT WAS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
AND THE TEAR GAS WAS NOT
WORKING, THEY THREW IT BACK TO THEM.
THEY WERE TRYING TO MAKE THAT
CROWD SMALLER.
THEY WERE DISPERSING, SO THE DETROIT POLICE MADE THE DECISION
DETROIT POLICE MADE THE DECISION
TO TAKE OVER THE STREET.
BLOCK BY BLOCK, MIND BY MINUTE,
SPREADING THIS AND GETTING SOME ANSWERS.
>> JASON, LOOK AT THAT, YOU SEE
A MOTHER, BABY AND DAUGHTER HAND IN HAND DOWN THE STREET.
IN HAND DOWN THE STREET.
THEY, A PERFECT SIMPLE OF, NOT
ASSESSING ANY BLAME AT THIS
PARTICULAR POINT.
>> JASON: OFTEN TIMES PEOPLE IN
THE NEIGHBORHOOD WILL COME AND
JOIN.
HE HAVE I-I’VE SEEN MANY
FAMILIES, AND MOTHERS WITH THEIR
YOUNG CHILDREN AND ANOTHER SHOT
I WANTED TO POINT OUT.
YOU COULD SEE A VEHICLE MARKED
MEDIC. IT TO NOTE THAT THERE ARE
IT TO NOTE THAT THERE ARE
REASONS FOR THAT, IF THERE ARE
CLASS
CLASSES, IF THERE’S SOMETHING IN
YOUR EYES.
IT’S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT
THESE WEEM WERE IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD AND LIVED DEARBORN
AND REACTING TO THE SHOOTING,
SOME FAMILY MEMBERS AND THEN IT
IMMEDIATELY GREW AND WORD GOT
OUT THAT THERE HAD BEEN AN
INCIDENT AND PROTESTERS FROM
OTHER AREAS CAME AND JOINED
THIS.
NOW WHAT YOU’RE SEEING IS
LARGELY
LARGELY THE ORGANIZED PROTESTERS
FROM WHAT WE’VE SEEN.
THERE ARE DIFFERENT FACTIONS OF
THE PROTEST GROUPS WHO OFTEN
FORM THIS AND VICTOR WILLIAMS IS
ON THE GROUND WITH WHAT’S GOING
ON.
WE WANT TO CHECK WITH HIM AGAIN, VICTOR.
>> HEY, GUYS, WE’RE OVER ON 7TH
MILE RIGHT NOW AND THIS IS WHERE
PEOPLE HAVE STARTED TO KIND OF
CALM DOWN A LIT BIT MORE.
THEY’RE STOPPING IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE STREET.
THIS IS THE SECTION OF 7 MILE
AND LIVERNOIS.
WE’RE HERE.
THERE WAS A HELICOPTER, AND KEEP
THROWING UP AREA FINGERS TO THE
HEALTH.
THEY’RE TELLING THE PEOPLE DO
NOT RUN, DO NOT LEAVE, STAY
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER, BROTHER
AND SISTER.
SO THIS IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING
THAT’S GOING TO LAST A WHOLE LOT
LONGER, FOLKS.
SO WE’RE GOING TO SEE HOW THIS
DOES BRING OUT, BUT EVERYONE IS
HERE NOW AND WE HAVE A FEELING
THIS MIGHT BE THE FINAL PLACE. IT LOOKS LIKE THEY’RE SEVEN.
IT LOOKS LIKE THEY’RE SEVEN. THIS IS AT 7 MILE.
THIS IS AT 7 MILE.
THIS IS ALL AS A RESULT OF THE
DEATH OF MIDDLETON.
LOTS OF CARS JUST STOPPING. NONE OF THEM REALLY HAVING ANY
NONE OF THEM REALLY HAVING ANY
TYPE OF ISSUE WITH THIS EOTHER
THAN BLOWING THEIR HARNESS.
A LOT OF THEM ARE BLOWING THEIR
HORNS IN SUPPORT OF WHAT THEY’RE
DOING.
>> VICTOR, IF YOU CAN SEE SKY 4,
APPEARS THEY’RE HEADED EAST AND THEN TOWARDS WOODWARD AN AND
THEN TOWARDS WOODWARD AN AND
THAT WOULD BE NEAR THE 12TH
PRECINCT AND PALMER PARK.
MANY HAVE A PLANS, NOT
NECESSARILY GO UP AND DOWN THE STREETS.
THEY’RE NOT TOO FAR FROM THE PRECINCTS AND THAT WAS ON THE
PRECINCTS AND THAT WAS ON THE
7TH AND THE CORNER WHERE AT THAT
PRECINCT IS.
SOME OF THE TRAFFIC HAS BEEN SNARLING THROUGH.
SNARLING THROUGH.
THERE’S THE CHANTING AS WE CAN
HEAR THROUGH THE DIFFERENT
MICROCROHN’S.
ASKING NO JUSTICE, NO PLEASE,
LOOKING INTO THE DEATH OF
19-YEAR-OLD DETROIT POLICE OFFICER SHT EARLIER AND MADE NO
OFFICER SHT EARLIER AND MADE NO
MENTION OF WHAT MAY HAVE
HAPPENED OVER THE HOLIDAY
WEEKEND. >> YOU’VE BEEN -- WOULD THEY BE
>> YOU’VE BEEN -- WOULD THEY BE
GOING BACK TO THE 12TH PRECINCT.
SOMETIMES THESE HAVE GOT GOING
AND THEY’VE WALKED FOUR OR FIVE
HOURS.
THEY’RE NOT SURE WHERE THEY’RE
GOG.
SIPS THIS KIND OF BEGAN OUT OF AN ACCIDENT HAPPEN, INTERESTING
AN ACCIDENT HAPPEN, INTERESTING
TO SEE WHERE IT GOES IF THEY GO
SOMEWHERE SPA SPECIFIC.
IF THAT’S A POLICE HEALTH
BEHINDING THOUGH, THAT WE’VE
SEEN OTHER WIEMS WHEN PLIES OUSTED THAT WHAT’S GOING ON AND
OUSTED THAT WHAT’S GOING ON AND
SAW TO THE VERY FIRST NIGHT, IT
WAS IN CORKTOWN AND NOT ONLY
THAT IT LED TO SEVERAL ARRESTS
AND A CLASH WITH POLICE AND THE
FURTHER ON BLOCKS DOWN WHERE
THERE ANOTHER CLASH WITH DETROIT POLICE.
DETROIT POLICE ARE TRYING TO
LEARN WHAT HAPPENED THE LAST
HANDLE WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE AND
AS IT BEGAN.
AT LEAST JUDGING FROM OUR
REPORTERS ON THE GROUND.
NOT UNTIL THEN DID THEY MAKE IN
AND MOVE AN ARREST AND EVEN
LONGER BEFORE THEY FINALLY BEGAN
DEPLOYING TEAR GAS.
WE WILL HAVE TO SEE IF WE’RE GOING TO LET IT FIZZLE OR DEPLOY
GOING TO LET IT FIZZLE OR DEPLOY
THE TACTIC WE SAW I THINK WHERE THEY SENT OUT ONE UNIT TO MACK
THEY SENT OUT ONE UNIT TO MACK
IN ANOTHER TO PAR MAKE 130 ARRES
CERTAINLY HAS-- DETROIT POLICE HAVE DEALT WITH
DETROIT POLICE HAVE DEALT WITH
THIS THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS.
IT’S MOSTLY PEACEFUL, BUT THINGS
HAVE GOTTEN OUT UNDER CONTROL.
FROM WHAT CHIEF CRAIG SAID
THAT’S KIND OF THE LINE.
WHEN THEY’RE IN DANGER AND JUST
NOT TAKE ACTION THERE.
>> KAREN: VICTOR, IN THE
BEGINNING WE SAID WE THOUGHT IT
WAS GROWING AND GROWING AND
GROWING.
BUT IT HASN’T APPEARED TO BE
FROM SKY 4 SHOOT AND YOU’RE
SCENE.
>> ON THE GROUND, VICTOR.
>> YEAH, IT LOOKS LIKE SOME OF
THE PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY STARTING TO GET FIRED.
TO GET FIRED.
THAT HE HAVE BEEN WALKING.
THEY WANT SOME WANT THEM TO DEEP
MOVING.
WE’RE NIL--
WE’RE STILL, AND WHAT IS BEING
SAID
SAID.
AS OF NOW IT’S COME TO A
STANDSTILL.
BESIDES, IT’S NOT GROWING AS
FAST AS IT WAS BEFORE.
IT DOES SEEM LIKE SOME OF THESE
PEOPLE ARE--
I DO HAVE THIS HEALTH FROM THE
POLICE, THEY ARE FLYING LOW AND
EVERYONE IS PUTTING THEIR FISTS
IN THE AIR.
>> TWIEDING PEOPLE --
DIVIDING PEOPLE OUT AND SAYING
THEY WILL BE IN POSITION.
EVERYONE IS GETTING RIGHT BACK INTO THE STREET.
INTO THE STREET. >> AND I KNOW, HAS THAT CHOPPER
>> AND I KNOW, HAS THAT CHOPPER
FLIES LOW TO INTERRUPT MROEFRTS-
>> AP POLICE HEALTH FLYING LOW
AND I’VE SEEN THAT IN THE PAST,
BUT IT’S NOT STOPPING THESE
PEOPLE FROM BEGINNING TO WALK.
TRAFFIC HAS COME TO A STANDSTILL
AND MANY PEOPLE GETTING OUT OF
THEIR CARS TO TAKE PICTURES.
ONE ALSO APOLOGIZED FOR THE SOME
OF THE PROFANITY YOU GUYS HEARD.
AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
STREET--
>> AND A LOT OF THE PROTESTERS
CAN SEE A LOT OF THE PROFESSORS
ON THE GROUND THERE. HAVE BACKPACKS.
HAVE BACKPACKS.
WE’VE SEEN SOMETHING IT’S-- IN FAIRNESS TO THE PROTESTERS,
IN FAIRNESS TO THE PROTESTERS,
NOT EVERY TIME THEY DON’T INTEND
IT, BUT THEY’RE PREPARED FOR IT.
SEVERAL OF THE BACK TAX WITH.
>> A FAN TO BLOW TEAR GAS BACK TO THE OFFICERS.
TO THE OFFICERS.
AND WHEN THE ORIGINAL PROTEST
ORGANICALLY AFTER THIS
OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING ON THE
WEST SIDE.
>> KAREN: I CAN TELL YOU, JASON,
WE’RE HOPING TO GET POLICE CHIEF
JAMES CRAIG ON THE PHONE. WE’RE TRYING TO EFFORT SKYPE OF
WE’RE TRYING TO EFFORT SKYPE OF
A PHONE INTERVIEW AND TALK ABOUT WHAT HE CAN VAR WITH US ABOUT
WHAT HE CAN VAR WITH US ABOUT
THIS DAYS AND THE--
WE HOPE THAT WOULD HAPPEN BEFORE
THE END OF THE NEWSCAST.
I KNOW IT’S 6:18 RIGHT NOW.
AND IF WE COULD GET INFORMATION
ON WHAT HAPPENED WHEN POLICE
SHOWED UP ON THE WEST SIDE,
TRYING TO FIND THE SUSPECT IN
THE MURDER OF ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL
ON THE FOURTH OF JULY.
THERE YOU CAN, WE CAN SEE IT’S
FLYING AP MANY TIMES THAT’S A
TACTIC TO DISRUPT THE MESSAGE,
IT’S REALLY LOUD AND HARD TO
HEAR EXACTLY WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
AND CHANTING.
WE WERE TRYING WITH VICTOR’S
MICROPHONE, GOSH, NEARLY TWO
OURS. WE’RE TALKING 92 DEGREES,
WE’RE TALKING 92 DEGREES,
WALKING ALONG McNICHOLS, ON
SEVEN HEAD HEEDED--
AND I WAS LOOKING TO SEE IF
THOSE WERE POLICE, HARD TO TELL
FROM SKY 4, BUT THAT’S THE VERY
LATEST SITUATION ON THE GROUND
LEVEL.
THAT’S THE SHOT FROM VICTOR’S
CAMERA AS HE’S WALKING WITH THIS
GROUP AND THE GROUP IS FILLED
WITH A VARIETY OF PEOPLE, YOUNG
AND HOLD AND THERE ARE SOME
CHILDREN, ALL DIFFERENT RACES
AND THIS IS THE THING THAT’S
UNIFYING MANY DETROITERS AND
THIS HAS BEEN DOING--
THIS FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS, AS
YOU’VE MENTIONED, JASON, YOU’VE
COVERED THESE PROTESTS.
THE MESSAGE IS OUT, THERE’S A
CONCERN IN A TECH CASE AND
PEOPLE WANT ANSWERS.
HAVE YOU TALKED TO ANYONE, VICTOR, WITH ANY OF THESE
VICTOR, WITH ANY OF THESE
INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN
PROTESTING YAND WHY THEY’RE
CONCERNED.
>> A LOT OF THEM QUITE ANGRY.
SINCE THIS HAS STARTED WE
HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO TALK.
WE DON’T KNOW IF THAT WOULD BE FOR LIVE TV.
FOR LIVE TV.
AS SOON AS WE’RE ABLE TO, WE’LL
PULL A FEW ASIDE AND WE’LL TRY
TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT’S ON THEIR
MIND.
BUT I CAN TELL YOU, A LOT OF
THESE IS ECHOING WHAT WE’VE
HEARD FOR WEEKS AFTER WEEKS,
EVERY PROTEST THAT WE’RE GOING TO, WAND THEM TO THREATEN THE
TO, WAND THEM TO THREATEN THE
POLICE OFFICERS AP WILL THE OF
--
SO A LOT OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS.
WE’LL TRY TO GET THEM.
>> JASON: VICTOR IS THERE WITH
THE PROTESTERS.
AS THEY MARCH, PEOPLE WILL COME
OUT, TAKE A PICTURE, SHOW
SUPPORT AND A LOT OF OF THESE
PROTESTERS WILL INVITE THEM TO
MARCH WITH THEM AND THIS, YOU
CAN SEE THE BACKPACKS, THIS WAS
A PLANNED PROTEST. THERE’S A PROTEST EVERY DAY IN
THERE’S A PROTEST EVERY DAY IN
DETROIT, SOMETIMES YOU DON’T
KNOW ABOUT IT, BUT THEY’VE DONE
THAT EVERY NIGHT SINCE THE VERY
FIRST FRIDAY AND IT’S GOING ON
40-PLUS STRAIGHT DAYS OF
PROTESTS IN DETROIT WHERE THEY
USUALLY MARCH OR THERE’S SOME
SORT OF RALLY AT SOME POINT AP
IT’S USUALLY AT DETROIT POLICE HEADQUARTERS.
TONIGHT THINGS WERE DIFFERENT AS
THIS OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING
HAPPENED, A CROWD GREW
ORGANICALLY IN PROTEST OF THAT
AND THERE WAS SOME SHOUTING WITH
OFFICERS AND THE CROWD GREW.
AND WE SAW THAT IT WAS MOSTLY
PROTESTERS FROM DIFFERENT GROUPS
OF PROTESTERS, DEFINITELY BLACK
LIVES MATTER PROTESTERS.
WE’VE SEEN SIGNS FOR THAT AND
THE SAME GROUP THAT’S FIGHTING
FOR RACIAL JUSTICE AND AGAINST
POLICE BRUTALITY THAT HAVE BEEN
MARCHING AND PROTESTING FOR THAT
MESSAGE ABOUT YOU WE HAVE SEEN
FROM THE VERY FIRST DAY, THE
EARLY DAYS AND THE POLICE CHIEF
HAS TALKED ABOUT THIS, THERE ARE
SOME WHO ARE THERE JUST TO CAUSE
TROUBLE THAT GET EMBEDDED WITH
THIS, WHO ARE LOOKING FOR A
FIGHT WITH POLICE.
NOT TO SAY THAT THAT HAPPENED
TODAY, HOWEVER, WE DID SEE THEM
RESPOND TO TEAR GAS THAT WAS
ULTIMATELY FIRED ON THE CROWD
FROM A GOOD SIZED DISTANCE.
AS SOON AS PROTESTER PICKED
THOSE UP AND THREW THE CAN STARS
BACK AND STARTED BLOWING THE
TEAR BACK GAS TOWARDS POLICE, WE
SAW POLICE KIND OF GET BACK,
REGROUP AND BASICALLY NO
ARRESTS.
THERE ARE SOME ARRESTS WE’VE
SEEN BEFORE THE MARCH BEGAN.
THINGS WERE AT ONE CORNER AND
THROWING THINGS.
GRANT HERMES TALKED ABOUT
BATTERIES BEING THROWN, AND
BOTTLES AND COOLERS GOING ROAD
IN POLICE AND THEY SOUNDED.
AND WE’RE, AS KAREN MENTIONED,
WE’RE LOOKING AT A PHONE CALL
FROM CHIEF CRAIG TO TELL US WHAT
THE NEW PLAN IS. HE WON’T TELL US, BUT WE HAVEN’T
HE WON’T TELL US, BUT WE HAVEN’T
HEARD HIS RESPONSE TO THE TAMLEY
MEMBER WAS UNARMED, HE WAS ON
HIS KNEES.
POLICE SAY HE HAD A GUN IN HIS
HAND AND FIRING AT PLACE WHICH
IS WHEN POLICE RETURNED FAR,
KAREN.
>> KAREN: IT’S A MUCH DIFFERENT
SCENE THAN AT THE BEGINNING OF
OUR 5:00 NEWSCAST.
POLICE MAKING A TACTICAL
DECISION TO BASICALLY REMOVE
THEMSELVES FROM THE SITUATION.
THEY SHOWED UP AND THEY WERE IN
RIOT GEAR AND SOMETIMES JUST THE
PHYSICAL
PHYSICAL PRESENCE OF THEM LINING
THE STREET AS THEY WERE, TRYING
TO BLOCK THE PROTESTERS FROM
MARCHING, CAN INCITE EVEN MORE
DESTRUCTION, ANGER AND VIOLENCE.
I WOULD SAY THAT PROBABLY LASTED
A GOOD 20, 30 MINUTES, AFTER THAT THEY MADE THE DECISION TO
THAT THEY MADE THE DECISION TO
REMOVE THEMSELVES.
THEY WERE AT 6 MILE AND NOW 7
MILE.
WE DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY’RE
HEADED, PERHAPS TO--
WE DON’T KNOW THAT PLAN, BUT
POLICE HAVE REMOVED THEM FROM
THE SITUATION.
THE DETROIT POLICE CHOPPER ARE
FLYING ABOVE.
WE’RE IN TOUCH WITH THE CHIEF’S
OFFICE.
I’M NOT SURE IF WE’LL SPEAK WITH
HIM DURING THIS PHYSICAL
NEWSCAST.
THE WE’RE PUTTING IN EVERY
EFFORT TO TRY TO GET THE LATEST