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>> Kim: PROTESTS THROUGHOUT
MUCH OF DETROIT TONIGHT WITH
CROWDS OF HUNDREDS MARCHING IN
MULTIPLE COMMUNITIES WITH EVERY
DEMONSTRATION REMAINING
PEACEFUL.
TONIGHT MARKS THE SEVENTH
STRAIGHT NIGHT OF PROTESTS IN
DETROIT.
>> Devin: THE GROUP WROTE UP A
LIST OF DEMANDS BEFORE CALLING
IT A NIGHT AND HEADING HOME
ABOUT 50 MINUTES PAST THE CURFEW
JASON, THIS WAS THE SECOND NIGHT THAT POLICE ALLOWED PROTESTERS
THAT POLICE ALLOWED PROTESTERS
TO STAY OUT AFTER THE 8:00 P.M.
CURFEW.
>> Reporter: EXACTLY, AND
THERE WAS NO REAL OFFICIAL WORD
FROM POLICE, BUT I DID TALK TO A
CAPTAIN ON SCENE WHO TOLD ME
BASICALLY THE GAME PLAN WAS THE
SAME AS IT WAS LAST NIGHT, AS
LONG AS THEY REMAIN PEACEFUL
POLICE WERE GOING TO LET THEM DO
THEIR THING.
AND YOU MAY NOTICE THEIR MESSAGE
WAS PART OF WHY YOU SEE A LOT OF
CITY BUILDINGS AROUND TOWN
TONIGHT LIT UP IN PURPLE, AND
COMERICA PARK AND THE TIGERS
EMBLEM IN PURPLE, THAT’S TO
HONOR THE MEMORY OF GEORGE FLOYD
AND ALSO DENOUNCE POLICE
BRUTALITY.
THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN THE
STREETS TODAY SHARED THAT
MESSAGE.
THE PROTESTS IN DETROIT LOOKED A
LITTLE DIFFERENT ON THE SEVENTH
DAY, A BIGGER CROWD AND SOME
CELEBRITY GUESTS.
>> GUYS WERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT
WE COULD DO TO HELP TO HAVE A
VOICE, TO BE A PART OF THE
COMMUNITY, SINCE WE ARE PART OF
THE COMMUNITY, WE PLAY HERE, OUR
TEAM IS HERE.
>> Reporter: THE PISTONS COACH
ND PLAYERS DIDN’T JUST SHOW UP,
THEY MARCHED.
PROTESTERS MARCHED WITH A
GROWING CONFIDENCE THAT THEIR
MESSAGE IS BEING HEARD.
>> WE’RE OUT HERE DOING IT THE
RIGHT WAY AND WE’RE GOING TO
CONTINUE TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY
UNTIL JUSTICE IS BROUGHT ABOUT
ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO WE WERE
SPEAKING ABOUT.
I FACE TIMED MY DAD, MY DAD WAS
BORN AND RAISED IN DETROIT, HE
WAS VERY ACTIVE DURING THE ’67
RIOTS, I FACE TIMED HIM TODAY.
>> Reporter: WHAT DID HE SAY? >> HE WAS PROUD OF ME.
>> HE WAS PROUD OF ME.
>> Reporter: WHAT DID HE SAY?
>> HE SAID HE WISHED HE COULD BE
OUT HERE AND DON’T STOP
FIGHTING.
>> Reporter: AFTER A TOUR OF
MID TOWN THEY TURNED BACK TO
P.D. HEADQUARTERS TO FIND NO
EXTRA POLICE IN HEAVY GEAR.
AND FOR A SECOND NIGHT, PROTESTERS CELEBRATED, BUT THIS
PROTESTERS CELEBRATED, BUT THIS
TIME ALSO RECITED A LIST OF 23
DEMANDS THEY ALSO HOPE WILL BE
HEARD.
>> RETURN THE REINCE DISY
REQUIREMENTS. >> ALL IT TAKES IS FOR A FEW
>> ALL IT TAKES IS FOR A FEW
PEOPLE TO COME OUT AND SAY WE’RE
GOING TO FIGHT INJUSTICE AND
THAT COMPELS MORE PEOPLE TO COME
OUT AND STAND BY THEIR SIDES,
THAT’S HOW WE GROW. PEOPLE SEE THIS EVERY SINGLE DAY
PEOPLE SEE THIS EVERY SINGLE DAY
AND THEY FEEL COMPELLED TO COME
OUT ON THE FRONT LINES.
>> Reporter: WHEN IT WAS ALL
OVER PEOPLE WENT HOME, PEACEFULLY.
TOMORROW THERE IS ANOTHER
PROTEST AND MARCH PLANNED TO
BEGIN AT THE SAME TIME, THE SAME
PLACE, ALTHOUGH THE DIFFERENCE
HERE IS THE CO-ORGANIZERS THAT
YOU SAW FROM TONIGHT AND THE
LAST FEW NIGHTS WON’T BE THERE,
SO THERE WILL BE OTHER PEOPLE
LEADING THAT.
ALSO WE’RE HEARING SOME MEMBERS
OF THE DETROIT LIONS WILL TAKE
PART TOMORROW AND WE WILL BE
THERE OF COURSE.
>> Devin: I WONDER WHAT THE
MAYOR HAS TO SAY ABOUT THIS
CURFEW THAT WE’VE NOW SEEN THIS
APPROACH TO IT, THE CHIEF LAST
NIGHT CALLING IT DISCRETIONARY
TWO NIGHTS IN A ROW.
>> Reporter: YES, AND HE
TALKED ABOUT THAT TODAY A LITTLE
BIT AND HE TALKED ABOUT THE
BACKGROUND OF IT, MEANING HE
INSTITUTED, HE KNOWS PEOPLE
DON’T LIKE IT, BUT HE
INSTITUTED, NUMBER ONE, HE
DIDN’T WANT THE NATIONAL GUARD
TO BE SENT IN, AND TWO AFTER
WHAT WE SAW OVER THE WEEKEND
SOME CLASHES WITH POLICE,
PROTESTERS AGGRESSIVELY THROWING
WANT TO SEE THINGS DEVOLVE INTO
WHAT WE’VE SEEN AROUND THE
COUNTRY.
SO THERE’S THE TWO THINGS THERE.
BUT HE’S ALSO LEAVING IT UP TO
CHIEF CRAIG ON A NIGHT TO NIGHT
BASIS, AND HE TOO ALSO WANTS
THIS TO REMAIN PEACEFUL AND HE
TOO DOESN’T WANT ARRESTS.
>> Devin: ALL RIGHT, JASON.
>> Kim: FROM DOWNTOWN DETROIT
LET’S HEAD DOWNRIVER WHERE
HUNDREDS GATHERED JOINING THE
CALL FOR CHANGE.
LARRY JOINS US LIVE, THAT GROUP
MARCHED QUITE A DISTANCE TONIGHT
GOING FROM LINCOLN PARK TO ALLEN
PARK.
>> Reporter: KIMBERLY, WE
MARCHED FOR ABOUT FOUR MILES AND
IT WAS A MUCH YOUNGER CROWD,
THEY WERE MARCHING FROM STREET
TO STREET IN HONOR OF GEORGE
FLOYD.
IT’S A MESSAGE THAT WAS HEARD
LOUD AND CLEAR THROUGHOUT
DOWNRIVER THURSDAY.
>> BLACK LIVES MATTER MEANS THAT
WE NEED TO MAKE A CHANGE.
>> Reporter: ONE OF THE PEOPLE
WHO MARCHED FROM LINCOLN PARK TO
ALLEN PARK, ALL IN THE NAME OF
GEORGE FLOYD, A MAN WHO WAS
KILLED IN MINNEAPOLIS BY POLICE. >> THAT I CAN’T BREATHE, THAT’S
>> THAT I CAN’T BREATHE, THAT’S
FOR GEORGE FLOYD, HE WAS ON THE
GROUND, SAID HE COULDN’T
BREATHE.
>> Reporter: FOR ALMOST NINE
MINUTES THE CROWD MARCHED IN SILENCE, REPRESENTING THE AMOUNT
SILENCE, REPRESENTING THE AMOUNT
OF TIME FLOYD JUST COULD NOT
BREATHE.
AMONG THE CROWD, CONGRESSWOMAN
DINGELL.
>> THERE ISN’T JUSTICE, AND IF
NOT NOW, WHEN, IF NOT US, WHO.
>> I DON’T KNOW A POLICE OFFICER
THAT I KNOW THAT THINKS WHAT
HAPPENED WAS APPROPRIATE. WE DON’T TRAIN THAT WAY.
WE DON’T TRAIN THAT WAY.
WE TRAIN TO HELP PEOPLE, SAVE
PEOPLE.
>> WE MAKE THIS PRAYER IN THE
NAME OF ALL HUMANITY.
AMEN.
>> Reporter: MANY OF THE
MARCHERS TELL ME THAT HATE AND
RACISM ARE PASSED DOWN FROM
GENERATION TO GENERATION.
THEY TELL ME THAT VICIOUS CYCLE
ENDS NOW.
WE’RE LIVE TONIGHT, LARRY SPROWL
>> Devin: NOW TO OAKLAND
COUNTY WHERE A CROWD PROTESTED
OUTSIDE THE COUNTY COMPLEX.
MARA?
>> Reporter: GOOD EVENING.
I’LL TELL YOU, IT WAS CALM,
COLLECTED, NO PROBLEMS OUT HERE.
AS A MATTER OF FACT THE CROWD
GOT A GREETING FROM THE OPEN
COUNTY EXECUTIVE HIMSELF.
>> WE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO KEEP
COMING OUT HERE AND HOLDING THE
COPS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEM NOT
DOING THEIR JOBS RIGHT.
[APPLAUSE] >> Reporter: THE CROWD OF MORE
>> Reporter: THE CROWD OF MORE
THAN 300 MARCHED.
THROUGHOUT THE OAKLAND COUNTY
GOVERNMENT COME EXPLEKS GOT A
WELCOME FROM THE COUNTY
EXECUTIVE.
>> I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT TO
SAY, AND IT’S NOT A SLOGAN AND
IT’S NOT POLITICAL, IT’S THE
TRUTH, BLACK LIVES MATTER.
>> Reporter: THE MARCH GOING
ON UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THE
SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT.
FOR MOST THEIR REASON FOR COMING
OUT TONIGHT WAS SPARKED BY
GEORGE FLOYD.
>> BLACK LIVES ARE THE ONES
BEING OPPRESSED, AND IT’S
IMPORTAT TO GET JUSTICE FOR
GEORGE FLOYD.
>> BLACK LIVES DO MATTER AND WE
WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT
GEORGE FLOYD’S LIFE MATTERED.
>> Reporter: BUT THERE WERE
OTHER AGENDAS IN THE CROWD,
INCLUDING DEFUND THE POLICE. A NIGHT OF PEACEFUL PROTEST AND
A NIGHT OF PEACEFUL PROTEST AND
SOME MUSIC.
>> Reporter: BACK HERE LIVE,
PROTESTERS WERE GREETED WITH
ELECTRONIC BOARDS HERE AT THE
COUNTY COMPLEX THAT SAID BLACK
LIVES MATTER. I’M MARA MCDONALD, BACK TO YOU.
♪
♪ >> AMAZING GRACE.
>> AMAZING GRACE.
>> Kim: AN EMOTIONAL DAY IN
MINNEAPOLIS WITH GEORGE FLOYD’S
FAMILY AND FRIENDS COMING
TOGETHER TO SAY GOOD-BYE.
CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS, POLITICAL
LEADERS AND CELEBRITIES ALSO PAYING THEIR RESPECTS AS FLOYD’S
PAYING THEIR RESPECTS AS FLOYD’S
DEATH IS PUTTING A SPOTLIGHT ON
RACIAL INJUSTICE.
>> IT’S CRAZY, MAN, ALL THESE
PEOPLE CAME TO SEE MY BROTHER,
AND THAT’S AMAZING TO ME THAT HE
TOUCHED SO MANY PEOPLE’S HEARTS.
>> HE WAS THIS GREAT BIG GIANT
AND WHEN HE WOULD WRAP HIS ARMS
AROUND YOU, YOU WOULD JUST FEEL
LIKE EVERYTHING COULD JUST GO
AWAY.
>> Kim: A SECOND MEMORIAL
SERVICE WILL BE HELD OVER THE
WEEKEND IN NORTH CAROLINA, WHERE
GEORGE FLOYD WAS BORN, FOLLOWED
BY A PUBLIC VIEWING AND FUNERAL
MONDAY AND TUESDAY IN HOUSTON,
WHERE HE GREW UP. >>> TURNING NOW TO THE LATEST ON
>>> TURNING NOW TO THE LATEST ON
THE CORONAVIRUS, MICHIGAN
REPORTING 206 NEW CASES TODAY
ALONG WITH 25 ADDITIONAL DEATHS. THE LATEST DATA SHOWS BOTH OF
THE LATEST DATA SHOWS BOTH OF
THOSE NUMBERS ARE TRENDING DOWN.
>> Devin: TONIGHT BEAUMONT
HEALTH ANNOUNCING THE LOOSENING
OF VISITOR RESTRICTIONS.
STARTING TOMORROW ANY PATIENT
WHO DOES NOT HAVE COVID-19 MAY
HAVE ONE PERSON VISIT THEM EACH
DAY BETWEEN 8:00 A.M. AND
8:00 P.M.
WE HAVE PUT THE ENTIRE LIST OF
THESE VISITOR GUIDELINES ON
CLICKONDETROIT.COM.
ALSO THE LEGAL BATTLE OVER
GOVERNOR WHITMER’S EMERGENCY
POWERS, DOESN’T LOOK LIKE IT’S
GOING TO END ANY TIME SOON.
TODAY THE STATE SUPREME COURT
DECLINED TO DIRECTLY TAKE UP THE
CASE BROUGHT BY THE REPUBLICAN
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS.
SO INSTEAD IT HAS TO FIRST GO TO
THE STATE’S COURT OF APPEALS.
>> Kim: LET’S CHECK IN WITH
BEN WITH WHAT’S ON TAP FOR THE
WEEKEND.
>> WE’VE GOT A LITTLE MORE HEAT
COMING TOMORROW, WITH A STORM
CHANCE BEFORE A BEAUTIFUL
WEEKEND, AND WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT TROPICAL STORM CRISTOBAL,
ABOUT TROPICAL STORM CRISTOBAL, IT MAKES LANDFALL THIS WEEKEND.
>> Devin: BUT FIRST A POLICE
COMMITTEE IN MACOMB COUNTY ON
LEAVE TONIGHT FOR COMMENTS MADE
ON SOCIAL MEDIA ABOUT THE
PROTESTS WE’VE WATCHED ACROSS
THE COUNTRY.
WE’LL HAVE A LOOK AT HOW THE
CHIEF IS RESPONDING IN JUST A MINUTE.