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Laura Coates Live

Live Coverage: Protests in Atlanta and Minneapolis

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Live coverage of protests at the CNN Center in Atlanta and in Minneapolis as their city-wide curfew begins.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, everybody. I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Primetime right now. A new curfew is going into effect in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota on this the fourth straight night of unrest that you see on your screen. Now the curfew will remain in effect until 6 a.m.

0:21.7

The question is, will it work or will it be another very long night there and elsewhere across the country DC, New York, Denver, Los Angeles. We're seeing and hearing echoes of the outrage.

0:35.6

CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta. You'll see it there swarmed and defaced cars set on fire outside our building. All this on the day that the fired officers seen kneeling on the neck of George Floyd was arrested.

0:50.3

His name is Derek Chauvin and that is the officer that we clearly see pinning Floyd to the ground with his knee on his throat for nearly nine minutes as Floyd gasps for breath.

1:06.3

Chauvin now faces third degree murder and manslaughter charges. But crowds of mostly black that you'll see on these different streets.

1:17.3

But if you look, a lot of people have masks on which is ironic right they're out there supposedly in a rage to riot but they're being conscientious enough to wear masks because we are in the middle of a pandemic.

1:28.3

But you'll see clusters of whites you see young you see old you see people from the community you see people from elsewhere. All making the same plea for justice.

1:38.3

Some saying that they're waiting for the other three disgraced officers to be arrested and then charged the Hennepin County prosecutor says he does expect more charges to come. So where does that leave us?

1:51.3

The haunting question isn't really what the prosecutor is going to do that seems more likely after today. But why these officers acted this way in the first place?

2:03.3

We have new information for you on this. We have new video of the stop from the beginning. How the incident began in Floyd's car.

2:13.3

And the really long process that included what you're seeing now this is one of the new pieces of video but I have stuff even before this to show you.

2:22.3

That is what we're going to show you tonight so you can decide for yourself now let's get ourselves to the scene right away Sarah Sidener in Minneapolis. How is it going right now?

2:34.3

All right I want to give you the scene behind me right here is the third person that is what you watched last night burn catch fire the protesters trying to get in down to the street that is near the target.

2:47.3

That is where the police line is. These lights right here. This is where the protests has been but they have been pushed away from this for hours today. There was no one here to my left.

2:58.3

You are seeing the protesters who are refusing to leave even though the curfew started exactly three minutes ago.

3:07.3

What is interesting is that as we're watching this there was a entire group of state police and you also have we watched as the National Guard rolled in with their military style vehicles and they have moved back in an unusual move because usually you have a police line that is pushing protesters forward that are trying to push them out of an area that they said that they wanted people to leave.

3:34.3

But here you have a very different scenario now what's going to happen next we don't know we don't know if they're going to flake this group and try to move them out as they try to do two days ago when we were here.

3:45.3

What we do know is that the police keep moving back so does the National Guard at this point and we also know in talking to some of the protesters they have no intention the folks that are here right now of leaving during the curfew they are willing and going they said to stay here because they believe these streets as they chant are their streets.

4:03.3

So Sarah stay with us for a second so you said you just reported that they know about the curfew you have seen no enforcement of the curfew at this point even though we are past eight o'clock local time.

4:16.3

Now let's talk about the composition of the people at least on the street where you are it's obviously not an all black protest there plenty of white kids there a lot of young people what's your idea of the composition in the groups if you can talk and stay safe.

4:33.3

All right we got to we got to get somewhere safe running and the reason why they're running hold on.

4:40.3

Yeah get somewhere safe that sounds like fireworks but get somewhere safe.

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