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A nation in crisis after a sixth straight day of protests and violence in cities throughout the country

following the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man by police officers in Minneapolis.

Peaceful protests calling for radical change and accountability over police killings

contrasted with violent looting, burning fires, and graffitting, marring cities across America.

More than 4,000 people have been arrested in the week since Floyd's death and several people have been killed.

Joining me now to discuss more on these protests and the violence sweeping the nation and the

underlying dynamic is CNN legal analyst Laura Coates.

Laura, thanks so much for being here.

I'm happy to be with you.

So I know you're just back from Minneapolis where you

were over the weekend. It's also your hometown, is my understanding. Just before we even delve into

all that is going on across the country, I would love to just hear your initial impressions of

that home city of yours. You were there. What did you see? What did you experience? It was really

disorienting. You know, I was raised in St. Paul right across the river. I bought my first house

in Minneapolis, four blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. This was the neighborhood

that I lived in for some time. It's down the street from where I used to do my grocery shopping, which is the

Target and the Cub foods that have now, you know, been destroyed in many respects. And it's so

close to home, both figuratively and literally, that it was disorienting seeing not only, you

know, cars on fire or looting and violence and destruction, but also it was disorienting to know that although

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