PBS NewsHour; May 30, 2020, 5:30pm-6:00pm PDT

- Captioning sponsored by WNET - >> Sreenivasan: ON THIS EDITION - FOR SATURDAY, MAY 30: - FROM EAST COAST TO WEST COAST, - NATIONWIDE UNREST AS THE COUNTRY - REACTS TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE - FLOYD. - NEXT, ON PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND. - >> PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND IS MADE - POSSIBLE BY: - BERNARD AND IRENE SCHWARTZ. - SUE AND EDGAR WACHENHEIM III. - THE CHERYL AND PHILIP MILSIN - FAMILY. - ROSALIND P. WALTER. - BARBARA HOPE ZUCKERBERG. - CHARLES ROSENBLUM. - WE TRY TO LIVE IN THE MOMENT, - TO NOT MISWHAT'S RIGHT IN - ONT OF US. - AT MUTUAL OF AMERICA, WE - BELIEVE TAKINGARE OF TOMORROW - CAN HELP YOU MAKE THE MOST OF - TODAY. - MUTUAL OF AMERICA FINANCIAL

- GROUP, RETIREMENT SERVICES AND - INVESTMENTS. - ADDITIONAL SUPPORT HAS BEEN - PROVIDED BY: - AND BY THE CORPORATION FOR - PUBLIC BROADCASTING, A PRIVATE - CORPORATION FUNDED BY THE - AMERICAN PEOPLE. - AND BY CONTRUTIONS TO YOUR - PBS STATION FROM VIEWERS LIKE - YOU. - THANK YOU. - >> Sreenivasan: GOOD EVENING AND - THANKS FOR JOINING US. - STATES AND CITIES ACROSS THE - COUNTRY ARE PREPARING FOR MORE - DEMONSTRATIONS, CALLING UP - NATIONAL GUARD UNITS AND - CONSIDERING THE FEDERAL - GOVERNMENT'S OFFER TO DEPLOY - ACTIVE DUTY TROOPS AFTER VIOLENT - PROTESTS LAST NIGHT. - DEMONSTRATIONS SPREAD AFTER - THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD, A - BLACK MAN WHO DIED AFTER A - WHITE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER - KNEELED ON HIS NECK FOR NINE - MINUTES. - THAT OFFICER IS NOW CHARGED WITH - THIRD DEGREE MURDER. - MANY LEGAL AND PEACEFUL - GATHERINGS CONTINUED TODAY TO - GRIEVE AND DEMAND JUSTICE FOR - FLOYD, AND FOR OTHERS. - BUT LAST NIGHT, DEMONSTRATORS - SET FIRES, SMASHED WINDOWS, AND - ATTACKED POLICE OFFICERS IN MANY - PLACES, AND OFFICIALS SAY IN

- SOME CASES, "OUTSIDERS" ARE - BEHIND THE VIOLENCE. - NEWSHOUR WEEKEND'S MEGAN - THOMPSON BEGINS OUR COVERAGE IN - MINNEAPOLIS, WHERE GEORGE FLOYD - DIED LAST MONDAY. - >> Reporter: CLEAN-UP BEGAN THIS - MORNING IN MINNEAPOLIS AFTER - VIOLENCE ROCKED THE CITY FOR A - FOURTH STRAIGHT NIGHT. - THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS TOOK TO - THE STREETS LAST NIGHT IN - DEFIANCE OF AN 8:00 P.M. CURFEW, - SETTING BUILDINGS AND CARS ON - FIRE, LOOTING LOCAL BUSINESSES - AND FIRING ON LAW ENFORCEMENT. - FORMER MINNEAPOLIS POLICE - OFFICER DEREK CHAVIN WAS CHARGED - YESTERDAY WITH MURDER AND - MANSLAUGHTER IN THE DEATH OF - GEORGE FLOYD. - FLOYD DIED AFTER CHAUVIN KNEELED - ON HIS NECK DURING AN ARREST ON - MONDAY. - THREE OTHER OFFICERS INVOLVED - ARE STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. - DESPITE CHAUVIN'S ARREST, THE - RIOTING ESCALATED OVERNIGHT. - POLICE, STATE TROOPERS AND 700 - NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TRIED TO - CALM THE CHAOS WHILE - FIREFIGHTERS WORKED TO CONTAIN - THE BLAZES.

- MINNESOTA GOVERNOR TIM WALZ AND - MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR JACOB FREY - HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE AT 1:30 - IN THE MORNING, PLEADING WITH - PROTESTERS TO STOP. - >> I'M DEEPLY CONCERNED WITH THE - PEOPLE WHO-- YOU NEED TO GO - HOME. - YOU NEED TO GO HOME. - THIS IS NOT ABOUT GEORGE'S - DEATH. - THIS IS NOT ABOUT INEQUITIES - THAT WERE REAL. - THIS IS ABOUT CHAOS BEING - CAUSED. - >> THERE IS NO HONOR IN BURNING - DOWN YOUR CITY. - THERE IS NO PRIDE IN LOOTING. - >> Reporter: THIS MORNING, - GOVERNOR WALZ ANNOUNCED A FULL - MOBILIZATION OF THE MINNESOTA - NATIONAL GUARD, ACTIVATING - ANOTHER 1,000 TROOPS, THE - LARGEST DOMESTIC DEPLOYMENT IN - THE STATE'S HISTORY. - >> OUR GREAT CITIES OF - MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL ARE - UNDER ASSAULT BY PEOPLE WHO DO - NOT SHARE OUR VALUES, WHO DO NOT - VALUE LIFE IN THE WORK THAT WENT - INTO THIS, AND CERTAINLY ARE NOT - HERE TO HONOR GEORGE FLOYD. - >> Sreenivasan: AS MINNEAPOLIS - PREPARES FOR MORE PROTESTS, I

- SPOKE WITH MINNESOTA PUBLIC - RADIO REPORTER MATT SEPIC, WHO - WAS ON THE STREETS DURING BOTH - PEACEFUL PROTESTS AND AS - VIOLENCE BROKE OUT LAST NIGHT. - MATT, YOU WERE OUT IN THE - STREETS LAST NIGHT. - WHAT DID YOU SEE? - >> UTTER CHAOS. - I WALKED FOR MANY MILES - THROUGHOUT THE LAKE STREET AREA - IN SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS, WHICH HAS - BEEN THE HEART OF THE UNREST - HERE IN THE CITY. - THERE WERE FIRES EVERYWHERE, A - VERY LIGHT LAW ENFORCEMENT - PRESENCE FOR MOST OF THE - EVENING. - TER ON, SOME NATIONAL GUARD - TROOPS WERE FINALLY ABLE TO GET - THROUGH TO ASSIST AND PROTECT - FIREFIGHTERS WHO WERE PUTTING - OUT A GAS STATION FIRE, ONE OF - MANY FIRES BURNING IN STRUCTURES - ALONG LAKE STREET. - >> Sreenivasan: BUT WHAT DO WE - KNOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE - RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS? - WHAT ARE AUTHORITIES SAYING NOW? - >> AT A NEWS CONFERENCE THIS - MORNING, ST. PAUL MAYOR MELVIN - CARTER SAID THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE - THAT THEY ARRESTED LAST NIGHT - WERE ALL FROM OUT OF TOWN. - GOVERNOR TIM WALZ OF MINNESOTA

- SAYS THAT THE DEMONSTRATIONS - HAVE MOVED FROM LEGITIMATE - PROTEST AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE - TO OUT AND OUT RIOTING THAT HAS - NOTHING TO DO WITH PROTESTING - THE "MURDER," IN HIS WORDS, OF - MR. GEORGE FLOYD. - >> Sreenivan: GIVE ME AN IDEA - OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THIS - IS HAPPENING. - WHO LIVES THERE? - WHAT-- WHAT'S IT LIKE FOR PEOPLE - WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE - CITY? - >> LAKE STREET IS A VERY DIVERSE - AREA-- WORKING CLASS, MANY - IMMIGRANT BUSINESSES, MANY - PEOPLE OF COLOR, A LOT OF - RESTAURANTS. - THERE'S A-- A LARGE HISPANIC - COMMUNITY, LATINO COMMUNITY THAT - LIVES ALONG LAKE STREET, AND - MUCH OF IT NOW IS DESTROYED. - A LOT OF THESE BUSINESSES THAT - HAVE TAKEN GENERATIONS TO BE - BUILT WERE GONE IN THE NIGHT OF - RIOTING. - >>reenivasan: HAVE YOU SEEN - THE SIZE OF THE PEACEFUL - PORTIONS OF THE PROTESTS STAY - THE SAME, INCREASE, DECREASE, - THE TYPE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE

- COMING? - >> THEY APPEAR TO BE THE SAME. - THERE WAS A PROTEST JUST BEFORE - SUNSET, BEFORE THE CURFEW - YESTERDAY ON INTERSTATE 35W - THROUGH DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS. - THEY MARCHED, THEY CLOSED DOWN - THE FREEWAY, AS YOU HAVE SEEN IN - PAST PROTESTS. - AND THAT DISPERSED, AND PEOPLE - WALKED AWAY. - AND, ON THURSDAY EVENING, THERE - WAS A SIMILAR PROTEST TSIDE - THE HENNEPIN COUNTY GOVERNMENT - CENTER IN DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS, - DEMANDING THE PROSUTION OF THE - POLICE OFFICERS INVOLVED. - AGAIN, THAT WAS A PEACEFUL - PROTEST. - THE ACTIONS THAT YOU'RE SEEING - WITH LOOTING ANDIOTING, THE - GOVERNOR, OTHER AUTHORITIES HERE - SAY THIS IS A SEPARATE GROUP OF - PEOPLE. - MANY OF THEM DO NOT LIVE HERE, - AND THEY'RE COMING IN TO FOMENT - CHAOS BECAUSE THEY SEE THE - TENSION THAT HAS BUILT AND THE - ANGER THAT HAS BUILT FOLLOWING - THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD. - >> Sreenivasan: MATT, GIVE ME AN - IDEA OF THE SIZE OF THE CROWDS - VERSUS THE SIZE OF THE POLICE - FORCES THAT ARE TRYING TO - CONTAIN THEM.

- >> GOVERNOR TIM WALZ SAID IN AN - OVERNIGHT NEWS CONFERENCE THAT - POLICE, THE NATIONAL GUARD, THE - MINNESOTA STATE PATROL, WERE - VASTLY OUTNUMBERED BY LOOTERS - AND RIOTERS WHO WERE ON THE - STREETS. - THEY JUST DID NOT HAVE THE - PERSONNEL TO FOCUS ON ALL OF THE - PLACES THAT THEY NEEDED TO FOCUS - ON, TO DEAL WITH THE LARGE - NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE - COMING INTO TOWN TO FOMENT - CHAOS. - >> Sreenivasan: MATT SEPIC, - MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO, THANKS - SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. - >> YOU'RE WELCOME. - >> Sreenivasan: PRESIDENT TRUMP - COMMENTED ON LAST NIGHT'S - PROTESTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. IN - A SERIES OF TWEETS TODAY. - AND, IN NEW YORK, OFFICIALS - REACTED TO VIDEOS OF POLICE - BEHAVIOR FROM DEMONSTRATIONS - THERE. - NEWSHOUR WEEKEND'S IVETTE - FELICIANO HAS MORE. - >> Reporte IN NEW YORK, - PROTESTS TURNED VIOLENT LAST - NIGHT AS POLICE CLASHED WITH - CROWDS FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A - ROW. - SOME PROTESTORS IN BROOKLYN - THW WATER BOTTLES AND - FIREWORKS AT POLICE, AND VIDEOS - CAPTURED A POLICE VAN ON FIRE. - SOME PEOPLWERE HOSPITALIZED, - AND BUSLOADS WERE ARRESTED.

- OFFICERS USED EYE-IRRITATING - CHEMICALS, MOVING VEHICLES, AND - BATONS TO DISPERSE THE CROWDS. - A WIDELY-CIRCULATED VIDEO SHOWED - ONE OFFICER VIOLENY PUSHING A - WOMAN TO THE GROUND. - WHEN ASKED ABOUT THAT VIDEO IN A - PRESS CONFERENCE THIS MORNING, - NEW YORK MAYOR BILL BLASIO - CALLED VIOLENT POLICE REACTIONS - ON PEACEFUL PROTESTORS - "UNACCEPTABLE," AND ANNOUNCED AN - INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION TO - DETERMINE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE. - BUT HE ALSO CONDEMNED PROTESTORS - WHO SUBJECTED THE POLICE TO WHAT - HE CALLED "HORRIBLE AND VILE - THINGS THAT WOULD NOT STAND." - >> BECAUSE THEY ARE WORKING MEN - AND WOMEN. - AND ANY PROTESTER THAT TRIES TO - TAKE THE HUMANITY AWAY FROM A - POLICE OFFICER AND DEVALUE THEM, - JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE A PUBLIC - SERVANT, IS NO BETTER THAN THE - RACISTS WHO DEVALUE PEOPLE OF - COLOR, AND PARTICULARLY, BLACK - MEN IN AMERICA. - >> Reporter: ALSO LAST NIGHT - IN WASHINGTON D.C., POLICE - ATTEMPTED TO DISPEL HUNDREDS OF - PROTESTERS CHANTING CURSES AT - PRESIDENT TRUMP IN FRONT OF THE - WHITE HOUSE.

- THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE ENACTED - A PARTL LOCKDOWN OF THE - BUILDING. - IN A TWEET THIS MORNING, THE - PRESIDENT SAID THAT HAD - PROTESTERS BREACHED THE FENCE, - THEY "WOULD HAVE BEEN GREETED - WITH THE MOST VICIOUS DOGS, AND - MOST OMINO WEAPONS, I HAVE - EVER SEEN." - ADDING, "MANY SECRET SERVICE - AGENTS JUST WAITING FOR ACTION. - 'WE PUT THE YOUNG ONES ON THE - FRONT LINE, SIR. - THEY LOVE IT, AND, GOOD - PRACTICE'." - >> Sreenivasan: FOR MORE ON THE - PROTESTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. - AND PRESIDENT TRUMP'S RESPONSE, - I SPOKE WITH PHILLIP RUCKER, THE - "WASHINGTON POST'S" WHITE HOUSE - BUREAU CHIEF. - PHILIP, IT'S NOT EVERY DAY THAT - WE SEE PROTESTERS ACTUALLY START - GOING AT THE WHITE HOUSE. - I MEAN, THERE'S-- IT'S A PLACE - IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE THAT - WE'VE SEEN ALL SORTS OF - PROTESTS. - IT'S TRADITION. - BUT LAST NIGHT SEEMED DIFFERENT. - >> IT SURE DID. - WHAT WE SAW WAS A-- A NUMBER OF - PROTESTERS THROUGH THE CITY OF-- - OF WASHINGTON, CONVERGING ON THE - WHITE HOUSE AND DEMANDING RACIAL - JUSTICE. - WE'VE SEEN SIMILAR

- DEMONSTRATIONS IN A NUMBER OF - CITIES OVER THE LAST 24, 48 - HOURS. - AND IT-- IT CAME RIGHT UP TO - PRESIDENT TRUMP'S HOME, AND HE - HAS BEEN TWEETING THAT HE - ACTUALLY WATCHED IT ALL FROM THE - WINDOWS OF THE WHITE HOUSE - RESIDENCE. - >> Sreenivasan: AND HIS - RESPONSE, WELL, WAS CLASSIC - PRESIDENT TRUMP-- NOT WHAT YOU'D - EXPECT. - >> IT WAS NOT. - YOU KNOW, HIS RESPONSE TO-- TO - THE PROTESTS IN FRONT OF THE - WHITE HOUSE ON FRIDAY NIGHT WAS - TO THANK THE SECRET SERVE FOR - THEIR WORK CONTAINING THE - CROWDS, BUT ALSO USING SOME - REAL INTERESTING LANGUAGE. - HE TALKED ABOUT THE DOGS BEING - VICIOUS-- REFERRING, APPARENTLY, - TO POLICE DOGS, A REFERENCE TO - THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TACTICS THAT - WE SAW IN THE 1960s IN THIS - COUNTRY. - A REALLY JARRING REFERENCE FOR - HIM TO MAKE, ESPECIALLY AFTER - THE COMMENTS THAT HE MADE ABOUT - LOOTERS AND SHOOTERS A DAY - EARLIER IN REFERENCE TO - MINNEAPOLIS. - >> Sreenivasan: THAT PHRASE IS - ALSO SOMETHING THAT - SEGREGATIONISTS USED IN THE - '60s. - THE PRESIDENT TRIED TO CLARIFY - THAT THAT WAS NOT HIS INTENTION - YESTERDAY, BUT IT SEEMED A

- LITTLE CONFUSING, EVEN THE - CLARIFICATION. - >> IT WAS CONFUSING. - IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT THE PRESIDENT - WAS TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WHEN - HE USED THAT PHRASE. - BUT THAT, OF COURSE, IS A PHRASE - THAT THE POLICE CHIEF IN MIAMI - BACK IN THE '60s WOULD USE IN - REGARD TO GOING AFTER ROBBERS - AND-- AND OTHER VANDALS IN BLACK - NEIGHBORHOODS IN-- IN THAT CITY. - IT WAS VERY MUCH A RACIALLY- - CHARGED PHRASE. - THE PRESIDENT CLAIMED HE DIDN'T - KNOW THE OGINS OF THE PHRASE, - BUT IT-- IT'S UNCLEAR WHERE HE - HEARD IT FROM. - BUT, CLEARLY, IT WAS A DOG - WHISTLE, AS MANY OF HIS - SUPPORTERS HEARD IT. - >> Sreenivasan: THESE PROTESTS - ARE HAPPENING AND THIS - CONVERSATION'S HAPPENING WHEN - THE PRESIDENT IS ALSO TRYING TO - STEER THE NATION TOWARDS THE - TOPIC OF CHINA, TOWARDS THE - TOPIC OF TWITTER AND - CENSORSHIP, WHILE WE STILL HAVE - A MASSIVE PANDEMIC THAT HASN'T - ENDED. - >> THAT'S RIGHT. - WHAT WE'VE SEEN FROM THE - PRESIDENT THE LAST FEW WEEK - IT'S THE DELIBERATE EFFORT TO - TRY TO DISTRACT AND DIVERT

- ATTENTION FROM THE PANDEMIC AND - FROM WHAT MANY PUBLIC HEALTH - EXPERTS SEE IS THE FAILURES OF - THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO - CONTAIN THE SPREAD OF THE - CORONAVIRUS AND SAVE LIVES, AND - FOCUS INSTEAD ON A NUMBER OF - DIVERSIONS-- FROM TRUMP'S - CONSPIRATORIAL ALLEGATIONS ABOUT - PRESIDENT TRUMP AND-- AND VICE - PRESIDENT BIDEN; TO-- TO HIS - DE-- YOU KNOW, SPREADING A - BUNKED CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT - A CABLE SHOW HOST, JOE - SCARBOROUGH, BEING IMPLICATED - SOMEHOW IN THE DEATH OF A YOUNG - STAFFER MORE TN TWO DECADES - AGO. - A NUMBER OF DISTRACTION FROM THE - PRESIDENT THAT SEEMED AIMED, - ACCORDING TO MY REPORTING, AT - GENERATING ALTERNATIVE HEADLINES - AND STORYLINES FOR HIM THAT HE - THINKS WOULD BE HELPFUL IN THE - CAMPAIGN BUT ULTIMATELY END UP - TRYING TO DISTRACT HIS - SUPPORTERS AND OTHER AMERICANS - FROM THE CRISIS PLAYING OUT - EVERY DAY IN OUR COUNTRY. - >>reenivasan: PHILIP RUCKER OF - THE "WASHINGTON POST," THANKS SO - MUCH FOR JOINING US. - >> THANK YOU. - >> Sreenivasan: OFFICIALS IN - ATLANTA, GEORGIA ARE REELING, - AFTER PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS

- TURNED VIOLENT. - NEWSHOUR WEEKEND'S CHRISTOPHER - BOOKER HAS MORE. - >> WE ARE ALL IN THIS. - THIS HURTS. - THIS HURTS EVERYBODY IN THIS - ROOM. - BUT WHAT ARE YOU CHANGING BY - TEARING UP A CITY? - >> Reporter: ATLANTA MAYOR - KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS' - IMPASSIONED QUESTION CAME - AFTER A NIGHT OF INTENSE - CONFRONTATION BETWEEN PROTESTORS - AND CITY POLICE. - EARLIER IN THE DAY, AS THE S - STARTED TO SET, DEMONSTRATORS - HAD GATHERED NEAR ATLANTA'S - CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK TO MARCH - TO THE STATE CAPITOL. - THE NIGHT RNED AS SPLINTER - GROUPS BROKE FROM THE PEACEFUL - ASSEMBLY, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT - OFFICERS ADVANCED INTO THE - DEMONSTRATORS WITH BATONS. - AS A POLICE CAR BURNED, THE - GROUPS MOVED TOWARD THE ENTRANCE - OF CNN'S ATLANTA HEADQUARTERS, - SMASHING WINDOWS AND THROWING - PROJECTILES AT A LINE OF POLICE - OFCERS INSIDE THE BUILDING'S - LOBBY. - IN RESPONSE TO FRIDAY'S UNREST, - GEORGIA GOVERNOR BRIAN KEMP - DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY - AND ACTIVATED NEARLY 500 - NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS.

- AND, MAYOR BOTTOMS RECRUITED - ATLANTA RAPPER AND ACTIVIST - KILLER MIKE IN HER CALL FOR - CALM. - >> I WOKE UP WANTING TO SEE THE - WORLD BURN DOWN YESTERDAY, - BECAUSE I'M TIRED OF SEEING - BLACK MEN DIE. - HE CASUALLY PUT HIS KNEE ON A - HUMAN BEING'S NECK FOR NINE - MINUTES AS HE DIED, LIKE A ZEBRA - IN A CLUTCH OF A LION'S JAW. - AND WE WATCH IT LIKE MURDER - PORN, OVER AND OVER AGAIN. - SO THAT'S WHY CHILDREN ARE - BURNING TO THE GROUND. - THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO. - NOW IS THE TIME TO PLOT, PLAN, - STRATEGIZE, ORGANIZE AND - MOBILIZE. - >> Sreenivasan: FOR MORE ON THE - PROTESTS IN ATLANTA LAST NIGHT, - AND THE REACTION FROM CITY - LEADERS, I SPOKE WITH SUDHIN - THANAWALA, A REPORTER FOR THE - ASSOCIATED PRESS, WHO IS - COVERING EVENTS THERE. - SUDHIN, WE SAW THE MAYOR. - WE SAW KILLER MIKE. - WE SAW LOTS OF PEOPLE PLEADING - WITH THE CITIZENS OF ATLANTA TO - STOP BURNING DOWN THEIR OWN CITY - LAST NIGHT.

- HOW SEVERE WAS IT? - BECAUSE, OFTENTIMES, WE SEE JUST - A LITTLE GLIMPSE OF THE CITY. - WHAT WAS HAPPENING? - >> THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT - AMOUNT OF DAMAGE, BUT REALLY - THIS STARTED OFF AS A PEACEFUL - PROTEST. - THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE - WHO GATHERED IN A PARK DOWNTOWN - AND MARCHED FOR A COUPLE OF - HOURS TO CITY HALL-- EXCUSE ME, - TO THE STATE CAPITAL, AND THEN - CAME BACK. - AND THEN, YOU HAD A GROUP OF - SEVERAL HUNDRED PROTESTERS WHO - ENDED UP CONFRONTING POLICE - OUTSIDE CNN HEADQUARTERS. - AND THIS WAS ON A SMALL SIDE - STREET, SO NOT THE MAIN STREET - IN FRONT OF CNN. - AND THAT'S WHEN-- WHEN YOU - REALLY STARTED SEEING-- SEEING - SOME VIOLENCE. - THEY SPRAY-PAINTED THE CNN SIGN. - THEY BEGAN BREAKING WINDOWS AT - CNN. - POLICE, FOR THE MOST PART, THEY - DID COME OVER WHEN-- WHEN THE - PROTESTERS STARTED BREAKING - WINDOWS AT CNN, BUT THEY WERE - PELTED WITH-- WITH BOTTLES, - PLASTIC BOTTLES.

- POLICE HAVE TOLD US THAT - PROTESTERS THREW KNIVES AT THEM. - SO, IT PROGRESSED FROM THERE. - THEN, THEY SMASHED POLICE CARS, - SET ONE ON FIRE. - AND THEN, THEY BEGAN GOING - AROUND IN THAT AREA, IN - GENERAL-- WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A - FEW OCKS HERE-- SMASHING - WINDOWS, LOOTING, LOOTING SOME - STORES, RESTAURANTS. - AND IT WAS CONFINED TO THAT AREA - FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT UNTIL - REALLY LATE, WHEN PROTESTERS - WENT TO ANOTHER PART OF THE CITY - A LITTLE FARTHER NORTH WHERE, - AGAIN, THEY VANDALIZED, LOOTED - STORES. - THIS IS IN AN AREA CALLED - BUCKHEAD, NORTH OF DOWNTOWN. - >> Sreenivasan: WHAT'S THE CITY - PLANNING TO DO TONIGHT OR THE - NIGHTS AFTER? - >> WE HAVEN'T HEARD YET. - IT'S STILL A LITTLE EARLY HERE - THIS MORNING, AND WE ARE ASKING - POLICE OFFICIALS WHAT THEIR - PLANS ARE. - THE MAYOR ADDRESSED THIS LAST - NIGHT.

- SHE SAID SHE IS CONCERNED ABOUT - ANOTHER NIGHT LIKE THIS, AND SHE - REALLY PLEADED WITH PROTESTERS. - SHE INVOKED THIS CITY'S CIVIL - RIGHTS LEGACY. - DR. KING WAS BORN HERE, OF - COURSE. - HIS DAUGHTER SPOKE. - SHE SPOKE QUITE ELOQUENTLY ABOUT - THE ANGER SHE FELT WHEN HER-- - HER FATHER WAS ASSASSINATED. - BUT SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, VIOLENCE - ISN'T THE WAY TO GO. - SO, THEY'RE HOPING FOR THE BEST. - WE HAVEN'T HEARD OF AN EXACT - PLAN. - RIGHT NOW, WE DO KNOW THAT THE - GOVERNOR DECLARED A STATE OF - EMERGENCY IN THIS COUNTY, FULTON - COUNTY, AND DEPLOYED THE - NATIONAL GUARD. - AND WE KNOW THERE-- HE ALSO SENT - IN REINFORCEMENTS FROM-- FROM - THE STATE POLICE. - AND SO, THERE ARE DEFINITELY-- - IS DEFINITELY GOING TO BE A - BIGGER POLICE PRESENCE TODAY - AND-- AND GOING FORWARD. - >> Sreenivasan: IS THIS - DIFFERENT? - DOES IT FEEL DIFFERENT COMPARED - TO OTHER TIMES THERE HAS BEEN - ANY UNREST? - >> I THINK IT DOES A LITTLE BIT. - I THINK WHAT WE SAW IN TERMS OF - THE VIOLENCE WAS-- WAS UNUSUAL. - I THINK ATLANTA DOES HAVE A

- HISTORY OF PEACEFUL, RELATIVELY - PEACEFUL PROTESTS. - AND THERE-- THERE JUST SEEMED TO - BE JUST MORE ANGER AND - FRUSTRATION AT-- AT WHAT'S GOING - ON. - YOU KNOW, A NUMBER OF THE - OTESTERS I TALKED TO JUST - SAID, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH." - YOU KNOW, THEY'RE-- AND THEY'RE - LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE RECENT - INCIDENTS-- OF COURSE, THE ONE - INVOLVING GEORGE FLOYD, BUT ALSO - AHMAUD ARBERY HERE THAT WE HAD - IN-- IN GEORGIA. - AND, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE OF OTHER - PEOPLE I TALKED TO SAID, YOU - KNOW, "THAT COULD BE ME." - AND-- AND THEY'RE JUST VERY, - VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR - SAFETY, ABOUT THEIR LIVES. - >> Sreenivasan: SUDHIN THANAWALA - FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - JOINING US FROM ATLANTA. - THANKS SO MUCH. - >> THANKS, HARI. - FOR MORE ON THE AFTERMATH OF - GEORGE FLOYD'S DEATH, AND - CONTINUING COVERAGE OF PROTESTS - ACROSS THE NATION, VISIT - wwpbs.org/newshour. - >> Sreenivasan: THE NUMBER OF - CORONAVIRUS CASES CONTINUES TO

- RISE IN THE U.S., EVEN AS - RESTRICTIONS ON GATHERINGS AND - BUSINESSES ARE BEING LIFTED ITH - NEW SAFETY GUIDELINES IN PLACE. - THE C.D.C. REPORTED MORE THAN - 21,000 NEW CASES YESTERDAY, AND - MORE THAN 1,200 NEW DEATHS. - NEW YORK GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO - ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT NEW - YORK CITY, THE EPICENTER OF THE - VIRUS AND THE ONLY REMAINING - REGION IN THE STATE THAT HAS YET - TO LIFT RESTRICTIONS, IS - EXPECTED TO START ITS FIRST - PHE OF REOPENING ON JUNE 8. - A DIVIDED U.S. SUPREME COURT - REJECTED AN APPEAL FROM A - CALIFORNIA CHURCH LAST NIGHT - THAT CHALLENGED STATE LIMITS ON - ATTENDAN AT SERVICES DUE TO - COVID-19. - CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS - JOINED THE COURT'S FOUR - LIBERAL JUSTICES IN THE 5-4 - DECISION DENYING THE APPEAL - FROM THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH NEAR - SAN DIEGO. - THE CHURCH CLAIMED THAT LIMITS - ON GATHENGS VIOLATED ITS - CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE OF - RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. - JUSTICE ROBERTS, IN AN - INDIVIDUAL OPINION, SAID THAT - BECAUSE RESTRICTION ALSO APPLIES - TO OTHER GATHERINGS, IT DOES NOT - VIOLATE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. - CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM - CLOSED CHURCHES AND OTHER PLACES

- OF WORSHIP TO THE PUBLIC IN - MARCH, BUT BEGAN ALLOWING UP TO - 25% OF BUILDING CAPACITY, OR - 100 PEOPLE, WHICHEVER IS - SMALLER, TO ATTE SERVICES THIS - PAST WEEK. - GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA - MERKEL'S OFFICE SAID TODAY THAT - SHE WILL NOT PERNALLY ATTEND - THE G-7 CONFERENCE IF IT IS HELD - NEXT MONTH IN THE UNITED STATES, - DUE TO COVID-19. - THE G-7 WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF - THE PANDEMIC, BUT LAST WEEK, - PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAID HE - IS CONSIDERING MOVING FORWARD - WITH HOSTING THE MEETING OF - WORLD LEADERS. - MERKEL'S OFFICE ADDED THAT HER - DECISION COULD CHANGE DEPENDING - ON HOW THE CORONAVIRUS SPREADS. - THE GROUP OF SEVEN SUMMIT OF THE - WORLD'S TOP ECONOMIES WAS - ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED TO BE HELD - AT CAMP DAVID IN MID-JUNE, BUT - NO OFFICIAL NEW DATE HAS BEEN - SET. - JUST DAYS AFTER REOPENING, - HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS IN SOUTH - KOREA ARE CLOSING, AFTER SPIKES - IN CORONAVIRUS CASES. - SOUTH KOREA REPORTED 39 NEW - CASES TODAY, MANY CONNECTED TO - ANUTBREAK AT AN E-COMMERCE - DISTRIBUTION CENTER OUTSIDE - SEOUL. - EARLIER THIS WEEK, MANY SCHOOLS - OPENED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN - MORE THAN TWO MONTHS, WITH - STUDENTS GREETED WITH HAND - SANITIZER AND TEMPERATURE

- CHECKS. - BUT, AFTER THE RECENT UPTICK IN - CASES, HEALTH OFFICIALS DECIDED - TO RECLOSE SCHOOLS, AS WELL AS - MUSEUMS AND PARKS. - FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY - A DECADE, A CREWED MISSION TO - SPACE LAUNCHED FROM THE UNITED - STATES TODAY. - >> THREE, TWO, ONE... - BLAST OFF. - >> Sreenivasan: ASTRONAUTS - DOUGLAS HURLEY AND ROBERT - BEHNKEN TOOK OFF IN THE SPACEX - DRAGON CAPSULE THIS AFTERNOON. - IF ALL GOES ACCORDING TO PLAN, - THEY WILL ARRIVE AT THE - INRNATIONAL SPACE STATION - TOMORROW. - PRESIDENT TRUMP AND VICE - PRESIDENT PENCE WERE BOTH ON - HAND TODAY TO WITNESS THE - LAUNCH. - THE FIRST ATTEMPT ON WEDNESDAY - WAS CALLED OFF JUST 16 MINUTES - BEFORE LAUNCH. - THIS IS THE FIRST CREWED MISSION - FROM U.S. SOIL SINCE THE SPACE - SHUTTLE PROGRAM ENDED IN 2011, - AND THE FIRST EVER IN A - PRIVATELY-MADE SPACECRAFT. - >> Sreenivasan: THAT'S ALL FOR - THIS EDITION OF PBS NEWSHOUR - WEEKEND. - FOR THE LATEST NEWS UPDATES, - VISIT www.pbs.org/newshour. - I'M HARI SREENIVASAN. - THANKS FOR WATCHING.

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