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Cities across the country are imposing curfews while others are calling in the National Guard as chaos overwhelms peaceful protests. Jonathan Vigliotti reports.
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Cities across the country are imposing curfews while others are calling in the National Guard as chaos overwhelms peaceful protests. Jonathan Vigliotti reports.
Demonstrators who defied the curfew on Saturday night were met with tear gas and rubber bullets. One of those rubber bullets was aimed at a CBS News crew. CBS News chief justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues reports from Minneapolis.
The New York governor repeated what he announced Saturday, that Attorney General Letitia James would be overseeing an investigation into police behavior.
Despite a number of violent confrontations between police and protesters, many of this week's demonstrations against police brutality have been peaceful. Several officials, including Attorney General Bill Barr, have accused outside radical groups of hijacking protests to promote a separate agenda. CBS News political contributor and Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright joins CBSN's Lana Zak with his analysis.
As deaths from coronavirus continued to drop to lows not seen since March, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used his daily coronavirus briefing Sunday afternoon to plead for calm after a night of unrest statewide. "Violence never works," he said. Watch his remarks here.
Protests against the death of George Floyd and other African-Americans by law enforcement have erupted in dozens of cities.
Attorney Benjamin Crump said police brutality "started these fires across America."
Mayor Melvin Carter says investigators are working to get to the bottom of who exactly is driving violent protests in his city.
CBS News' Nikole Killion reports on the latest out of the White House.
CBS News chief justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues has the latest on the developments in Minnesota.