NYC Protests Turn Violent, After Largely Peaceful Sunday; Trucks Deployed to Limit Access to Chicago Business District
JARRETT: All right, welcome back. Protests flaring up overnight in New York City where there is no curfew. In the SoHo neighborhood people were captured ransacking a watch store. There were several arrests at protests across the city including the daughter of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. She has since been released. We get more now from CNN's Shimon Prokupecz.</s>SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Christine and Laura, it's been a mostly peaceful day here in New York City as protesters in the thousands took to the streets, marched from Times Square to Union Square, down to lower Manhattan and Foley Square and have been mostly peaceful. It's in the thousands. Probably the largest group that we have seen here since demonstrations began a couple of days ago. And then of course in the evening unfortunately things got a little violent. There was a fire set. Police having confrontations with many of the protesters who came from Brooklyn. There were a couple of arrests. A little different than what we saw Saturday night. Here on Sunday not as many breakouts, not as many confrontations with police but there were still some. The other thing I want to point out is that along Fifth Avenue we walked through the Flat Iron section -- a lot of stores, a lot of stores vandalized, glass broken. We have seen some looting. The police are continuing to be out here and protests are expected for the next several days -- Christine, Laura.</s>ROMANS: All right, Shimon, thank you for that. Violence moments ago on the West Coast. Demonstrators broke windows at a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon. Officers responded with riot control measures. There were also hundreds of arrests and pockets of violence alongside peaceful protests overnight in parts of California. CNN's Kyung Lah has more from Long Beach.</s>KYUNG LAH, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Christine and Laura, what we are still seeing in especially the beach communities in California and Southern California are the police departments still trying to clear the protestors off the street. What you're seeing here is the Long Beach Police Department. They have their batons out. We have seen them firing rubber bullets into protesters who are marching in the streets after the curfew. I should point out, these protesters have been largely peaceful from what we have seen here in Long Beach, but there have been reports of looting and we saw it in Santa Monica. We saw confrontations with the police where some people were throwing bottles at the police. It was tense standoffs and then when it came to the looting, people were breaking into windows, walking out of stores with their arms full of stolen merchandise and it was just a surreal scene. Here in Long Beach though as the night fell and curfew passed, protesters peacefully still marched the streets. Listen to this woman about why she wanted to keep marching.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because I'm matter. My family matter. My friends matter. I got nephews. I got nieces. I got sisters. I got a mama. I got a daddy. I got friends. I got peers. I got all these people standing right here that</s>LAH: Shortly after we did that interview police did stop those marchers. They took some into custody. A lot of others went home -- Christine, Laura.</s>JARRETT: All right, Kyung. Thank you so much. Only business owners and residents will be allowed to enter Chicago's central business district this morning. And commuter rail service is being suspended all day. Ryan Young is on the ground in the windy city.</s>RYAN YOUNG, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Laura and Christine, it was definitely a different tactic here in Chicago, especially on Sunday. They decided to bring in heavy trucks like this one to block the way into the downtown district. They did this because the night before was so difficult in the city of Chicago. More than 130 businesses were damaged in the business district. Six people were shot. One person was actually killed. It was a completely different story the next night here in the city because not only was the National Guard here but they brought in heavy equipment to block off the district. That's one of the things they're doing. They're hoping they were able to quell some of the issues they did have throughout the city. We did see more looting on the south and west side. Christine and Laura, back to you.</s>ROMANS: All right, Ryan in Chicago. Thank you for that. You know, an army of volunteers from around Minnesota pitching in to help with the cleanup in Twin Cities neighborhoods this weekend after the mass protest and violence that followed the death of George Floyd. Hundreds of volunteers were out sweeping the streets, cleaning up debris, and broken glass with brooms, garbage bags, and buckets wherever they needed to help. We'll be right back.