June 3 George Floyd protest news

While addressing plans to reform the Los Angeles police department earlier today, Mayor Eric Garcetti said he will not be increasing the police budget.

He explained that “this is bigger than just a budget,” and “it is time to move our rhetoric towards action to end racism in our society.”

Los Angeles Police Commission President Eileen Decker also announced that $100-150 million dollars of cuts from the LAPD's budget will be identified to further enhance community neighborhood policing.

Decker said the Commission would also:

Mayor Garcetti also addressed the importance of having a civilian oversight team for the police department.

A team of five unpaid volunteers appointed by the mayor will look at policies that guide the police department, oversee its operations, and review all officer-involved shootings, said Garcetti.

The commission and the police chief will have a public meeting every week where residents are given the opportunity to speak directly to the entire leadership of the department, said the mayor.

Three men who allegedly sought to exploit protests and incite violence in Las Vegas have been charged, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada.

In a federal complaint filed on Tuesday, each man was charged with one count of conspiracy to damage and destroy by fire and explosive, and one count of possession of unregistered firearms. They are currently in state custody.

All three were Las Vegas residents and alleged members of the “Boogaloo” movement, “a term used by extremists to signify a coming civil war and/or collapse of society,” according to a press release by the Attorney's Office today.

According to the complaint, authorities seized numerous accelerants, including gasoline, fuel injector cleaner, hair spray, strips of clothes, and four glass jars filled with a liquid that tested positive as gasoline, from one of the men's vehicles.

They also found multiple rags, cans of hairspray, a plastic bag full of fireworks, a 12-gauge shotgun with numerous shotgun shells and a 45 ACP pistol in his vehicle. 

Ongoing investigations nationwide: Federal law enforcement officials have told CNN that investigators believe extremists from both left and right have been involved. Investigations are still ongoing and prosecutors often add information to the charging documents. 

So far federal prosecutors have charged at least a dozen people with crimes related to the disturbances in the cities of Nashville, Chicago, Newark, Dallas, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and Brooklyn.

The Seattle mayor has announced an immediate end to the city's curfew, walking back her decision just yesterday to extend the curfew through the end of the week.

Mayor Jenny Durkan said on Twitter that the major change in policy was in response to a request from community leaders at a meeting she attended today with Police Chief Carmen Best.

“Chief Best believes we can balance public safety and ensure peaceful protests can continue without a curfew,” Mayor Durkan tweeted.

“For those peacefully demonstrating tonight, please know you can continue to demonstrate. We want you to continue making your voice heard.”

Reversing the extension: She had announced just yesterday that the curfew would be in effect every night all this week -- but the Seattle Police Department reported that it arrested only two people during protests on Tuesday.

All three former Minneapolis police officers who were arrested Wednesday on charges of aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd will have their first court appearances on Thursday afternoon.

The three officers -- J. Alexander Keung, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao -- are set to appear before the judicial officer at 1:45 p.m. ET.

The hearings were pushed up by 45 minutes from their original schedule, according to court records. 

No official reason was given, but the original start times would have had the former officers appearing in court at the same time as a televised memorial for George Floyd in Minneapolis, to be attended by his family.

In Minneapolis, the city where George Floyd died, protests have become largely peaceful and calm after the initial violence over the weekend.

Mourners and protesters have set up a memorial for Floyd at the site of his death, with a wall mural and bouquets of flowers and tributes on the ground below.

"Today and the past two days, (protests) have been nothing more than peaceful, quite beautiful," said CNN Correspondent Sara Sidner, reporting from the scene.

"There has been an incredible caring sentiment here. There was a piano that was rolled in. Different people, including children, were playing songs on the piano. There was free food for anyone who needed it or wanted it. There were grab bags with diapers and Similac and canned food and vegetables. This was a place of healing for the last couple of days."

Though some shops in the neighborhood have boarded up their windows, they have largely been left alone by the crowds, Sidner said.

"There's a reason for that -- this is considered a sacred place, and time and again people have come out here and treated it as a sacred place because it is the place where George Floyd was killed and people want to recognize that," Sidner said.

Nine days after the death of George Floyd, protesters are still out on the streets of major cities across America, even as curfews begin kicking in for the night.

Here are some of the latest developments today:

In Los Angeles, curfew is scheduled to kick in at 9 p.m., just minutes away now -- but there are still crowds of protesters marching through the city's downtown.

"This group has been here for hours and just recently started walking back and forth -- the police are preventing them from walking through certain streets here in downtown LA," said CNN Correspondent Kyung Lah from the scene. "For hours we saw them staging outside of city hall, and now they are walking."

When curfew kicks in, police are expected to move in and enforce it even if the protesters are being peaceful, Lah said. The same thing happened last night -- protesters stayed outside the mayor's residence for hours after curfew, and were eventually removed and detained by police, though the arrests were largely peaceful and calm.

Tonight's curfew will last from 9 p.m. local time to 5 a.m. the next morning.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a press conference earlier today that he plans to lift the city’s curfew on Thursday.

Barring a bad night from tonight, the curfew will be lifted for the city of Los Angeles starting tomorrow, Garcetti said.

All ten million Los Angeles County residents have been under a curfew order for four consecutive nights.

The curfew tonight will begin at 9 p.m. local time -- under an hour away -- instead of 6 p.m., as had been the case for previous curfew orders. 

The later curfew is a reflection of the peaceful protests, as well as good policing, Garcetti said.

The curfew tonight will be in place until 5 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Ella Jones, who was elected as the first black and first female mayor of Ferguson, Missouri, on Tuesday, said police officers need to work with communities to make people “feel that they are being served, instead of being hunted.”

“The only way to do that is to have courageous conversations ... (and have) the police officers at the table with us,” she told CNN earlier tonight.

Jones’ historic win comes as protests over the killing of George Floyd grip the nation, and nearly six years after protests sparked in Ferguson following the 2014 death of Mike Brown, a black teenager who was shot by a white police officer. 

Jones said that the George Floyd protests in Ferguson last Saturday had been largely peaceful, but turned violent in the evening. “We can’t allow people to come in and destroy our businesses,” she said. 

She also stressed the importance of recording instances of police brutality, saying videos of these instances help convince people “that we need to get rid of bad police officers.”

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