AGAIN AS POLICE TRIED TO CLEAR

THE STREETS.

>> OVERNIGHT, ACROSS THE

COUNTRY, THE CALLS FOR JUSTICE

ARE GROWING MORE INTENSE.

IN ATLANTA, WHERE PROTESTERS

FILLED THE STREETS, SMOKE

BILLOWED INTO THE SKY AS A

POLICE CAR WENT UP IN FLAMES.

NEARBY, CROWDS SET THEIR SIGHTS

ON THE CNN CENTER, VANDALIZING,

THEN BREAKING IN.

ALL THIS DESPITE AN IMPASSIONED

PLEA FROM ATLANTA'S MAYOR TO

STOP THE VIOLENCE.

>> GO HOME.

YOU'RE NOT HONORING A LEGACY OF

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND THE

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.

IF YOU WANT CHANGE IN AMERICA,

GO AND REGISTER TO VOTE.

>> AS THE SUNSETS, THE

DESTRUCTION SPREADS.

>> THIS IS THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL

HALL OF FAME.

IT'S A POPULAR MUSEUM IN THE

HEART OF DOWNTOWN ATLANTA.

OVER HERE BEHIND ME, YOU CAN SEE

CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK.

THE HOME OF THE '96 OLYMPICS.

IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL, A

POLICE VEHICLE.

>> NEARBY, TWO CARS WERE ABLAZE

FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR AS

OFFICERS FIRED TEAR GAS WORKING

TO CLEAR THE AREA.

ALL JUST HOURS AFTER WHAT

STARTED AS A PEACEFUL PROTEST

OVER THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD.

HIS FINAL MOMENTS CAPTURED ON

VIDEO, AN OFFICER'S KNEE ON HIS

NECK.

>> WHEN YOU SAW THE VIDEO, WHAT

DID YOU THINK?

>> THAT COULD BE MY FATHER, THAT

COULD BE MY BROTHER THAT, COULD

BE ME.

IT JUST HAPPENED TOO MANY TIMES.

>> MORE TENSE CLASHES AROUND THE

COUNTRY, INCLUDING THIS STANDOFF

AT THE BARCLAYS CENTER IN

BROOKLYN, WHERE A POLICE CAR

BURNED AND OFFICERS PEPPER

SPRAYED THE CROWD.

>> DEMONSTRATIONS TURNED DEADLY

WHEN SOMEONE FIRED SHOTS INTO A

CROWD KILLING A 19-YEAR-OLD MAN.

POLICE WERE NOT INVOLVED.

>> IN LOUISVILLE, REELING OVER

THE DEATH OF 26-YEAR-OLD BRIANNA

TAYLOR KILLED BY POLICE OFFICERS

AS THEY SERVED A NARCOTICS

WARRANT.

>> DIRECTLY AT US.

>> NBC AFFILIATE REPORTER CAME

UNDER FIRE FROM POLICE.

>> SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA

PROTESTERS FLOODING A FREEWAY,

SMASHING WINDOWS WITH DRIVERS

STILL INSIDE BEFORE CLASHING

WITH POLICE.

AND CINCINNATI, WHERE PROTESTERS

STORMED THE AREA'S JUSTICE

CENTER.

CALLS FOR JUSTICE ECHOING

THROUGH CITY AFTER CITY WHILE,

AMID THE ESCALATING TENSIONS,

MANY ARE HOPING THE MESSAGE DOES

NOT GET LOST.

>> IT KEEPS HAPPENING.

NO MATTER WHAT'S DONE, NO MATTER

HOW MANY PROTEST, IT KEEPS

HAPPENING.

IT'S GETTING SEEN MORE.

>> Reporter: GUYS, OVERNIGHT, AS

WE WERE STANDING OUT HERE FOR

HOURS, WE DID SEE A NUMBER OF

PEOPLE GET ARRESTED.

AT LEAST TWO ARRESTS.

WE KNOW OF SEVERAL MORE THAT

HAPPENED OVERNIGHT.

I NEED TO PUT THIS INTO CONTEXT.

THE CITY OF ATLANTA, ESPECIALLY

THE MAYOR AND POLICE CHIEF,

HESITANT TO USE ANY SORT OF

CONFRONTATIONAL FORCE.

ATLANTA IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, THE HOME

OF THE PEACEFUL PROTEST.

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WAS

BORN HERE.

YOU COULD HEAR THE PASSION IN

THE MAYOR'S VOICE WHEN SHE SPOKE

LAST NIGHT.

TAKE A LOOK.

>> WHEN I HEARD THERE WERE

RUMORS ABOUT VIOLENT PROTESTS IN

ATLANTA, I DID WHAT A MOTHER

WOULD DO.

I CALLED MY SON AND I SAID WHERE

ARE YOU?

I SAID, I CANNOT PROTECT YOU AND

BLACK BOYS SHOULDN'T BE OUT

TODAY.

>> Reporter: AND AS YOU HEARD

THE MAYOR AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE