Speaker 1: On the air with Jason Lauren clint here as well.
Speaker 1: Let's got to America.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's been another dramatic weekend. Protesters flooding the streets
Speaker 2: of many US cities.
Speaker 3: It was all around the country, wasn't it. I saw
Speaker 3: big protests in New York as.
Speaker 2: Well, because what erupted in Los Angeles is now spilled
Speaker 2: onto the streets of many US cities.
Speaker 1: Now this is the protest over people being deported.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the No King's protests or rallies, and jeez,
Speaker 2: it's scary. We saw Lauren Tamasi, one of Channel nine's
Speaker 2: US correspondents, the other day, hit with a rubber bullet,
Speaker 2: which was scary for her obviously in her family, but
Speaker 2: also all of us as colleagues of hers at nine.
Speaker 3: So the No King's rally is this saying we don't
Speaker 3: have a king in this country. But people in America
Speaker 3: are saying Donald Trump is behaving like he is a king.
Speaker 2: At the same time, in Washington, DC, you saw this
Speaker 2: bizarre parade. It was actually the two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 2: anniversary of the US Defense Force. This parade like a
Speaker 2: military milatary parade on Donald Trump's birthday, so it's just
Speaker 2: a strange old time living in the States.
Speaker 1: Very odd.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it is getting willing on the streets. And
Speaker 2: a man, a friend of mine and a colleague at
Speaker 2: nine who found himself right in the middle of it,
Speaker 2: smack bang where I was on a yesterday on the
Speaker 2: Today Show. He did a great job in the midst
Speaker 2: of the chaos, is Reed Butler, us correspondent for nine.
Speaker 2: Get a read.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Good day, guys. How are you going, because
Speaker 3: it's scary to watch you guys out there on the streets.
Speaker 3: Are you feeling safe while you're reporting on these events?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Look, we have a good security with us, which.
Speaker 5: Has been a really helpful situation to alleviate a bit
Speaker 5: of that pressure because you've got so much focus at
Speaker 5: the time on talking to the camera, working out what's
Speaker 5: happening around you, making sure that everything is working.
Speaker 4: So that is helpful. They kind of watch your back.
Speaker 4: But safe.
Speaker 5: You probably never feel safe in those situations because it
Speaker 5: changes so quickly, and particularly in the big protest yesterday Sunday,
Speaker 5: in time, it just went from big and boisterous too
Speaker 5: so dangerous in about a matter of a couple of minutes,
Speaker 5: and it was just suddenly you've got the horses charging you,
Speaker 5: and you've got rubba bullets being fired tear gas.
Speaker 4: We had to get our masks.
Speaker 5: Because you've got tears streaming down your face and you
Speaker 5: can taste it in the back of your throat and
Speaker 5: it lasts for a solid twenty minutes or thirty minutes,
Speaker 5: and you've got the red eyes for the entire day
Speaker 5: pretty much. So yeah, it is a it's sort of frightening,
Speaker 5: but you're just going to try and stay calm and
Speaker 5: just talk about what's happening around you and try and
Speaker 5: stay collected. But it is hard, particularly when you're live
Speaker 5: on air and you've got a situation where the police
Speaker 5: are just moving in.
Speaker 1: I'm going to play Devil's advocate, and don't be wrong,
Speaker 1: I sat there watching it as well. But do we
Speaker 1: need the reporters so close in there? Do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Do you need to be on the
Speaker 1: front line and putting yourself in that situation well.
Speaker 2: Where storytellers first and foremost.
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you, Clint.
Speaker 5: And also it is a situation where you a lot
Speaker 5: of the time we're not right in the middle of it.
Speaker 5: There was lots of times yesterday where we were several
Speaker 5: blocks down because it was too unsafe, and you still
Speaker 5: had those bullets firing from probably hundreds of meters away,
Speaker 5: smashing car windows next to you, and all of that
Speaker 5: sort of stuff. So you want to try and find
Speaker 5: that balance where you can tell the story and work
Speaker 5: out what's happening, because there's also no it's not as
Speaker 5: if we're looking online to see how these protests are
Speaker 5: unfolding or where they're moving. You kind of have to
Speaker 5: be there and see what is happening as it is happening,
Speaker 5: because it is just that kind of thing that's unfolding
Speaker 5: when you're on air.
Speaker 4: When you're on radio, whatever it is.
Speaker 3: So for anyone who's not fully across it just in
Speaker 3: sort of an elevator pitch, what exactly is happening over there?
Speaker 5: So what the interesting thing about these protests yesterday, they
Speaker 5: were planned a long time in advance, anti Trump, the
Speaker 5: no Kings protests. They people, these demonstrators, they think Donald
Speaker 5: Trump is acting like a dictator rather than elected official.
Speaker 5: But what has happened in the past week which blew
Speaker 5: everything up with these immigration raids across Los Angeles, So
Speaker 5: that has just fired up these crowds and you had
Speaker 5: something that very well could have been a kind of
Speaker 5: peaceful protest yesterday that just turns so violent because the
Speaker 5: emotions are so high.
Speaker 4: Because a lot of the people in these.
Speaker 5: Crowds on the motorbikes and with the big Mexican flags.
Speaker 5: They've had loved ones detained in these immigration raids across
Speaker 5: Los Angeles at farms and washes.
Speaker 2: Highly emotive, detained, deported and you know what, they are
Speaker 2: determined as well.
Speaker 1: There was a video on the weekend I saw of
Speaker 1: a lady being detained by the NYPD and the ICE
Speaker 1: officials and then they've detained her leaving her ten year
Speaker 1: old daughter on the street, a tourist, tourist visiting. It
Speaker 1: was crazy.
Speaker 5: So when you see those videos and it just fires
Speaker 5: everyone up. It's crying and the like motions are so high,
Speaker 5: and obviously that is a recipe for these kinds of
Speaker 5: flare ups.
Speaker 2: It's crazy time to be living in the US. What
Speaker 2: is it like today in LA and we're expecting these
Speaker 2: protests to continue.
Speaker 4: It's definitely a lot calmer today.
Speaker 5: Things obviously fired up so much laid into the afternoon
Speaker 5: yesterday and overnight pass curfew in downtown La a bizarre
Speaker 5: situation where downtown is in.
Speaker 3: So's everything restaurants to shut shops, to shut convenience stores, shop, everything.
Speaker 4: Shut, not only shut but boarded up. Worried about looting.
Speaker 5: So we were seeing people desperately trying to put up
Speaker 5: these big plywood boards.
Speaker 4: The Apple store.
Speaker 5: Got looted, the Bizara store there got looted, all these restaurants.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, it is.
Speaker 5: And that's given police the LAPD license to be a
Speaker 5: bit more aggressive because they can.
Speaker 4: They have that order to clear out.
Speaker 5: When you're there, you get that alert on your phone
Speaker 5: and you watch a blaring sound being like curfew, curfew,
Speaker 5: you got to get out of there, and obviously a
Speaker 5: lot of people don't listen to that, and that is when.
Speaker 4: You've seen most of the police move in.
Speaker 5: It is tarma today, but these raids are continuing. The
Speaker 5: National Guard, the Marines that Donald Trump is sent into
Speaker 5: Los Angeles, they're going to be here for the next
Speaker 5: month or two at least. And that's also been another
Speaker 5: aggravating fancy is the.
Speaker 2: Ranch with the mechanical bull on the strict curfew as well.
Speaker 4: Read I'll have to go and do some investigating one.
Speaker 1: Compared to your days on a current affair with neighbors
Speaker 1: at war? Would you say tensions more high at home
Speaker 1: or over there? Oh?
Speaker 4: Look, ACA had its moments. It's oh yes, absolutely.
Speaker 5: I haven't been jammed in any doors, which is good,
Speaker 5: but there's still who knows how long these protests will
Speaker 5: go for. But no, this is tense, like it was
Speaker 5: just what my security guard there when curfew hit and
Speaker 5: the streets were mostly empty except for these real radical protests,
Speaker 5: he said, it was like it felt like a purge
Speaker 5: that movie. People just running around and smashing things. I
Speaker 5: saw police at one point firing rubber bullets up at
Speaker 5: a rooftop of an apartment building because there are people
Speaker 5: on the rooftop throwing glass bottles at police.
Speaker 1: The minute they're throwing stuff like we're going to leave
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