Chattanooga Protest Recap PKG

Recap of the protest in Chattanooga and plans going forward.

Precaution.

Chattanooga joined other cities to protest following the death of george floyd.

While some protests were peaceful, others not so much.

News 12's winston reed witnessed has the latest following the demonstrations.

Protestors began flooding the streets of chattanooga saturday afternoon.

Authorities stood nearby demonstrators.

Chattanooga police chief david roddy says it's important to create dialogue with the community.

"i think the first thing to do is for me especially is to come down and engage in a conversation.

Answer questions, find out what the concerns are.

Maybe clarify expectations on both sides."

Late saturday night tensions flared.

Several arrest were made.

Law enforcement closed down the market street bridge and demonstrators began shouting in the faces of officers.

Sunday, the violence grew.

Nat pop an explosion of tear gas dispersed a crowd by the hamilton county courthouse building.

"i heard some pops and then they just started shoving everyone down the stairs.

So i had no choice but to walk through several bombs."

"what we did was try to stop the vandalism and criminal activity that was beginning to happen."

Hamilton county sheriff jim hammond touched on possible plans going forward.

"there was not a curfew last night.

That is always a possibility if things get more out of hand but that will be a call from the governor and the mayor."

The tennessee national guard, police department, sheriff's department and other state agencies were on the scene late sunday night.

Over 20 arrest were made over the weekend.

The national guard will..... reporting in hamilton county winston reed news 12 now.

Chattanooga police say they arrested 11 people