Protesters fan flames at historic Market House building in Fayetteville, NC

THEY ARE ANGRY RIGHT NOW

>> THERE IS AN AMERICAN FLAG

THAT IS BURNING, FACING THE

OPPOSITE DIRECTION FROM WHERE I

AM STANDING.

I WALKED INTO THE CROWD AND SAW

THE GRAFFITI ON THE SIDE OF THE

MARKET HOUSE, SOME OFFENSIVE

LANGUAGE SPRAY PAINTED IN RED

ON THE SIDE OF THE MARKET

HOUSE.

A FIRE IS BURNING ON THE

OPPOSITE SIDE.

IT'S ONE OF THE HURLY

BUILDINGS.

MY PARTNER SAID THEY HAVE TAKEN

WHAT IS CALLED A HURTY POT.

THEY ARE THESE POTS AROUND

DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE NAMED FOR

A FORMER MAYOR.

IT WAS HIS IDEA TO ADORN

DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE WITH

THESE POTS AND TREES, THEY TOOK

ONE OF THOSE POTS AND LIT IT ON

FIRE.

IT APPEARED TO BE HERE.

THEY WERE BURNING A FLAG IN

THAT POT.

IT'S JUST CHAOTIC.

IT'S PANDEMONIUM AROUND THIS

FIRE.

I THOUGHT THE CROWD WAS

DISBURSING BUT IT LOOKS LIKE

THEY SHIFTED OVER TO HEY

STREET.

THEY ARE PUTTING PALETTES ON

THE FIRE.

THEY ARE PUTTING WOODEN

PALETTES ON THE FIRE, THEY ARE

TRYING TO GET THIS THING GOING

AS BIG AS THEY CAN.

LET ME JUST SAY THIS, WHEN I

WAS WALKING TO THE INSIDE OF

THE MARKET HOUSE THERE WERE

PEOPLE UPSTAIRS THIS THAT

MUSEUM.

I THOUGHT I SAW SOMEBODY GET

HIT BY ONE OF THE OBJECTS

OUTSIDE.

THEY WERE BUSTING THE WINDOWS.

THEY ARE TRYING TO BUILD UP

THIS FIRE.

>> YOU KNOW, MARK SPOKE TO

MAYOR COLVIN 30 MINUTES OR SO

AGO ON THE PHONE.

HE STATED THAT POLICE MAY START

TO MOVE IN THERE AROUND THE

MARKET HOUSE, HAVE YOU SEEN A

POLICE PRESENCE.

AN INCREASED POLICE PRESENCE

AROUND THERE?

>> I HAVE SEEN POLICE DOWN THE

STREET.

THEY ARE NOT RIGHT HERE IN THE

THICK OF THINGS.

THEY ARE NOT CLOSE TO THE

SCENE.

THEY ARE A BLOCK OR TWO AWAY,

THEY ARE PREVENTING MOTORISTS

COMING INTO DOWNTOWN.

ALL OF DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE IS

CLOSED.

THE CITY JUST PUT OUT AN ALERT

SAYING STAY AWAY FROM DOWNTOWN

FAYETTEVILLE.

IT'S A VOLATILE SITUATION.

RIGHT HERE IN THE IMMEDIATE

AREA AROUND THE MARKET HOUSE NO

POLICE OFFICERS AND NO

FIREFIGHTERS JUST THIS CROWD

SETTING FIRE TO A A BUNCH OF

PALETTES THAT'S WHAT IS

BURNING.

THIS THING IS FAR FROM OVER.

I THOUGHT IT WAS WINDING DOWN

BUT IT IS STILL VERY INTENSE.

>> LETS TALK ABOUT THE MARKET

HOUSE, THAT IS A ROUND ABOUT IN

THE MIDDLE OF FAYETTEVILLE.

BRIAN, EARLIER IT APPEARED THAT

THERE WERE A CLUSTER OF CARS

THERE.

THOUSAND I AM SEEING LESS CARS.

DID SOME CARS LEAVE THE AREA

AROUND THE MARKET HOUSE?

>> NO, THE TRAFFIC I AM SEEING

HERE, I AM SEEING CARS PART OF

THIS DEMONSTRATION.

I DO NOT THINK WE ARE GETTING

ANY THROUGH TRAFFIC NOW THAT

THE POLICE HAVE BLOCKED OFF THE

STREETS.

SO THE VEHICLES I AM SEEING

HAVE SIGNS LIKE THIS, JUSTICE

FOR GEORGE FLOYD.

BLACK LIVES MATTER.

THESE ARE PARTS PANTS

PARTICIPANTS IN THIS

DEMONSTRATION.

A VERY PASSIONATE CROWD.

WE ARE HEARING SOME REPORTS

THAT THE CITY HALL MAY HAVE HAD

SOME WINDOWS BUSTED.

I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CONFIRM

THAT BUT SOME PEOPLE HAVE GONE

TO CITY HALL AND CAUSED

PROPERTY DAMAGE.

WE JUST HEARD ANOTHER THING, I

AM GOING TO HAVE MICHAEL HELP

MOW HERE.

IT SOUNDS AS THOUGH THEY THREW

SOME FUEL ON THE FIRE OF THE

THEY HAVE BEEN PUTTING THESE

WOODEN PALETTES ON TOP OF THE

FIRE, TRYING TO BUILD IT UP

VERY BIG.

LET ME SEE IF KI GET A BETTER

PERSPECTIVE.

>> A BIGGER CROWD IS ON THE

OTHER SIDE OF THE MARKET HOUSE,

BEHIND YOU THERE IS A SMALL

CROWD BUT IT LOOKS LIKES THEY

ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE

MARKET HOUSE.

>> THAT'S CORRECT.

>> BLACK LIVES MATTER.

>> WE ARE STANDING ON THE

GREENE STREET SIDE OF THE

MARKET HOUSE.

ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE IS WHERE

MOST OF THE ACTIVITY IS GOING

ON.

WE ARE NOT GOING TO GO OVER

THERE.

IT IS TOO VALUE VOLATILE AND

DANGEROUS, WE ARE GOING TO STAY

AWAY, I DID WALK AROUND TO GET

A BETTER VIEW OF WHERE MOST OF

THE ACTION WAS TAKING PLACE

MUCH THE CROWD HAS SHIFTED

TOWARDS HEY STREET.

FORGIVE ME MIKE, THE NAME OF

THE STREET.

THIS IS GREEN STREET.

IT'S BEEN A FEW YEARS.

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER

THE NAME OF THE STREET.

THE STREET HERE IS WHERE THEY

ARE GATHERED RIGHT NOW.

>> I JUST WANTED TO ASK YOU ONE

OTHER QUESTION.

YOU STATED EARLIER THAT

FAYETTEVILLE POLICE HAVE SHUT

DOWN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.

HOW ARE PROTESTORS COMING INTO

THE AREA?

ON FOOT?

>> IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT WAY,

IT'S NOT LIKE WE ARE SEEING

WAVES OF PEOPLE COMING ON FOOT

INTO DOWNTOWN.

IT LOOKS LIKE THIS IS THE CORE

CROWD.

THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HERE

THROUGH IT ALL FROM THE SKY

DEMONSTRATIONS THIS AFTERNOON.

THIS IS THE CORPS GROUP.

MAYBE SOME PEOPLE HAVE JOINED

SINCE THAT ORIGINAL GROUP BUT

WE ARE NOT SEEING PEOPLE COMING

FROM SIDE STREETS TO TAKE PART

IN ALL OF THIS.

BUT THERE ARE STILL A FEW

HUNDRED PEOPLE HERE AND IT IS

GETTING VIOLENT.

THAT IS WHAT IT IS.

IT IS VIE VIOLENT.

THEY ARE DESECRATING THE

BUILDING AND HEAVILY DAMAGING

THE MARKET HOUSE.

>> THERE WAS A PEACEFUL PROTEST

EARLIER TODAY IN FAYETTEVILLE

AND THIS TONIGHT.