PATRICK: YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THE
GOVERNOR JUST MOMENTS AGO SAYING
WHAT HAPPENED THIS MORNING IN
THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE WAS NOT A
PROTEST.
IT WAS AN ORGANIZED ATTACK ON
THE CITY.
AS RECENTLY AS LAST SATURDAY,
THERE WAS A PEACEFUL RALLY AT
THE STATEHOUSE THAT WENT
ACCORDING TO PLAN.
THERE WERE A FEW MINOR ISSUES
WITH GRAFFITI, BUT OVERALL, IT
WAS A SMOOTH EVENT AND WHATEVER
BUDDY INVOLVED --
EVERYBODY
INVOLVED HOPED WOULD HAPPEN.
WE HAVE MORE ON WHO OFFICIALS
SAY COULD BE RESPONSE WILL FOR
THE MAN THIS MORNING.
TO PUT IT BLUNTLY, RHODE
ISLAND POLICE COLONEL PULTEGROUP
OF HUNDREDS WHO GATHERED LAST
NIGHT A MOB WHO COORDINATED AND
PLANNED AN ATTACK IN PROVIDENCE.
THESE ARE ANARCHISTS
TRYING
TO COME INTO OUR CITY AND TAKE
IT OVER AND BURN OUR BUILDINGS.
THAT IS IN COMPARISON TO A
PEACEFUL PROTEST SATURDAY.
NO RS WERE MADE AT THAT EVENT.
-- NO ARRESTS WERE MADE.
WE HAD A PROTEST THAT WENT
WELL.
THERE ONLY A FEW HOURS NOTICE
THAT SOMETHING WOULD TAKE PLACE
IN PROVIDENCE LAST NIGHT.
UNFORTUNATELY, BY 11:00 OR
11:30, THERE WERE 200 YOUNG,
MOSTLY MALES THAT BREACHED THE
PROVIDENCE PLACE MALL.
18 BUSINESSES INSIDE THE MALL
WERE LOOTED, THE SAME DAY IT
REOPENED AFTER MONTHS OF BEING
SHOT DUE TO THE PANDEMIC.
THE POLICE COLONEL SAID
THEY
WENT THERE SOLELY TO CAUSE
TROUBLE.
THIS WAS ALL SENSELESS.
THIS WASN'T A PROTEST.
IT WAS SENSELESS VIOLENCE IN THE
CITY.
DANIELLE:
THE PROVIDENCE MAYOR
TOLD US 35 OF THE 65 ARRESTED
LAST NIGHT WERE FROM PROVIDENCE,
FIVE WERE FROM MASSACHUSETTS,
AND THE REST WERE FROM AROUND
