4 months ago most funerals were canceled or put on hold in the us as the corona virus outbreak took hold for months and not a single collective outpouring of grief until today in minneapolis in the us throngs of mourners have come together for the 1st memorial service for a black man named george floyd his death last week at the hands of police has ignited outrage across america and the world tonight the loud calls for an end to police brutality and racism loud enough to drown out the dangers of a pandemic i'm off in berlin this is the day. this is personal to me you know george floyd is me.

seeing what happened to him. a reminder that. if but for the grace of god it could have been me. george floyd. berry. and briana. also coming up tonight donald trump's defense secretary not on message and not keeping quiet about. as a very high secretary ass very still secretary aspect i am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers the option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort i will deploy the united states military and quickly solve the problem i do not support invoking the insurrection act and if he loses

confidence in secretary asked for i'm sure he will be the 1st to. put to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the around the world welcome we begin the day as people begin bidding farewell to george florey 10 days ago an african-american was confronted by 4 police officers in minneapolis minnesota on suspicion that he had used a counterfeit $20.00 bill to buy cigarettes floyd was arrested and then killed and all topsy concluded floyd suffocated his neck held down to the street by a police officers need for more than 8 minutes what started with a question about fake money quickly became a story of murder charges and millions marching across the u.s. and here in europe while that may be premature to call this a mass movement it would be overdue to say that americans want racism and brutality removed from the police the justice system and society as a whole today service in minneapolis is the 1st stand is being led by the reverend

al sharpton on saturday another service is planned in north carolina where some of george floyd's family lives and on monday a final service will take place in houston texas where floyd lived for many years. let's listen now to for loaners floyd remembering his big brother george. i love my brother we had so many memories you know together i remember him waking me telling me hey man can you i'm a close and i look at him but then i look at his side and i say you're right big bro you're right i can use this it was just amazing and it would you go and see people how they cling to him they wanted to be around him you know joyce he was like a general every day he walks outside to be a lot of people like just like we came in wanted to greet him in wanted to have fun

with him god there was doing drugs like smokers and homeless people you couldn't till because when you spoke to george they felt like they were the president because that's how you made to feel. he was he was powerful man he had a way with words he could always make you ready to jump and go all the time everybody george. well what george ford's final legacy will be we cannot say but we can say tonight that the impact of his death has the potential to fundamentally change american society and with it many societies around the world an inflection point as some have said or it could become one of many points in a long continuing staccato of racism and police brutality in america my 1st guest tonight says that the impact will be a lasting one of change in her latest book 'd presidential black americans and the

president's margaret kimberly examines the role of all 45 u.s. presidents in america's relationship with race margaret kimberley is a peace and justice activist and editor and senior columnist for black agenda report a news and opinion website and radio program ms kimberly joins me tonight from new york city this is her 1st time with us on the day ms kimberly it's good to have you here with us tonight if you were delivering the eulogy for george floyd today what would be the 1st sentance. i would say that since he was killed 10 more black people have died at the hands of police in this country. it was horrific to see this man being murdered and that spurred a protest about his death obviously but about many injustices in this country. police violence being just one among them and the revulsion was so

strong that for the past week for more than week now there have been constant protests all over the country not just our district attorney in minnesota so he this man who nobody knew an ordinary working person. has become a touch point for millions of people around the world and we have to honor his memory by getting justice for him but also getting justice for the many nameless people who were killed but not on camera so we don't know their names but we know that they exist you talk about justice all 4 of the police officers involved they now face charges derrick chervin he faces 2nd degree murder charges which means intent to kill the attorney general of minnesota however has warned that it is hard

to convict the police but do you say to that. well it's hard to convict the police because prosecutors usually don't want to convict them they get a 99 percent conviction rate for everybody else if they had the same commitment to putting police away as they do for anyone else then he can be they the 4 of them can all be convicted and cops have been convicted but there has to be a commitment to do it there has to be a seriousness there has to be a commitment to 1st of all making them. know that they they can be honest at they can't get away with it this happened because this cop assumed and he wasn't wrong actually he assumed that nothing would happen to him because that's the case 99 percent of the time so mr ellis ellison who

is a former congressman by the way needs to step up his game he needs to i think he's trying to lower expectations because he's afraid of what a jury will do but. he needs to do his job as the attorney general in the state of minnesota and make sure they're convicted they do it all the time for everyone else the u.s. president donald trump we understand was not invited to today's memorial service what role in your opinion what role does he playing in the events that we have seen in the past week. well he it's interesting police murder didn't start with trump we should not act as though trump is some sort of outlier he only became president 3 years ago january 27th teen and we had. a problem with the police killing and i'm going to correct myself 3 people every day one of

those people will be black a sow's in people killed by police every year and this happened before trump so i'm not going to say he had any role in the crime taking place but as president he should give assurances to the people that he will use the power of his office to prosecute these cops barack obama never use the powers of the justice department to prosecute these police if local law enforcement fails the federal government can prosecute and that's what we should expect all presidents to do now trump of course has not been helpful in his remarks in responding to these protests he had this ridiculous stunt in front of the church and his attorney general with tear gassing people to get them out of the way so he can post for a picture with the bible that sort of thing just incites more violence and it gives people the feeling that their concerns are unheard so his response has been

very very unhelpful but obama when now baltimore erupted after a man named freddie gray was killed by police he called the protesters thugs so i think it's important not to think of trump as being so different now i want you to take a listen to what former president barack obama said just last night take a listen to this country was founded on progress. it is called the american revolution. and every step of progress in this country every expansion of freedom in every it's russian of our people as ideals has been won through efforts that made the status quo uncomfortable. and we should know. be thankful for folks who are willing in

a peaceful disciplined way to be out there making a difference there the former president says and even a part of american history to protest. yes but that's just obama's platitudes it's you know that seems to be the only thing he can say these days i guess because he's not president anymore he can't get the best speechwriters but and i'm being sarcastic obviously. nobody needs him to tell us that we have the right to peacefully assemble nobody needs him to tell us that it is the people who have always made a positive change in this country we know that but he for 8 years he had the power he had the authority to get these killer cops there was a man here in new york city named eric garner and like george floyd his last words were i can read in the obama justice department did nothing to that cop and all he

got was finally fired from his job it took 4 or 5 years or even that to happen so we don't need to hear from barack obama he really needs to just sit this out what about a possible future president you posted this photo on your twitter feed sid a remember we just today i want to show that to our viewers it shows the presumptive democratic candidate presidential candidate joe biden taking a knee inside the church. and you wrote this is what you see when you stay up past your bedtime and you say god is punishing god is punishing you so tell me how is the province in yours. i wasn't a stupid picture i was just making a joke i was like if i'd been in bed i never would have seen it i mean biden gave this horrible speech. in a black church i believe it was in philadelphia and it was supposed to be a response to george floyd's killing in the protest but. biden in his

typical manner made a mess of it and he said he said something weird about how police if they're going to shoot people george floyd wasn't even shot but. police should learn to shoot people in the leg and not instead of in the heart i mean the man is just he has some sort of cognitive problem that that's a whole other story but he. posed for this picture with this black congregation and he's. on why need like colin kaepernick the football player me. famous and it was just stupid for joe biden of all people one of the people by the way when he was a senator who helped write the crime bill in the ninety's and he bragged about writing the bill which put so many black people in prison and imprisonment begins with interactions with police it begins with police brutality and it can indeed in

death and it's pretty shameful for this man to hope that we forget all of that and. pose for a stupid photo op when people are rising up and writes his indignation the people are rising up and when the protests began last week when some of these protests descended into violence and looting there were calls for the protest to remain peaceful i want you to take a listen to what the mayor of atlanta said if you want change in america i register to vote. at the polls on june 9th do it in november. that is the change we need in this country you are disgracing our city you are disgracing the life of george floyd and every other person who has been killed in this country i'm instantly i know you've been critical of of the mayor but i want to ask you why why shouldn't she call for protests to remain

peaceful and for people to vote for change at the ballot box because if you look at what happened in 2016 a lot of people are complaining now about the way things are but if they had to tell the truth they would have to say that they didn't bother to vote. well i'm not going to tell people not to vote but voting in this country usually just end up with mediocre politicians like the mayor of atlanta it would have been a problem if she had just asked for peaceful protest but she went all on this. rant about people disgracing the city and she lumped all protesters together and this always happens there can be legitimate protests there's always going to be a small group of people who are turned to pity thievery or something but she lump them all together and she implied that every protester was a criminal and so also if you wanted to talk about peaceful protests that's all she

needed to do but to give people the impression 1st of all it's just a lie these elected officials including flak elected officials don't do anything to protect their people there's nothing about the act of voting that will end police violence that's just the law so we need people like her who are just tokens who are just figureheads who are give the impression that black people actually have some representation we need them to frankly just shut up right now there was nothing in her comments that was at all helpful to anyone what is there a political party or a politician in the us who you would say is reaching out to people you know i think about where i grew up in north carolina rule north carolina you know there aren't many middle class north carolinians there anymore the poor whites the poor blacks the poor latino's they all have more in common than they don't have in common now but i don't see any political party that's trying to reach all of them and bring

them together do you. unfortunately not there's the neither the publicans or the democrats do that we have smaller parties like the green party i'm a member of the greens 8 and we are growing and trying to reach out to people but there was an effort in the democratic party in one of the major parties this year senator bernie sanders his campaign sought to bring people together he raised issues that have been unaddressed which i think of also contributed to these protests and the democratic party establishment got rid of him they rigged the system against him and they forced a joe biden on us that's what we get from voting and that's what you get from the establishment and that is why people have learned they have learned the hard way that electoral politics is not the only means it's actually the worst means. of

getting effective change when the things that i hope that after in the aftermath of these protests and the police trial i hope that people remember that and turn to themselves and start to remain in solidarity develop solidarity with one another and seek out non electoral means of change because the system has made clear it does not want. real involvement from people it does not want any talk of change at all well when if it doesn't want any change then do you believe that american society can ever become colorblind and become what the founding fathers proclaimed that all men are created equal. well the founding fathers were a bunch of hypocrites they didn't believe anybody was equal they were mostly slave holders so i don't think we should look to them but what i said at one time that mr and mr what they said but they said at the time there was revolutionary for the way

people thought then i mean what about bringing us into the 21st century and having everyone equal do you think we can reach that we can it was revolutionary for them but we america can't change without really i'm going to say really revolutionary change for everyone there has to be fundamental change in this country 1st of all there has to be a recognition that these crimes have taken place over the centuries and then we can once there's honesty and once there are real mechanisms in place to get rid of inequality to get rid of the police state to get rid of mass incarceration once and for all to do justice by the people in many different ways to bring. real democracy they they let us vote but. we

rarely get what we want even if the person we vote for happens to win so yes we can have a non racist society but it will be it's a lot of hard work and we can't do it with platitudes and phoning this from politicians margaret camberley editor and senior columnist for black agenda report ms camberley it was a pleasure talking with you we appreciate your time tonight and your insights come back again i certainly hope to thank you very much. well donald trump's threat to send in the u.s. military to deal with civil unrest in the u.s. has been met with a stiff rebuke trump's former defense secretary jim matheson is accuse the president of trying to divide america and even his current tend to gun chief mark esper has said that he does not agree with trump's threat to send in troops.

police in riot continue to watch over crowds gathered near the white house. they've become a constant presence here in washington since george floyd an african-american was killed in police custody last week. on monday police forcefully drove back protesters in order to enable president trump to visit a nearby church. before he stood outside st john's bible in hand he had threatened to deploy the military to quell the on the rest if a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents then i will deploy the united states military and

quickly solve the problem for them. thousands of national guard troops have already been called up. but trump is facing a backlash from all sides in a blistering attack on the president trumps former defense secretary jim mattis has accused him of dividing america. he's also criticized for even considering using active duty troops for law enforcement. meanwhile trump's current defense secretary mock aspect has opposed the use of military force the option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations we are not in one of those situations now even general milley the highest ranking figure in the u.s. armed forces has issued a statement reminding the military that they swear an oath to support and defend

the constitution and the values imbedded within it and that it also gives americans the right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly as this apparent rift between the president and his top brass imagist protests continue across the u.s. . it is the biggest stimulus package in germany's post-war history the measures agreed to yesterday by the government after marathon talks should help the economy recover from the coronavirus shutdown the 130000000000 euro plan includes cutting the sales tax giving cash to families and providing extra funding for municipalities. as europe's biggest economic engine the pressure was on germany to deliver economic stimulus to speed the e.u.'s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic chancellor i'm going to medicals ruling

coalition delivered a bumper package that includes temporary tax cuts handouts to families and investment in green transport technologies. to a buck is all we have an economic stimulus package a package for the future and of course in addition to that which we're now less concerned with our response ability for europe and the international dimension of human 0 in brussels economy minister pollo gentle only said he was pleased germany was finally using its fiscal space to boost spending. europe's other economic driver is france finance minister bruno lemaire hailed germany's stimulus and said paris wouldn't bail it's own plan soon in 2 steps the 1st one will be next week where we will announce all support to the sick those so it has been said that he heat by the crisis i mean truism giotto more t.v. industry i will not takes an order sector those that have been severely hit by the

crisis. both countries are keen on emo bill as the president emanuel on the call has pledged an 8000000000 euro plan to make france the european leader in electric cars the german scheme offers premiums to encourage people to buy electric while they may work together there's always been healthy competition between europe's 2 economic giants. for the day is almost done the conversation continues online join us on twitter either at v.w. news or you can follow me at brant golf t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that it.

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