06/03/20 06/03/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york city, the epicenter of the pandemic in the united stes, this is democracy now! today is about lifting up the family of george floyd. >> george floyd. >> say his name. >> george floyd. amy: as historic protests against police brutality continued across the country, we will go to houston, texas, the

longtime home of george floyd, who was killed by minneapolis police last week. 60,000 people took to the streets tuesday to honor his memory. we will speak to two of his friends about his community and religious work mentoring young men in houston and hear george floyd in his own words. >> i went to speak to you all real quick. i just want to say that i got my shortcomings and my flaws, but the shooting that is going on, man, i don't care e where you're them amy: then as president trump threatens to designate anti-fascists as terrorists, an internal fbi document reveals the agency found no intelligence indicating antifa was involved in the unrest over the weekend in washington, d.c. and we will look at the 2011 policece killing of kenneth chamberlain. >> my father accidentally

triggered his life alert pendant one morning. the white plains police responded to the home, supposedly to do a medical check to see if he was ok. he told them he was fine, yet they insisted he open the door. my father says he knows his rights and he doesn't have to open the door. they began to bang on the door for over an hour. the only, breaking the door down -- ultimately, breaking the door down, shooting and killing him. amy: an appellate court ruled this week that a federal judge was wrong to dismiss parts of a lawsuit against the white plains police. we will speak with kenneth chamberlain signed and the family lawyer. all that and more, coming up. welcomome to dememocracy now, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. the word peace report. i'm m amy goodman. hundreds of thousands of people marched and protested in cities acacross the united ststates

tuesday, defying citywide curfews, braving police and military repression, and shrugging off fears over the spread of coronavirus in order to protest t the police killingf george floyd by minneapolis police officers. in minnesota, governor tim walz said that minnesota department of human rights has opened a civil rights investigation into the minneapolis police department. >> the investigation will review amputees policies and practices over the last 10 years to determine if the department has utilized systemically discriminatory actions toward people of color. amy: legal observers believe minnesota attorney general keith ellison is preparing to chararge the three other officers involved in the killing of george floyd, including two who held floyd to the pavement while officer derek chauvin pressed his knee into floyd's neck as he repeatedly gasped "i can't breathe" before falling still. on tuesday, minneapolis's public

school district said it was terminating its contract with the city's police department to provide school resource officers. meanwhile, minnesota's afl-cio coalition of labor unions has joined calls demanding minneapolis police union president resign after he called george floyd a violent criminal. described protesters as terrorists and called on police to expand their use of force. an april, he told a radio podcaster he wasn't bothered by shootings he is been involved in. >> i have been involved in three shootings myself. not one of them has bothered me. maybe i'm different. and kobach role was welcomed to the stage last october by trump 202020mp at a campaign rally in minneapolis. in houston, texas, 16 members of george floyd's family joined a crowd of 60,000 protesters who marched to city hall to remember

floyd who spent most of his life in houston. after headlines, we'll go to houston to speak with two of his friends. i warning to our tv audience, the next story contains disturbing graphic footatage. arrest warrants have been issued for six atlanta police officers after they tased two black college students and dragged them from their car for allegedly violating the city's curfew saturday night. one officer was filmed smashing the window of the car. another slashed the car's tires. two of the officers have already been fired. the victims, 20-year-old spelman college student taniyah pilgrim and 22-year-old morehouse college student messiah young, who suffered a fractured arm, and neeeeded 24th teachers. he spoke on tuesday. >> i feel a little safer now

that these monsters are off the street and no longer able e to teterrorize anyone else. amy: there is anan arrt t warrat for six atlanta policice offices in this case. in washington, d.c., 700 soldiers with the u.s. army's 82nd airborne armed with fixed bayonets have been deployed to enforce district seven -- district's 7:00 p.m. curfew. the army says another 1400 soldiers are ready to be mobilized to the nation's capital. president trump reportedly ordered the show of military force as part of "operation themis" -- the code name for his domestic military operation against protesters. the name refers to an ancient greek goddess of law and order. meanwhile "the washington post" , reports u.s. attorney general william barr personally ordered police to beat and tear gas peaceful protesters gathered near the white house monday in order to clear a path for president donald trump to walk to the nearby st. john's

episcopal church where trump posed for photos holding a bible. among the hundreds of people tear gassed was the former assistant rector of st. john's. president trump visited the st. john paul ii national shrine on tuesday, sparking a new round of criticism from religious leaders. washington, d.c., archbishop wilton gregory said trump's visit at this time was "baffling and reprehensible." he is the first african-american archbishop of washington, d.c. australian prime minister scott morrison has ordered his embassy in washington to investigate an assault on an australian camera crew at monday's peaceful protesest outside the white hou. seven network reporter ameli brace was clubbed, tear-gassed, and shot with rubber-coated bullets whilile her memera operator, tim myers, was hit with a riot shield and punched in the face in a live broadcast

that aired across australia. >> we are facing tear gas. this is exactly what it looks like.. whoa! amy: the committee to protect journalists has documented at least 125 press freedom violations across the united states through monday, and new reports of police attacks on reporters continue to ememerge. here in new york, mayor bill de blasio has ordered nightly curfews from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. through sunday. on tuesday, governor andrew cuomo threatened to call out the national guard, saying the new york police department had failed to protect people and property overnight monday when some people set fires and smashed their way into retail stores. mayor bill de blasio rejected the call at a tuesday news conference. >> someone needs a history lesson. when outside armed forces go into communities, no good comes

of it. we have seen this for decades. go back to the 1950's, the 1960's with the civil rights movement on through all the way up to today. amy: the new york police department says it arrested 200 curfew violators overnight, compared to about 700 the night before. in oregon,n, an estimated 10,000 people filled burnside bridge in portland tuesday, laying face-down on the pavement for nine minutes -- the length of time george floyd was pinned beneath the three minneapolis police officers who killed him on may 25. later tuesday, police unleashed volleys of tear gas, flash grenades, and pepper spray at protesters who were marching on the downtown jail and police precinct. in los angeles, where nearly 3000 protesters have been arrested since friday, ucla issued a statement tuesday saying it would no longer allow police to use its college baseball stadium as a "field jail." the jackie robinson stadium is named after major league

baseball's first african american player. other protesters have been processed in l.a. county's jail system, which on sunday reported its first death from coronavirus, a 47-year-old prisoner whose name has not been released. nearly 300 employees and 2000 prisoners have tested positive for coronavirus s in l.a. jails since the pandemic began. in puerto rico, protesters marched on the mansion of governor w wanda vazquez in san juan tuesday, chanting for justice fofor georgege floyd and denouncing puerto rico's own legacy of racism. protesters ignored thehe islan's coronanavirucucurfewnd s stayedn the streets into the night. this is shariana ferrer nunez, a member of puerto rico's feminist collective under construction. >> we recognize that we must dismantle white supremacy. we must dismantle racialized systems. we must eradicate anti-blacack violence.

amy: i in the occupied west bab, dozens of people protested tuesday outside the church of nativity in the city of bethlehem, denouncing the killing of george floyd and the recent killing of iyad el-hallak, a 32-year-old palestinian special needs student who was shot to death by israeli forces at another george -- in occupied east jerusalem this past saturday. el-hallak was reportedly chanting "black lives matter" and "palestinian lives matter" when israeaeli police gunned him downwn, claiming el-hallllak was armed. this is one of the protesters in bethlehem yesterday. >> we tell the people of the world their free e people and especially the american people, that what happened to them, the killing and racism against george floyd, so happens in palestine and to all of palestine's martyrs. we have today a photo of a not sowho's streets was different from the u.s. the u.s. system that killed george.

amy: thousands of people in cities across france defied coronavirus restrictions against mass gatherings and took to the streets tuesday for antiracist protests. in paris, 20,000 people gathered peacefully demanding an end to police brutality and paying homage to adama traore, a black man who died in police custody in 2016 after he was pinned down by an officer. late in the day, police fired volleys of tear gas canisters into the crowds to clear the protests. brazilil has reported nearly 130 new coronavirus deaths, a new daily high for the country. over 31,000 pepeople have didied from virus in brazil. more than 550,000 have been infected -- the world's second highest total behind the united states. meanwhile, in india, the number of coronavirus cases hasas toppd 200,000 and public health official fear the peak could still be weeks away. here in the united states, the u.s. death toll has reached 106,000.

tyson foods has revealed nearly 600 workers at a pork processing plant in storm lake, iowa, have tested positive -- most were asymptomatic. meanwhile, at least 16 graduating cadets at west point have tested d positive after returning to campus ahead of the june 13 commencement, where president trump is scheduled to speak in person despite warnings from public health officials about large public gatherings. once president trump said he wanted to come and have an in person graduation, all the cadets were called back from around the country. president donald trump has announced he is moving this sumummer's republican national convention from charlotte, north carolina. trump accused north carolina governor roy cooper of being "still in shelter-in-place mode" after the governor said a full-scale convention could not safely take place during a pandemic. he said he wanted a scaled down one. voters cast ballots in eight

states and the district of columbia tuesday in primary and municipal elections marred by the coronavirus pandemic and police and military crackdowns on street protests, with voting rights activists warning of widespread disenfranchisement. in washington, d.c., and philadelphia, where polling places remained open even as curfews went into effect, officials said people had permission to be out of their homes if they informed police of their intention to vote. in baltimore, elections officials opened just six in-person voting sites, citing the pandemic. at one polling place, about 100 people -- most of them african american -- were still waiting to cast their ballots around 10:00 p.m. tuesday night. in iowa's fourth u.s. congressional district, openly racist republican steve king has lost a primary election to challenger randy feenstra, who will take on democratic nominee j.d. sholten in november's general election. congressmember king, who has repeatedly praised far-right politicians in europe, was stripped of his congressional committee assignments last year after he said in an interview

with "the new york times" -- "white nationalist, white supremacist, western civilization -- how did that language become offensive?" in missouri, ferguson city council member ella jones will become the first african american mayor in her city's history after winning 54% of the vote on tuesday. she'll succeed james knowles iii, the former chair of the missouri young republicans, who was ferguson's mayor throughout the militarized crackdown on protests that followed the fatal shooting of michael brown by a white police officer in 2014. the officer, darren wilson, was never charged. in his first major address since the e protests began, demomocrac presidential candidate joe biden spoke in philadelphia tuesday and criticized president trump for supporting the use of tear gas and flash grenades to disperse peaceful protesters ououtside the white house. mr. wyden: but i promise you this, i won't traffic in fear

and division. i won't fan the flames of hate. i will seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued our country, not use them for political gain. amy: meanwhile biden has faced , criticism for remarks he made about police training during a meeting with african-american community leaders at bethel a.m.e. church in wilmington, delaware. mr. biden: instead of standing there and teaching the cup with an unarmed man coming at him -- amy: in inindia, an estimated 100,000 people, including a number of coronavirus patients, have evacuated low-lying parts of the western states of gujarat and maharashtra, as a severe cyclone bears down on mumbai for the first time in documented history. in central america, at least 15 people were killed after tropical storm amanda sparked severe flooding in el salvador and guatemala. the storm traversed from the pacific to thehe gulf of mexico where it wasas rechristened tropical storm cristobal.

it's the earliest c-named storm ever recorded, following arthur and bertha, which formed ahead of the official start of the atlantic hurricane season. climate scientists warn 2020 is on track to be hottest year in human history, with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at 418 parts per million -- the highest level in at least 3 million years. and those are some of the headlines. this is s democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine reportrt. i am amy goodman in new w york, joined by mymy cohost juan i in cells from his h home in new brunswick, new jersey. hi, juan. juan: welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: there have now been protests calling for justice for georgege floyd in all 50 states. and on tuesday, 60,000 peoplee turned out, chanting "peace on the left and justice on the right" in the city of houston, texas, where he grew up. among them were people from all walks of life, including a

contingent of black cowboys and embers of george floyd's high school graduating class recalled how george was a star tight end on their football team that went to state championships. this is mayor sylvester turner addressing peaceful protesters in front of city hall after they marched across downtown. >> today it isis about lookingnp the family of george floyd. say his name. >> george floyd. >> say his name. quote george floyd. >> it is about lifting up the name of george floyd. it is about supporting 16 members of his family who have , ok, they have taken the time, walked through the streets -- just like you did -- to be here with you today. and so today, we want to love on

them. george them to know that did not die in vain. that is important. [applause] i know it made a difference to them when thehe police chief inn that thats recognizedd police officer putting his knee on the neck ofof george was wro, that the other police officer standing there not doing ananything, their silence was complicit was wrong. that is imrtant. and it is important for us in georgetown, in this city, to stand up and recognize and say his name. george floyd. amy: that's houston mayor sylvester turner speaking tuesday at a massive rally organized by friends of george floyd, including hip hop artist bun b, who also called for more

legislation to hold police responsible for violence. the rest of the cocountry knows george floyd from the cell phone footage captured during his final minutes in minneapolis just over a week ago when police officer derek chauvin kneeled on floyd's neck as he gasped and pleaded "i can't breathe" and then lay lifeless. for minutes as he continue to kneel on his neck step two officers next to him also kneeling on his back. but in houston's third ward, george floyd is being remembered as big floyd and the gentle giant and for how he was a mentor to a generation of young men as he sought to break the cycle of violence in his community. in a minute, we'll be joined by two of his friends who worked on this outreach with him. but first, this is george floyd in his own words from a post shared on social media. >> i want to speak to you all real quick. i just want to say, i got my shortcomings and my flaws, i-8

better than anyone else. the shootings going on, i d do't put t thoseou're at, guns down. ain'[t what it is. you've got pents trying to bury the kids. think about it. love ya. amy: that is g george floyd in s own words, speaking in a post he shared on social media. well, fofor more, we go to hohouston, where wee are joinedy two people who worked with george in his third ward community.y. patrick "p.t." ngwolo is pastor of the church resurrection houston. he w was a friend of and pastoro george floyd. also with us is corey y paul, a houston hip-hohop artist and entrepreneur who was a fririendf george floyd and ministered with him and pastor p.t. they both marched tuesday in houston with floyd's family members, community leaders, and tens of thousands of supporters.

we welcome you both to democracy now! first, we want to share our condolences with y you on thihis horrificic loss that you and the whole community in this country is s suffering. i want to begin right now with corey paul, the houston hip-hop artist, friend of george floyd. tell us howhe was, you came to know him, the work you did with him, and then how you learnened what happenened on memorial day. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank youou for having us. floyd, i met big big floyd with resurrection pt.ton, pastor we were all together. we were coming into george's home. we were coming into the third ward as visitors. findo we were hopeful to what we call a aerson of p peac, whicich is someone who is from e

ththird warard, who is loved d , is respected thehere, so w we cn coconnect with the community and serve e from a genuine place. fortutunateextremely to m meet george. georgege was already,, as you k, as you can see, as you havave heheard countless times, george was already preaching peace, unity, advocating against gun violence. he was already doing that before we showed up. so whehen we got there, george basically s said, i if it i go's business, then it is my business. that was our introduction. haveuld shoot visuals and bible studies s and different things like that in the cocounity. and george came alongside as, whatever you need, however i can serve, thehe people in the cocommunity know we are good,

welcome them, yoyou know, they e helping us -- a lot of things thatat we could never a accomplh by ourselves. i am from a neighborhood likeke the third ward i in houston. yoyou canan't just go into a neighborhood a and do what you want to. u desperatately need someonone like floyd to usher yoyou into e community,y, and that is who he was. about the biggest take away from my experience with floyd, it is s the unity tt he preached. george is a big guy, but once you are around him and people who know him, you see that all of his respect and admiration is gained throuough love. do nothing else but love. he happens to be a real big guy, but the unity, , the mentoriring from guys ann element or school who arare now grown men whwho he

stories of george taking g caref them, put mononey in their pockets, just lookoking out for them and not e even a blood relation. so when i i found out about what happened to george, i was actually making the video commentatotor in on the central ladyincident where a whitee called the police on a black man saying he was threatening her life. i was making that video when my friend reconcile w who did ministry with us as well sent me the video about geororge. so just the weight of that and everything that isis been gogoig seethe way i feel is how we on videos across the world how we are all feeling right n now. juan: corey paul, given the fact the video o of your friends deah has been played over and over again on media around the world, i'm wondering what you go

through and also the impact that it has had, not just in this country, but protests around the worlrld around your friend's death? videonly saw the partially one time. that was the only time that i i saw it, that one time. i i did not see it again after that. frfrom seeing thatat on several different levels, your outraged. from a human level, even if george was a stranger, to a personal level, knowing him, having the opportunity to have met him and woworked with him in ministry and knowing t the love and thee unity and what he gave and how his life was taken -- also, i served as a houston in my city, which makes me -- made me a first responder and a civil servant.

so even the aspect of the video from him going to hahaving lifeo being lifeless in the officerss continuing to holdld him dowownd stay on his neck, as a first responder, youou are in charge f care as well to the best of your ability, right? and they did the exact opposite. so from every aspect of the .ideo, there is no gray area it was murder. . was a first-degree m murder and seeing the reaction around the world from the video is very telling because i don't think that most people have saw a person go from full of life to their life literally being drained out of them and to the point of death. graphic that so you have to -- you have to see

it. and if you don't see what we see, then you have something insidede of you that is foundatn italy flawed -- foundational he flawed andnd hopefully cononfigd out t because it is displaced. amy: i want to bring pastor conversation.e 60,000 addressed by the african-american mayor as well as many others, 16 members of floyd's family. describe that scene and how you came to know floyd who so many called a gentle giant. thank youou for having me, , a. the scscene was indescribable. i have never seen that many evene downtowown houston, the time t that we won -- the astros won.

he d did not compare to the scee that i saw. it wasn't just the fact ththere wewere so many peoeople will stp people were showing so much love.. i got t there and i had 1 100 ms ready to get out to pepeople who needed masks. peoplele were coming up to me, giving me masks. i'm a big black guy myself. it is kind of offputting when people walk up and offer me things. they offered me hand sanitizer, a mask, offered me other substances, you know, i don't partake up. but man, it was cool, just the gestures were cool. the love and the unity that was out there in the passion. 70re were people from six to out there, just giving. it made me feel hopeful that

people were listening, that the blood of george floyd was heard by god and was heard by god's people. and i also saw it at the place where because of the isolation that we have had these past few months, it was also not only a place to protest george, but also a place to convene and to share ideas about what to do next -- which was amazing. it was almost as if people wanted to get it all done here because we weren't sure when we were going to all see each other again. how i met george. i was a student pastor at a church in the third ward, good baptist church at the time. we were trying to reach the immediatee neighborhood,d, in

particular, , the housing prpro. in trying to reach itt we said, hey, man, let's throw t this concert, hip-hop concert, rap concert, spoken worord concept.. ronnielly, corey anand open up that year. in order to get p people from te neneighborhood to come, we made some flyers. we went out into the homes. we gave -- we passed out flyers. we were skeptical anyone would cocome because, man,n, nobody kw us and we didid not know them. so we e passed out flyers to people i in the neighbororhood d we would say, ok, we will see what happens the night. concert, night of the we were scanning the crorowd looking toto s see people from e saw people from everywhere, all

over the city, all shapes and colors. we did not see anybody from the neighborhohood we passed flyers out from. so one of the pastors looks out guy, head andtall shoulders above everybody else, and he beckons us and we instantly go over there and itit is him a and another frienofof ours. it is the firstst time that we t big floyd. 2012, - -- fast-forward d 2012, we start a church clclub resurrection houston and we are trying to break into the neigighborhood. it what was s one of the first us open up thep neighborhood, let people know that we are ok, not to be suspicious of us, and that wewe are doining good w work. so thosese are my first instancs of coming in contact with big

floyd. pastotor, i want to a ask you, when you see, for i instance, te images of our president just this week after clearing the protesters in front of the white house with a tear g gas and r rr bullets, then walking toto a church nearby and holding up a bible -- your thoughts when you saw thosose images, given the ft the president t has ent t so littttle t time talklking aboute tragic death of george floyd and so much time attacking those who are protesting his death? >> i want to start out with this. i'm n not a political animamal. i'm either a democrat nor republican. from the outside looking

power.hetically truth to say, ii words i'm going to mean, i ththink they come from a sesense of propophetic pain othr than political pain. to see ourur prpresident, who iy word to endorse state-sponsored violence against citizens o of the unitedtates, andnd the me pain behavior is wrong. the bible says a soft answer turns awayayats. if he opened it, he w would see that and h he would see our cocountry neneeds him to bring n the rhetoric, to bring peopople togetherer, and hopopefully, brg

this to a peaceful resolution. and so i saw him do the opposite of what my lord would do. it p pained meme to see that. i believe that was wrong and that our president humbly needs to repent from that sin. amy: i want to go to roxie washingtgton, the mother of geoe floyd's six-year-old d daughterr gianna, speaking at a a press conference yesterday in nneapolis.s. >> this is what those officers took - -- >> it's all right. at the in of the day, they could to go home and be with their families. gianna does not have a father. he will never see her grow up,

grgraduate.. he will never walk her dowown te aiaisle. if there's a problem she is ving and s she needs her dad, she does n not have e that anym. and i amfor my baby here for george because i want .ustice for him i want justice for him because he was good. no matter what anybody thinks, he was good. and this is the proof that he was a good man. amy: that is roxie washington, the mother of george floyd's six-year-old daughter gianna, who was next to her. we are going to end with corey paul. the importance that the gentle beingthat big floyd felt

a father, and what you want to see happen right now before the funeral on tuesday that will take place in your town, inn houston? like thisel predomininately, i can speak onn communities around the nation that are disenfranchised, marginalized, low income, all of these communities that politicians and people in , , needsay need chahange change and uplifting and all of was athings, george leader of that movement. george was the advocate e of changege. georgege can't sisimply be repl. the neighborhoods that are spoken about oftentimes that need so much radical reformatation, you can't jusustp

inin people or information for change. ,t has to be from a genuine holistic place. and that is what george represented inside of that community. are versions there of what george represents all around the n nation. but just like att person like george was a able to be dehuhumanized and murdrdered anw we h have to even fight for justice shows the lack of reverence and respect for those chanange-makers that maybebe d't lolook like whatat we think k ty should look like. -- as you canet a clearly see, these are the difference makers. my prayer is that people will understand that it has to be a level of justice and r respect d a humanizing factotor for us, fr

people o of color, in order for the change that is happening to continue. and d george fully embodied through his life everything that represents, and i hope that we will ever be changed by a. amy: corey paul, thank you for being with us, houston hip-hop artist and entrepreneur who was a friend of george floloyd. we also want to thank pastor patrick p.t. ngwolo, workeded alongside george. whenen we come back, we will lok at an fbi report as presisint trumped claims antitifa, , the i did not find evidence this weekend. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: h hston dj scscrew's versin of "sittin on top of the world" by big floyd -- that's george floyd, featuring chris ward & adad. thisis is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i am amy goodman with juan gonzalez as we turn now to a majojor development in a c casef kenneth chamberlain sr., a black -- african-american man killed in his own apartment in white plains, new york, apartment during a police confrontation in 2011 after he accidentally triggered his medical alert

pendant. it was 5:00 in the morning and he rolled over on it and it called the lifeaid company. on monday, the second circuit of wrongs ruled they were for excessive use of force. the tragic incident occurred early on the morning of november 19, 2011, when kenneth chamberlain, a 68-year-old former marine with a heart condition, a accidentally pressd the button on his medical alert system while sleeping. itas 5:22 2 in the morning. responding to the alalert, polie officers arrived at chamberlain's apartment in a public housing complex shortly after 5:00 a.m. by the time the police left the apartment, just after 7:00 a.m.,

kenneth chamberlain was dead, shot twice in the chest by a police officer inside his home. police gained entry to chamberlain's apartment only after they took his front door off its hinges. officers first shot him with a taser, then a beanbag shotgun, and then with live ammunition. in a moment, we'll be joined by kenneth chamberlain's son and by the attorney for the chamberlain family. but first, we turn to a remarkable series of audio and video recordings from the morning that mr. chamberlain's death. we want to warn you, these contain disturbing footage. much of the audio was recorded by chamberlain's lifeaid medical alert device. the video was recorded from the police taser gun used to shoot him before he was shot dead. after the white plains police arrived at kenneth chamberlain's apartment, chamberlain told an operator from lifeaid that he was not sick a and did not need assiststance. >> mr. chamberlain, do you need

help? >> this is an emergency. i have the white plains police department knocking on my door. i did not call them and i am not sick. >> everything is all right, sir? >> it is not all right. i need help. the white plains police department are banging on my door. amy: after kenneth chamberlain told lifeaid that he was ok but afraid of the police at the door, the lifeaid operator attempted to cancel the call for police assistance. chamberlain went on to tell the lifeaid operator that the police had drawn their guns and were attempting to break down his door. listen closely. , lifeaid, assistance are you inside mr. chamberlain's home? their breaking in my door. >> mr. chamberlain, i heard you say they're breaking in your door. are you ok?

mr. chahamberlain, are you ok? >> i am fine. amy: " "leave me alone" has kenneth chamberlain. one of the officers was accucusd -word.ling the n n

listen carefully. you can hear the officer heart banging on chamberlain's window. chamberlain repeatedlyly says, don't do that, i'm ok. the officer responds, yes, by using the n-word. listen closely. >> don't do that, sir. don't do that, officer. don't do that. don't do that. don't do that. do not do that. i'm telling you, i'm ok. i'm telling you, i'm ok. i'm telling you, i'm ok. amy: a video camera a on the police taser gun recorded the next sequence. you can hear kenneth chamberlain say that police have standards and try pence in the police will kikill him. again, warning, this contaiains disturbing footage. >> t they hahave shohotguns.s. >> mr. chahamberlain.

mr. chamberlrlain. amy: mr. chamberlain's has "i have a bad heart." while the police were threatened to break down his door, chamberlain sister called the police. she was contacted by lifeaid. an attempt to defuse the situation, soon after she was assured the police would not shoot her brother, but that is just what happened. police video shows the moment police broke down his door and shot him with a taser. tv viewers will see a few quick glimpses of kenneth chamberlain. the 68-year-old man was wearing boxer shorts and no shirt. he had been woken up. this video was recorded by a camera on the police taser. listen closely and you can heaer the sounund of the t taser. amy: you can actually see the

electricity shooting kenneth chamberlain. the video cuts out at this point. within minutes, kenneth chamberlain was shot dead by the police. this horrific story is told in the recent feature film " "the kikilling of kenneth chamberlai" byymore, we're joined kenneth chamberlain, jr., who has been fighting g for t the justice of his father sat since 2011. and we're joined by the families attorney mayo bartlett. we welcome y you back k to demoy now! this k killing that we have covered, kenneth chamberlain come the significance of what has jujust taken place. i share our condolences once again after all of these years and i'm sure you are reliving this thiss week as we deal with the george floyd case. but in the midst of all of this,

a judge has overturned the decision throughout the lawsuit you had filed. y you, a amy, first, for hahaving as on the show. just l listening to ththat audii kinda had to - -- kind of have o regain my composurere. it has been a while sinince i've heard all of the a audio like that. along have mainintained all , as the constitution said, it is the right of f the peoeople e secure in their persons house mom reasonable s search and seizizure and d awards issssued wiwithout probable cause. and this is what this fight hass been about. ont these o officers did november 19, 2011 when my father inadvertently triggered his

lifeaid penendant and in dodoin, the police responded and ended up killing him. aroundtith this c coming out the killing of george floyd and ththe rallying and d the protes, it it is sigignificance i can't rereally speak to o but what i n say is what youou're seeining ad ee world right now i is not just ababout the killining of george floyd. it i is about the kiining of tar rice andnd the killing of were marlrley grahaham, kenneth tamen seen her in ththe countless otor names thahat i can ev b beginoo mention. thesee are pleleased thatt appellate judges vacated the original ruling and we lookok forwrward to our day inin court. and hohopefully, this timeme ar, we willl get a fair trial. , i would askrtlett you ththe siificancef f the second court -- psychic circuit

court decision, a case for nine years now that has been in one way or another in the courts and the fact that they claim the -- air dot did n not not sing the police were unlawful in their entry into mr. chamberlain's home. here a f former marine, sleeping peacefully in his own h home, es up s said. >> t thank you very much. t therelways our position was never a reason f for mr. chamberlaiain to have had hisisp invavaded in the first plalace. it wasn't necessarily the role of the c court to make that determination buit certatainly was the e role of the court to allolow u us to at leaeast argut to a jury surgery could makake a meananingful d determination ony or the other. wewe were preventeded from doing that.. so as a consequeuence, it h hasn our poposition all along that there was no full a and fair trl

on the merits of this case. we are thankful now -- itit happens to even b be somethihing that unites people on the left and the right becaususe when you look at peoplele who are on thte riright that you u might consido be e extremists, one of the primary things theyey talk about is the sanctity of a person's home. whether it is the right to bear ararms but certainly the rigigho be free ofof unreasonanae search andd seizure. this is something whehere i woud believe momost people would be able to agree that when you're at home sleeping and you have not committed any crime, would not expect the police are going to break your door down and kill you -- in particular, if there responding for a mededical call wherere you think k they a are e to h help you. amy: we're going to go to break and come back to this discussion. we are talking to atattorney mayo bartlett and killed jean burley junior -- mamayo bartlett junior,d've chamberlain

popolice came in for a wellnlnes check on his fathe and ended up shootingng him dead. we will be back in a moment. ♪ [music break]

amy: "the seven lastst words of ththe unarmed" by cocomposer jol thompson, performed by the sphinx, led by conductor eugene rogegers. this is democrcracy now!,, democracynow.org, the quarantine report.. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. as we turn to a film, we're speaking with kenneth chamberlrlain, jr., his father shot dead by white plains police, and mayo bartlett, the family's attorney. on monday, the court ruled the federal judge was wrong to dismiss parts of the lawsuit against the police for excessive use of force. a new feature film "the killing of kenneth chamberlain" tells the story. this is the trailer. chamberlain, this is being recorded. we just received an activation from your pendant stuff do you have an emergency? i'm not getting a response.

i'gogoing dispah emergency services. >> white plains poli. we're here foa a welfee check. open this door! ou' not comg into m home help me! i need help! amy: kenneth chamberlain was playeded by franankie faison ina remarkable film that just recently came out. kenneth chamberlain, jr., your thoughts as this country surges with uprisings all overcome not only the country, but the world -- this decision coming g down n the midst ofof this? againin, firs let me jujust say thatat of course my family and i overjrjoyed that the original ruling wawas vacacated.

as what i is going on in the countryry, i think ththe pee are now coming togetheher and ty are saying that extrajudicial killings a and summary executios of unarmed black men, women, a d childrdr is no lononger going to be tolerateded. what we have e been witnessing r decacades are crimes agagainst humanity. so to see such a a diverse group of people coming together saying ththat they're no longer r goino tolerate this, this is beautiful. anand the fact that they made ts ruling, , if i can use my platfm to help affefect positive chang, then that is what i'i'm going to do. mayo barartlett, i want to ask you, the supreme court i is slslated to decicide very soon whether it w will take up thee cases that deal with qualified immunity. what is qualified immunity and how does it t affect this particular case?

>> qualified i immunity is a dodoctrine whichch the supreme t actually created which gives police extraordinary shield for their conduct, and a shielding that no other person in the country has. it sayays that unless wewe can d basicacally that no other asonable officer a anywhere could hahave done what this officer did, that person is going to be found to be exonerated.. yoyou're going t to say t there conduct is absolveved. it requires a a tremendous burun onon the part of peoplerying to bring these cacases. the otother thining it does itt dedeters lotots of lawawyers frm taking t these ces bececause you dedicate a lot of meme and l lot of moneyey to these cases s andt may be fourur or five years or n our case, nine years, i 10 years later, without havaving a resolution.. sometimemes these qualified immunity decisioions don''t come until fairly late in the game after you have already invested a lot of time and money so it is a deterrent for people. amy: and officer was charged in this case?

-- annual officer was charged in this case? there were many y officers involved. shot him deaead undispsputed? >> one thihi we'veve askederee from t begininning is f for an independent investigator and when you look at these caseses, change ininshould be a the grand jury system. the grand jury should not be ann arm m of the prosecutor but independent, equally accessiblee frfrom the defensese as well as civil sites anand also for the prosecutor shouldd not be on t e third or fourth floloor of a das office, anand you shshould be ae to s see what t happeneded in ad jury. s should not be secret.t. there is no needed for it toto e secret. if there is aa need, can make an application to a court for prototective order but we beliee that neneeds to change as well s the discsciplinary procedures aiainst bullies wherere therer's been a finding of misconduct. that should also b be public and readily available. you shshould not havave to go e these department find out what misconduct -- amy: there's no time limit on murder. why can't the officer be charged

now? >> there's been no jeopardy attached. the officer certainly could be charged now. amy: we have to leave it there. i want to thank you, mayo bartlett and especially kenneth chamberlain, jr..

♪ welcome back, and thank you for joining us again on nhk "newsline." we begin in the united states. where defense secretary mark esper is distancing himself from his commander in chief, president donald trump. esper says he does not support deploying troops to quell the protests across the country, president trtrump warning the possibility i