09/08/20 09/08/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, , this is democracy y now! >> las thi she saiwas, urn off thev." thnext thi i rememr is lowed bananat the door. somebobo kicked in the door and shoty girriend.d. >> no oneever told me what haenen. i didid not find out thathehe ws shoty a popocefficer unt i saw on e e news

shhad a ve invitin persality. she had a aroblem sver attitude. >> the media tried to assassinate her character. we can't keep quiet. amy: protests are continuing in louisville, kentucky, demanding justice for breonna taylor, the 26-year-old emergency room technician who was fatally shot by louisville police in her own home. she was killed six months ago this week. no officer has been arrested. we will speak to filmmaker yoruba richen, director of the new documentary "the killing of breonna taylor." then "how donald trump helped kneecap the robert mueller of latin america." we will look at how the trumump administration helped kill off a powerful anti-corruption commission in guatemala in exchange for guatemala's support of the trump administration's policies in the middle east and the border. pres. trump: it is a great honor to have president morales a and misses morales of guatemala with

us. we've had a tremendous relationship of the last fears on the border. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report wewelcome to democracy now!, i'm m amy goodman. wildfireres continue to rage across california. the creek fire in central california forced an entire small town to evacuate, as well as firefighters battled the blazes which have already burned over 100,000 acres. around 200 people were rescued by helicopter as the wildfires overtook a popular campground in the sierra national forest. meanwhile, authorities say the el dorado fire in san bernardino county was sparked by a pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party. the fire has grown over the 9000 acres. governor gavin newsom declared a state of emergrgency sunday in five counties. cacalifornia has alreaeady brokn the yeyearly record for acres burned before the start of the

fall fire season, with over 2 million acacres scorched. multiple heat records were also broken in california this weekend, incluluding a readingnf 121 degrees in woodland hills, the highest temperature recorded in los angeles county. higher than baghdad, iraq, which itself is in the midst of a heat wave. as the climate crisis-fueled heat wave e grips californrnia, recordrd cold tempereratures are expected in parts of the country including the rockies, plains, and midwdwest, with rare septemr snow forecasast for the rocky mountains. temperatures are expected to be in the low 30's in denver today, just days after the thermometer hit 101 degrees on saturday. in new york,rorotestinin rochester upstate continued over the weekend demanding justice for daniel prude. prude, a black man, died from asphyxiation in march after police officers handcuffed him,

put a hood over his head, and pushed his face into the freezing cold ground for two minutes while kneeling on his back. on sunday, a group of naked and near-naked protesters wearing nothing but "spit hoods" protested outside rochester's public safety building. new york attorney general leticia james she is impaling a grand jury over prude's case. the mayor of rochester, lovely warren, has promised police reforms after nearly a week of nonstop protests. >> it is my solemn duty as the mayor to honor mr. prude andnd t let his death the in vain and to do everything possible toto transform how we police e our cy , to truly protect a and serve r residentnts. amy:y: protests were held across the united states, including louisville, kentucky, where armed, right-wing protesters confronted anti-racist

protesters during a demonstration ahead of the kentucky derby saturday. this comes as "vice" reports at least one of the officers involved in the police killing of louisville resident breonna taylor was wearing a body camera when she was killed, contradicting earlier statements by the local police department. we will haveve more on the breoa taylor case after the headlines. in portland, oregon this weekend, over 100 days of daily demonstrations have taken place as police continue to violentnty repress protesters. coronavirus cases in thehe unitd have topped 6.3 million, with a confirmemed death toll of over 189,000. cases are rising in 22 states according to reuters, as health experts warn the numbers could get worse following gatherings over the labor day weekend. schools remain a site of new coronavirus clusters. over 51,000 cases have now been reported across more than 1000 campuses.

"the wall street journal" reported several major drug companies, including pfizer, johnson & johnson, and moderna,, will issue a joint public pledge to not seeeek governmentnt apprl fofor a covid-19 v vaccine until they are p proven to be e safe d efeffective. this comes as concerns are growing trtrump is trying to ruh the relelease of a vaccine befoe the november election. during a news conference on monday, trump tried to coerce reuters reporter jeff mason into taking off his face mask because his voice was muffled. trump relented after mason said he would speak louder. mamason is the former presididef the e white house correspondents associatioion. i drawn, trump report -- prpraie ththe reporterer who took off hs .asksk "you sound clelear," trump said. as global covid-19 cases topped 27.2 million, india has

shot past brazil to become the second-most infected country, with over 4.2 million cases. around 1000 covid-19 deaths are being recorded daily in india. spain has become the first country in western europe to top 500,000 coronavirus infections as the country has witnessed a second surge in coronavirus cases amid the easing of lockdowns and the reopening of schools. greece has registered 10 cases of coronavirus in the overcrowded migrant camp of moria on the island of lesbos. in russia, some frontline workers, including teachers and healthcare workers, are expressing concern over getting a coronavirus vaccine touted last month by president vladimir putin, which is still undergoing trials. critics say it's stilill premate for r widespread u use and thate governmement rushed the vaccin's approval. ukrainiaian officialals say belarusian opposition leader maria kolesnikova has resisted being expelled to ukraine by tearing up her passport at the border. on monday, witnesses reported

she was snatched off the streets of minsk andnd driven off f in a van. this a all comes one month after the authoritarian president alexander lukashenko claimed victory in an election many say was rigged. on people took to the streets of sunday, 100,000 minsk as protests d demding lukasashenko step down continueue to gainin steam. in germany, russian opposition leader alexei navalny is out of an induced coma and responsive, according to the berlin hospital treating him. navalny, a vocal critic of the russian presidident vladimir putin, was poisoned last month with novichohok, a banned military-grade nerve agentnt, ad airlifted to a hospital in germany. the kremlin has denied any reresponsibility f for navalny's poisoning. in britain, ththe extradition hearing of wikileaks founder julian assange resumed this week after being delayed for months amid the pandemic. assange is wanted in the u.s. for exposing u.s. war crimes in iraq and afghanistan and faces a 175-year sentence on espionage and hacking charges.

as he arrived at the london courthouse, assange was arrested on 18 new charges from a u.s. indictment filed in june. legal observers say they were barred from the proceedings. protests took place in london and in cities around the world in defense of assange and press freedom. this is julian assange's father john shipton speaking monday as he left the courthouse. .> i think the case is a fraud fraud to the court by the american department of justice. julian is an australian citizen. the publications are in the united kingdom. he is kidnapped, judicially abducted to the knighted states to spend 175 years in jail. amy: nearly 300 rohingya refugees have disembarked in indonesia after being stranded at sea for over six months. the refugees reportedly set sail from southern n bangladesh this

springng, but the majority were denied entry by both malaysian and thai officials who cited coronavirus restrictions. over a dozen children were among the e group. some 30 pepeople likely y died e at seaea. since 2017, hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees have fled violent t persecutionn buburma. in the philippines, president rodrigo duterte has pardoned a u.s. marine who was convicted in 2015 of killing a transgender woman. joseph scott pemberton killed 26-year-old jennifer laude in a hotel room near a former u.s.. naval basese. he admitted to punching and choking her after learning she was transgender. local lgbtq rights group bahaghari tweeted -- "for as long as the u.s. maintains hegemony over our military, economy, and politics, there will be no justice for jennifer and for the filipino lgbtq+." in saudi arabia, a court issued prison sentences of between seven and 20 years for the eight defendants in the murder of

"washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. khashoggi was killed and dismembered in the saudi consulate in turkey in october 2018. the trial and verdict were widely condemned around the world, namely for the failure to address who ordered the murder of khashoggi, a critic of the saudi government. agnes callamard, u.n. special rapporteur on extra-judicial executions, called it "a parody of justice." she added -- "as for the individual responsibility of the person on top of the state, the crown prince mohammed ben salman, he has remained well protected against any kind of meaningful scrutiny in his country." she urged the u.s. to release its intelligence findings on the role of the crown prince in khashoggi's killing. back in the u.s., fallout continued over r reports last wk that trump refeferred to u.s. soldiers who died in war as "losers" and "suckers." on monday, trump told reporters top pentagon officials don't like him because he wants to get the u.s. out of endless wars

that benefit weapons manufacturers. last year, trump bypassed congress so he could sell $8 billion of weapons to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. recently, the u.s. that it could start selling f-35 jets to the uae following the normalization agreement it reached with israel. and according to a former dhs official, trump berated a marine general in the oval office, demanding he award a particular contract to a certain company building the wall on the southern border. trump ordered a crackdown on anti-racism training within federal agencies, calling it "divisive, anti-american propaganda." the director of the office of management and budget said they are targeting spending related to critical race theory and white privilege. in education news, trump threatened on sunday to pull federal funding from schools that used the new york times' 1619 project -- which reexamines the legacy of slavery -- in their curriculum. nikole hannah-jones won a

pulitzer prize this year for her essay as part of the acclaimed interactive project, which she also directed. in mississippi, prosecutors have dismissed the case against curtis flowers, a black man who was tried six times and spent over two decades in prison on capital murder charges. flowers was accused of killing four people in 1996 at a furniture store in winona, mississippi, but the mississippi supreme court overturned his first three convictions and flowers's next two trials ended in hung juries. in 2010, a jury in his sixth trial found flowers guilty and sentenced him to death. last year, the u.s. supreme court ruled flowers deserved yet another trial, saying prosecutors had engaged in racial discrimination for striking black jurors from the panel. president trump said mondaday he is open to an investigation of postmaster general louis dejoy's campaign fundraising, following a recent "washington post" report that said dejoy's former

employees at new breed logistics in north carolina were pressured into making donations to republican candidates, and then later reimbursed through bonuses -- an illegal practice. trump said dejoy should lose his jojob if he did something wrong. dejoy, who is a trump megadonor, has come under fire for recent changes at the postal service that have caused widespread delays and sparked major concerns over mail-in ballots in november's election. a federal judge in californinia has temporarily halted the trump administraration frorom ending s census collection efforts one month early, pending a court hearing later this month. the census bureau is being challenged by a coalition of rights groups, local governments, and native american communities after it announced it would end its collection efforts at the end of september instead of the end of october, which could lead to a vast undercount of immigrants and communities of color. climate activists from

extinction rebellion targeted media outlets around the country and around the world on friday, to demand news organizations truthfully report on the climate emergency and stop financial conflicts of interest with fossil fuel companies. in washington, d.c., activists staged a die-in in front of cnn's offices. >> the most powerful news organizations in this country, cnn has a moral duty to tell the truth to the public. it has a moral duty to inform threatthat the gravest humankind is ever faced. cnn is failing to fulfill its moral duties. instead of telling the truth, cnn takes money from the fosossl fuel companies that light of the public. amy: dozens of extinction rebellion activists in britain were arrested as they blockaded access to printing presses of publications owned by robert murdoch, who is also the ownerer of news cocorp here in the u.s. and prominent peace activist, lawyer, and writer kevin zeese has died at the age of 64. kevin zeese was deeply involved

in many anti-imperialist and anti-corporate movements, including the fight for universal health care and occupy wall street. in 2019, he was part of a group of activists who occupied the venezuelan embassy in d.c. to prevent it being taken over by venezuela's u.s.-backed opposition. this is kevin zeese speaking from inside the embassy in may 2019. >> we're not going to leave voluntarily. we have been here for 34 dayays. we will stay longer if necessary. anhope this results in agreement between venezuela and the united states to protect this embassy from the state coup, nongovernment the u.s. is pushing forward. amy: kevin zeese ran the website popular resistance and the podcast clearing the fog with his partner margaret flowers. anand those are some of the headlilines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report.

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amy: "my life" mary j. blige. the favorite artist of breonna taylor. ththis is dedemocracy y now!, democracynow.org, the e quarante report. i'm amy goodman. hundreds of anti-racist protesters faced armed right-t-wing men brandishing log guns in louisville, kentucky as , saturday they gathered ahead of the kentucky derby to demand justice for breonna taylor, the 26-year-old black emergency room technician who was fatally shot by louisville police in her own home in march. protesters hoped to use the 146th kentucky derby -- already months delayed due to the pandemic -- draw attention to two breonna taylor's case. they said that police did little to intervene as a group of mainly white armed so-called counter-protesters carrying

american flags chanted "usa" and "back the blue" and attempted to intimidate the demonstrators. on monday, the louisville mayor announced a new interim police chief, yvette gentry. she is the first black woman to fill the role. this comes as more than 1200 new photos of the crime scene at the louisville apartment where police shot and killed breonna taylor show a scene of chaos that unfolded on march 13 when plainclothes police officers using a no-knock search warrant broke down breonna taylor's door supposedly in search of drugs. taylor was in bed with her boyfriend kenneth walker, who reached for his gun and fired a shot thinking there was an intruder in the apartment. three officers then opened fire, hitting breonna taylor five times. the crime scene photos show bullet holes and pieces of bullets in every room of the

apartment and in two adjacent apartments. one of the officers, brett hankison, was fired in june for shooting blindly from outside of the apartment, including through a covered patio window and door. the other two officers, jonathan mattingly and myles cosgrove, are on administrative leave. but none of the officers who killed breonna taylor have been charged. on friday, "the new york times" released a documentary about breonna taylor's life and death. it's called "the killing of breonna taylor." this is the film's trailer. >> theast thinshe said was "turoff the ." th next thing i remember is a loud bang at the door. somebody kicked the door and otot my rlfrfrie. >> no one never told me really atat hapned.d. i did d t find out that sheasas

otot by police offer until saw it on the news. >> s had a vy inviti persality. she had a problem soerer titutude assasnatetried to breonna's character. we c cant keep quiet. >>mmediate there we red flags. there were bullet holes everywhere. it was w war ze. >>nce the shooting occurre theyevever srchehed e apaparent ananfurther. tbe renenred.eeds the question is,ilill that happen? >>t has to stop. amy: that's the trailer for "the killing of breonna taylor." well, for more, we go to newburgh, new york, where we're joined by the film's director and producer yoruba richen. -- youhe director of the is at cuny. can you talk about this next month's after the killing of

breonna taylor? take us through what has happened but start with what we know a about that fafaithful nit -- fateful nightht. > it is grereat to be heree n to be on t the show. night isnknow about t that that there were five no knknock warrrrants that the louisvilllle , ellllenicece departmenent pdpd, are able to obobtain. was breononna tayaylor's ex-b-boyfriend jamarcus tataylod one whicich iss on breonna tay's apartmenent. theyey were ablele to obtainin e warrants b because they y say ty t thatdence that showewed to be seen atgoioi

jajamarcus glover'r's house i in janunuary anand t that sosometin fefebruary that jamarcus had her name, , her adaddress a as his s .. thth s said that w was the reaen they g gave thinkiking there m e 'sugs oror moneyey at t breonna aparartment. the lawyersrs and breonna's s fi up-to-dat not inrmation and ininact, in order r to obtn these rrrrants need to haha very upo-o-date 42 o78oion othe lt hours. inhe last time i baly they had upted information was in february th occred d mah 13.. ththe's s issuef whether these warrtsts wervalilid.

know the word at breonna's house was not exeteted coectltly because she deded upead.d. - -there are questiss aboutt how thewewere execucud, f the policece announced themselvs loud enonough -- thehe police sy they did announce themsmselves s they were breaking i into the apartmenent. kenneth walklker, her b boyfrie, who was the survivovor of the nighght, said hehe did not h hem and as a legegal licicensed gunn owner r as they y were breakakio his apartment, he shot one shot because he thought they were being broken into. and honestly, the barrage of shots and breonna was killed. after that, kenny was taken into custody immediately and we have gush ofg video from the

him being taken into custody saying he did not know what happened. they were lying in bed when they on.d the doors being banged he ended up spending two weeks in jail until he was let ouout f jail. he did notot know what happened. hehe foundutut on thnenews wt haeneded to his girirlfriend whn he wasas in prisonon. meanwhile,e, tamikpapalmer breonna's motherhad gott a ll frorokenny that n nig a these enents we happeng. e enende up rushingown to breonna's aptmtment. she does not live e far from t e apartment complex. she was s told by ththe officere , whengo to the hospital no one was at the hospital.l. so unclear why they told her to do that. she waited there.

shshe waited a at the hospspitaa coupuple of hoururs in n the hol toldld her therere was no wood - thatat breonna w was not theher. atn she went back a and waited ththe apartmenent complexex, w d more hours and thehen finally ws told t that breonnnna was stilln the apartment.t. so shshe knew that shshe had passed away, that she was dead en she fnd that t. police dot kn tt sh her until t next day on thnews. she wanonot given thiss information.n. go back to to kenneth h walkerer, her boyfrie. he takes his legal weapon -- they are in bed, their house is broken into, and he hears a shot. then calls the police himself. that 911 call we heard, he is

calling thee police to ask for help foror an intrududer. >> absolutely. he calleled the police himself.. tamika,viouslsly had c called breonna'a's mom,m, andnd then hn momom, and t then calleded the . on the cal h hear m saying esn't k kno what happening. someee shot s glfriend d hes crying amy: want too to a lger vsion of at clip,hat 911 callll that kenneth walker makes to the police that night. isi don't know what happening. somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend. cooks where was she shot? >> i don't know. she's on the ground right now. i don't know. help. >> issueue alert and able to t k yoyou? >> no.

amamy: yoruba a richen? >> i think youear the -- i mean, you h hear it in n his vo. he doeoesn't know what has happened.. breonna is shot on ththe floor. imamagine what that must feel like forr him. bed.were inb they h hear the brbreaking in oe door.. they getet dressed a as quicklys possibible. brbreonna is screaming out, "w"o is i it?" kekenny says t there is no a an. and then when the e door -- when whenbrereached thee door is he l let off the shot because he ththought they wewere beingng bn into. amy: i i want to go to another clip from your film "the killing of breonna taylor," whwhere we hear from one of breonna's

neighbors who wished to remain unnamed. at first, to breon's motr tamika pmemer. >> i started callingimim and he wasn't swererinthe phone, i started lllling breonna and s wasn't ansring. >> i'm roughly 100 etet froherr apartmtmt. my apartment does ysysical toh hersrsn theheop right corn. so all betenen me d ththe house was the screreen door, and i'm sisittintherere tchingng tv a little past midnight a i i hea aop,, pop, pop. immediaty y aftethatat, heard two morcops. thats s when i pululled my bnds en to see what was happening outside. is that unlike the okk corral. amy: in this c clip from thehe documentary y "the killing of breonna taylor," we hear from donavis duncanan, a louisvillele police offfficer whoho lives ine same apartment complex as breonna ylylor. but fit, b brena tayayr's mother tamikpalmer. >> we stood out there unti

abou almost 50 in the morng.g. it me no sen. ey' all othese poce o the and nody is teing me anythi.. i do't know why any of th i is happppeng. i said, where is breonna? i needo o see eonnnna. >> i told her holdn one seco, , i'm not at lirtrty to sawhat happened. i went to get a deteivive. they wenand d spe to breon's fami at th point in time. >>t was about 100 and ithe morning when he comes bk k over anand says they were almost de.. said, ok, tha's fine, but where b breon? well,is when heaid ma'amam, she is still in the apartmt. then what tt meant. amamy: againin, that was breon's mother tamika palmerer. and before that, donavis duncan.

tellll us about t the louisville police o officer whoho lives ine same complex.. duncan lived in the complexx that breonna lilivd in a and does security there. kind of like his s second jobob. soso he did nonot know t the ev, what was goining not until he wass notified. then he went down thehere becaue he w was in the e darks wewell. tryrying tolly y just help thehe process a along, i g, in t terms o of sepeparating the public from what was happening around breonna's apartment. it is six months ago this week that breonna was killed. give us a timeline on the reaction then, what t people

understood, and then what happened after the killing of george floyd -- how this case has grown to the point where this weekend at the kentucky derby, six months later, massive protests are happening, on the property of the attorney general come t the first a african-amemn attorney genereral of kentutuck, and so mucuch more. night --march 13, the the early mornrning of march 1 3 , tamamika did killed not get much infoformation orory ininformation n really frorom te police. ..e called a lawawyer strucbybyiatelyere - -- the presess that

suspect killed in drug program. cops were shot. thatat is how it wawas been presented. therere was a sense that somethg was off, that this wawas not the entirere story. they startrted to takeke on thee anand doingng their own investigatation. memeanwhe, t theriend d d family ofof b breonna started on socicl mediaa saying this narrative was media washat thehe puttining out t there. kennnny is still in jailil. he''s s been called -- you know, shootiting a cop. breonna is dead. she wawas calllled suspect in ag probe. they knew this was not the story. so they began to create an putting information out on this needs t tot

be investigated, k kenny needs o be freed. and still it wasn't until the killing of george floyd that this case -- of course, corona shut everything down just a few days after this. and combined with that and the fact that there was no video in this case, as there have been video in other harrowing events of like people being shot by police, wasn't the case here that there was video -- or a at least video bebeing released. we don't actually know what video is out there because the lmpd is not given any information, nor have the results of their investigation are released -- i will get to that in a second. it was the killing of george floyd that people started to focus more attention on what happened to breonna taylor. in the city of louisville itself, you get prototestsnd

reated protests began and really, really elevated until ththere was a takeover r of jeffersoson square, whihich is n area in the downtown louisville where all of thelmpd is, the courts are, and the e protesters and over thahat sququare rerenamed it foror breonna tayl. escalated.havave and wi t that, the national l ad ininternational attention. at t the same time, the reason y the prototests escalalated is because e the lmpd has not released any information pretty much -- in fact, they put out a blank incident report a couple of months later that said there were no injuries to breonna. and ththat enraged people evenn

more. amy: this is absolutely amazing. this incident report, when it says injuries, says "nonene." to enter the apartment, says "none." they used a a battering g ram ad breonna a taylor was shot multle timemes. >> it is an o outrage. what else can we say? it fueled d the anger of the community,y, rightly so. lmpd hasas said nothing. at that point, brett hankinsnso, one of the officers, was f fired -- butut that is a few m months after for r that to hahappen. the otherr officerers are stilil emplployed by the l lmpd. also, the investigagation -- the arare two investigagations thate going on ththat p people are e g for. , anantornrney geneneral

indepependent investigagation tt was turned over to his o office, and then t the fbi investigatitn asas well. ththe attorneyey geneneral a are investigatating -- the investigation in his office, looking at the events thatat happened that night. we know he has giviven no timele of when those reresults will be released. we found out a big thihing that folks arare waitingg foror thate were told that -- ththat the investigatation was wawaiting fs the ballistics report.t. ththe ballistitics will show whh bullet it breonna. so that is ststill unknowown. and d that is papart of the rean why no officers hahave bee charged, bececause they do notot know -- the ballistics report has to tell them which bullet tt brbreonna. we found out, i believe last week, the beginning of last weweek, thahat those balliststis reports hahave been releasased. theyey are in the agag's hands,t

yet still no timeline on when the r results will be released. amy: let's talk about brett hankison.. you gogo deeply into his record. he is the one who shot in from outside the apartment through a window and the one who was fired for firing blindly. d death, areonna's woman saw the names of the officers and said, my god, that is the guy who went t after me, who assaulted me, sexually harassed me. rececord thaton''s is coming out more andnd more as one woman after another comes out.t. r recordonn hasas a --vious t to this of chaharges

frfrom chargeses filed in hihise record.. and nonone of thatat -- all ofoe haveve either clcleared or dismissesed. so that is not. when this case started g getting attention,n, a young woman thouh inteterviewed in the film, wrote on facebook ababout her encoununtered with hanankison aa barr wherere he does s security. ridide -- asked a heher if she wanted a riride hoe late att night stuff she saiaid yes.s. he is an officicer. amy:y: in his ununiform. she e was walking and he pulled over a a askedf shshe nted a a rideome. >>xactly. she gegets ithe e ca shsh says immeately hetatarted rurubbg her legs, calngng her baby. g gting really sceded. she knknewt was wrorong

whenen she getss out -- when s e gets to her house, she flies out awaye car and triries to get as quickly as possible. texts her fririend that t this happened, ththat he was s an ofr andd said whatat this creeeepy p did to her. her friend, d delete fileled a report -- immedidiate leaf elder report t about whatat happened d no r response. and then n ashis case c comes to lighght, she telel her b boyfrid at that is the samame cop. he calls the lmpd and tries to follow complplaint, nothing. facebook a and on she e starts getting all of thee other women comingg forward, aa few other womemen coming forward

sasaying they y had similalar encounters with hankison. similar sesexual misconducuct encocounters witith hankisonon. two of f the womomen, emily y aa margo i talked to the fbi this investigation. amy: most recently you have prosecutors reportedly o offerig breonna tayloror's ex-boyfrienda plea deaeal if he names breonnas a member of an alleged organized crime syndicacate in return for leniency on drug charges. this is jamarcus glover turned down the plea deal. he was facing something lilike 0 years. he would get out. >> that was pretty shockining. i think whahat tom winene, the prprosecutor, , has said t thats -- t there's no d denying it t s

wrwritten up, , this offerer. i think he said it w was a drart of a an offer oror somethingng? i'm m not exactltly sure.e. this offer toas jamamarcus in some form abouout as aing breononna taylor co-conspirator. i ththink it iss important to emphasize that, a, no drugs orr money werere foundn n her apartment. police s stopped the archch because of thee evens that night.. as i say in ththe film, they cod have done the search dadays latr if that was the whole r reason this investigation came to be. because they thought drugs or money were in the apartment. even fururther than thateveven i there were drugs or money in the aparartment -- which thehere wee not -- people -- wewe are suppod to be democracycy where you hava fairir trial. ouour african-americanan citizes

not t deserving of a faiair tri, ofof an indictment and a fair trial if that is the case? -- police e cannot judge, jury, and d executioner. we have to alwlways come back to that guilty or innocent.t. in this wowoman was innocent, bt guililty or innocecent people deserveve a fair trial. this is s not the way we go o -e should be going about prosecuting supposed crimes. amy: finally, you mentioned you were going to say it looks likee in the lastt days, there may hae been please body cam footage, number one, and also what was it like for you as an african-american woman, as a filmmaker toto go to louisvilleo do this documentary, too, sadly, not meet breonna herself but meet her through the memories of others? toto flesh out her stor? to learnrn abo her as a huhuman

being? take that f first. the thing that i felthehen i started -- when i went to louisvilille and starteded talng with her fririends and her famiy howd kennyny and thehe city and the city w was in the uprising around her killiling, i felt the trauma.. i i personallyly felt the trauma that we endure ass afrirican-american people when e hear andnd see another killing, anheher policece killing -- whi, by the w way, we also know is nothing new.w. it is happen for generations and generations and generations. it is a trauma we have in ouour i in her that i saw community and ththat we have asa people. and that i is really what -- one of the things s i want people to understatand when they watch ths that these arere

trauaumatic events. it is not just the loss of one young g woman, it is the l lossa best friend, thehe loss of the metaphor to her disish mentor to her two-yearar-old goddaughter,t is the lososs to her and k kit's future. it is not just one peperson dyi. it has reveverberations jujust e person bei killed b by the cops and the officers we paid protecect, but -- we pay to protect and service, but a loss to the entire community.y. amy: and the idea that there is footage actualllly? > yeses. becaususthe narcicics unit, which were the firirst officersn thee scene to enact -- execute policyrantt, because of a , theyey don't have t to wear by cam footage. -- i meanan, body c cameras.

there are all l of these other officers there as we see in n te picture. some were wearing g body cams. but none of this h has been releaseded. none of this has been released. the lmpd has released d nothing. amy: a and the protesters are facicing off against thehe very police deparartment ththat theye presesting. >> absolutely. it in saw, and you see the subsequent protests, the d andarization of the lmpo 70 police department's across the country. for the most part, the protests were peaceful. they would the every night and you would see these hillbilly militarized -- heavily militarized police that onlyy antagonize the situation. this is something we are seeing across the country. amy: i want to thank you so much, yoruba richen, director

and producer of the new york times presents' "the killing of breonna taylor," now streaming on hulu. she is a former dedemocracy now! producer. thank you for joining us. congratulations on the stone. when we come back, how donald trump took down the robert mueller of l latin america." stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: : "resistir" sara curruchich.. this is democracy nonow!, democrcracynow.org, the quararae report. i'm amy y goodman. "how donald trump took down n te robert mueller of latin america." that's the headline of a new investigation by reveal at the center for investigative reporting looking at how the trump administration aided guatemala's right-wing government to kill a powerful anti-corruption commission. the story centers on ivan

velasquez, a colombia prosecutor who headed the international commissionon against impunity in guatemala from 2013 to 2019. a leading backer of the commission in the united states was former vice president joe biden. after leaving office, biden wrote -- "i made it clear that u.s. funding for guatemala hinged on cicig g being allowed to contine its work." but the trump administration took the opposite approach and agreed to withdraw support for the commission in apparent exchange for guatemala's support of trump's immigration and middle east policies. in 2018, guatemala moved its embassy in israel to jusalem just after the united states did. a year later, guatemala's then president -- the former comedian -- jimmy morales agreed to make guatemala a safe third country for migrants seeking asylum in the u.s. the agreement requires asylum seekers who journey through guatemala en route to the united states to apply for asylum in guatemala instead of at the u.s.-mexico border.

on august 31, 2018, guatemalan president morales announced he was shutting down the anti-corruption commission which had begun investigating morales himself, his son, and his family. morales was flanked by 50 military officers. soon tanks and jeeps with mounted artillery provided by the united states circled around the office of the commission. reporters aaron glantz and anayansi diaz-cortes write -- "all of this shook guatemalan society to the bone -- a dark reminder of the civil war and military rule." before it was disbanded, cicig have prosecuted over 100 cases, including one is former leader melina remains in jail. well, aaron glantz and anayansi diaz-cortes both join us now to talk about reporting for reveal. and report in the daily beast.

aaron, talk about the significance of releasing this now. this is a story that involves president trump, vice president pence, involves sheldon adelson -- the big republican donor with connections to israel -- involves columbia itself. crurusadingez is a human rights prosecutor who is attending to do this work in guatemala. > ivan vevelasquez, the persn who blew the whistle to us. had taken down presidents and militaries in guatemala and in colombia. he was known as the robert mueller of latin america. inwas brought to guatemala 2013, as you mentioned, he had strong supportf vivice presisidt joe bibiden withth the idea thaf tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors are ararriving a at the u.s. bordedr every year, that it is in the u.s. interestt to improve

conditions in guatemala by lessening g the amount o of corruption and impunity in that country. so as you menentioned, ivanan vevelasquez, shortly after he arrives in guatemala, he throws lina in p prisont mo fofor r runng customsms ring ate airport. his involvement in that. but as you mentioned, then donald trump comes in office. we see an entirely different dynamic take place, where these two former television statars, donald trurump and jimmy morale, both with the document history to killm, band together this anticorruption force e and say themselves. amy: i want to go to ivan velasquez himself, ahead of cicig, talking aboutut what happppened. it's presidentt marella's does

president trump, i understand what you're going through. you're being persecuted by robert mueller and the states. and being persecuted by ivan velasquez. i know how much you have suffered. [indiscernible] you help us and we will help you. how do you shut down cicig? by cutting the funds. that is exactly what happppened. amy: i want to go to march 2018 when then u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley spoke to aipac policy conference in washington, d.c., and thanked guatemala for supporting the trump

administration's decision to recognize jerusalem as i israe's capital. >> last week i took a trip to guatemala and hononduras. [applaususe] and i thank them both for voting with us. [applause] god bless guatemala. they have even joined us in moving their embassy to jerusalem. amy: anayansi diaz-cortes, if you could talk more about this? then you have sheldon adelson chartering a private plane for marella's and the leadership of guatemala to go to jerusalem when the u.s. was recognizing -- embassy to jerusalem. how this is part of the story. >> the important thing to remember is this commission was basically set up to do kind of the hard labor of inststitution

building after dececades of civl war and u.s. invololvement in supportiting the milititary dictatorships here. you know, when we look at biden support of cicig and the contrast of what happens when velasquez starts going after jimmy morales for corruruption, then you see loving on the partt of guatemala sending signals to the u.s. to then n support the united states in moving t the guatemala to jerusalem as a way to tell trump, "i understand your suffering." nike said, "give robert mueller in the united states and i have ivan velasquez here, get the cicicig out of my hair in guatemala." we s see how thahat timeline tas place, first with h nikki haley visiting guatetemala and telling ivan velasquez, "tone it down."

"don't hold press conferences." and then daysys later, she is tt aipac with jimmy morales there as well, announcing this and thatat leads to a slow demise or the year.r. of the cicig. it is important to acknowledge in order for cicig to work,, cicig to make r recommendations based on what they bebelieve should happen but really i it is the attorney general and the guatemalan congress who implement these recommendations. so at some point, morales and the attorney general and velasquez were a dream team. they were working together. the moment t that velasquez goes afafter morales' family, that changes. morales refuses to stand before a judge and velasquez does not back down. amy: anayansi diaz-cortes people can go to democracynow.org to see our interview with the former guatemalan attorney general who morales goes after

and indicts. this we can, , interpol said they'rere not going to honor any arrest warrantnt for her. > that is correct. that i is correct. we don't get into that story becacause there's so much to get into, but her leaving g guatemaa was like a keyey m moment where suddenly youou have the attorney general velasquez working so closely with is no more as well. so he is slowly isolated. and once the u.s. support is isenn away, well, cicig basically left not only without teeth, but without substance. amy: if you can wrap this up, aaron glantz, and talk about what came of this, what this means that you had morales surrounded by military tanks, number were provided by the united states, announcing cicig was being didissolved d and ivan vevelasquezz was being throwown? >> as you said andnd we say,y, t wawas a dark remder ofof the das when guatemala had previously

been ruled by u.s.-backed juntas. the whole purpose of this international anticorruption force was to help turn the page and move toward a more just society. -- all ofas visually those military members the u.s. provided military vehicles in the streets sent a clear message when velasquez leaves the country to attend a u.n. getting in t the u.s.,., he trieies t tt back in, they won't let him in. they sent his belongings to colombia, which is where he is from come and where anayansi diaz-cortes and i would earlier this year to intnterview him and get his story. amy: we want to thank you foror being with us. we will link to your story inn the daily beast at democracynow.org. aaron glantz and anayansi diaz-cortes with reveal from the

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