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unbelievable. shocking. this is not a video game the average us citizen is over 10 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist. after witnessing a wave of police brutality videos which appear on my news feed every day i decided to investigate the problem of police brutality in america. and united states police kill stupid people every day. and night. these are the official numbers according to unofficial numbers the police chose for people the day. the killing of people in this country has become a routine something normal it seems that human life is seizing to be the most
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valued human right one tomb. and just like that the person is dead. eliot we're in minneapolis minnesota this is a quiet on a fairly small city in northern united states as of recent several police brutality cases have happened here we're on our way to betty smith's house 7 years ago lawsuits if the devil took her son's life the officer is still free in service sometimes their patrol car drives by this very road right next to daddy's house and the officers wave it betty i can just not imagine what that he must the went through. a very. high i think you say i mean. this is quincy graduates in a high school there that if you think my son wasn't even this tall as i am and i
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have healed i'm sure you know. he played. everything happened right before christmas but he explains her son left his girlfriend's house breaking up his girlfriend got angry and called the police adding one fatal detail that quincy had a rifle allies cost quincey his life 5 police officers without any interest in finding out the true fear tackled quincy and started being him shortly after quincy was pronounced dead. the only 3 are those who don't you. think police get on you one key can you well. know which won't be the new he's not resisting arrest he's on the ground you have him in handcuffs why is there a recent need to tell him why is there a reason a need to hit him in the back with a rifle. she doesn't have the video of the actual killing just the homicide report
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there's a video officer devon apprehending another suspect in a similar way. he put his hands up and boom with a bunch of face a kid by the number one his from for force just kicks some unbelievable. hands. with says i surrender but i could just as them say if that means he was duped by. he'll be like that maybe he'd feel that he was trying to. play again. when quincy sr died his son quincy de sean smith jr was just 2 months old. i worry i mean he's growing up all right. he knows his father was staying with his
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father died. and knows that other good other good things about him. he 7 all look at the agony yet relating to quincy picked him up from school. everything . he tried to be introduce my. family. he was feeling. in the house my dad was. as long as god gives me breath i'm going to be fighting. oh the injustice and the opposite they're making the other poor guy lies you cannot just murder someone. i. wonder.
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last of the riots in ferguson where michael brown was skill at the hands of the police 24 states have ratified a lot of mixed much harder for police to get away with excessive force perhaps this was the reason why choice shuffler is still alive today so we're approaching the house of choice. one of the victims off police brutality here in minneapolis minnesota. not. friendly. cheery. you know what just track you and film you as you drive as you ride the bike. together the choice we're headed to the crime scene where everything happened troy tells us about that night how he was riding his bike around midnight suddenly flashed by the search lights of 2 police cars and then in the rude manner asked by officer mark mcdonough to show him his id
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. i called i know one was still writing up when the 1st 2 squads what was your question to them what's going on are they interested in me and if they're not interested in me and you know i'd appreciate if they you know didn't act like they were receiving part. of the navy ideas. my breaking the law for you few months maybe is. why you're here and following me. every time i'd ask him a question you'd respond with the same question what's your name what's your name criteria. she wonders if you really have anything but literally maybe a 2nd or 2 after that is that actually so it's going to go i'm going to put handcuffs on you and you're going to go in the back of my squad car so at that point i'm like i'm getting arrested like what am i being arrested for and they respond for be enough. serious or you figure out why am i general rested.
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this year they. might excuse me and then at that point. he just pushes me down and i. fell on the side and then he just jumped on me so i get drug rates of the side 4 of the rear right wheel well the squad car he starts taking away my head and hitting it against the wheel well the tire you know the metal i tell. you haven't i didn't know then you know. what you did. earlier they know that. i went to school to be a cop ironically many many moons ago while many trips around the sun. that's a that's a twist in the story ok and virtually all police officers will only be
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friend other police officers they really don't have many just usual civilian friends it's just their little world that they establish and as i said before it's they developed this us against them routine she's got sixteen's is that they recently obtained them from the u.s. military for what. was your question when we investigated everything coon rapids exactly a small minnesota suburb they think that they need to be armed like they're in vietnam or something. police services still constant risk for the officer. the man in the white shirt with his back towards the camera is the next police officer he's the only one from the other side who has agreed to speak to us under the condition that his identity remains hidden how long have you served 25 years 25 years as a police officer ever had to shoot someone. no. we draw our guns
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frequently. people usually do the right thing and surrender and. you never hear about it at all. the standard issue that most departments are using a glock varies in caliber size of the bullet they are 15 so does this fire automatically or you know of different standards some have just the single action some have 3 round burst and some have full auto why does the police in this case the coon rapids a small town police precinct needs a ar 15 rifles better to have a tool and not need it the need to tool not have it what the rifle phenomena was caused by is the l.a. robbery probably 20 years ago where the bad guys weren't wearing kevlar suits basically and they had rifles.
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we rule to follow and in order for you to use deadly force you have to meet. the requirements to use that force if you use excessive force that's when you get in trouble you get sued you go to jail do you feel that officers like that ruin it for you in the image of the police in the united states in general we have 50 states you can probably find at least one bad thing that happens in every state but then when you start running those stories day after day people think there is a huge amount yes it happens yes there are bad cops but we have to remember that 99 percent of the cops are good and doing the right thing and helping.
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just lessons police officers and. super personnel step down and let me tell yourself that they are epic fail. that's how that works well. 5 6 for those that. are not good. with your free time and where. were you trying to think about. getting your work out. how does it reflect on the reality of situations there were no cars you know that are frustrated with. the convenience for the government in which your rights to conquer where you ultimately congress and. their courage.
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for. our mother. or her family. her for. are 5. we are a host of minneapolis. we are about to meet with communities united against police brutality. no other mother should have to be told at any time death may not be for the holiday that her son has been murdered that he was not armed and what every was it does not take by officers time simultaneously tasing a young man and wonder if he's going to die. on maginnis domania needs a taser here's a taser here is a taser here i had to look at those burns on my baby's body now the protocol was followed chrissy was murdered and it was not his fault i am 66 years ago. maybe
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all of the most of you like you try to imagine raising a baby back to the daycare the diapers and trying to do a job and maintain your household and a student when my taxes go is not up to me and you help tell me that my son is the criminal. you have a complaint for if you let people think that something will happen but it never does my understanding was an accident you may finish yes i'm finished as i've been very gracious i've given you more than the time that was on the agenda because because you have folks that are out here to speak i want them to speak that's why we have an open forum at the beginning of the bid we did respond to your request for data we provided considerable amount of data right i know they didn't investigate because in our 300 page complaint there is when this is listed it's not a single one was ever called so how do you investigate and you'll follow investigation if you don't talk to everyone it's listed. so like i said i am i am
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appealing to you because this is dramatically impacted my family in a negative way for minimum of 10 years actually this is shameful the fact that people are here and i'm sitting here listening to a white man who 15 year has not gotten just as well but i expect to see you turn your back on your own. speeches that seems to. keep. it going for you if you. bother no t.v. no crowd. no shots no.
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action just felt. well if dr no the 1st. quench your thirst for action. you cannot be both with the yeah you like. my. i don't have faith in this government official a president i don't have faith in the system tries to have god it's all right i'm too liberal the system is not designed for people like me. as long as there are.
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different people who are here for different reasons but also job we also hold. most people in philadelphia are only about 2 paychecks away from homelessness. i. know. what happened to all the. cool here i am in new york
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and i'm not alone this time i'm a choice again out here with us all the way from minnesota. to participate in a stop october. nationwide actually protesting but suburbs over specifically new york protesting against police brutality. her time. this. happened here where our. mass media is implicit in the propaganda of demonizing black male you and black people across this country among the protesters i spotted quentin tarantino a world famous filmmaker of film such skill build reservoir dogs and fiction i guess he decided that reality is a times more gruesome than his films were in your idea is this the issue that is
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being dealt with in the north country we've been challenging it where is this something that is not that is not being dealt with the right way now is i'm being dealt with in any way at all as far as i can see that's why we're out here you know it was being dealt with and then these murdering cops would be in jail or believe space and try and write here but that's not that's not what's going on so my whole thing is i actually think that there is a corruption inside of the police i don't think it was sure if. it's if. you are born of this protest against b.p. . then why do you make such a move to the public to get nothing that you wouldn't have got nothing to do and nothing. this thing involves people all kinds of people. from someone as great. as this example to. simplify absolutely simplify are also fighting because because they want to succeed i want to.
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play a little. differently i'm going to. please r.t. they are trained to be aggressive as any life force and proud person but you know person what it is like our love myself none of them don't have a family member don't fret he's either in jail you know or has been brutalized by. what is this picture about this is just like the cyber you still have a california about this man it's not for you. that loving you go find. something. 2 good out of it. how to go through you
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come out of a small community like rapids in your city you know being a part of the. fire yesterday to. being our marginal. people that. it seems that there is a theory here thank. you for. your. magnitude of this process should shock me that you can clear the killing of people in the streets of american cities isn't a tragic accident the disney for the system that does the system the new system of law enforcement in america museums. remembering the past is not something the victims' families light do and it's difficult to believe those horrible moments exceptions were made for our crew many mothers hope to bring to light these atrocities will help them finally see justice
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. 37. looking after she and all of the cell. tension for 7 hours. with the door wow. for you thanks so much for finding time to meet us and i'm sorry to bring you back to that they. tell you. everything but there you. go to work. yeah i need to gently touches the urn with cremated remains of her daughter and remembers how her came home from a barbecue how 2 officers came shortly after to arrest her for being intoxicated in
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a public place however and he just shows us the papers where the truck states that her daughter was completely alcohol free while being held sensual booking the police wouldn't give crime the medical attention for her health condition which evidently letter unfortunate death inside the brooklyn cell to all of this came to my door and told me. this is. the right. conditions here with as well. but she was worried take a pill every day for the rest of life. and she never went down to put one hospital they would let me see my daughter usually when a person dies or drug you both be able to think your road to think of no pill well . they told me you do it it's a more. they waited about 20 more minutes back and forth calling calling call it
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fear of ok for me to see my daughter because we're going to investigate how she died so it would basically cover no covering up their negligence yes providing help yes. my dil about my. man and the way like i said before bill once they killed mine to the they not gonna rest until justice is served and they'll do it again this is michael it's michael all the money all of that to go to this i mean you know not it's feels. nobody knows how it feels. the rights and wrongs of the more turbulent neighborhoods in new york city inside a local barbershop which also happens to be a spot for local people can't get enough of their local police brutality complaints for the cameras. to stand up with ashes like this and i'm like take a picture brother to last longer and then when i got past paper man i noticed i had
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to stop him and when i'm home now i notice around his own gun wait this. i'm like this i am the weather sorry you want to have a gun not a concert this you stop me from going to have go about your business i say doing your job but not your fish i'm actually afraid to call. for one more call in the political. be back. so you don't feel safe in your community or protected by the police well you don't feel protected by. just a place to respond. because we don't know because. because they feel like we are not educated enough to know that they feel that wait wait wait you're not it's only actually which that's my fright. say so now if you're going to arrest me for my right not to fight.
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i mean. scott is one of the most well known lawyers finance police brutality in new york. mr how many cases in general have you. solved and had a positive outcome for your clients the thousands of police brutality has to be in the high hundreds or thousands i think police brutality is a real issue in this country i have a number of cases where people were injured very badly in police chase cases and when you speak to a police officer and question them about the training they received in the cademy they will tell you then never in a real situation that's
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a very good point but with this case the question is did the officer have the right to do what he did let's watch when it's about a couple more minutes here. and i got no problem with. this who kicks the phone out of him. generally the kid gets up. there were shots. actually more i think a lot of this issue escalated because. officers don't like when people talk back to them or don't like when people don't comply with their the mints i think in this situation no is different and somebody others because this officer obviously wasn't threatened by any imminent. we can stop this announced civil war between communities and the police the lawyer goes on to say
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simple justice and so he powerful weapon that it's not a gun korey rifle it's smartphone. there's no question in my 26 years of practicing i've seen the number of police brutality cases rise i've seen the number of charges rise and i think the only reason it's really coming to the forefront is the invention of the cell phone if it wasn't a cell phone camera people wouldn't believe half of the things that go on and we have these videos to prove that. this is a. person is a class issue or is this even just in the 4th area so all these things racism authoritarianism inequality class inequality class issues right psychological issues all of that is thrown into this pot it's called police brutality that's why you do your best for you with regard to your own ability and transparency did you never you. never have never ever.
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you cannot be both with the yeah you like.
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america was never great was founded on the rapes in the murders. nothing changed so we said all response to these situations that we do in the ways. people get sad every other day she is just sad people kill each other blood for killing children. so it was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i have to rat like this is a reason. welcoming
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our viewers from around the world live from central london this is r.t. u.k. . the u.k. is transport secretary grant shapps announces the wearing of face coverings will become a condition of travel on public transport from june the 50. 3rd to safe rocketing unemployment levels will plunge over a 1000000 britons into poverty including hundreds of thousands of children it follows the prime minister's warning that many many will lose their jobs following the coronavirus pandemic i'll be joined by a welfare expert. as
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america's social unrest continues all 4 police officers present 20 year old floyd died will now face charges that sounds west midlands police under investigation tasering a man who claims he was targeted because he's black we hear from a community activist. the leader of the house of commons has reiterated that the government won't extend the brakes a transition period as as a full scottish 1st minister calls for an extension i mean it's the global climate . drunk you should not be playing politics with the people of britain at a time when they're facing the biggest challenge is hard since my 940 from. the u.k. transport secretary has announced that face coverings on public transport will become mandatory on june the 58 grant shops toll says today's press briefing it's important to try and get people back to work it follows start warnings from the
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prime minister that significantly more british workers will lose their jobs well for more on this onto u.k. cæsar ali joins me now either you say can you tell us more about what the transport secretary had to say. well it was grant shapps to face up the government's daily briefing and mr shapps took the opportunity to announce some changes to government policies specially with regards to what people should wear when they use public transport networks mr said mr sharp said that face covering for the now be mandatory for those who want to use buses trains and shoots across the u.k. as of monday the 15th of june face coverings will become mandatory on public transport that doesn't mean surgical masks which we must keep for clinical settings it means the kind of face covering you can easily make at home but be exemptions to these rules for very young children the disabled people and those with breathing
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difficulties but broadly as we come through this phase we're doing what many other countries have asked transport uses to do now mr shapps they're making mention that this doesn't necessarily mean face masks but covering so people can make them at home or they can use clothing of course there are some questioning his decision to point out june the 15th as the date saying well why isn't he doing it now while the government making this mandatory at this moment in time jeanne the 15th of course is somewhat of a pop symbolic date for the government that's when there will be for example non-essential shops being allowed to reopen so perhaps that's the government's reasoning there that they want to bring the sin along with a number of other measures. well. as well we have seen from the prime minister barak's johnson. being
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a announcement regarding unemployment it was a prime minister's turn yesterday and he mentioned that there would be many jobs lost in the future. but let's be in no doubt you of course i'm afraid tragically there will be many many job losses and that is just inevitable because of the effect of this virus on the economy and because of the because of the shutdown that has taken place now it's not just mr johnson who has perhaps got a negative or pessimistic outlook for the economy also we've been hearing from a number of former chancellors who all perhaps reading off the same hymn sheet really only the government is big enough to provide the scale of 1st support that i think will be necessary and as i said earlier we need to get ourselves into the frame of mind we were thinking about 1980 s. levels of unemployment if it doesn't happen that's great and we need to be ready
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for that terrible loss of g.d.p. might be less than in 20089 but there may be a large number of human chasms exult there in the in the process the real question is what was the last half of the recovery looked like once we get back to you know a lot of outward of quotes only 6 percent how do we how do we make that last bit aca is it a steep curve or is it a long shallow curve. now we've also been seeing you're hearing from another member of charities who fear that over a 1000000 people could be plunged into poverty by early next year and of those 1000000 it's estimated that 200000 could be children we've already seen reports from the united nations pointing out that there are already hundreds of thousands of children living in poverty that could get worse as a result of the coded 19 lockdowns well we've been seeing gloomy forecast from the bank of england saying that $2000000.00 people could be forced into unemployment
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that would bring the total number of jobless people in the united kingdom to $3300000.00 represent 10 percent of the total british workforce in addition to numbers from the office for budget responsibility who say that tax cuts and emergency measures by the government could cost the country over 130000000000 pounds so there will be a number of challenges on all levels for the country economically to deal with this crisis. as gravely figures but while donny said thank you very much and. well more on this i'm now joined by the director of the center for welfare reform dr simon dr that we thank you for joining us as well if we get a vaccine is there any chance that the economy could that's right back. no how sorry he i mean in fact scenes and those things are pretty irrelevant really and economic depression isn't caused really by irrational changes caused by panic
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cuts see here insecurity if you go back over history things like that in a depression i see twenty's are actually the conditions that led to the crisis we're less that we're in the conditions causing this crisis the drop in out quote now is more severe the insecurity creates the unemployment to create lead to as a debtor to create is all more severe than anything we've seen in the modern era and and so there's a kind of fantasy thinking there are well you know it's just hovis no the problem is anything can trigger a crisis i mean in a way why did we have a banking crisis of 2008 once you get the crisis it creates a spiraling effects which pushes the whole economy down all the government that they have invested unprecedented amounts to save the economy how much of it could then pay off. well they're not saying the economy i mean actually
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they're trying to prop up the very insecure foundations of a lot of people's lives and they're doing and a very peculiar way but you're right that spending in extraordinary amounts of money draw from anything that was spent in 2000 rates in anything and the egg and it's not just in the european central bank today and release a kind of program that was very extraordinary spending program across europe germany existence and we're going to see a range of measures having to be put in across the world that are huge really inflationary in the good sense to go to try and restore some life to the economy and the question will be but see killer strategies in different countries where there are smart strategies or whether they are dimwitted strategies and the question is not whether you should spend the money on what you cannot pull or not spend. how are you going to spend money aside up the deficit we got a bit of
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a poor line there but let's also look at the what changes what diversification has come effectively from a tragedy we've been hearing reports of a growing industrial revolution for instance investments in these new indices people working from home working in completely different ways that have some promising science doesn't. yes i mean this is the berry great opportunity of this crisis in a sense what we've seen is that the core economy our family our relationships with each other as neighborhoods can flourish and in facts of the more and when we stop doing some of the stupid things we'll be degree and so there is an opportunity to kind of almost resounds that the economy around the natural world around his family and around local neighborhoods and i want to take great leadership because it also requires us to disinvest from some of the broken policies of the past policies like basic income would provide nomics more but in the sale of subsidizing broken
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coal hungry on fuel long redistribute well actually so we all need a basic income actually let's build communities that are carbon neutral where people take care of each other all of these things are possible but we have to kind of abandon there the holy grail of every grace rerated cheaply forcing people into low paid unproductive work and we have to start rethinking what's in the heart of a flourishing society in a brave new world it's ours doesn't it go to simon duffy thank you very much indeed thank you ship. now the remaining 3 former minneapolis police officers who were present at the death of george floyd will now also face charges after initially only losing their jobs they're now charged with aiding and abetting murder while the officer who fatally pinned floyd to the ground by his neck has had his charge raised to 2nd degree murder or face a maximum of 40 years in prison if convicted in one across america the courts for justice and police reform continue many
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a peaceful but not all. the while. thanks thanks to a little clip. and the other white house in washington d.c. there was also another day of protests several demonstrators reportedly targeted the security barriers that have been erected outside. with me while in the u.k. a burning a man who was tasered outside his home by a west midlands police officer claims he was targeted because he was black travail wise had just arrived home from work when there was
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a car accident in history today went outside to see what had happened 30 year old wife said he was tasered by an officer after refusing to comply with an order to lie on the ground all of the bystanders being taught early it comes as west midlands police are undergoing not only investigations but complaints about excessive force by their offices on black men the independent office for police conduct who are investigating the incidents said holding offices to account was an integral problem confidence our inquiries are looking at all the circumstances and whether the use of force by officers was justified and proportionate in each of these instances we're also looking into complaints that police allegedly acted in a discriminatory manner towards some of the men involved i am fully aware of the impact these incidents can have on public confidence in policing and again reiterate that we will look at these matters thoroughly and fairly i would also stress that west midlands police force is cooperating fully with us well earlier i
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spoke to a community to the activist involved in an expose ng incidence of excessive police force in jeopardy he thinks 0 tolerance policy is needed for broke officers. community relations with the black community have never really been that good we've had very and saw various uprisings in birmingham over the years and clearly a lot of it has been because of poor community relations with the police and this occasion on these occasions rather it only appears to highlight that we're no further forward this is despite reports by julie silverman locally lord scarman and also the macpherson report you know where are we any further forward i'd say we're not because we're still talking about the same thing that we're talking about 30 years ago well looking at community relations and i mean what would help we gain trust i think stiffen penalties for offending officers or also on the other side as well recruiting more black offices well i mean trust and confidence will only come where at the end the data rules apply equally to everyone and stop making excuses
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for rogue officers deal with the rogue officers on a 0 tolerance basis but also as well you know there's good and bad everywhere the record off of police officers whose good work is actually being tarnished by these rogue officers and the only way you're going to recruit more black off he says is when officers see that they community a well potential office rather see that their communities are being treated fairly . the house of commons the to take of respond has reiterated that the u.k. government will not extend the bracks it turns the sion period. we leave the transition period successfully in full by the end of this year is one of the government and even more importantly the british people's highest priority is an extension of the transition period been neither in the u.k. years nor the europeans interest both parties want and need to conclude a deal this year to complete the transition period an extension to the transition period was bind us into future your legislation without us having any say in
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designing it but still having to foot the bill for payments to the e.u. budget we must be able to design our own rules it is our in our own best interests without the constraints of e.u. regulation so i would like to assure my own friends and the people of ashfield that the government is delivering on this promise so to quote margaret thatcher will we have an extension no no no. but hold the 1st minister of scotland henry mcleish says an extension to the transition period is necessary as the country can't cope with a new deal breaks that at the same time as a global pandemic and economic recession. but we need an extension for the whole of united kingdom but it would be simply insane and to take the kind damage that we've got a health emergency the economic recession that we've got which could get much worse and then i don't another adventure another level of crisis when we don't need to this is not about rewriting the bricks that result but what it's saying to the government stop being distracted by breck's it and start to concentrate on the kind
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demick and when you think about the economic consequences why would any country want to leave the european union i tried and trusted partner over many decades about solidarity about trade and number and position where we want to leave at a time of crisis in the u.k. and even more problematic possibly try and have a consolation prize in arrangement with donald trump who's a very unreliable president at this particular time so all in all i think we should keep the pressure on par with johnson to do the same thing to allow him to concentrate on the pic already which is the pandemic indeed that it's unlikely in terms of scotland itself though isn't it that the e.u. would grant a scottish i mean extension the u.k. is supposed to leave as gone isn't it and it i mean and you know the rules of the european union don't commit up but what i think is important is that there are many people in england many local authorities many regions we've got wales got northern
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ireland we got scotland we should all be applying the pressure because see the great problem about reese morg bars johnson they still think they're campaigning my advice to them is to start governing and what the united kingdom needs now is not the said venture with no destination in sight what we need to do is deal with a pandemic deal with the economic recession and then in a year 2 years trying to conclude the arrangements with the european union it's not a vote rewriting that breaks it deal the deal has been. cut the guy has been cast and what we've got to do know to say to the british people look do you want 3 crises do you. in a pandemic you want to recession or do you want another european union crisis don't do porn you want as joins you should not be playing politics with the people of britain at a time when those facing the biggest challenge this hard since 1945. 1 years after a short break.
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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy
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confrontation let it be an arms race is on us and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back illegal crossings of the english channel of hit record figures for a single day after a french naval vessel escorted more than 150 migrants into british waters this thursday groups of men women and children were seen near dover one vessel was thought to be about 10 meters long and carried as many as 60 people there were 166 migrants attempting to cross the channel in total on thursday morning getting
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a record for a single day one of the boats was 1st spotted just off the frank yukos line and there was this going into british waters. so should the british government read a go shape illegal migration terms on not want to discuss this i was joined earlier by human rights lawyer shwed and khan and former bracks it party m.e.p. nathan gale i think that what we're witness in is that they're actually they're not all that they don't want to control migration illegally over the channel because if they did they would be following the protocols which are already in place which would allow them to be turned asylum seekers to the country in which they 1st entered the european union so the very fact that we've got people who were fleeing from trans claim in asylum in britain would make me ask the question are these genuine asylum seekers are they people who have actually fled their home nations come to europe and sought refuge at the 1st point of entry in the
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e.u. by the people who literally just want to come to britain and therefore their puts in their children's lives at risk their own lives at risk of breaking the law and quite frankly if you are i cade were to get on a boat and go in the channel right now we'd be arrested for breaking the law and also have had to respond to that. i mean firstly obviously i guess the basic thing to say is what we sense a humanitarian crisis more than illegal in one or other ways obviously there are moral and ethical aspects to this as well but obviously written about the law today and little one thing to generally say about this i mean 1st it's a legal myth that there's any requirement for someone to claim asylum in the 1st 6 country there eat that just isn't anybody reply and now to the u.n. charter no you know no international refugee convention actually says that so that's the 1st thing to say but secondly and particularly britain as an island and
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if we were to say that people could only claim asylum and in the 1st wave country and if they come to us through a 3rd country then they shouldn't be allowed to have should be removed then i don't see how any asylum seeker would ever reach or unless they took a flight and then obviously you know most asylum seekers financially or otherwise are they able to do that legally are the average obtain a visa there is no way to obtain a visa and say you know i need to go to britain to games i don't that can apply to britain obviously there's no way of doing that so that's the 2nd thing. obviously in terms of the u.k. government not being in control i don't think that's disputed brett anyone obviously that's been the case for decades now the home of this is completely out of control and it has no idea what it's doing it just tried to try to get these people and obviously you know the easiest targets is the one it targets you know people it can remove even when there are a mood when it can't get with something it just ignores it so i mean i don't think anyone would. disagree with the view that these crossings or any other really dangerous crossings are dangerous journeys to the u.k.
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i'm not a complete failure of the international system humanitarian law and the home office of course yes i mean it is something that the government should be looking at but i don't think it should necessarily be with the sole purpose of we need to reduce the number of people coming out or we need to reduce the number of asylum seekers in the case when at all neither should we follow for example countries like australia by sending boats back to their starting point to stop people taking dangerous journeys. well then in a way going to actually stop this is by being very very hard on illegal entry into the united kingdom so in a way to stop it and if you don't then people will keep on flanks in the long people keep on trying their best to get into groups and well immigration and asylum barrister isman nor told me he thinks the u.k. in general has an aggressive and hostile policy towards migrants. well the u.k. has been goshi ations with france a bilateral negotiation between france and u.k. and it is entirely focused on hyper security it's focused on c.c.t.v.
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expected on fencing it's focused on military aspects to make sure that asylum seekers do not come to the u.k. that's essentially what this is all about it's a sick race to the bottom neither country wants to accept asylum seekers they are trying their very best to give that responsibility to the frontier states the frontier states italy in greece have taken far more extraordinarily amounts mall than the u.k. or france and still both of these countries are trying to alleviate themselves now actually the agreements when we look at them between the u.k. and france do require still even after the u.k. leaves the you to continue to take in unaccompanied children and those with family members in the u.k. but based on what we've seen so far how the u.k. has been responding to that i'm not confident that the u.k. will live up to its end of the bargain it has a very poor record of living up to its end of the bargain we saw just a couple of years ago the parliament agreeing to take in 3000 unaccompanied minors
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from the rest of europe and already we have seen breaches of that reneging on that responsibility ultimately the u.k. is a hyper securitized hyper sensitised very aggressive very hostile country towards migrants and by all measures it looks like it will continue to be some. house of commons the to take a very small continues to face criticism for his plan to end factual voting after m.p.'s ventured it through on tuesday the shadow commons need to warn that forcing members back to parliament could respond health. there were 2 pictures of long queues one was of us in parliament the other was outside a furniture store with better social distancing the we had when you get to the top of the queue with one you've got a cushion and maybe some meat balls with us you might even get infected i notice that the prime minister and the minister for the cabinet office or not they're voting with us. but the leader of the opposition was there that image of our
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parliament is going to live with this government for ever the government is pushing the house staff the door keepers all of us risk they are alarmed. or valerie about his comments come as fear is mounted after the business secretary alex sharma appeared visibly ill at the dispatch box after his stint in the commons he was tested for covert 19 and went into self isolation but he has now tested negative and the prime minister insists the public does want to see m.p.'s return to the commons but a new poll appears to tell a different story. just 12 percent of the public agree that m.p.'s should be in parliament to vote while 41 percent think remote voting should be in place until the pandemic is brought under control and 35 percent of people think the option of remote voting should always be allowed or this comes as officials from a union representing clarke security guards and kitchen staff in parliament are
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threatening strike action following tuesday is voting in q they have told authorities that m.p.'s fail to keep their distance from staff and also highlighted the concern that many employees from ethnic minorities who have been disproportionately affected by coronavirus long monday m.p.'s as you to debate methods like proxy voting on virtual participation for shielding members. however despite the pressure to end its the in person system remains in place and the 1st rounds of socially distance voting have to look to be desired. oh. please. let. me. move. you to my. charming hope no. joke at the start of your.
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