the capital thank you that's what i. say. yes. it is. up. greetings and salutation. i tell you my friends here in washington d.c. you can feel you can feel the fear on the streets palpable it's as thick as virginia humidity in august but this fear of my friends isn't coming from the thousands of protesters that have descended on the imaginal mall or lafayette square or the d.c. residents navigating both the covert 19 pandemic and the black lives matter protests no no this tidal wave of fear is emanating from the marble halls of the capitol building and the oval shaped rooms of the white house yes the

corridors of power here in washington d.c. are seeing a nation rise up in one voice and scream enough is enough black lives matter reform and justice are coming and the old ways of oppression and white power are ending how do you know they are as frightened as schoolchildren on report card day well because they are now turning us streets into war zones starting with the nation's capital as d.c. is reports the chief of the national guard bureau confirmed tuesday that an additional $1500.00 national guardsmen would join the response to protests in d.c. after $1300.00 were deployed on monday defense secretary mark asper who spent wednesday morning up posing the united states president donald trump the chicken hawk in sheep's threats of military reprisals against u.s. citizen well he abruptly reversed a decision to order active duty troops home from the national capital region on wednesday and now. an illustration leopold and anthony cormier of buzz feed are

reporting that quote the drug enforcement administration has been granted sweeping new authority to conduct covert surveillance and collect intelligence on people participating in protests over the police killing of george floyd according to a 2 page memorandum obtained by buzz feed yes while many norm normally the d.a. is limited to only investigating drug related federal crimes it now appears that attorney general william bar is so scared he is taken off the d.e.a.'s leash designated the agency to enforce any federal crime committed as a result of protests over the death the mr floyd on a nationwide basis for a period of 14 days. these moves along with the rampant police brutality and provocative action that we witnessed since these protests started clearly show that the powers that be your shake in their wing tips which means my friends it is a good time to start watching the whole. you want to go on

a cd you streets you want to blow the whistle which says see the prizes you always stay i'll see a little slice of grace suggests least systemic deception is still a show which. some joke. welcome everybody to watch in the dark side of the world winter time each across. all right let's start by going out to minneapolis minnesota and freelance journalist ashley banks who's been covering the mint memorial service for george floyd welcome ashley can you tell us a little bit about the memorial. so i'm here at north central university where the memorial for george floyd took place earlier today the memorial service was not open to the public and access was extremely limited for the press at least a 1000 people from the public were in attendance and they stood outside of

barricades right behind me and were able to listen and on reverend al sharpton deliberately eulogy i want to read you a quote from him he stated we will keep going until we change the full system of justice and civil rights leader he also deliver eulogies during the funerals for michael brown and eric garner eric garner somebody who died in a similar fashion to george full weight and that al sharpton basically said enough is enough we need to stop jumping from funeral to a funeral of african-americans who have died at the hands of police officers now eric garners mother kevin hart a looter chris and master p. were also and attendance at today's memorial service now masterpiece spoke to the media and he discussed his experiences with the police brutality he also. spoke out against the media coverage he was saying that some members of the media are showing the wrong parts now meesha we've seen plenty of video of the looting and fires we've seen that stuff on a loop and that's a p. he says this is the wrong message and said the media should be showing the positive

sides of this global movement now after george floyd's family al sharpton and been jamin crump the lead attorney for the family left the university a peaceful protest in a way took center stage as people shout it georgia boy's name and they called on i can ability and demanded that these officers not just be charged as they have been but be convicted and sentenced by media. we're going to say you've been on the ground in minneapolis for quite some time what is both of your experience attending these protests and speaking with the protestors there. that's right carol i have been here for almost a week now and i've spoken to quite a few protesters quite a few locals and from day one the people of minneapolis they wanted to see these 4 officers charged and now that they've been charged they want to see convictions all the protests i've attended of course they've been peaceful even the ones that have

taken place after curfew the crowds are always diverse and there's a real sense of community here i interviewed quite a few people who said they were willing to risk their lives and the name of justice i remember attending one of the protests there was that as a 4th precinct and the national guard showed up in the law enforcement was there but basically these people were they were peaceful and they were simulating is exactly what george boyd went through when he was dying at the hands of officer derrick show bed but the national guard didn't move in because these people were peacefully protesting what they were saying to me the protesters they're like if they move then we don't care we are here in the name of justice and then we lose our lives so yet. i also want to talk to that. the fact that people are still upset tyrrell people are still upset in the city over to mark clark their upset over philander steel these are 2 african-americans that died at the hands of police officers in minneapolis and st paul and these officers were not charged or

convicted or sentence for their deaths and so this is a big deal for people this is george floyd it's and it is not just one incident it's not isolated this has been happening for years and they want to see justice the attorney general has asked the public to be patient during this time he said that it's going to be really hard and challenging when it comes to convicting all 4 officers i was told by protesters they were tyrrell if these officers are not convicted and sentenced then it's going to be a really bad day for the people here in minneapolis back to you tara. great coverage thank you so much ashley for being there on the ground with us thank you. you're welcome. and now to discuss the push to militarize the response to the murder of george floyd in the black watch matter protests as well as the move to allow the d.a. to spy on protesters a senior fellow at the center for international policy at the u.s. marine corps veteran of the 2nd iraq war matthew much for coming on out there.

thank you for having me on matthew was a military veteran of the 2nd iraq war which after the initial invasion was really a war of military occupation and policing what makes president trump's push for a militarized response to these protests so dangerous for the american people. well you know. the answer that question is how quickly things can escalate. particularly as you have a number of what overseas we'll call sext you know sectarian groups we have those here in the u.s. and you've seen in a number of cities these self described patriots these militias that are coming out to support the police. we in that's what they're where the danger to me really lies in how quickly this could escalate where these patriots or someone you know maybe from you know there are there are groups on the left that want to see violence you

know how quickly the 2 mixing together escalates things and then it gets out of hand and anyone who was in iraq saw this very. sincerely and very clearly how the violence quickly took off violence that hadn't existed among again what we would call sex against among these sectarian groups balancer hadn't existed prior to our invasion but when you have a catalyst when you have innovation and we knew then have an organization like the u.s. military so that comes in in plays favorites picks winners and losers so we're going to pick this year over the sunni in iraq if you have that in the united states which is what you do because you know nobody with it with a honest face kids you know or on his voice can see that these peachtree are groups or are not aligned with the police you know so that's where for me it's really dangerous how quickly it can escalate how things can get out of control and on the

other side of it how many people there are in this country that want to see things get out of control for whatever reason and then you know if the top it all off where you have men not just like donald trump but say attorney general bill barr who doesn't represent the right wing if they're seeing this now it's his chance to establish. long want did desires to control things or to put people back in their place and yeah we are very much on a knife said here i. don't want to be hyperbolic but i do knowing what i've seen overseas. you know how quickly things can escalate yeah we're on a knife's edge and i am hurrican to agree with you matthew on the elements of escalation that we're currently facing and it's actually a good tie in to this next question in a controversial new york times opinion piece new ethanol tom cotton writes one thing above all else will restore order to our streets in overwhelming show of

force to disperse detain and ultimately deter low breakers the insurrection act authorizes the president to employ the military or any other means in case of the insurrection or into the law matthew why do you believe so many of our politicians like cotton and president trump are so quick to jump on a military solution for this the mystic issue. its power i knew tom cotton in afghanistan actually and then in 20092010 him and i did the rounds on meeting you in the war you were on larry king together you know fox except. when he ran for office he was suddenly a different person i mean he had conservative views he had. you know he thought a military solution in afghanistan was possible things i disagree with but he wasn't this. you know the this. you know i'm struggling to find the right words for how much of a cretin he has become you know in a sense where he reaches for just like donald trump the lowest common denominator

where he reaches for the easiest pieces where he recognizes that if i can do only get violent need 37 percent of the american public to support me that's the 37 percent i'm going to play to and so that's what cut tom cotton like many people in congress on the right and the left i mean you can criticize certainly the democrats right now we're not doing anything. i mean in n.c. palosi makes a speech holding a bible then she makes his big theatrical show where she sits down to read the bible she's a speaker of the house she can do a lot more than read the bible you know the same thing to look at the incidents in the york it's all under democratic administrations bill de blasio defending the police there you know that's because these politicians regardless of which party they are are concerned about holding on to power or building more power and so i think you see that reason right and left that's why i think the notion that somehow things are going to change by just basically reforms or people signing petitions or

by voting except is really a folly because you know it is his you know the insurrection act is you know something that people are discussing quite a bit now because president trump wants to use that to send the army in and i suggest people go back into even go to wikipedia page and look that up and see how often the u.s. military was used to control the population was just to get threatening the established power you know it was used quite a bit against the labor movement in the early 20th century and then it was used you know in and a couple cases actually was used against established a power by dwight eisenhower and john f. kennedy to help desegregate schools but the other times it's always been used as a way to tamp down any threat on established power and so i really urge people to recognize that you know this is nothing new and these protests are nothing new and the threat of military force against them is nothing new and the

reality is is that we need to change you know it's cliche but we need to change the whole system i couldn't agree with you more about that i think that's where really starts on the grass what a lot of people are missing when they're kind of seeing the protests right now is they don't understand that it's the entire system it's not just taken down a few statues in the south matthew thank you so much for coming on. illuminating our audience through these issues always a pleasure sir. thanks guys. already but you know as we go to the break remember you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t.v. app which is available on all platforms and we check it out all right coming up can the united nations actually help change the united states oppression of black and brown status of the black alliance for peace believes it might be able to separate freeman joins us next to talk about that stay true to what you know.

in 2008 there was the global financial crisis and the solution was not to reach form the banking system to stop the crisis from repeating again the solution was here's a bigger credit line to the worst banks in america to do the same thing but much worse and we said we predicted within 10 to 12 years there would be a repeat of the 2008 crisis but much bigger a much bigger scale something backley what's happening now. it was government official of president i don't have face in the system. i've got it i'm too liberal the system is not designed for people like me. as well as very. different people who are here for different reasons but also john we

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the united states has long been viewed as the human rights police of other nations all other nations not only calling out human rights violations abroad but staging or working behind the scenes to overthrow regimes for their abuses. but those living in glass houses probably shouldn't throw stones at the recent murders of black people like brianna taylor a model and george floyd by police officers an armed vigilante justice speaking civilians rightfully sparked outrage instead of leaning in for understanding or looking at the policies that have nurtured the environment for racism and white supremacy to grow president trump demanded lethal force against protesters when the looting starts the shooting starts famous words from trump but for blacks like my grandmother who lived through the civil rights movement these words were new or original bull connor popularized them when thinking dogs and water hoses on

protesters seeking to him jim crow they were also used by miami police chief walter headley in 1067 as he advocated for radical racialized police policy targeting young black and brown people segregationist george wallace also used the phrase during his 1968 presidential campaign from flavor e and reconstruction to the formation of the k.k.k. and jim crow to present day horrors of police brutality and systemic racism blacks have endured human rights violations for well over 400 years call for justice into racial discrimination just keep getting louder the united nations is being called on now to step in where our government seems to continually fail here tell us more is next to freeman from the black alliance for peace welcome that the. thank you for having me the history of human rights violations in america is bast the un has several bodies that have been designed to protect human rights of african and black

people because of the genocidal conditions facing our communities why do you think republican and democratic administrations haven't really utilized. well as a usual one they don't they do utilize maybe not these particular bodies with a huge plus the the united nations to advance its imperialist aims against all the countries with the client with the i'm sorry that claims that other countries are violating the human rights of their citizens and to justify their ability to go in and intervene in these countries but this country is founded on human rights violations that continue over its persists ever since and slave and of indigenous people very sorry about that. indigenous people and also to save and of african people and so the the the the perpetrators of these violations are the agents that are here to uphold of the order of white supremacy

and capitalism in this country and so they can't go to those bodies because it would mean. having to address the fundamental aspects of this country the foundations of power and privilege on the on the previous segment we had a gentleman talking about power and why some of the power being the motivating force behind some of these things which i agree however we have to look at what the nature of the fundamental nature of that power we have to identify it and oppose it in those those just white supremacy in capitalism and patriarchy and these are the foundations of this country the democrats and the republicans are basically 2 birds with 2 wings on the same bird that just carry out the maintenance of this country the american exceptionalism and the facade of what's country stands for but only in different ways one seems to be more like the fist in the gulf of. mexico i

want to ask you to c m m m s n b c fox over and over again all they talk about is the police policies that need to be changed to see equity in things about marriage or. is there really is police perform at this point truly a lost cause i mean is there anything that we can change without just ripping out the entire system of policing in this country and starting fresh. no there's not but i think some of what should be inform the policies because you're also seeing things like defund the police and things like that to sound very radical a lot of people are saying they even have it on fox news which makes us you really have as pause well what really should inform the demands that we have which also means that campaigns that we can take up are is that the radical do dishes of the people most impact so the in the black radical tradition we had like the the panthers and and the you know and the ram and union movement they had campaigns

calling for community control over the police which means the communities that are being protected in occupied by these occupation forces get the have the democratic right the human right the self-determination to decide to hire fire determine the priorities of duties of what these these forces are determined the consequences if they they do something was wrong the repercussions of really something wrong these are things that we can actually call for and when in fact even the history of the black panther party in california they put it on the ballot and that of having you know politicians who invariably fail us and we vote for them we can vote for ballot in just 2 and referendums although they will of course attack those things but it's the it's the more power shifting type of demands that we can actually fight for and in fact just in 2016 and it wasn't the last the 1st time the u.n.

united nations working group of people of african descent experts of people of african descent came on a fact finding mission to the united states to look at the you the human rights situation of people of african descent here and upon seeing a whole host of the normal violations the the characteristic violations we talked about what among their recommendations was community control over the police and so these are things which actually answers the call. previous question that they really they won't you know abide by these things without a struggle but we can if we want if we actually align ourselves with the international solidarity and movement and take our things up to the higher bodies like united nations and some redress not that they will automatically jump in there but with pressure from below and in the mass pressure and general solidarity you can actually force of a power play at it in ways that will we'll see some change and i believe that will

happen. next after years upon years of promises made him promise broken and naturally weary black population in america how do you think the you win could work to establish trust in the system and dismantle decades of oppression and human rights violations. so i don't think it's more us using the u.n. to do it that we do it then that they are really made me a mechanism that we can take our grievances to and also our our. you know our situations to our circumstances to internationalize this trouble to put pressure on international pressure on the on the bodies on the powers that be on those things hand can work i mean of that sort rankly why they almost attacked malcolm x. and and dr king because of their their ability to enter not just them but their movements and organizations they were to internationalize the struggle so for us we've got to have some more concrete demands more formidable demands that are not

subject to co-optation like community control of the police the community can control in general of the community i mean the human right to health care right now we're seeing just as many people i mean so many people are dying and particularly african people people of african descent from the covert 19 pandemic but they've done a interesting job of focusing on a person who tragically died but who. others are tragically dying regularly and then even when it has hands of the police it won't be this one person and there will be many more but they focus on one and have bring all the clergy the and the black miss leadership class in the in the celebrities to come in and make it a big show of passivism to quell what dr king called the voice of the on her riot so the voice of the hurt is what dr king called but they criminalize them and then these classes help them criminals but we have to come together and not

criminalize anyone and have formidable in the men and make a united front of organization that we most certainly do not always a pleasure having you want to educate your audience of you always do ma'am thank you so much as always sir. thank you. all right everybody that is our show for you today remember in this world we are definitely not old we are love them enough so i tell you all i love you i am tyro been to. keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night and stay safe. according to several sources felice in the united states kills from 2 to 4 people every day

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