that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. hundreds of right wing protesters defend the statue of winston churchill in central london. for a visual form and these are racist. 'd

protests in paris against police brutality and violence. threatens to send the army to. do something about protesters to keep parts of the city declaring it. says that using military force would be illegal. to have you with us this is our. right wing demonstrations defended the boxed up statue of winston churchill in london's parliament square which last week was targeted by activists he was a racist on it police have imposed restrictions demanding protesters leave the streets by 5 pm local time to prevent violent clashes between the 2 sides. reports from parliament square. this is the designated meeting place for right wing groups

who say that they have come here to defend britain's cultural heritage to defend its monuments however there have been a number of clashes with police that have taken place throughout the day here where police were charged police had bottles thrown at them and we noticed 2 cameramen from different stations coming towards us with seriously bloodied faces who were obviously injured in other parts of london in trafalgar square there were also clashes smoke was released what we think is a smoke bomb and fireworks were also let off there so parts of the day have been more eventful than others in other parts of london in the black lives matter demonstrations they've been making their way from hyde park down towards to follow the square and much of the controversy that surrounded the black lives matter protest has been around the vandalism in attacks on statues which are connected with britain's colonial past last week for instance in bristol the statue of agriculture in the slave trade was taken down thrown into the river and winston

churchill who normally can be seen behind me here in sydney can decided that he would board up this statue in a number of others especially to protect it from any further damage now that decision has proved controversial and enlisted an angry response from the prime minister you've got a situation in which the statue of winston churchill who is a national hero has had to be boarded up for fear of violent attack and that to me is both absurd and and should not have a situation which people who are protesting on one basis are violently tacky the police are public property and it's not just politicians who have strong views on what city can this is sided to do here we were out on the streets of london finding out exactly what locals think about cities can decision to board up. the structure here is where i guess people are here to defend certain statues and i

support people defended it people try to take it down so i try to look at things from both perspectives there's a lot of good history behind it but people don't want to talk about the bad history and that's one of the issues is trying to be changed i didn't realise he was racist i didn't realise a lot of things he'd done i never learned and i certainly wouldn't learn it from the stuff he outside i guess. i would. people should remember it was a lot of pop but. i don't think a lot of the statue should be taken down at the guides or gold itself and bought it because i think it should be positioned so good for all the people living in the world to be to see the. thousands of demonstrators came out in the center of paris on saturday protesting against police brutality and widespread discrimination.

i. protest called by the black lives matter movement so protesters climb a building to tear down a huge banner denouncing and t.-y. to racism a banner had been placed there by a group of far right activists from a generation identity group and to racism demonstrators also jumped on statues held flares and marched with signs the last of peaceful rallies took place despite a national trend of irish related ban on gatherings of more than 10 people police trying to disperse demonstrators there with tear gas. it is essential to improve the system because we are talking about systematic violence here it's not just police violence there is up here is discrimination overall inequality that goes way too deep we need to reform the system in order to create equal conditions for all. those with no support we need to support this battle against racism this is extremely important it's our duty as french people now after everything this happened. to join their people for movies this is special day for us because we're

showing our support for the families of those horse the way far too early those who were commemorating today besides we are protesting against the violence we've been facing in the pol districts for a long time now this demonstration is a possibility to speak up to deliver a point and express our anger with the situation. i think something historic is happening now in france i came here today to support those to face discrimination was experienced as well i can see that people with different skin color than ours are treated differently this is happening in poor districts as well as demonstrations i came here to support those people who are being treated differently. meanwhile $10000.00 officers took to the streets of paris friday against new government measures to ban chokeholds during arrests on force went marched along a lead say they were carrying banners that said no police no. alongside mark cars

honking their horns in a similar demonstration the day prior to that officers are thrown their handcuffs on the ground and this comes after the french interior minister police from using chokeholds and the rest describing them as a dangerous method the general secretary of the french police union is refusing to budge. so. the statement by christopher customer of this monday is unacceptable he was talking about burning chokeholds in the rest but this is used here in identification just like i and my colleagues were taught we are using this method against those who resist identity checks or arrests in order to avoid this collision of the situation in the police christopher custom issued revised the current stance on this and confirming the matter of ours that this ban will not be introduced moreover a list of new methods should be introduced that would be as effective and provide safety for my colleagues otherwise the police protests going on right now across france will continue. protesters in the newly formed autonomous zone in seattle are

considering their next to be having seized control of the area after it had been abandoned by police president trump threatened to send in the army if local authorities failed to resolve the matter we're not going to let this happen and if we have to go in we're going to go in to go because you're going to do it but to go to do it he's got great national guard troops you look you can do it but one way or the other it's going to get done and these people are not going to occupy a major portion of a great city our president wants to tell a story about domestic terrorists who have a radical agenda and are promoting a conspiracy and fitz's law and order initiatives it's simply not true the threat to invade seattle to divide incite violence in our city is not only unwelcome it would be illegal. the capitol hill autonomous zone was formed at the beginning of the way by black lives matter activists who barricaded themselves inside 6 blocks in the center of seattle declaring it

a police free zone activists dizzier a dillo to explains what life is like inside the commune. i am down here in the capitol hill autonomous zone also known as chavez and the mood here is come to leave a peaceful ok you can see it over here. we've got people really get some food and over here we also have free pizza shrinks water all types of snacks we've got people handing out bags with masks and hand sanitizer literally everything you can think of and over here is the memorial that is set up to all of the people that we've lost or during the george floyd rebellion as they're calling it that's what the law says over there there's a good constant 24 hour vigil people can like candles and you know say their prayers see you know just just hang out this is the west entrance to the capitol

hill autonomous zone back there we have the the precinct which is where this is where most of the violence was inactive by the police for the last 2 nights the last week or so this is where most of the stuff happened and there are still 4 main barricade points and inside is the autonomous so people are anticipating on staying as long as possible there been several tents that have already been set up people are preparing to stay overnight main goal i would say that i could say right now is that people are they calling for the defunding of police you know nationwide we've seen this minneapolis city council. already you know completely just then vote to disband the minneapolis police were calling for the same thing here in seattle we're calling for a complete defunding of the police a complete reallocation and to black and brown community is where it's needed the

most and so that is definitely a goal of people. i would say the number one. right now. bill and protests are continuing in other parts of the city too on friday thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets and what they called a silent protest rally came on the same day as a federal judge ordered officers to temporarily stop using tear gas or pepper spray against protesters. as. the war protest is showing no sign of easing into the u.s. stakes with the center of american commerce no exception new york's no demonstrators come out peacefully to support the black lives matter movement the rally coincided with a women's empowerment march and ended with a joint platform crowds of gathered in manhattan reportedly they started out from trump tower people were seen holding placards and chanting various demands think looted defunding the police justice for george freud and a focus on the lives of black women. start from the general public the black market

movement has the backing of major u.s. companies think ours on microsoft and starbucks but it seems that when it comes to the racial equality cause it's more talk than action that's good taylor explains. 21st century companies live in fear of castle culture of old tweed too i misjudged joe kony 20 ha sentence in the court of public opinion so with black lies much of the protests sweeping the globe every business is clamoring to say they are part of the fight the problem is they forgot to do a background check on themselves just problem though starbucks is catering to the comfort of their racist customers by asking their stuff not to wear anything in support of black clothes matter so i won't be visiting them and they'll be telling everyone i know too boy called them as well that by the tire was laid for a bus but it was too late because by then incensed activist had gotten

a pumpkin spice latte fuel deep ties to the company's history and sure enough starbucks got schooled but it's a low hypocrisy. starbucks uses scoffed at the 6 tracked by. slaves and what tomorrow kenyan costa rica and panama. remember when they wrote let's talk about racism on the cops remember when the close to half a day because 2 black men were arrested for being black at a starbucks as we always thought they were only about black lives matter when it's convenient lucky for starbucks so it's not taking all the heat as other companies also suffer from selective memory fashion powerhouses i secretly prada tweeted how how sickened and somehow did they work by inequality and how they were companies ethics which could be seen as full suffered ties in given that if you google though you might stumble across words like child labor best rotation black

face as the vogue obviously the most influential fashion magazine well now it's promoting voices and brands in the black community which probably came as quite a surprise to the publication brazil director who recently celebrated her 50th birthday with own problematic slave themed party the world of big tech is also massively promoting black lives matter not on to amazon then you'll be welcomed by the movement banner and jeff bezos is publicly naming and shaming customers who send him mean e-mails because of the company's starts which would be a full proof plan to boost your popularity than to make another couple of $100000000.00 if it wasn't for the fact that i was and makes a tidy sum from its dealings with the police it is opportunistic offenders on to use this moment to make empty and hypocritical statements when it is similar tenuously building the backbone for many police departments across the country the

company perpetually policy center colleges that are clearly targeting and harming blake and brown communities and into the mix there are only 8. of its managers in the u.s. a black and you'll see why it says nothing a b. and bad on your home page doesn't quite make the cut as a black woman i feel like it is time to boards there's a help us troubles everyone wants to join in and profit from us and while microsoft has started posting messages from it's like employees but if i do runs out of material pretty quickly given the less than 5 percent of its entire workforce is black so we get it big lot couple of pages here an emotional peak that bathroom is a social media stunt the pundits will laugh it up and the books will stay balanced but it looks like they went and posted another black square on instagram they forgot to put a padlock on that closet busting with skeletons. highly

experienced professor at a leading us universities put on leave after refusing special treatment for black students from debating the issue of life if you stay with us our guests will be here shortly. we go to work some straight home. long we're seeing is

a utter divorce an utter split from the real economy and the financial lives funny money fed driven casino that is now taken over the globe this is causing to think big overlord class are becoming fabulously wealthy and they cousins are revolting they got a good old fashioned peasant revolt out america and where that go i'm not sure. i'm. a student so a group of students at us u.c.l.a. teach a golden klein for the final exam to be postponed for them due to the impact of george floyd's death this wisconsin spawns any idea if any students are from

minneapolis i assume that they probably are especially devastates is while i'm thinking that a white student from there might possibly be even more devastated by this especially because some might think that they're racist even if they're not. the punishment of klein's deep divisions with opposing petitions appearing in response one is demanding he's fired or the other wants the 27 year lecture reinstated the petition supporting the professor has far more signatures. ok let's bring in 2 guests now we have political analyst and political and social issues you tube blogger antony brian logan welcome to you both 1st to you what did you think of the professors that got him put on 3 months leave. you know what when i heard what he said the 1st thing that came to mind is that

this person has had encounters with being called racist himself and he had to when he talked about someone mistaking maybe someone would mistake you for being racist i think he's speaking from his personal experience and that may be because a lot of what he said in his e-mail had undertones of racism he literally made a mockery of the fact that people who were experiencing the george floyd death and dealing with the trauma of that as an african-american person in america that they would have any type of real trauma he dismissed it he made a mockery of it and frankly it's disgusting that he would end disappointing frankly that someone in his position would be little the experience of students that he's supposed to be caring for and then said he what was your interpretation of the. i thought what he said was right on point as like ok come on would be doing we're doing online classes how am i going to even know who is black who is white or whatever and what he said what he was talking about as far as white people that may

live in minneapolis feeling a little bit more sympathetic could be right because the person that brought me complaint to begin with was what he said quote unquote white ally so i mean where was a black person that came for and say hey can we take off exams can exams not count because we're going through a thing i mean ak on a stamp they knew the person if there was their brother or friend i mean become more and the people don't know this man they're not related to him so how can it really be so overtaken with grief so the point where they can just go back to normal everyday life i thought that was really ridiculous i thought it was an excellent email better professors same in return. do you think professor klein's e-mail was it the content of his response and refusing any kind of preferential treatment or was it the tone of it the was the problem why he's been suspended. well 2 things we do have to address the point that a.b.l.

made number one the letter that was sent in that he responded to professor klein was from a student who phrased himself as a white ally so here's the issue with that if you're an ally of people of color black people if your ally a black lives matter then guess what you've got to step up and pay the price for ally ship and it doesn't come free because guess what as an african american none of our freedoms in this country have come at the price of anything less than blood for the most part so if you want to be our ally know that you're going to have to stand up and you're going to have to pay a price and that's been the case way back in history in the sixty's with goodman chaney and other people who have lost their lives standing up for the freedom of african-americans in this country so that's issue number one pay the price in don't be afraid to do it don't chicken chicken out and say oh can we get a no feel great that's being that that's not being a true ally secondly as far as the letter it was definitely the tone but the content as well he literally mimicked and mocked the fact that people would have

any type of pain as a result of george floyd's death now let me make this point very clear i don't know george for him personally but as a black woman in america and maybe a.b.l. himself doesn't have this experience and maybe he doesn't identify in his blackness but as a black woman in america i remember being pulled over by the police because i was african-american i remember feeling afraid for my life i know what it's like to have people who are african-american that i care about come in contact with the police and fear for their very life and because of that the death of george floyd resonates with me strongly and it's a morning when women me being a woman when i know that i can birth a child who will be killed or who can be killed simply because of the color of his skin and we're going to use our way here in the national going about the black news but the whole blackness for me are coming from. our group in the mostly white. predominately black area all my life i know what it's like i did like adult bullets

more the black people coming to my window i know what it's all about so there's always thing about oh maybe you don't identify i know are different than if i i know go to rue grief i know what the real problems are coming from the white man and from the police is from my eyes so when i see people i are grieving for george miller you know ok your mind will do you might you might say you know them saying oh you know here's a behavior for weeks you don't you don't know this man you could be group or for weeks people at worst people give you more for george floyd and it would for their own grandmama warner on granddaddy i don't really understand the b. issue and that is not accurate either that's not accurate i can't see people in that i can say what we're seeing are black people who are responding to a collective body of pain if you're familiar with the phrase pain body there is a collective pain body of hundreds of years of pain from oppression slavery and other things that have basically impacted the mind in a lot of black people carry what we call a post-traumatic stress disorder because of the x. i don't i don't have i don't i don't understand how we can feel maybe a.b.l.

you when you see the police maybe if you've been pulled over you're not concerned that they see black 1st and that you're a man 2nd but many people in this country who walk around in an african-american skin or black skin have that fear and it's a very real concern race what do you think about what the professor. wrote in his response when he called him on to these the king saying that people should not be evaluated based on the color of the skin should you wouldn't want discrimination in favor of black students because of the color of their skin. you know i'm so disgusted by the people who who attempt to invoke martin luther king jr anytime they feel as though they're losing the battle of racism or they want to placate people or they want to know why they bring in this why washstand it ties in martin luther king jr in order to placate and shout down people well here's the one thing that they never seem to understand the very people that he was talking about

in his letter from a birmingham jail he was talking about the white moderates who always tell people not now not that way don't don't riot don't don't don't do this don't don't have an uprising don't have a revolt don't have a rebellion why because those are the very liberal white people who will tell black people now is not the time for you to fight oppression don't do it in that way don't use that tone this little person or here's a letter the way that he responds is the very thing that dr martin luther king was speaking against and so he invokes dr king and makes a mockery of what he stood for and it's just i'm tired to give you a chance to respond what do you think of the tone of it because regardless of the of the continent this is a really sensitive to undergo in america of racial issues. and say that it could have been worded an awful lot more sensitive. i mean it's one more time for it you just got to be on is you've got to be straight forward trying to be sensitive

trying to just placate the worst feelings i mean there's no need for it to just be on is just be real one thing i would say to anybody it is i who watch and i don't care because you are if you're feeling bad for black people because of one person and i don't do that just be on is just be yourself and it is no need to be you know intentionally nasty or intentionally just overly nice to just be rue and what he was doing in a letter was being rule and if you are against racism if you get screaming nation you should be in favor of what he said in the letter he's like look i'm not going to treat black students any differently i'm not going to give anybody any kind of special anything because it is skin color airbag if you do same ok like i say that was like your dad or your uncle so might that you knew they passed away that's different but we don't know this man people may have got upset when you start a video but you really don't know this mean you really don't have internal issues with it and if you do you've got to get checked out some like some else is going on with you because when people badly day in a community there's not some kind of collective pain or collective outrage when i

was a kid i've seen people get shot in a hit when i was 8 now years old classmates get sad too but other black people were kind of collective pain and all that and we'll talk about that right now we talk about george bush because of something as popular as when the news is in the media when the internet and we just kind of get wrapped up into it and identify what day we should just focus on we got to focus on which is our school work and our actual work where we actually get paid money and our families take care of that rap and we worry about what's happening over in minneapolis they affect a nice every day guys i really wish that we had more time foolishly we've done it's been a pleasure to speak to both a political analyst and resurface a political social issues he cheaper blog thanks so much he's. appreciate guys that are tuning in if you can stick around a lot of updates on our top stories in just over 30 that.

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