something about the protesters who have occupied parts of the city. the city's man says that using military force. hundreds of protesters defender stand. london after. the controversial former leader breaks. c his protest. against police brutality and violence.

considering their next move having seize control of the area after it was abandoned by police president. if local authorities fail to resolve the matter. we're not going to let this happen in seattle if we have to go and we're going to go and to go there is you going to do it but to go to do it he's got great national guard troops to it 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 and 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 week by black lives matter activists they barricaded themselves inside 6 blocks in the center of seattle declaring it a police free zone activists desecrate the loads explains what life is like inside the company. i am down here in the capitol hill autonomous zone also known as chavez and the mood here is come 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 lloyd rebellion as

they're calling it that's what the the wall says of him there there's a good constant 24 hour vigil people can light 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 have 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. and to be protests continuing in other parts of the city on friday thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of what they called a silent protest rally came on the same day a federal judge ordered officers to temporarily stop using tear gas and pepper spray against protesters and. the wall process show no sign of easing into other u.s. states with the center of american commerce no exception new york's or demonstrators come out peacefully to support the black lives matter movement the rally there coincided with a women's empowerment march and ended with a joint platform crowds gathered in manhattan reportedly starting out from trump

town to the scene holding placards and chanting various demands being clue to defunding the police justice for george floyd and a focus on the lives of black women. aside from the general public the black lives massive movement has the backing of major u.s. companies including amazon microsoft and starbucks however it seems that when it comes to the racial equality course it's more talk than action ask you taylor explains. 21st century companies live in fear of castle culture of their own tweet too i misjudged joe can lead to a hoss sentence in the court of public opinion so with black lies not to protest 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 key to ring 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 to boy called them as well that ought to be about attire was late 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. stop bots use a scoff at the it's expected by. slaves and what tomorrow or kenya costa rica and panama. remember when they wrote let's talk about racism on the cops remember in 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 see christian prada tweeted how how sick and insulted they were by inequality and how they were companies

ethics which could be seen as false up the ties in given that if you google though you might stumble across words like child labor exploitation black face as the vocal 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 santa and jeff bezos is publicly naming and shaming customers who sent 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 amazon 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 isn't technologies that are clearly targeting and harming black and brown communities and into the mix there are only 8. and of its managers in the u.s. a black and you'll see like slapping a beard and that when 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 what microsoft has started posting messages from it's like employee east they don't mind and runs out of material pretty quickly given the less than 5 percent of its entire what force is black so we guess it got 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 posted another where on instagram they forgot to put a padlock on that was it bursting with skeletons. police in the us are facing increasing hostility amid the ongoing black lives might of protests a major in the told police department has been criticised for insisting that officers aren't targeting african-americans trouble. he has the figures to back it up it's an issue i discussed with him. you had those isolated incidents rifles and go incidents that occur and especially on body camera video they're shown over and over again so i think the general public thinks that's happening all the time in the states we make 350000000 contacts year and obviously the fast majority of those are not in the instance that occur we use force less than one percent of all arrestees but when that mistake happens you know we're all healed that skinner all point that i would encourage your audience you go to the washington post police

shooting database and they come pahl the state of source you can go back and look and since 2015 if you want to look talks about the unarmed individual shot by law enforcement if you break it down between african-american and white it's 3 percent unarmed white shot in arm and 2 percent of an arm or an arm black so they're very even numbers and you know if the race isn't a factor generally those numbers should be even there's a real steer here in the states to actually talk about that and what i've been trying to say is we've got to be able to we've got to be able to we can at least talk about those facts it's really hard to move forward a problem solve a piece of power and use of excessive force by police in the us who it goes right back to the civil rights movement has been going on for a you know 50 is. can you understand why there are coals even like a public movement to defund the police force do you think that that is the right direction to go in given that the problems have been around for so long isn't it time to try something different or is this the case of just making

a bad situation worse if you if you start to defund that's a huge huge decision and you've got to really think about law enforcement in america is it well funded now i think were we have gone astray in america is law enforcement's been tasked with doing things that we never had to do from the mentally ill that that system is broken so law enforcement final straw that we end up you know about city percent of the people unfortunately have shoot this country's parks are mentally ill and forcing off which doesn't always know that on a sunny and so i actually. wireless lines and programs of the law enforcement to try to take some of that burden away from law enforcement what you can't do is you can't take son and someone source that and then ask lots more to do the same exact work just really very. right wing demonstrations have defended the boxtops that you would stand churchill in the parliament square which last week was targeted by activists who sprayed he was racist on that place of impose restrictions the running protesters leave the streets by 5 pm local time to

prevent violent clashes between the 2 sides so this james brown 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 had his pedestal dog with the slogan was a racist now in response to that the mayor of london city can decided that he would board up this statue in a number of others but only 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 this has to be boarded up for fear of violent attack and that to me is both absurd and and wrong you should not have a situation which people who are protesting on one bases are violent the attacking

the police or 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 6 qantas isn't to board up the stratosphere and that's where i guess people are here to defend statues and i support people defended you know you support people trying to take you down you know so i tried to look at things from both perspectives there's a lot of good history behind it people don't want to talk about the bad history and that's one of the issues that's 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. or i just i would. say he does i think he's a more in school which is actually still in school people should remember it was hard but. i don't think a lot of that should be taken down to the right or the ball itself and by the

process i think this is something for the people who are living in a world where they have to be to see the. several 1000 have defied the curfew to keep protesting falling clashes between rival demonstrators have been taking place in several locations in the capital bring you more information on the developing story as it comes in. meanwhile in the northern city of newcastle scuffles broke out saturday's black lives matter activists faced off with counter-demonstrators army veterans along with football fans and right wing activists encircled the monument to former prime minister earl grey saying that they would defend it from anti racism groups earlier a contributor to the guardian newspaper suggested taking down the statue claiming it was linked to slavery though he was mocked online the slavery was actually abolished in britain under that premise we gave people's opinion in the city on the monument. to create bill. the slavery or look. bill was passed when he was prime minister of. civic what

he was he was famous for to. totally disagree with that he was to be got rid of slavery feel like i don't know enough about his interest in slavery as to whether it's a good or bad thing so i couldn't say until i'm you get more excited. over she generally this should be taken down because nobody likes to you know anything a push to not be as it is causing offense in any way shape or form is museums we can have this just you know history surely sure that some of them probably do need demolishing but as with so often the situations what starts off as a good thing all tends to go bit too far. let's take this monument fine is fine since in one night we're talking face you found was taken down it wouldn't be reassessed because it could still put in some heritage site which for false history

if he's in a book in it is in need in website if he can be searched on windy days if the people who. are on these wanted to represented on these monuments. a particular person in slavery or that their own profit then i think it needs to do seriously looked at whether we have them and as as points of reference 0 point power thousands of demonstrators came out in the center of paris on saturday protesting against police brutality and widespread discrimination. i think. the protests called by the black lies massive movements or protesters climb a building to tear down a huge banner denouncing anti white racism the banner of the place there by a group of far right activists from the generation identity group and to racism demonstrators also jumped on statues held flares a marched with signs the largely peaceful rallies took place despite a national coronavirus related ban on governs of more than 10 people police trying

to disperse the demonstrators 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 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 who passed away 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 the 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 being treated differently. meanwhile 10000 officers took to the streets of paris on friday against new government measures to ban chokeholds during arrests were forced marched along carrying banners that read no police no pace they were lost i bought cars honking their horns in a similar demonstration the day before officers are thrown handkerchiefs on to the ground and comes after the french interior minister police for using chokeholds in arrest describing it as a dangerous method the general secretary of the french police union is refusing to budge. the simple border. the statement by christopher custer near this monday is unacceptable he was talking about ben in choke holes in the rest but this is used

or an 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 cluster near should revise the current stance on this and confirm in a matter of hours that this ban will not be introduced moreover a list of new methods should be introduced there would be as effective and provide safety for my colleagues otherwise the police protests going on right now across france will continue. until i had 1300 medics when the thousands of protesters might be in danger of contracting covert 19 or because tear gas is helping its transmission from person to person to take a closer look after this break.

you cannot be both with yeah you. are seeing is a utter divorce an utter split from the real economy and the financial lives funny money fed driven casino that is now taking over the globe this is causing to think the overlord class are becoming fabulously wealthy and the peasants are revolting they've got a good passive prison revolt found america and we're not sure.

that the united states is not the world's policeman walking a shift from claims made by former presidents in his speech to the west point military academy. american led and the swells across the globe the u.s. president has made some of the pronouncements in his 1st campaign. we are ending the era. of endless wars it is not the duty of u.s. ships to solve ancient conflicts in faraway lands. that many people have never even heard of. we are not the policemen of the world they've dragged us into fire and wars that make us less they shipped our jobs their wealth to others. and

our borders wide open there's. a. lot on the line now by investigative journalist dave lindorff welcome what do you think when you think of tom speech does he really mean if he wants to end america's involvement in overseas conflicts or not well he's repeating something that he said since he was campaigning and he hasn't been doing it in the time that we've been here he you know he was amping up the trading in syria against the government syrian government while seeing that he was leaving. he's continued the u.s. involvement with the saudi were in yemen which is really a saudi an american war and the people of yemen. he has continued in the drone attacks in iraq and really. expanded the war in iraq afghanistan rather

while seeing it he was pulling us out i haven't seen that really happen so i think it's more talk than anything else do you think the comments by. hitting the campaign trail early. yeah because a lot of people voted for trump originally because he was saying that he wanted to end the endless wars but he hasn't so. you know it's like saying that he was going to restore the coal industry and it's been. an employment in the close down the coal mines have been proceeding apace for market reasons and he hasn't done a thing to expand the use of coal. and you know there are a lot of promises that were made in the campaign that have not been met so he needs to talk his way through this campaign and try to convince people that he's done things that he hasn't done or that he hasn't done things that. he has but certainly

ending endless wars has not been one of his. triumphs and achievements from the campaign promises he's terms what he said is one to rebuild foreign lands what do you think the benefits would would be of not doing that. well. the us has said a lot of over the years about rebuilding foreign lands and mostly what it's done is destroyed foreign lands we were supposedly going to be rebuilding yamin we were supposedly going to be rebuilding vietnam we were supposedly going to be rebuilding iraq. when we leave a war like we did in iraq. we leave it a complete mess so you know we don't do what colin powell said we were going to do you said if you break it you bought it you have to fix it we did not fix it we refused to do reparations in vietnam the war we lost when we

pulled out they're still paying for the damages that we did. the agent orange in their junk destroying the jungles and their crop plants and so on so we don't really rebuild countries i can't think of a country we've rebuilt since world war 2 when we had the marshall plan. given the current political social situation in america the empty base and. really building up the mountain now. to be changing the conversation down to something else that are on this track to life. well use made some little tweaks in his in his speeches you know he was about to do this or if extending of having a rally in tulsa where the biggest massacre of black population happened at the hands of white racists and us military

actually the place looked worse than iraq was bombed flat and it was that once the wealthiest city of black you know area black area in the country which is probably why it was destroyed at the time. he was going to have a rally there on the day of what they called juneteenth when slaves in texas finally learned about the emancipation proper preparation months later then it happened. that was finally called off i think wiser heads saner heads in the white house prevailed or in his campaign prevailed and got him to change the date. maybe the location i'm not sure but it was a phenomenally bad taste in the middle of all of this so he's trying though he says things like you know that. he was talking about you know the country getting along and stuff so he's he's trying to mouth the words they don't come easily to and. they think so much hate and investigate and dave lindorff is michael. thank

you for having me on. there's concern the use of tear gas could hugely increase the spread of covert 9000 among protesters issue has been highlighted in an open letter that was signed by almost 1300 u.s. public health and medical professionals this comes amid the nationwide protest against racism that's been raging for 2 and a half weeks. opposing the use of tear gas smoke or other responders 3 irritants which could increase risk for covert 19 by making the risk of tree tracked more susceptible to infection exacerbating existing inflammation and in juicing coughing apart from coronavirus related health concerns there are other issues as well prolonged exposure to the gas or a large dose especially in a closed setting can lead to blindness can also leave severe chemical burns of the throat and lungs even deadly risperidone failure philadelphia's police commissioner still argues riot control agents remain the safest way of dispersing crowds the

deployment of tear gas was a means to safely diffuse a volatile and dangerous situation and restore order when it became increasingly clear that other measures when effective in accomplishing that necessary objective . had been in a viral or just at the u.k.'s lancaster university police concerns about the current use of tear gas are justified. actually then we look on to the display issue track inspection they are very easy to be transmitted and one of the contributing factors for the call of honest use of credit and take the whole word on nice they didn't for 5 months as being used to treat us through treatment of prosecution so anything that can expose the respiratory tract or create any additional damage to the spirit of traction is something that would certainly help the vitus to penetrate into the body otherwise we could probably protect it so therefore ready to comes to the street exacting section deafened i mix like on a lot of said really good keeping the other rescues back healthy is not more

important and having to tear gas is certainly not a good choice in a biscuit condition in particular to someone who is infected with a groan of ideas or has asked for money or other cuomo to be deities in terms of this critic cracking sections or other our community diseases if they were to be under the tear gas or similar kind of type or even doc mean that david because the more and heart coughing can lead the hardest to trouble you have a longer than 2 meter distance that we normally have 0 so this means the lightest transmission would be even more handy explore many people in the vicinity would be a little more exposed to. get up set up with a pleasure to have a company throughout the day here on r.t. international and stick around if you can my colleagues sometimes will be right it was nice.