but. protesters says a restaurant ablaze while the police chief quit was another african-american dies at the hands of police on a turbulent night in atlanta in. the main stories of the week black lives matter protesters in seattle 6 blocks of the city center carrying it's an autonomous zone from demands your new order and threaten to send in the army and this combat the drones are frequently seen during the floyd protest increasing militarize ation of the us police is question.

they're just gone for the afternoon here in moscow are you watching the weekly on r.t. international now another black man has died at the hands of police sparking violent unrest in the u.s. city of atlanta the city's police chief resigned after an officer fatally shot the african-american while he was being arrested on saturday night coming off his body cam footage of the incident a word of warning though you might find the pictures disturbing. well blah blah blah blah blah blah blah for most after you. are not read or a few words to see what kind of drinks did yeah. i'm not sure some she orders i think you pretty much the trying to be gratis approach as one of our point. of questions what about. i got the car started the stuff i thought. well late on friday night police received a call that a black man was sleeping in his car which was waiting in the queue of the drive

thru brutes failed to breath test given by offices and was then resisted and then have resisted arrest during the struggle he appears to grab and officers taser and later pointed it while fleeing he was at this moment he was shot and he later died in hospital the lawyer for the family claims the police acted to try to sleep. he lays there dying. they also stand around one pits and flip them over and then the witnesses tell us that which we can't see on camera but they filmed it they would have picked up the silk face. i wonder why so there all of you know how far away was when they shot but they appear to be terror more about covering their tracks than providing. it that could have saved his life i think to say we want justice but out of the ottoman period while we know what that is and i've been doing this 15 years out of the woods this is a more well protesters set on fire the restaurant level to patients with police

happened all in the incident atlantas mess said the officer who pulled the trigger of being sacked the other one involved was suspended at the city's police chief and quits over what happened. while there may be debate as to whether this was an appropriate use of deadly force i firmly believe that there is a clear distinction between what you can do and what you should do. i do not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force and have called for the immediate term a nation of the officer she feels has offered to immediately step aside as police chief so that the city may move forward with urgency in rebuilding the trust so desperately needed throughout our community. ok let's

discuss this and i would go on take out he's a community advocates and also c.e.o. of casa media group you're very welcome thanks for coming on obviously there is going to be a thorough investigation but what do you make of what we know so far. you know i think what's let's get lost in all of this is the fact that people are now you know this is this is the 4th or 5th case in the last not weeks i mean we've literally gone from a model already took me on a trailer to george boy and and now where you're at it restart works and you know i think what the key book component that's also in this is the fact that you know we keep hearing about how difficult the job of the officers are but we don't hear enough about how scary right now i mean here we're dying at a rate that's astronomical and i think we've got to have a very very intense conversation that we set down with the orange county district attorney last week and you know that's the jurisdiction that atlanta is and and you

know he gave us the list right here there are 18 police brutality cases in his office right now is already. prosecuted $38.00 on and so i mean there's just there's a lot going on and a lot of that waiting also and it's we feel that and so on we see the we see him in and that's across in a manner misty or shar rugs i mean i can only imagine what type of fear was going through his mind at the time because of encouragement that there have been just so many shootings and you open the letter and i want to be able to make it home to my family have a wife laura bush our troops have a life in the door we feel that and so i think. that that emotion is being lost and we got to find a way to bridge this gap and go find a way to look at legislation. that's going to be able to mend the fences on both sides because right now we are spirit we're hurting and we got to take

a hard look at this this is all about immunity as i think it's also time that police feel the weight of the consequences when they go and pull the trigger. are you surprised that the police chief quit so worry over this to you i know it's come at a very very sensitive time but the same time there will be people who say look we still need to process we still need to understand exactly what happened do you think his resignation came to or what you think that may have been political but what are your full. you know i'm not here to discuss whether it was political or math of based upon this list that i just showed there are 2 cases 10 cases that she has had about it might have been 20 officers and 10 cases as 2 cases too many as this is just too many. and that's just atlanta we're not talking about the whole nation we're just seeing their own issues as well and so we we've got to have a real whore and a really. a real tough discussion on where we go from here you know what's also

lost in this conversation as taxpayers here in america president obama going to task force you've got to where he look at the 21st century police initiative outgroups the policing in the community and right now to no partners over 60 percent in terms of on those recommendations and when i would just 60 percent was in the bill and very more not allowed to go into the next room and so big it's time for us to sit behind a house with real conversation about where we go from here because as you see right now understand the pain you're seeing of iraq that's been in the hearts of so many people in the community think about what's going on not only is why it's up and don't own these acts but the reality is is there is a lot of pain and we don't just see. it's not just see omari know it's real you see generally jackson this is a history of things that have happened between policing and the black community and

i was speaking to a police officer earlier today and he said work or numbers are so small. these bad apples is just 18 well you know 18 well here 18 years before eventually all these numbers are out up and i think we've got to really start to take a horror look at this because you know how come there are no how come when it comes to these corporate airlines they're no better pilots why are there aren't any better pilots because you know or to have a better one pilot question why how many miles are not and i think we've got to get away from this this issue of oh it's just that they had that know they're there because your 2000000 lives being lost because of all their doubts and we go talk about do you think things of are slowly going in the right direction over the last 2 weeks because we see many politicians come back and say what they feel should be done when you listen to them do you really feel is safe something will come of this

or perhaps the people you listen to just paying lip service to 2 events. you know that the 20 percent you listen to that i just spoke about it was completed in 2015 is 21 of the completed there after my trayvon martin we're we're going down shot we're in 21 it's the same exact issue as far as i'm concerned until you start talking about root issues and not just our grandmother issues but implementing change and so we start dressing this legislation that allows for these instances to continue to occur i mean what are we talking about when do we moved to action when we take a step towards not just heal in the community but mending fences there's a lot of work that needs to be done and i think there needs to be less talk and more well you know honestly. more sort of impact do you think. last night steph will have on the black lives matter protests. you know are.

it was so funny i was talking to a friend of mine in the 1000000 he's essentially felt like the idea that energy around protest worse was dying down and a settler and i said you know if you can stand there and we don't not see what's happening right now you know what is happening is people are they're upset and they're demanding demanding change and so what i think that they did last night is it contingent newton's these young people the energy and enthusiasm until you're pushed through because they're out there there's there's the national guard there's there are swat teams there are tanks on streets and i'm scared to death one of the young men that are out there in minutes for all of this is not image when there was some time when he was on of our clients and they will lose not to shoot anybody and so that he will he will work as as a group to make sure that nothing happens where he was and i think we really got

a ticket home and that we really go stand back that he aligned so much pain they don't want to go home because you know at home is it safer than we saw that we're monitoring or so what are we going to do who are sure that the rights of all citizens not recognize the rights of all citizens of this is an issue about the value of life when is it that we as americans can start to look for life and have compassion on black americans is there anything you can put your finger on that you would like to see happen over the next week for example that would make many people like yourself feel better. oh most definitely we got it in qualified immunity again police need to understand that. when they call the trigger they need to feel the weight of those consequences you take away qualified a 1000000 guesswork it's a whole lot easier for them to stand before a jury of their peers as a whole life easier for them feel when you don't know if that was a shot i'm going to prison and i think that there's nothing that will straighten

out of or that organization better than accountability transparency justice that's what. we would like i don't i look really good to talk to you this afternoon when after that it was done take us a community advocate of car to me to thank you. but it is almost 3 weeks since george floyd was killed at the hands of police in the minneapolis on tuesday the man whose death sparked nationwide riots in the u.s. was buried during a small private funeral in his hometown of houston in texas earlier on the same day thousands paid their respects on tuesday around 6000 mourners filed past his coffin in houston the final stop in a series of memorials held in his honor around 30 $1000.00 to spend on his gold casket with the money taken from a record breaking fundraising campaign that amassed nearly $13000000.00 the fallout from floyd's death has provoked claims politicians they are trying to use it to score political points democrats for example were criticized by some finagle ng for

an 8 minute silence in congress the length of time prosecutors say that floyd was pinned under a white police officers knee before he died. every american should try to stand in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to acknowledge the pain of george lloyd in the pain of racism tried not to grieve but it's much harder to do in public it's much harder with the whole world watching your incredible family his old daughter resistor who want to sit there is going to change the world and i think her dad is going to change the world hopefully george is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing that's happening for our country this is a great great day in terms of equality i just want to finish by saying to save the economy we passed several pieces of critical legislation. for this type. of. health care rather than. all the democrats have proposed the

justice in policing act which would make it easier to prosecute misconduct and require local police to report data on the use of force officers but also be obliged to undergo bias training and. those and other dangerous practices would be prohibited officers but also have to wear body cameras political commentator jeff childs i believe there is a clear political motivation behind the. you know what they say right i mean never let a good crisis go to waste they're all definitely be people from both sides who are going to capitalize on what happened to george floyd to bolster their political careers it is an election year so it's hard to tell whether or not the people really pushing for this are really wanting to affect change or if they're posturing for november the true test of whether people really want to affect change will will occur after the election is over if this is still going to be an issue that we're

going to be pushing in our in our media and also at it in at a political level as well then it is possible for 'd for positive change to come. and watch and we can hear or not he will have more stories for you just after this break. there was a period let's call it the uni polar you know period after the our end of the cold war with the u.s. and nato countries and other people sort of wanted russia to become what they described as a normal country what they meant by normal was a country that was democratic by western standards that was capitalists now it was a member of u.s. led international rules greatest order established by the u.s.

i think a lot of people saw that as sort of permanent 2nd class status in the u.s. system and i think it's pretty clear that russia in particular has been pushing back on that. again now at the beginning of the week black lives matter protest seize control and barricaded themselves in 6 blocks of central seattle they are calling the area the capitol hill autonomous so their move came after police had retreated from the

neighborhood hundreds of demonstrators led by the local council also occupied the city hall. protesters inside here were calling for the city's mayor to quit and accuse her of not being strict enough implementing reforms while the key demand of all demonstrators is for the police to be defunded one of their goals is to build a community inside the zone without any need for police some of those who occupy the city hall claim the community and not politicians should control decision making in the zone is the self declared calming police a cars are allowed into the area and reports to suggest that some of those inside are actually armed the city's mayor later defended though the protesters saying that they are just patriots online there's been a mixed reaction. in

response president trump has demanded law and order in seattle he also called out those he feels responsible say all this has happened in a radical left democratic state later trump threatened to send in the army to the local authorities don't deal with the situation but the issue of law and order is nothing new it has been on the lips of both republican and democrat presidents for

more than 5 decades. law and order more familiar as the popular t.v. show you running for 3 decades already law and order. but also exactly what's triggered nationwide protests across the united states. that's the. law and order is the 1st responsibility of government don't send people up there that come home and talk tough on law and order and crime and then go back and vote some other way on the ground it was really a symbol of law and order a policeman on the campus and that was the moment when the ringleaders should have been taken by the scruff of the neck and crawled out of the university one. by law and order i mean on order for everybody we've got to reestablish respect for law respect for law and order a concept that's existed since the founding fathers the catchphrase that helped

take richard nixon to the white house during mass civil unrest and race riots. around 200 people died back then in clashes martin luther king was assassinated so waving in a new era for society nixon proposed an agenda in which police powers were a bouncer increase in 1968 the green light was given for the use of stop and search and powers have expanded since. in new york it became infamous stops dramatically increasing under mayor michael bloomberg in the 2 thousands but it raised a key issue racial prejudice during the peak of the program more than half of the people stopped were black but the black community made up just over one quarter of new york's population 1st started new york philadelphia. california. first. as new ways to keep order were

introduced laws became tougher since 1928 states have adopted some form of what's known as the 3 strike practice it meant lengthy sentences for repeat offenders even life behind bars the policy came in as the war on drugs peaked which raised further questions of racial targeting at the turn of the century more than half of all inmates serving time for drug offenses in state prisons were black 3 years ago it was still around 30 percent despite only being 13 percent of the population as a whole with both police powers and sentencing increased prison numbers skyrocketed there are more black people than any other racial group behind bars in america something that has not changed under bill clinton george bush or barack obama for every 100000 people in the u.s. sentences for black people a 5 times higher than whites. so law and order it was

a response to rioting like the unrest ravaging the united states from coast to coast in 2020 provoked by police actions it happened in los angeles in $92.00 after the beating of rodney king by the authorities it happened after the 2014 shooting of michael brown in ferguson a year later in baltimore with the death of freddie gray. i. i. in the last 5 years on record the number of those fatally shot by the police per 1000000 people is higher among blacks than any other ethnicity and now history is repeating itself yet another police related death has provoked unrest and again triggered discussion on black rights so as we look back on what's unfolded since nixon and his slogan in the sixty's donald trump has reassured the nation now

saying i am your president to have law and order all trumps the man's for law and order to come at a time and place in the us are becoming increasingly militarized many forces now boast the kind of hardware previously only seen in frontline combat abroad a walk in as the story. predator drones are a staple of u.s. foreign policy they have been used in afghanistan pakistan bosnia serbia yemen iraq syria somalia and now minneapolis though the protesters didn't see it it was flying over their heads in order to help federal officials gain situation awareness and go reports indicate it was an armed people are angry and afraid the deployment of drones and offices to surveil protests is a gross abuse of authority and it's particularly issuing when they used against americans who are protesting low in course when brutality it appears that the war

on terror has come home the mine resistant ambush protected vehicles built by the u.s. military to a stand attacks in iraq have been rolling down american streets as well the 1033 program allows the u.s. military to provide local police departments with weapons local police can order weapons like remade launchers automatic rifles and bayonets as well as body armor robots aircraft watercraft and survey one strongs these are defense department products deemed to be excessive old or surplus $7400000000.00 worth of defense department property has been provided to over $8000.00 different law enforcement agencies by the 1033 program ex new york city mayor michael bloomberg once referred to the new york city police department saying i have my own army and the n.y.p.d. the 7th largest army in the world well with lots of military equipment the n.y.p.d.

certainly does seem like an army barack obama rolled back the program after the ferguson protests and national outrage about the militarization of police who. are. now back. however trump has ruled by the program now many are asking the question why does the department of defense have so much excess gear that it needs to unload anyway the us has been involved in so many words that they become occupations and the military is as developed techniques were operating as an occupying army and they've brought these home they brought the war home after they made by these things and the military you know uses some of them they become surplus or if they don't buy of them all you know the military orders

a certain number and then they back out of buying some of it a lot of the stuff sitting in military warehouses and so they want to get rid of them and basically congress passed a law saying that these things are to be given to police departments so we have the ridiculous situation where small towns are being given em wraps they're totally impractical they don't make any sense they're terribly intimidating though. and that's part of the purpose i guess for years americans have been told that the military budget is necessary to keep them safe and protect them from bad actors around the world but it's starting to look like the bad guys these weapons are intended to be used against our a lot closer to home the very people whose tax dollars pay for them it will mop and artsy new york the former minnesota governor and dotting america has jesse ventura says the miniaturize ation of the police can be easily seen on the streets. why do

cops now look like star wars commandos i mean when they come out and you look at them they don't look like your friend they look like an occupying military today not only that i was driving down minnesota a year or 2 ago and i saw on the freeway this big black vehicle looked like it belongs and our rack and i pulled alongside him and said mr soto state highway department this thing was unbelievable i mean it was a it was a combat military machine we need to get that stuff out of our police force as we do i was in the philippines when ferdinand marcos declared martial law i was physically there and there were military on every corner with machine guns let's not do that. and that brings you up tonight will be back with more stories from the week that's help here.

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