greetings and sal you tahsin right as we now enter the halfway point of june which in turn is the halfway point of 2021 thing we have discovered is that here in the united states of america despite the many times our government and corporate culture has attempted to suppress or co-opt it the freedom of speech is still alive and well it has been flowing through the veins of 2020 like painkillers through congress or sudafed through our president freedom of speech and expression have brought us both the just like the political protest against oppression and police violence that followed the murder of george floyd to the incredibly stupid and dangerous like the arm protests we saw over folks having to wear masks and being asked to stay at home following the outbreak of covert 19 whatever one feels about the causes whether you are for or against it you cannot deny that the power of free

speech has been on display all over 2020 so far but that hasn't stopped efforts on both the right and the left of the political spectrum here in the united states in their attempts to tear down our freedoms of speech and expression when it's used against their own beliefs or agendas take this week where both republican and democrat media organizations politicians and keyboard warriors have been hyperventilating over recent scandal involving 'd n.b.c. news google ads and the federalist according to a very conservative vehicle the national review on tuesday this week google threatened to ban the right wing political news website from the federalists from generating advertising revenue on the company's platform in response to posts in the federalist comments section that allegedly violated google's policies regarding dangerous or derogatory come. tend and this supposed that attack on free speech or

advertising dollars came after n.b.c. news referred the company to complaints against the bedrolls and the financial blog 0 hedge compiled by the u.k. based center for countering digital hate. which then of course prompted or was the excuse for the united states senator out of missouri reserve josh powell way to put forward yet another new attempt by the u.s. congress to rein in the legal immunity granted to social media companies by that notorious section $230.00 the communications and decency act remember that is the section that prevents companies from being sued or held liable for what we the public decide to write or publish their platforms. and that set these crossroads in the battle over online free speech that we are going to start watching honks. you want to go on a cd in the streets you want to sit. there so you would see see that this is joyce

state and see rolls royce gracie say displays systemic deception is a late show but she is out with some good joke as. well i'm watching the hogs i robot. boy a mission member side of the political aisle 0 fire this week in this kind of weird footnote everything going on over like you know google ads and conservatives being censored on major on google and all these social media platforms it's fascinating to see all this plays out but really to me it's just kind of 2 sides being really loud over a problem the bits not really that much of a problem no i absolutely agree think that you know an argument of censorship specifically with some of these large tech giant platforms you're seeing members of both sides of the aisle be extremely frustrated in trying to get their message across. from what you said earlier there's a little bit of upset around just how much people are able to say in these comment

sections but we also know that the comment section is where is the delivery goes to die the comment section of anything so the expectation that you're probably going to see something negative is always pretty high and i don't think that any you know any organization should have to. to be liable for what somebody says in the comments section no not at all and i think that's ridiculous and look it's up to them if they want to have a comment section a lot of things you know a lot of our newspapers online or publications online they don't even have a comment section anymore specifically because it's not so i mean imagine if you tried to tell you tube the advertisers on you tube are going to be held liable for what's said on you tube videos on the beat the video it's insane it's that short term we've seen a certain level of responsibility from certain organizations just around suspending the comment section when they feel that it's gone too far into the weeds or when it's become too racist or too then a big or too you know anti muslim we've seen those types of things before but that's organizations taking the lead and saying hey you know this we're in

a direction that nobody really needs to see but again it's hard to mandate what people are going to say outside people on your platform and i'm going to really tired from the both the left and the right basically attacking each other's messages online and trying to censor each other's messages look there's a ton of stuff i don't like to read and i don't want to see and i find deplorable and despicable but they still have a right to say you know it and i have a right to react to it i don't want to see it censored exactly but i would feel differently if the publication endorsed the comment right it's very different if you have an article that is run that is blatantly racist and one that uses a lot of the undertones that we do see in some of these comments but again these are individuals who are making their voices heard yes a lot of them are probably in their basement typing things that are should never be uttered out loud people get a lot of a lot of courage when they are in the comment section they wouldn't have outside of that but i just don't feel like there should be liability on any society is going

to even if they do produce an article that is blatantly racist society will shun them for of society will pay them back for it remember free speech you know whether you agree the free speech is actually there to protect unpopular speech popular speech doesn't need protection everyone loves it really at the heart of this though is whether or not a big argument. with all of this is whether or not n.b.c. the reporter who wrote this piece for n.b.c. you know was basically you know showed google what there's other companies said dead men put out this tweet saying like thanks to you know s.f. f. fake news and c c the hate that their hard work and their collaboration collaboration being this keyword was like oh did n.b.c. collaborate with those groups to get the bedroom list and 0 hedge you know attack by google ads that's where the big kind of controversy with all this sits and to me i look at it now i'm kind of like it's a stupid tweet because you can read any and everything and collaborated. and because she kind of walked into something that was already set in motion the federalist and a lot of organizations on the right feel as though they are their speech is being taken off of certain platforms specifically those that they see as more left

leaning or having more left leaning support and this kind of help to see that monster so i think that they're blowing the tweet out of proportion granted she shouldn't if that in any way. while the united states continues to reopen the threat and the danger of covert 19 has not by any means gone away with new spikes in states like arizona and florida long known as the destinations for americans who are tired and elderly it appears that this virus is still at the throats of the most vulnerable of our population are to americans john honey is in florida with the latest on covert 1000 attack on america thing you said isn't. covered 19th continues to plague nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout the united states as more states continue to reopen the wall street journal reports that as nursing homes and other senior care facilities have started allowing more visits the death toll at these facilities has surpassed 50000

accounting for 43 percent of colvin 1000 deaths in the united states this is health care advocates raise more concerns about nursing homes not being adequately inspected nationwide to see if they're following proper procedures to prevent the spread. of the virus a report by the center of medicare advocacy found that 5724 surveys cited infection control deficiencies in 163 nursing facilities in 30 states and only a little more than half of the nursing homes in the u.s. had received inspections florida texas california and ohio had some of the worst infection rates act nursing homes in the country parent florida there are reports of new clusters of corona virus infections at nursing homes where the reset inspections turning up alarming conditions at some of these facilities as the state continues to reopen. the miami herald reports about one facility in the florida

keys that's become a cluster for corona virus cases and quote received a 2nd critical report in as many months detailing deficiencies that include understaffing and adequate care and isolation for coated 1000 patients and unsanitary conditions that could promote the spread of the disease that's only one example but there are plenty more nationwide sima her mother head of the centers for medicare and medicaid services are c.m.s. said facilities that followed federal infection control guidelines were largely able to contain and control the virus the c.m.s. reports that facilities with a one star quality rating or more likely to have large numbers of covert 1000 cases than facilities with a 5 star rating adding that c.m.s. will take an foresman against nursing homes that have not reported data into the c.d.c. the centers for disease control and prevention burma said if states do not complete

the required facility checks by july 31st they may risk losing federal recovery funding there also still remains contention about whether many nursing homes and assisted living facilities are receiving enough covert 9th. testing kits and sufficient protective gear as that blame game continues the bottom line is people's lives still remain at risk in many of these facilities as the number of corona virus cases continues to climb in some of the poorest rated states for nursing home care in the united states for our team john hardy. this hurts the i mean if covert is done anything that has exposed how lacking we are in so many areas of infrastructure and care for both the poor and the elderly in this country no i fully agree and i think that when we're talking about the nursing home specifically what's pressurizing is that we knew early on that the most vulnerable

population was going to be our elderly our senior citizens and there should have been protocols immediately for nursing homes and we know that a lot of them were meeting standards long before coping 1900 s. but my question remains what type of people were they getting that they have enough that they have the regular things that we know that you're supposed to happen or the hand washing anti-bacterial mask or those who are interacting with the within your living facility themselves as well as i know that they cut a lot of the visitation like you they can not have any visitors at all but my question is what are they doing to regulate the people that work there exactly the i mean that's a great question and you know when you mention like people you mean you know when you see reports of like you know dr coming out saying like oh you know they held back on telling people to use face masks early on because they they knew their suppliers were so low you know i mean he said quote we were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment including the n $95.00 mass in the surgical mask were in very short supply i get like hey you

don't want everyone going out and having everything disappear like toilet paper did early on in this but inform people i shouldn't have to read about this after the back tell people hey we don't have enough masks we were meant to you know same thing with nursing homes like how do you not follow up on that and check on these to make sure. our our most elderly and the people that we that we say we care about when you know that this is going to be near ground 0 for any infection it's just absolutely breaks my heart on every level. all right as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks to the brand new portable t.v. app available on all platforms yes it is available on all platforms you can find it everywhere you have no excuse not to pick it up coming up we will discuss the new charges brought against the 2 police officers as possible for the murder of ray sharp brooks as well and it will take a deeper look at the idea of atlanta being a mecca for black american states who are watching.

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treated like garbage people look at you like a monster or someone bad or you chose to be there most of the time it's not the case see how it is to be in the world's richest country. at lamda georgia is known for being a hotbed of civil rights advocacy and the fight for justice. hot lanta is black hollywood boasting top entertainers and rap in r. and b. it's also home to thank them producer tyler perry's 300 acre studio but for all the talk of the excess ilian is seen over the past few years what doesn't get reported nearly as much is that lana has the worst inequality in the united states despite being home to several fortune 500 companies while the national and international spotlight on the death of george floyd sparked

a movement we're still seeing cops abuse blacks as if america isn't in crisis mode in atlanta the recent death of ray sharp brooks at the hands of a police officer led to heightened protests the burning of a windies and calls for immediate reforms the civil unrest in atlanta is brought on by a few things and it's brought to the forefront black folks who feel they haven't been heard who often are at odds with the popularized image of the city and are ready for their stories to finally come to light they're calling out political leadership the police and the wealthy elite who paint image of the city thousands of black atlantans simply don't seat with mark usually as bottoms under consideration as a running mate for democratic presidential nominee joe biden all eyes are on her leadership in this moment atlanta's black hollywood is in the national spotlight and it steps during this time of protests and calls for systemic change could be a little map for the nation joining us now is political director for the a.c.l.u. of georgia chris bruce and daniels r.-o.

with the people's response atlanta. guys charges were announced just a few hours ago for the officers involved in re shar brooks the death what are your immediate reaction. go ahead go ahead we'll start with you chris. well thank you thank you for having me on the show. i'll start off by saying we need to look at a whole hearted you of what's happening with this case so we know that there were charges against the police officers and now one police officer is allegedly going to be a state witness against the other police officer that actually did the shooting the thing that i really want to point out is what exactly is justice in this situation because what i don't want to happen is for this to happen again next year or next month so having police being charged with the murder is a step forward but getting ultimately to changing the police so they never

encounter this type of situation again is really where the city of atlanta needs to be and the rest of the nation the united states. daniel i want to ask you you know allana seems to be battling an image issue right now or you know some citizens feel that what's being projected to america isn't exactly what's felt on the ground i know you're a good organization has been there on the ground with covert 19 trying to help people out and keep them you know safe from this pandemic this schism is now being amplified by the protests in the wake of race are brooks's as if we should mentioned earlier what steps is atlanta taking to remedy or course correct not only the excessive force in policing if any you know in terms of steps fixing it and respond to calls from all the atlantans will build essentially left out of what's being called the black mecca in the middle of the country. to be honest i don't really think that it has been making any moves to reconcile what has been happening . i think it was right in to say like what is just kind of look like in this moment

i mean we're saying they're arresting a police officer but how does that change the history of systemic racism that is happening in this country the system the criminal justice system is retribution it's not really tackling. this is stomach issues that are deeply ingrained. in this country. and on top of that we have public officials who are constantly coming up with. giving empty promises right for example with bottoms saying that they were going to close down a city detention center and now we're seeing that she's trying to push 18000000 into the decentest added to keep it open won't really were supposed to change it into health and wellness center. additionally talking about how in her campaign she wanted to stop sending all police officers over to israel to get

training and there are 26000 campaign and then in 2800 send over if you do officers over there so we're seeing that public health or the public officials are going back on their word and then are really trying to remedy anything. and there have been several media outlets that are pointing to the differences in the george blake case and the rush hour bookcase they seem to largely fall on brooks used to take his or in the tulsa with police officers chris what role do you think this is going to play in finding justice for brooks. i think that there are several media outlets that are stirring up controversy which is something that happens with media outlets all the time but when it comes down to what actually happened between our books and george floyd they were killed 2 black men were killed by staying say police officers and that's exactly what really needs to be pointed you know why do we always have

a history of police officers targeting hunting and killing black men so finding justice again doesn't go along with well and eye for eye type of situation a life for life such a situation justice would be missed not happening again and you could point to the rich or brooks. situation and easily find another way of dealing with this dealing with the differences between law enforcement and public safety law enforcement says you may allegedly have a d.-y. on your hands because he was behind the veil and allegedly under the influence you could be arrested or charged with a dui and then within that you see the catapults action whilst there was an argument there was a fight that ensued and there was a shooting where a black man was killed and now 2 officers are charged and their lives are going to be ruined to compared to public safety where you can go ahead and say oh if this young gentleman was in ybor rated at the time allegedly calling it over calling

a live calling somebody to say come pick him up. issue a citation we can to deal with this issue later on but you have a black man that goes home to his family to his daughters who was having a birthday and 2 police officers who can also go back on the street so there's differences between the 2 but when it really comes down to it we need to figure out the similarities of the problems that happen systemically in our policing system. daniel and i want to ask you to you know you are as i mentioned you're there on the ground and you're fighting this so the ground level i'm trying to help people what is something that these these cities and atlanta and other cities what it is like there's a lot of things they can do to fix but what in your view do should be the 1st thing fix right out the gate who could actually bring somebody quality and bring some justice to a lot of the citizens in these cities. indeed found in a militia the police that is frightening for most we have seen that the police

officers that have been multiple reforms that have been trying to instill that and police departments and we've seen that none of those trainings have are effective i believe the officer who killed a sharp rocks had a training diversity training a couple months ago and yet the result was that a unarmed black man was killed. and i think a lot of cities across the nation are calling for a defunding of the police and abolition of not just the police at the present us are complex as a whole because the system is a racist system that criminalizes around bodies and ultimately smartest them and sometimes doesn't so an immediate thing that we can do as a country and just cities across the nation is to immediately defund the police and used those funds and direct them to public services thank you for bringing up the prison industrial system it's a good good point to move. chris this one is for you and dan you can chime in as well but qualified immunity it's a big buzz word going around right now we definitely want to touch on this

qualified immunity prevents police from being charged and prosecuted in many cases actually in 99 percent of cases where there is a murder involved where is it lana in the state of georgia on providing penalty for officers who use excessive force and ensuring they do face charges when these murders occur. well we've seen what's happening with which are books of the officers that have been happening district attorney paul howard has brought a warrant out for their arrest and has committed to ensuring that they would be indicted on this qualified immunity is something that has always played as you point out of the american criminal system when it comes to holding police officers accountable so the city of atlanta on the state of georgia they have a long way to go when it comes to holding police officers accountable and police officers are pushing back honestly and they need to take account ability to what the problems that are happening within themselves police officers can police

themselves as well in saying the standards that we have to stand is that we should be held to should be also held in the law and solidified by statute but you need to hear that from police officers too so until we get state legislation until the city of atlanta poses imports together some policies then we will have a long way to go. on this. so i want to say what did justice look like for catherine johnson what does this look like for alexa christian nicholas thompson john mara and robinson came rogers oscar kane jimmy actions and griffin all these people who were murdered at the hands of police here in atlanta and what it just looks like for them i think the only way that we can move past qualified immunity and actually seek justice for at . we want it so again like i said define the police and abolish the prison industrial complex as the only way forward it seems to be that all the signs are

definitely going to point in that direction because you know we've got a lot of promises over the years over and over and over i think we're sick of promises and we need to see action i want to thank you both for the work that you're doing out there to find that justice and find out a quality thank you both for joining us chris bruce daniel pleasure very much having you both on today and keep up the great work. thank you so much thank you go one. wild conversation is a lot of good answers that i think that you know that are resonating back to around defunding the police the more we see the death toll increase the more we're going to hear those calls even louder great work by those 2 are that is our show for today remember everyone in this world we are not told that we're told were loved enough so i tell you all i love you i i roll vinter and i'm a music rock keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody.

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