sir and chuck todd. god help us but amidst all the glitz and glam of modern news coverage it's easy to forget that there is a community at the center of all of this a community who for over a year now has lived in the shadow of the police killing of george floyd i'm talking of course about the residents of the city of mabel hood's of minneapolis minnesota a community that since floyd's murder has not only been under siege by the burning spotlight of the cable news media but by the failure of their elected officials race and race were agitators and the militaristic reaction of their law enforcement agencies to their calls for justice this week the u.s. congressman woman out of minnesota omar told c.n.n.'s jake tapper that the community was on edge and that we haven't seen justice not delivered in our community for many years and while the rest of america and the world watches the

courtroom drama play out on their t.v.'s it's just outside that courtroom vioxx reports that the hennepin county government center in minneapolis is surrounded by concrete barriers chain link fencing and barbed wire nearby buildings have boarded up their storefront windows members of the national guard have been patrolling the area. with the mayor and police chief now promising even more police presence in the community in the community as this trial presses on in the summer one has to wonder how long. till the simmer turns once again into a boil especially if the citizens of minneapolis are denied the justice their community deserves now let's start watching the hawks. on a cd. player so you can. see the prizes you always

see. grace suggests least systemic deceptions show which. brings up just as. welcome everyone to watching the hawks i am i robot and i'm joining us today to discuss the effects on the community of the trial of derek shaaban is civil rights attorney and resident the minneapolis minnesota friend of the show and the kima levy armstrong always a pleasure having you on with us and if you mom. thanks for having me so i want to ask you it's you know a week and a few days into the trial what what has the trials of fact been like on the community so far. as you might imagine it has caused a lot of trauma in our community there are people who watch the trial because it is so triggering it's triggering for me as a civil rights attorney you know as a resident of the appaloosas to watch those bystander videos over and over here and

into here george slowly falling out for help and saying that he reads and to see those bystanders chime desperate need to get the police to actually do their jobs and release george floyd in treatment with dignity. when it came up we've all seen in the media hype around this trial what do you believe has the coverage actually missed out on or just didn't understand about the minneapolis community who is anxiously awaiting justice to finally be served in this case what do you think they're missing the media writ large is missing about the community because that's not actually included in a lot of the conversations that we're seeing on media far. right so i think when we watch the coverage a lot of the focus is on what you know and showing did and did not you and not on looking at the system as a whole which produced a monster like there are children in the 1st place the man had over

a dozen complaints during its nearly 20 year teen you're with the minneapolis police department it was also involved in other deadly force incidents as well which means that he should have lost his job a long time ago and if he had george soit would still be alive and he wouldn't be in this situation with this particular case but because of the systemic racism that's inherent in the police department and the fact that there are still needy killer cops on the force weed. i would be here again with someone else and as a matter of fact in december of 2020 a somali man was killed by the minneapolis police department in your very questionable circumstances but i think that people are missing the fact that this is the list also on trial and they are missing the context surrounding the murder. and how it would happen when in fact a great deal of racism in oppression against black equal within the city of minneapolis there you know how quickly the mainstream media likes to always kind of

condemn sort out down into just over says a few bad apples at the end of the day surely and as a policy organizer with the advocacy group reclaim the brought block recently told box the right now on the ground in minneapolis we are hyper militarized every morning she says she's woken up by helicopters and surveillance planes that are so very loud and that the city has spent $1000000.00 according to her on a barbed wire fence downtown to protect empty government buildings became of you felt the impact of this militarization is a as she describes and we're spending millions on barbed wire and surveillance planes really the right response to what the minneapolis community needs in the wake of this killing and now living under this trial. i would say worse and worse you can see we're used to each able to gather outside of the you know in county governments in or in what's known as the plaza but it does look like

a wired zone when you go down there there is only a small space in which protesters are allowed to gather and a lot of folks are uncomfortable being at nastase because it is a way for us to be contracts if the police decide. in targeted arrest which they have the start of this trial here also military near one of them meet. it. insurance inspects nano at the government center and then you see the armed presence of the national guard so there is the question of what is the city of minneapolis the state of minnesota prepared for it doesn't seem to me as if they are preparing to deliver justice to the people. and became a you've spoken about this before we've seen promises made promises broken across across the city of minneapolis the leaders they are promising drastic changes to policing from conduct to funding and basically everything in between and we

probably already know the answer to this before we go any further but have any of those changes been implemented in a real way. not really know and i think that. the fact that unfortunately on the local government is now when it comes to addressing issues in the city they don't have a background in policing and even though he should step in going up for years they never seriously the problems with media is partly until the world was watching and so since that time they've come forward with a bunch of polls that aren't well researched and they haven't been unity particularly the black community which is most at risk as far as experience in community violence as well as police violence but we don't have a which is extremely problematic is it going to be difficult getting a seat at the table and what the market will sort of next round the city elections

or you know how does that community finally get proper representation in the decision making of the city or even the state of minnesota as a whole. i think it's going to be a challenge you know as you well know minnesota is about 8384 percent white and so has people of color who represent a very smart slice of residents within the state of minnesota in far too for a party option our voices are not heard which has caused us to act. to the streets and shut down we have to do that we've also. legislative changes so there's a coalition. and it was working as they should that have wheels right now that are pretty at the legislature if people are interested in looking at bills you know it's all in a coalition or all the bills which include things like. qualified immunity. and strengthening the ways in which we go about structuring our

police are trained and disciplined and things like that so that's one thing that we are trying to. urge people to run for office you have severely what elections coming up in oakland where we didn't really slim asali candidates who are the position of mayor as well as city council well mclemore keep safe over there keep up the great work and best of luck to you this coming this coming fight because of sort of it is when you're taking on an entrenched system of not just a minneapolis border and minnesota in the greater united states and trying to get rid of racism inherent in our institutions thank you so much as always for coming on the show but. that's where having. a new wave of sophisticated robot are coming to a business near you while we have bad intelligent biopic creatures are designed for repetition some are questioning if that means they will eventually replace the

human workforce party correspondent natasha sweet takes a deeper look. stretches designed to go into some of the most difficult environments in a warehouse and handle told dirty dangerous physical work stress the latest creation from boston dynamics a u.s. based company known for its experimental humanoid robot donkey like androids stretches the ability to avoid obstacles it's just one of many new traits given to this new line of sophisticated robots some aren't. even programmed today and its strength was just recently unveiled showing off how quickly it can load and unload boxes and trucks move them in warehouses and even build ballots in distribution centers that can maneuver 800 boxes an hour through its special sensors michael perry of boston dynamics says in the u.s. alone there's over $150000.00 warehouses but only about 20 percent have what he calls sophisticated warehouse animation tools installed within them so this in turn gives boston dynamics quite

a market for selling stretch the thing that makes stretch so unique is that it's able to move around the warehouse and handle a variety of tasks without having to stand up a lot of fixed automation and fix infrastructure to support it that means that a warehouse doesn't have to shut down for several weeks in order to get stretch up and running in their operations and with not having to shut down for weeks some question if this means a robot like stretch could replace humans at the workplace beginning at warehouses stretch can operate for 8 straight hours he still needs to be plugged in all the coronavirus has cause for many workplaces to limit capacity and social distance a tool like stretch could easily continue productivity without the worry of the virus well boston dynamics says this is not the goal others aren't so sure according to a new report from the brookings institute black and latino workers may be more susceptible to having their jobs from place through artificial intelligence the study is stressing the need for labor unions to work with these companies their

hope is to provide employees the training they need to work with the new technology instead of it replacing workers but warehouses aren't the only target for a robot like workers the oil industry believes their next with potential hundreds of thousands of job openings including the need to drill the journal of petroleum technology estimates one out of every 5 jobs in the oil industry will be replaced with advanced robotics by 2030 boston dynamics is currently seeking customers to join. the pilot test with strat seen how well it can unload trucks and other tasks the company says they plan to really stretch for sale sometime next year reporting for watching the hocks suites are. all right remember as you will as we go to break you can continue watching the hawks on demand through the new portable t.v. which is available on every single place you can find so definitely check that one out coming up chicago police are once again member fired for their role in the

killing and suing coverup in the murder of a 13 year old named adam toledo find out more about that story so stay true what. you know a lot of people speculate what they're not god exists. i'll tell you one thing that i can guarantee does not exist financial regulators. problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we've seen the very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids invited to

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my hometown of chicago is no stranger to gun violence headlines and i'm not limiting those to community violence or gangs i'm talking police brutality police involved shootings use of force lawsuits a cost to the taxpayers over 200 $13000000.00 over the past 15 years these incidents often involve an armed community members and young people. young people like 13 year old adam toledo the 7th grader was shot and killed by chicago police last monday in an alley behind a high school near his home adam's mother elizabeth toledo had filed a missing persons report the day before even with that report on file it took 2

full days after the shooting for police to alert toledo of her son's death and by alert i mean they asked her for a photo of her son she assumed it was to help with the missing persons report chicago police used the photo to identify the young boy they murdered just 48 hours prior the chicago police department and city officials at the mayor's office are under fire for not releasing details about him toledo's death sooner not releasing the police body cam video and failing to answer the most basic questions surrounding the incident. what we know are murky stories of 2 males in a nearby alley and a person resulting in a confrontation police say one of the men was armed and have tweeted a photo of a gun they claim was recovered at the scene the city delayed the release of body can put it out raging toledo's family community members and activists initially arguing the video couldn't be released because of the boy's age the civilian office of accountability is now saying the video will be will be released within 60 days

until then the legal span lee has questions the community has questions and no one is happy with the framing of the young boy as a deviant with little supervision or love. according to a chicago police department alert to officers the gang latin kings has instructed members to shoot at police vehicles in retaliation for the young boy's death toledo's family held a vigil for him last night joining us now for a little go activists was leading this welcome leslie. and i thank you for having me. well as we what is the environment on the ground in chicago right now how is the community responding to this we heard alderman cardinal say of the lead up this young man had no body it's sad to say a movie that could help him except a gang so shame on us i own that but adams family refutes that can't drive ation the city seems to be getting everything wrong here. what's happening. in the

community is heartbroken we've lost a child of our community and the fact that he be now being called a child of the street he was not born of the streets he has a mother a family he has a 91 year old grandfather this is a community that's been devastated by coronavirus and has seen more than they have ever imagined and this is just absolutely tragic our our community is just heartbroken. seems like the victim blaming is going around quite a bit. these days from city officials and people in power i want to ask what are the next up so i mean do you there expect the body kim footage to be released soon and how are activists preparing themselves for the release or even bracing for. well we do know there was word released today that the footage will be shown to his

mother this week and. the community itself they've been demanding to see this video and we've already been briefing and we feel like this isn't the 1st time this has happened in our community or in the city of chicago unfortunately it's something that we've had to deal with over and over again in our city. where activists are on the street. or outside the mayor's home. today with president harris. harris the. activists are ready they're pushing to season because we really want to know what happened what is on that video. and lovely we know adam attending area elementary school he was a 7th grader just 13 years old little billy just to talk about that a little bit for those not from chicago a little village just a community

a very tight knit latino community in chicago very long history of impact what do you think this tragic shooting has in terms of what does it mean for police and community relations in an area where they weren't that great to begin with and right now we're watching police basically pay adam is gang affiliated talking about how he was out at 2 30 am and again arguing that that he had a gun what how did our community members fighting back against this narrative and what are we actually seeing happen on the ground in terms of you know the organizing a little village. you know community members are speaking out but there is a reason why they wanted to have a vigil last night is to remember a member of their community and that is love that is with the village mostly made up of mexican mexican immigrants and their and their families and so this is what we do as a people we come together and we left our people in the time in need but especially

when the narrative that it. is being painted i don't have a family the family and the activists are out there they're not just there all over the city demanding for justice. there's a car goes a long and storied past and present is filled with examples of police brutality and excessive force cases there's always a few arrests and basically no police accountability for these incidents does adam's incident prove that the police reform was undertaken just a year ago in chicago a little over they are working nothing strange design with the show tells the people of chicago. i mean the mayor came out and even said we need to change. everything surrounding but change this and this was something that could have been done years ago so many so many people are asking why was it done sooner because so many lives could have been saved not only

adams but other bystanders that get that are involved with in police pursuit so. it on the change is ongoing now it is quickly but most people would like but this is again this is what's wonderful about the people of the community of levy that. we love our community and activists are just reaching out your question and asking demanding for change because we have seen what has now worked in our community and we also are asking why what is why with mental health services now mentioned in yesterday's press conference what about mental health services where the community and or the children of that elementary school that a lot of pride and a class me at the hands. allegedly damus our hearts go out to your community keep up the great work out there and keep fighting for truth and justice for young adam

thank you so much for coming on our show today. thank you for having me. there are new breakthrough researchers at u.c. berkeley have found that using nonjudgmental empathy empathy training has. led to a 13 percent drop in parole violations but that drop was not from training the parolees in empathy no my friends that drop was due to training parole officers in the art of empathy yes my friends you heard me right training parole officers to actually care about the recently released folks that they oversee actually leads to less recidivism and of these recent findings prove out it could be vital to reforming the u.s. criminal justice system's parole system which right now sees roughly 66 percent of formally incarcerated citizens either rearrested or back behind bars within 3 years of serving their time can believe this if you teach the parole officer exam but the

then suddenly they do their job better and less people are going back in jail back to jail that might have been my favorite in no we have had of this show lately and i think that just because folks don't really pay attention to the the ideas that parole officers have that oftentimes really hurt the people who are on parole there's a reason why they were set of eyes at such high levels and part of it is because they're not getting any level of confirmation any level of trust any level you know just regular humanity from their parole officers and the community you know the officer committee will always kind of begs say look we're overburdened with case loads we are highly stressed you know we don't want to let you know we want you know we don't want anybody dangerous to you know with all that but i think there's a lot of truth to what you're saying is that you know when you treat someone who's served their time who's who's paid their debt to society you have to treat them with the full respect that ok you're out you want to be a thriving member of the community treat them with respect on all levels and

empathy apparently the traditional olympic committee goes a long way it really does given clad we found this out to be all right everybody that is our show for you today remember in this world we are definitely not told but we are loved enough so from my heart to yours i love you i am tyrone. winter and i'm in the chicago keep on watching all those hawks out there another great barebacked but. problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we see me very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids it invaded america under the banner of medicine he persisted with the pain but instead of trying to

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