greetings and sal you. you know in the post trump world the mainstream news media has been searching for something and me thing to move the ratings needle and it appears they have finally found their latest gold ratings goose in the trial of former police officer derek shaw and for the murder of george floyd not since o.j. simpson and then later trayvon martin have we seen such round the clock news coverage of the murder trial let's be honest this case has all the markings of a modern ratings cable news blockbuster violence racism annoying depends attorneys courageous prosecutors good versus evil and lots and lots and lots of room for talking heads it's like a 24 hour marathon of law and order except this time sam waterston and jerry orbach have been replaced by wolf blitzer and chuck todd.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 and maybe hoods 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 war 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 on omar told c.n.n.'s jake tapper that the community was on edge and then 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 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 and let's start watching all this. on a cd. player so you. see this is this you always see always. great to see this least systemic just says so

which. so please join us. and welcome everyone to watching the hawks i am i robot and i'm be sure and 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 to keep the levy armstrong always a pleasure having you on with us and. thanks for having me 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 minneapolis to watch those bystander videos over and over here and

into here george floyd probably not for help in saying that he reads and to see those bystanders try and 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 their children in the 1st place the man had over and getting 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 we 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. 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 so i think that people are missing the fact that this is the list also on trial and they're missing the context surrounding the murder. and how it would happen it would in fact a great deal of racism in oppression against black equal within the city of minneapolis where you know how quickly the mainstream media likes to always kind of condemn sit around 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 woks 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 still 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 to go down there there is only a small space in which protesters are allowed to gather and

a lot of folks are uncomfortable being in that space 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 tanks near one of the major. insurance inspects nano at the government center and then you see the armed. of the national guard so they asked the question what is the city of minneapolis in 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 the issues that been going on for years they never took seriously the problems with and many of you surprised until the world was watching and so since that time they've come forward with a bunch of proposals that are not well researched and they haven't been in the community 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 seat. which is extremely problematic is it going to be difficult getting a seat at the table and what the market sort of next round the city elections are 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 and they are 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 have to take to the streets and shut down we have continued to do that we vote. legislative changes so there's a coalition. and it was an organization that had bills right now that are at the legislature if people are interested in looking at bills it's all in the coalition or it was all the bills which include a slight. 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're trying to. urge people to run for

office yesterday are you what elections in oakland where. it will be slim asali candidates who are the position of mayor as well as city council or mclean more 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 the minneapolis board 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 robots are coming to a business near you while the advanced 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 robots and 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 are even programmed today or stretch was just recently unveiled showing off help. quickly it can load and unload boxes and trucks move them in warehouses and even build ballots in distribution centers that can maneuver $800.00 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 strategy 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 if it were placed in 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 it's currently seeking customers to join the pilot test with strat to see how well it can unload trucks and other tasks like up. he says they plan to really stretch for sale sometime next year reporting for watching the hoxton toss just sweets are. all right remember as you were as we go to break you can continue watching the hawks on demand for the new portable t.v. app which is available on every single place you can find so definitely check that one out coming up chicago police are once again under fire 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 tuned.

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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 have cost city taxpayers over 213 $1000000.00 over the past 15 years these incidents often involve unarmed 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 adams mother elizabeth toledo had filed a missing persons report a day before. even with that report 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 loosely will be released within 60 days. until then the legal spam league 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 it's political activists leslie davis welcome leslie. 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 a police this young man had no body it's sad to say a little guy that could help him except a gang so shame on us i own that but adams family refused 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 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 mean do you there expect the body camcorders 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 defending

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 even with my present here at home my hair is huge. so activists are ready they're pushing to see this video because we really want to know what happened when he's on that video. and lovely we know adam attending gary elementary school he was a 7th grader just 13 years old little bit just to talk about that a little bit for those not from chicago a little below 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. or community members are speaking out that there is a reason why they wanted to have a vigil last night is to remember a member of their community and that is loving that that is where the village is mostly made up of mexican mexican immigrants in there and their family and so this is what we do as a people we come together and we up left our people in a time in need but especially when the narrative that its own. is is being

i don't have a family the family in the activists are out there they're not just that they're all over the city. for justice for adam. there's a car goes 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 dogs out of this incident prove that the police reforms undertaken just a year ago in chicago. a little over they are working nothing strange desire with the show tells the people of chicago. i mean the mayor came out and even said we could 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 i get that are involved with in

police pursuits so. it's on it changes ongoing now it is quickly and 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 davis 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.

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 the drop was not from training the parolees member of the home my friends that drop was due to training parole officers in the art of empathy just wavering as 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 no lately and i think that just because folks don't really pay attention to be the ideas that parole officers have that oftentimes really hurt the people who are on parole there's a reason why they were sort of eyes at such high levels and part of it is because they are not getting any level of confirmation any level of trust any level you know just regular humanity from their parole officers and how the parole community or the officer committee will always kind of firebag 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 the community treat them with respect on all levels and empathy apparently with traditional empathy but they goes a long way it really does i'm glad clad we found this out to be all right everybody

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