are we cannot cross live to dave bigging a member of the communities united against police brutality from minneapolis. fans for being with us here on our 2 international unfortunately under these circumstances. so over the last 2 decades or so the us has seen many cases of police brutality involving the black community do you still hold hope that the situation can improve a 2nd. under that. will basically given the the level of police brutality against the black community in the us my question to you is is there hope that any change can be made will the situation improve in the us. there is only hope if protests like this continue and the people demand that change because we've had a history in minneapolis and elsewhere of one after another of these police murders and each time we're told that there's going to be change that we're going to listen to the community that we're going to make this or other policy change and each time it's been absolutely empty promises as soon as that t.v. cameras go away be. right back to where where they were organizations recommended many many changes o

police department's 1st precinct station as a defense against protesters with metal barriers also blocking off the street. we heard from days baking in minneapolis he's a member of communities united against police brutality and says warnings about a lack of discipline among officers have been falling on deaf ears. there is only hope that protests like this continue and the people demand that change because we've had a history in minneapolis and where of one after another of these police murders and each time you hold that there's going to be change that we're going to listen to the community that we're going to make that's or other policy change and each time it's been absolutely empty promises as soon as the t.v. cameras go away the. right back to where where they were or organization is recommended many many changes over the years it's virtually impossible to get the city council or the mayor or the police to pay any attention to those and do what is necessary to stop this kind of violence pointed out over the years how virtually no officers are disciplined in minneapolis and no one in the city council wants to hear that no one wants to do that we have statistics we have all ducked in the research and

gabriel's on doe al-jazeera new york where they've baking as a board member of the communities united against police brutality he says retraining and institutional changes are needed to address the underlying problems within the us police forces. no officer will ever testify against another officer and so we see that not just the one officer who had his knee on his neck that is the grossest violation but that 3 other officers did nothing about it at the time when it was clear to everyone else on the scene that george floyd was being killed that's what really matters is the actions of the officers and in all the deaths we have seen in minneapolis no officer ever testifies against another so even if their words are sincere it doesn't show in the actions that we've seen here how quickly the officers were fired is very unusual i think part of that is due to this incident being so so horrifying to anybody who watches the video but remember before that video came out in public the police information officer was trying to claim that the officers noted that he was having a medical incident and they assisted him so it

justice gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york dave because a board member of the communities united against police brutality he's joining us on skype from minneapolis thank you very much indeed for being with us let me ask you 1st of all about that response by police officer as to what has happened to george floyd how do you react to the way that social media has been filled with these comments. nobody in the community is going to believe that those are what the police officers are thinking because we have a long history of police officers protecting their own the blue line of silence the blue wall of silence i don't think those statements are much more sincere than the statements we're getting from the mayor or for the police chief at this time they want to come people down they want to say everything's going to change they arrest one officer we've been chanting at the demonstrations all 4 we've heard these promises before this is built up over years and it's not going to go away with a couple of promises. and we'll come to the element of institutionalisation in a 2nd but we are talking about the police of

gabriels on doe al jazeera new york well they picking as a board member of the communities united against police brutality he says retraining and institutional changes are required to address the underlying problems within the us police. no officer will ever testify against another officer and so we see that not just the one officer who had his knee on his neck that is the grossest violation but that 3 other officers did nothing about it at the time when it was clear to everyone else on the scene that george floyd was being killed that's what really matters is the actions of the officers and in all the deaths we have seen in minneapolis no officer ever testifies against another so even if their words are sincere it doesn't show in the actions that we've seen here how quickly the officers were fired is very unusual i think part of that is due to this incident being so so horrifying to anybody who watches the video but remember before that video came out in public the police information officer was trying to claim that the officers noted that he was having a medical incident and they assisted him so it was