juan: this tuesday marked fourur yeyears since eric garner,r, an afrirican-american father of si, wasled when a white new york city police officer wrwrestled m to the ground, pinned him down and applied a fatal chokehold while garner said "i can't breathe" 11 times. the incident was captured on a cell phone video and his spurred -- and his killing spurred mass protests. this week the nypd announced it plans to move forward with long-delayed internal disciplinary proceedings against the officers involved if the department of justice does not announce criminal charges by august 31. amy: officer daniel pantaleo, who applied the fatal chokehold, continues to work for the new york police department on paid desk duty and has received multiple raises since garner's death. on tuesday, garner's mother gwen carr called for justice at a news conference on the steps of city hall with elected officials and activists. >> it has been four years and my anyly has not seen responsibility taken by the de blasio administration for the police misconduct. all of those officers that day, they need to stand

we believe that can happen in this country, and we believe that our people, people like eric garner,ke michael brown, j, people like sandra planned can live fully and freely in this country we helped build. >> eugene, the question is those of us that engage in the questions and moves, whatever tactics we may use, are not anti-police. we are pro what is right and good police are smeared because of the actions of bad police and the lack of accountability of bad policing. and i think that a lot of people on the right try to miscast this as anti-police rather than really saying that we want policing to work for everybody. >> there's no question about it. we have to -- there have to be reforms and intelligent reforms. in a city like chicago and many other cities, there is a long history of distrust. but we have to make sure that reform doesn't become paralysis either. the community is sensitive to that also. how do you simultaneously fix policing but also have police attend to issues that are concerns in the community and that continues to be the rub. i'm real concerned as the conversatio

eric garner, an african american father a and staten island resident, was killed when police officers wrestled him to thehe ground, pinned him dn, and applied a fatal l chokehol exexactly four years agogo toda. on monday, the new y york police department criticized the justice department for the extraordinary passage of time in its investigation. the nypd's disciplinary proceedings would include officer daniel pantaleo, who applied the fatal chokeholold, d sergeant kizzy adonis, onene of ththe first supervrvisors at the scene. officer pantaleoeo is still an officer with the new york police department, w working paid desk duty, and he's received multiple raises since eric garner's death. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i'm juan gonzalez. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. president trump is back in the united states and set to meet with lawmakers today after his joint summit with russian president vladimir putin in helsinki. during a

we have a 2014 case of eric garner choked by police in new york on tape that we met with the justice we can't get them to deal with that case. why do we or should we trust this justice department on reopening emmet till when all of the accused are dead and emmet till is dead? >> it's breathtaking hypocrisy that jefferson regards sessions the third and donald trump should present themselves as defenders of civil rights and racial justice whether they are -- having children of color in cages all along the border when they are engaged in the relentless attack on african american voting rights all over the country. the men who murdered emmet till said afterwards that they had killed him to take a stand against public school integration and against black voting and neither of those things do donald trump and jefferson bowl regards session support. i find that deeply ironic in the timing of this remarkable. >> yeah. thank you so much for being with us, timothy tyson. >> thank you for having me. >>> up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. - i love my grandma. - anncr: as you grow older, y

in the case of eric garner, $5 million. that came from the city of new york. in the 1980's, when this case was going through the court, there were none of those settlements. none of them. and no one had ever really won one of these verdicts, taken it to trial and won the verdict in federal court. so the system has changed in that way. it has improved in that way. there are many spots of isolated improvement that i can identify in the problems associated with police use of deadly force. and i am happy to say being in boston today that the boston police department is one of the areas of improvement. and bill evans, who is the current police commissioner in boston, is one of the best police leaders -- if not the best police leader -- currently working in the united states. and i do not believe that the story that i tell in my book that happened with the boston police department in the 1970's and 1980's could happen in today's boston police department and i hope i am right about that. host: you mentioned the family, the dedication in the book, "deadly force: a pol

kill people and we believe that can happen in this country and we believe our people, people like eric garnerely in this country we helped build. >> eugene, the real question is that those of us that engage in these questions and movements, whatever tactics we may use are not anti police. we are pro what is right and good police are smeared because of the actions of bad police and the lack of accountability on bad policing and i think that a lot of people on the right try to miscast this as anti police rather than really say we want policing to work for everybody. >> there is no question about it. we have to -- there have to be reforms and intelligent reforms and the city like chicago and many other cities there is a long history of distryust but w have to make sure reform isn't political. how do you sign tan usely fix policing but have police attend issues concerning in the community and that continues to be the rub. i'm real concerned as the conversation continues to grow we're going in two different directions. the police are going in one direction on the ground and the community is asking

like flint are living with poisoned water and polluted air, when there is still no justice for eric garner sandra bland and freddy gray and the land of castile and so castilee -- philando and so many more, we are going to keep fighting back. [applause] when you can still be fired from your job because of who you love, when republicans try to rig the senses to pretend that people of color don't exist, when you are afraid to report a rape because i.c.e. could split up your family, when you are treated like a suspect in your daily life because of the cover of your skin, we are going to keep fighting back -- color of your skin, we are going to keep fighting back. [applause] sen. warren: and if you think we get under their skin now, just you wait. [laughter] yeah. i'm in this fight all the way, and so are you. when you fight back, you may change. donalds november 6th, trump is going to hear all of us, loud and clear, because we are going to vote like our rights depend on it. [applause] sen. warren: but november 6th is our.not evenf close. we have to show people, when we get a chance to lead, th

. >> four years after the notoous death of eric garner, a significant announcement by the n.y.p.en.he depar says officer daniel who allegedly choked garner to death will face disciplinary hearings by september. he was captured on video putting the 43-year-old unarmed man in an apparent choke hold during an arrest in staten island. he was allegedly approached for pedaling loose cigarettes. garner was heardea rdly saying, i can't breathe, later dying in the hospital. the n.y.d. says it has run out of patients with federal authorities indecision about whether to bring a criminal case. a sentiment echoed b activists and garner's family. >> this case is a watershed ce police misconduct in this nation. and the justice department hed fao address it in a criminal case. >> garner's mother is seen right there on the right also demands all otherfficers involved should also be disciplined. the n.y.p.d. is giving feds til the endf august to take action before it takes the matter into their own hands. >> brush fires continue to sweep southern california as it swelters from record setsng heat t su

with a fatal chokehold in july 2015, while garner said "i can't breathe" 11 times. now!, eric democracy garner's mother said she wants to see other officers on the scene of her son's death held accountable. >> what i would liked to see is that all of the officers are held accountable and transparent and that they get fired from the force before they are the ones that are responsle for my son's death. amy: and in new york's hudson valley, protesters gathered wednesday outside the troy police department to demand justice for dahmeek mcdonald, an unarmed african american who was fatally shot last august during a traffic stop. the protest came after a grand jury voted not to indict jarrod iler, the police officer who shot mcdonald in the head and arm. protestors called for governor andrew cuomo to appoint an independent prosecutor, demanded that the city of troy create a civilian review board, drawing comparisons to the national pattern of police officers receiving preferential treatment after extra-judicial shootings of people of color. this is dahmeek mcdonald's uncle, messiah c

the death of eric garner caused broad outrage and became a rallying cry for the ntlack lives matter moveme. the police department said it had run o of patience waiting for a decision by federal authorities on whether to bring a criminal case against officer daniel pantaleo. >>> in hawaii there is thstill no sign tha kilauea volcano is eabout to die down anytsoon. and this week the national guard issued new warnings to people who live near the volcano. nbc's steve patterson returned to the big island and has an update tonight. >> it's just horrifying. >> reporter: in what looks like an act of defiance -- >> it's sad. place.nderful >> reporter: -- mike jordan's hawaiian home still stands, just feet from the lava flow that thrtens to claim it. >> i know i can never live i it again. it's useless to me. so let's just finis it. >> reporter: mike may get his wish. since we spoke the lava has inched even cl er, spewing from the eruption's most active ve, fissure 8. now two months later that river of lava still churning behind me. scientists estimate it's moving about 15 miles an hour and for g it

the death of eric garner caused broad outrage and became a rallying cry for the black lives matter movement. the police department said it had run out of patience waiting for a decision by federal authorities on whether to bring a criminal case against officer daniel pantaleo. >>> now a dropping story in los angeles involving a shooting and a hostage situation at a trader joe's store. steve patterson has the latest. >> reporter: tonight trader joe's under siege. reports of shots fired at the los angeles grocery store after a police pursuit ends in a nearby crash. >> it's crazy. i've never seen so many police in this area in my life. >> reporter: moments later tactical teams on the ground, guns drawn, leading a harrowing operation. from the air, children appear to be rushed from the paback of th store. those inside escaping from a second story window, some ducking into cover. at least one person was carted away on a stretcher. poce started as a domestic incident, officers tracking ining the suspect's c it crashed near the trader joe's after 3:00 local time. >> here comes this car. he crashes

n-y-p-d officials say they are out of patience with the department of justice in the 20-14 death of eric garnerday marks four years since he died at the hands of a police officer. 43-year-old garner died after officer daniel pantaleo used a banned choke-hold on him while arresting him. he was allegedly selling cigarettes illegally. the n-y-p-d held off on disciplinary proceedings at the request of the d-o-j because it wanted to look into federal charges. with no word from federal officials four years later, the n-y-p-d says it will start its proceedings in september. both pantaleo and his supervisor -- who n-y-p-d officials also want to investigate -- are still on the city's police payroll. the department of justice says it told the n-y-p-d it could proceed with its own action months ago. n-y-p-d officials say they never got word of that. (vicki) an 81-year-old man who has spent all but one year of his life in san leandro is now facing eviction. kron four's philippe djegal spoke with the man who says his new property owners are pricing him out. unit number thirteen at the bayshore commons in sa

. >>> the new york police officer accused of holding eric garner in a fatal chokehold as garner cried "i can't breathe, i can't breathe" formally charged in connection with garner's death. police tell cnn officer daniel pantaleo was charged last night. now under the investigation says pantaleo will face two separate charges. one for using the chokehold the other for restricting breathing. his attorney declined to comment to cnn. >>> this morning attorney general josh hawley is receiving a briefing with the fatal duck boat accident. a mother who lost nine family members including her three children shared her story this morning about what happened onboard as conditions worsened. >> they told us they're up here. this is where they are. they showed us where they are. they said, don't worry about it, you won't need it. said, okay. so when the captain took over i thought at some point he would say, grab the jackets now. but we told to stay seated and everybody stayed seated. nobody -- nobody grabbed -- when that boat is found, all of those life jackets are going to be on there. >> that is

. >>> the new york police officer accused of holding eric garner in a fatal choke hold as garner criedthe, i can't breathe, has been formally charged in connection with that death. police tell cnn that officer daniel pantelio was charged last night and nypd officials with knowledge of the investigation says he will face two separate charges, one for using the choke hold and the other for restricting his breathing. his attorney declined to comment to cnn. >>> an esteemed cardiologist who treated former president george h.w. bush was shot and killed yesterday while riding his bicycle. dr. mark houseconnect was on his way to work at a houston hospital. authorities say he and the shooter passed each other, riding in opposite directions on their bikes. the shooter opened fire. rode away. and is currently on the loose. cnn's polo sandoval is following the story. >> reporter: the doctor has been described as a pillar the story. >> reporter: yesterday jumped on his bike and crossed path with a gun ma who sh gunman who shot and killed him. the irony, injured at the shadow of the same medical fa

. ♪ >>> michael brown, eric garner, st steffan clark and now we had antwon rose.was shot in pittsburgh last month. that shooting was captured on video. this is difficult to watch and if you do watch it, you will see a 17-year-old boy posing no physical threat to anyone being shot in the back. here is that video. >> why are they shooting at him? >> get down, shawn. >> no, i'm recording this. >> i have been studying police use of deadly force since i graduated from college. they wrote a book about it which was published 35 years ago when no one outside of black communities cared about this subject. no one in the news media cared about this subject. the first article i ever wrote and published was a piece in "the new york times" about police use of deadly force in 1979. and that was "the new york times" very first piece ever about police use of deadly force. that is how ignored this subject was then. on the weekend, after we first saw that video of him being shot and killed by police, i joined joy reed on her show to discuss deadly force. >> lawrence o'donnell, the a

he still has not made a decision of the eric garner case, not under obama and not under jeff sessionsdn't be called out but they should reopen this case. >> the fact is the trump administration has been criticized pretty heavily for lack of sensitivity to minorities, african-americans in particular. might this be a corrective step? it didn't seem like you would agree with that by your previous statement. >> i respect roland's authority on these matters. we have a slightly different take on this, perhaps. but the important thing is the infiltration of political influence into the justice system. while president trump is enter. jeff sessions is taking the justice department in a racist discriminatory direction in a range of cases as roland was indicating. >> true, and they are investigating black activists and they're pulling back on the investigation of white domestic terrorists. this doj has a huge problem. they had a meeting with civil rights leaders. it didn't really amount to anything. the president offered to sit down with civil rights leadersment, listening to yoga in their car.

they brought us the gut wrenching video of eric garner.ision to release video of his final moments opened our eyes and jolted an already brewing movement against police brutali brutality. truth be told the news business is in limbo. no one knows what the future holds for us and so much of our work depends on you, on viewership, on readership and a time where clicks and online streaming reign, especially, now not to get too dramatic. i have to agree with dave rich who said, if you hate democracy and think local government should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you. that will wrap things up for me this hour. >> lots to shed lights on. busy hour for us. thanks. >> see you. >>> good afternoon. golden crutches, that is how one republican senator describes the white house's plan to help farmers hurt by president trump trade war it involved billions of dollars in temporary aid design today solve a problem the administration itself created, but this afternoon president trump argued, we all just need to be patient. >

mark houshkanet was shot to death whileo wo frimorning and police>ern ne years after eric garner's death sparked nationwide protests, one of the officers involved in the incident has been formally charged and now facing disciplinary proceedings. officer daniel patellio was recorded on cell phone video putting garner in a choke hold, a move band by the nypd. a grand jury cleared all of the officers involved on criminal charges. >>> back to texas, some horrifying moments on the runway near austin. look at this, a world war ii era airplane is seen veering off path, during takeoff. the plane goes up for just moments and then comes crashing down. the plane bursts into flames, but get this, all 13 passengers able to make it out safely. one person was transported to the hospital with significant burns. >>> and a big concert to tell you about in chicago, to celebrate 50 years of the special olympics. chance the rapper and usher among the big, big names taking the stage for the big event at soldier field where the special olympics got its start back in 1968. we should say our own robin roberts ri

there was a protest in grand central station in november 2014 and in protesting the death of 2015 eric garner and michael brown. the nypd, there was a case to get more information, freedom of information on what was going on during that protest. it seemed like the nypd might have known about the protest before it even happened, during its inception. and it was like a die -in, peaceful protest. and because of the manhattan court justice decision, the nypd had to disclose information and what we found from the initial was staggeredt it and slow is that police had access to group messaging of the organizers. black lives matter organizers. and i would say that, for public safety, do we need the content of people's group messaging and location data, and where does it end? in 2017, terry boyle, a member of the national lawyers guild, his information was connected to pay cell phone tracking device. and because of freedom of information act we know about this and we know that he thought -- fought to get records from chicago where this happened. there was another case in 2016, from 2014 freedom of inf

eric garner, $5 million.the 1980's when this case was going through the court, there were none of those settlements. none of them. no one had ever won one of the verdicts and gone to trial and won the verdict in federal court. so the system has changed in that way. it has improved in that way. isolated many spots of improvement that i can identify in the problems associated with the use of deadly force. say being iny to boston today that the boston police department is one of the areas of improvement. bill evans is the current police commissioner in boston and is one of the best police leaders -- if not the best -- currently working in the united states. and i don't believe that the story that i tell in my book that happened with the boston police department in the 1970's and 1980's could happen in today's police department and i hope i am right about that. host: you mentioned the dedication into the search. you can see the dedication there. joining usdonnell is to talk about the release of his book. again, p

the protest in grand central station in november 2014 and engine 15, protesting the death of eric garner and michael brown. ohe nypd, there was a case t get more information, freedom of information on what was going on during the pretest. it seems like they might have known about the protest before it even happened, during its inception. and it was like a die -in, peaceful protest. and because of the manhattan supreme court, a justice's decision, they had to disclose information and what we found from the initial disclosure from the nypd, which was slow and not everything, is that police had access to group messaging of the organizers. black lives matter organizers. and i would say that, for public safety, do we need the content of people's group messaging and location data, and where does it end? boyle, a member of the national lawyers guild, his information was connected to cell phone tracking device, and because of freedom of information act we know about this and we know that he thought to get records from chicago -- fought to get records from chicago where this happened. there was a

paying attention, started paying attention four years ago with the killing of michael brown and eric garner in new york city, show them where we have been on this subject, historically, show them how much it has changed, good things that changed, but the real story is how much has not changed and how much of the problem feels almost intractable. if i can leave one good positive note on this, one thing i'm glad to report is that i don't believe this story of basically a police murder coverup by police of what happened in boston, i don't think it could happen in boston again today because bill evans, boston police commissioner, kind of leadership from bill brat enand others forward has changed. we do have these particular areas of improvement we can talk about, but the longer story is how much has not changed and how much police culture has changed. >> it is important for people watching that may not understand the environment in boston in 1975. you talk about the south for a good reason. one of the most heinous photos we have seen regarding segregation is the picture of american flag hurled

eric garner, tamir rice. where was you outrage then? what is wrong with us? are we afraid of this president to at the extent that we can now become outraged because we have somebody that we think won't be able to punch back? when this president has done to civility is unpardonable. where is your sense of outrage when charlottesville erupted and a person lost her life? where was your sense of jot rage were when the president of the united states of america said, there are some very nice people among the klan. white supremacists, neo-nazis. where were you? what is wrong with us? we've get a president who is inculcating bigotry into policy. it's no accident that they're now talking but doing with with diversity visas after the president called certain countries in africa s-hole countries. that's bigotry and policy. ... make other forms of protest inevitable. >> the chair now recognizes the gentleman from new mexico, in the finance subcommittee. >> mister chairman, thanks for being here today and i appreciate your work on these critical issues that affect so many

garner international attention. so the two men will meet, and let me just say this, eric, we don't have all the details just yet, butt there's this seven-hour time difference when you compare helsinki to washington, so that big-time gap means it will probably happen early, maybe between 9:00 and noon. we will have to see. by the way, the president was talking about russia today on twitter. in fact, let me share tweet with you. he said these russian individuals talking about the indictment we told you about yesterday did their work during the obama years. why didn't obama do something about it? because he thought crooked hilary clinton would win, that's why. had nothing to do with the trump administration. but fake news doesn't want to report the truth as usual. i mention that to say this, you know it is going to come up, and certainly helps us figure out what happened, so we will have a chance to ask both leaders coming up monday in helsinki. join us for live coverage on fox news. eric: this will be absolutely fascinating. meanwhile the protests against the president continued. they were in scotland today. they were