tanisha's approach to her clients displays patience, tact and compassion. due to tanisha quality of work and positive and can-do attitude she has been designate and acting supervisor within her unit. tanasha's work has been acknowledged by her clients in the form of phone calls and letters of appreciation and gratitude. tinasha's dedication to her role as a senior social worker is an asset and greatly approached. on behalf of daas and on behalf of the commission, thank you so much forever for your work and congratulations on being employee of the month. [ applause ] >> thank you. i do know that there is a great demand for our people in their homes, and i think that is one of the main problems in terms of what our job is how can we keep people in their homes and provide that care? we're really short of manpower in terms of people wanting to do this kind of work. so i know and i appreciate what you are doing, because it's a great demand out there and it's growing. thank you. [ applause ] >> next on the agenda is reports. the director's report, shireen. >> yes

tanisha anderson had a history of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. two months ago, she was disoriented and outside in the cold wearing a nightgown. her brother joelle and her mother casandra called for an ambulance. two police officers responded instead. >> joelle anderson: she was treated like a criminal instead of a human being that had a right, you know, to get some help. >> whitaker: the family and the cops agreed that tanisha needed to go to the hospital. but when police moved to put her in the squad car, her brother saw her panic. how was she behaving? >> anderson: she was just holding onto the car doors. >> whitaker: not allowing them to push her in. >> anderson: right, that's all she was doing, just holding onto the car doors. >> casandra johnson: i've never seen so much force from a big hand crunched down on somebody's head like that, just constantly, constantly trying to get her in the car. and i'm like, "what is going on? is she a criminal or what?" >> anderson: the big cop, he slammed my sister. >> whitaker: he slammed her? >> anderson: h

tanisha anderson's family had called the police for help as she suffered from a mental health episode in november. a coroner found tanisha anderson died "as a result of being physically restrained in a prone position by cleveland police." anderson suffered from heart disease, which was also listed as a factor in her death. her family now wants an independent prosecutor to investigate. israel has halted the transfer of tax revenues to the palestinian authority in retaliation for its bid to join the international criminal court. on friday, palestinian officials submitted documents to join the icc in a move opposed by both israel and the united states. palestinian un ambassador ryad mansour said the pa will seek the prosecution of israeli officials for war crimes in the occupied territories. >> it is a peaceful option. it is a civilized option. it is an option that anyone upholds the law should not be afraid of. it is an option that we are seeking an order to seek justice for all the victims that have been killed by israel's occupying power. the last group of them, more than 500 children

louis, where i'm from, in addition to tamir rice in cleveland, tanisha rice in cleveland. the time is now, and we can't wait when every 28 hours an unarmed black person is killed by vigilanties or police. we're at a good point to start making a pivot in america and show up as a country and be the country that we say we are. >> do you agree? are we ready to have a honest and courageous conversation about these matters? >> i don't know that we're ready, but we need to have an honest and courageous conversation because we keep having the same conversation. we keep going to the same voices, and they keep saying the same things. we keep focusing on police officers who occasionally kill african-americans as opposed to the untold numbers of african-americans killed by african-americans. we don't look at the big issues like the failures of our school systems. out of ten potential points it could receive, it receives two. we don't look at the real fundamental issue. i don't know if we're ready to have this conversation, but we need to have this conversation because we spend too muc

if you think about tanisha you find that they had the fastest economic growth, the fastest expansion of the middle class that has the most stable economy in terms of ethnic city and the social characteristics. so it was a very social place for this to happen. and yet that's where it all started and then it spread. so, what happened there is essentially it was rapidly expanding. educational opportunities have been expanding very fast. you have a cool class of professionals but couldn't find work and that have expectations when they were nurtured by the entertainment that created a stronger stability. of course then when that happened other things, other factors played into the explosion. for wiki leaks they learned that the practice was very corrupt and that created a cauldron that ended up in that example then moved to egypt and libya and elsewhere and we know the story. there's an interesting reason to study called the u.s. at the u.s. institute of peace. they tracked these revolutions and discovered the commentary was taking place outside of the countries. it was people talking abo

i would like to add the name of tanisha anderson to the list of those killed at the hands of police. we mention, tamir rice, eric gardner, michael brown, and we have to uplift the name of women who have experienced disproportionate abuse or had died at the hands of police. the conversation has to happen every day in every setting in order for us to move past as a -- move past hour past as a country and our present. i have heard people say we just have to get over it. but we have iterations of disproportionally and racism today. these are conversations that have to happen. we all have to be collectively a part of that. in the same way that we have many people of various races and ethnicities and ages uplifting the black lives matter movement. you will see black and white people and latino people and people of asian descent, young and old, all participating in uplifting the value of black lives. it is another example that we all are responsible to have this conversation and push and demand for more. in the advisors or every on the air but there are bad apples out there and they need to

pid's i'd like to add the name of tanisha anderson of people who recently died at the hands ever police. we mentioned tamir rice. we mentioned eric garner. we mentioned michael brown but we also have to uplift the names of women who have experienced -- women and girls who have experienced disproportionate abuse or have died at the hands of police and have experienced injustice. so it is a conversation that has to happen every day in every setting in order for us to move past our past as and country and our present. i think -- i've heard people say, well, we just have to get over it. slavery is over with. but we have iterations of disproportionality and racism today. so these are constant conversations that need to happen in a number of different sectors, in a number of different systems, and we all have to collectively be a part of that. in the same way that we have many people of various races, and ethnicities and ages uplifting the black lives matters movement. you will see in pictures throughout social media, in protests, you see black and white people and latino people and people of