carried away we least want to be your 'd support so those who need it the eyes of the world are on tolson right now because of this rally but obviously the been in the united states generally over the past few weeks because of all the demonstrations since the killing of george floyd do you sense that there has been a shift i mean you started your organization back in 2014 because of a shooting from a police officer so do you sense a shift not just in the mood but are you more optimistic now that realistic long lasting change will finally come to the united states well i tell ringback you what i definitely was saying right now we're getting a bit like we've never gotten this or in the history of the united states we have never had any form of legislation that directly stacks policing in our our united states and so yesterday i testified before the the oversight committee to the congress and they are passing the bill they're going to have a bill to the floor that actually restricts a lot of the policing practices that we have so yes we do see change coming but i honestly i'm not going to br

and i'm joined now by correspondent stephanie simons who is in tolson outside the arena where the rally is scheduled jeff on what's going on where you are now. well we're not quite at the arena yet and let me show you what's going on here so this is the checkpoint for the press and behind those white tents is actually where the grounds are where trump supporters are streaming in by the sounds and stewards of the arena of course and i step back in the picture and let you show what's going on the site here he is the press now waiting in line for i would say another hour or so then they can pay and will let us in to what's the ground into the arena slash into the forefront of the arena and we can actually tell you what's happening there then until then we're kind of stuck here and i have to say so far what we experience was all peaceful the security perimeter here around the arena and for the president this is a benz there's a lot of law enforcement here all agencies secret service f.b.i. oklahoma perfect wrist acacias local police metropolitan the sheriff's department of the county the na

crowds smaller than expected his campaign of broccoli camps in his speech to the rally to go live to tolson oklahoma. coming up. a magic corona virus outbreak in europe's biggest persis implant since germany's reproduction rights and puts thousands of people on the.

even though the cho campaign pushed the event back a day there's no changing tolson's painful racial history. catalyzed matter protesters gathered across the u.s. on friday to commemorate the end of slavery the president's choice of this day for a campaign rally sparked a huge backlash so too did the location tulsa oklahoma is the site of the worst incident of racist violence in u.s. history and 921 its greenwich district was a bustling hub of black owned businesses known as black wall street it was razed to the ground by white mobs some 300 black people were killed. and while our black men fought courageously to defend their homes and businesses to defend their families they were eventually. so outnumbered and outgunned that white rioters broke through those barriers and invaded the greenwood district and the massacre had begun. 99 years later many telfair residents are still affected by racism they say donald trump is not welcome our community is still emotionally tards we are still hurt we are still hurting and. and suffering and this is not a good time for him to visit the green

form done all the evil to clyde tolson or smallpox and chateau optional so clearly. not almost but no more than what it could take as a consequence coming from a common. disease to produce delights their families over the rainbow told you this is. not a short season die suddenly you're not but that when you could be on social call you usually are still good it's just you know those are also a little small group. with the amount of very little hope surface through a show no good for all done and there are no. proofs and. you are talking point out the but there's just not there somewhere else you can't. stress this mistruth our own. we still got some girl was told if. he squeals here to. get a word and to show us to be him.

and the us off facing creasing hostility amid the ongoing black lives matter protest a major in the tolson police department has been criticised for insisting that officers aren't targeting african-americans. that he has the figures to back it up i had a chance to discuss the issue with him. you have those isolated incidents rifles and go incidents that occur and especially on body camera video they're shown over and over again so i think the general public thinks well that's happening in the states we make 350000000 contacts year and obviously the fast majority of those there is not in the instance that occur we use force less than one percent of all arrestees but when that mistake happens you know we're all healed by that standard point that i would encourage your audience you go to the washington post police shooting database and they come pahl the state of source you can go back and look and since 2015 if you want to look talk about the unarmed individual shot by law enforcement if you break it down between african-american and white it's 3 percent unarmed white shot unarmed and 2 perc

face mask either he hasn't throughout the duration of the pandemic here that's a big concern here in tolson across the entire state of oklahoma where cases have really started to spike really climbing at a pretty rapid rate in fact here in tulsa over the last week on a hot 100 percent increase in the number of patients with over 1000 admitted to ha .

work a long time there's been a course major progress but much more needs to be done but to go to tolson of all places on this weekend after we've all learned about the horrors of the 1921 massacre which was essentially a race from our history books for more than 50 years they did everything they could to keep people from knowing about what happened there and i think that is going to be a question of judgment and i think the other element of judgment is you know we have a major pandemic which is growing in america now as it's all in every other place in the world it reminds people of lysol day when the president said oh if we can just inject detergent and disinfectant in people maybe back would help solve them it brings back this question of does the leadership of the country right now pay attention and respect science and what we're seeing in the data or not and are we politicizing that i mean we're seeing people burn masts today and tell so they're burning the masks that have been distributed this is a very scary moment in that sense and i think it's going to make people wonder about h

in the massive amount the mayor said that about 100000 people are supposed to be an influx here to tolson an influx they have actually not had any time before in that in that measure so this will be definitely also security challenge for tomorrow and let's just see what's going to happen then go to when defective enjoying a stash to find siemens. let's get a historical perspective on this from matt gerald the whole he's a professor of the history and african-american studies at the university of houston is written dozens of books on racism in the history of slavery in the u.s. he's latest is the dawning of the apocalypse the roots of slavery white supremacies settler colonialism and capitalism and the long 16th century welcome back to the day professor hold it's often thought that slavery in the u.s. that ended with abraham lincoln's emancipation proclamation 1962 but juneteenth tells a different story. it does in fact both stories a somewhat flawed with regard to mr lincoln's a massive case and proclamation it did not necessarily apply in places in the united states where the united stat

kick off his reelection campaign in a city notorious for racist violence and mass murder in 1021 tolson's prosperous greenwood neighborhood was known as black wall street when rumors spread about an encounter between a black teenage boy and a white girl armed gangs of whites rampage through greenwood killing and burning planes dropped incendiary bombs witnesses said some tulsa police officers set fire to homes and businesses while others stood by without intervening up to 300 african-americans were killed people saw bodies. lined up on the sand bars in the arkansas river and people talked about how bodies washed up downstream. and their people who said they saw people being tossed into mass graves . in 2020 toll so remain segregated with a history of racially discriminatory policing as protests over the killing of george floyd in minneapolis seethed a senior toles a police officer said this in a radio interview. in 2016 a black man named turns crutcher was shot and killed by a white policewoman while standing next to his vehicle crutcher was unarmed the officer was acquitted of manslaught

here on the juneteenth weekend but the other pressing issue here is of course covert 19 oklahoma and tolson particularly have shown an uptick in positive test for the virus over the last few days and there's a big concern that gathering people inside this arena behind us as many as 19000 it will become a bit of a petri dish if you will and that it will create super spreaders that will spread the virus through this community and as people leave and go back to their homes and other communities as well there had been pleas from not only health officials here but even advisors to the president to back off on this a bit and wait a bit before holding this rally but he of course decided to press on here so it'll be interesting to see how the rates change over the next couple of weeks once we see what happened here as far as the rallies concerned daughter frankly on roberts is the founder of the black lives not a syllabus said new york university he says trump is trying to use black a shoes as a political tool to rally his own base. this rally and salsa is in many ways an attempt to position what m

concerns that indoor event could contribute towards a surge of infections in the state jay gray is in tolson for the rally where there has already been a health scare. 6 members of the president's advance team did test positive the campaign says that's out of more than 100 tests given to those who are working this a bent they were immediately quarantined according to the campaign and contacts right so those that were around them have been removed from the mix as well non will be in the arena tonight when the event takes place take a look behind me this is the be ok center where the events going to take place in lines already gathering where more than 5 hours away from the president being on the stage here and already you've got people lined up and in fact we've seen a handful of people camping out on the streets here in downtown tulsa for a full week ahead of this rally a lot of people very excited to see the president here and when you talk to those supporters as you mentioned they're going to have a hand sanitizing stations inside the arena here they're going to have face masks that are be

okay, he's doing it with tolson and june 15th my know he's moved it. i don't know what message he's trying to send, but people can put it together. >> martha: we will see how many people show up. it seems like there were a number of reasons for choosing that location based on, you know, the record of the virus and that in the state of oklahoma as well. so we will see how close. chris, thank you very much. good to se see you tonight. >> thank you, martha, good to see you too. >> martha: sadly the death of another black man who was shot by a police officer in atlanta, georgia, over the weekend. and that is, of course intensifies with the debate in this country over race and policing. the nation's largest police department is disbanding its entire anti-crime unit. we will talk about that next. ♪ ♪ [shouting] [clapping and shouting] [cymbals clanging] [knocking] room for seven. and much, much more. the first-ever glb. get 0% apr financing up to 36 months on most models, and 90-day first-payment deferral on any model. ♪[ siren ] & doug give me your hand! i

kick off his reelection campaign in a city notorious for racist violence and mass murder in 1021 tolson's prosperous greenwood neighborhood was known as black wall street when rumors spread about an encounter between a black teenage boy and a white girl armed gangs of whites rampage through greenwood killing and burning planes dropped incendiary bombs witnesses said some tulsa police officers set fire to homes and businesses while others stood by without intervening up to 300 african-americans were killed people saw bodies. lined up on the sand bars in the arkansas river and people talked about how bodies washed up downstream. and their people who said they saw people being tossed into mass graves . in 2020 toso remain segregated with a history of racially discriminatory policing as protests over the killing of george floyd in minneapolis seethed a senior toles a police officer said this in a radio interview. in 2016 a black man named turns crutcher was shot and killed by a white policewoman while standing next to his vehicle crutcher was unarmed the officer was acquitted of manslaughter

president donald trump is accused of putting his presidency before public health after his tolson rally. a shared land border not seeing eye to eye an escalation in the war.

have been wearing these mask in many say they want even though covert 1000 is on the rise here and tolson across the state of oklahoma and even those 6 advance that team members who are working on the ground here in tulsa have mounted positive for the virus you can see behind the gates here all so it's a part of the national guard that's keeping watch over what's going on here you mentioned the tensions and the racial violence here in the early 1900 there are other rallies in other areas of the city to support groups like black lives matter and other groups pushing for systematic change and policing across this country but to this point there's been no real confrontation between those 2 groups a few pockets of protesters mixed in with the crowds preparing for this rally but again no real serious problems to this point where we talked a little bit about the virus just to get back to that in a sense there will be hand washing sanitation stations and side of the arena there's a private vendor here today the t.v. giving out these face shield so there are about 40000 of these that are are bein

president donald trump is accused of putting his presidency before public health after his tolson rally. a shared land border but not seeing eye to eye an escalation in the war of words between egypt and libya as an internationally recognized government and a slice of paradise that's getting smaller by the year the battle to save the last pocket of tropical rainforest in north america. with the. joke of a tennis tournament in the balkans. and that's because one of the players involved . becomes the highest profile player to test positive for the current of the. welcome to the news hour we begin in germany where the reproduction rates of the corona virus has jumped sharply from 1.79 to 2.8 that's a 60 percent increase on the day before the our number indicates how many people one person can infect and it needs to remain at less than one in order for the virus to be contained so the increased infection rate has been partly attributed to outbreaks and slaughterhouses the owner of one meat processing plants in northwest germany has apologized after more than 1000 employees were infected all

they are getting ready for the big rally in tolson tomorrow.owever, the state of oklahoma has just recorded hundreds of new righ virus cases, i want tow what they're going to do about this with the rally. we'll deal with that in the next hour as well. twitter has been caught limiting the visibility of several republicans post, it's called shadow banning. it's happened ohio congressman jim jordan before andy fired up about it. he's on the show later as well. many companies observing juneteenth today, it marks the emancipation of the slaves in the united states, should it become a federal holiday? why ask that question in deal with it next. hey you, yeah you. i opened a sofi money account and it was the first time that i realized i could be earning interest back on my money. i just discovered sofi, and i'm an investor with a diversified portfolio. who am i?! i refinanced my student loans with sofi because of their low interest rates. thanks sofi for helping us get our money right. ♪ wherever you make go, lexus will welcome you back with exception

not wearing a face mask throughout the duration of the pandemic here that's a big concern here in tolson across the entire state of oklahoma where cases have really started to spike really climbing at a pretty rapid rate in fact here in tulsa over the last week on a hot 100 percent increase in the number of patients with over 1000 admitted to hospital so it's a very big concern one of new york's top federal prosecutors has agreed to step down after a standoff with the u.s. attorney general jeffrey bauman had initially refused to resign saying he learned about the plans of a place and a press release has led several top level corruption investigations into people close to the u.s. president's inner circle. meanwhile a u.s. court has rejected president trying to block the release of a book by former national security adviser john bolton the judge says the book carries national security concerns but he couldn't stop its publication libya's u.n. recognize government has denounced the egyptian president's threats of military intervention president. says his army is ready to step in if libya's

know that voter e ideologues are not part of ansus illegitimate orchestrated effort by republicans tolsonsuppress poor and minority wellt voting? >> well senator, as a sitting don't want to commentli on political issues or issues that may be litigated before the court. to respond to your question though, o i can offer the experience i have in the secretary of state's office as well as during my private practice years that the sanctity oft to the ballots is y important to me, in fact i look at the right to vote as -- i think it's been referred as the preservative of all the other rights, vitally working important. i've spent years over my career in public service and otherwiseo working to protect theng pr integrity of the ballots as well as to expand access to voters, to the voting process. >> so the fourth circuit fall a u.s. court of appeals looked ats a north carolina voters oppression scheme, for lack of a better word. g fiit made the following findi, i'm reading here. the new provisions target african americans with almost surgical precision the. so that finding will clearly seem to m

this month, tulsa marked a grim date -- the 99th anniversary of the tolson race massacre in which a mightite mob ravaged a thriving african-american business community. caller: my name is russell and i am in south carolina. the economic council of the naacp and i'm also a veteran. on the way to my high school, i pass the confederate monument that is right in south carolina, when i went to high school. but there is a tuskegee airmen field in walking distance from the high school and there was never any reference to the field. that is the problem we have with america. they want to remind us of the confederacy and to remember when the church was shot up in charleston, the young man had the confederate flag in germany, s marched in germany, they cannot use the symbol so they use our confederate flag. behavior.c host: do you think most people view these statues in that light, or are they just statues without any other context? caller: the people that i see community, many of the people that carry those symbols, they are just regular southern people, but they andeved in the confederacy almost l

own set of policies, so to hold them accountable, for example, to hold them accountable with the tolson county sheriffs's office, they have one set of t policies and theulsa police department has another set of policies. we have asked for all of law enforcement to publish their policies online so that all of the citizens can see that, but the tulsa police department has done it with the sheriff department has not. it has just been a struggle just to go one step. those are the things that we go through daily just to hold them accountable, just to make sure that these officers who create these types of poison within the department. currently, we have an officer who made national headlines by pinning and saying that black people should be shot more and this officer has had a history writing an article that said this is war, after declaring black life matter hate group. that officer is still an officer. and that officer submitted to the minneapolis police department that we will give you warrior style training after the oror has banned the warrior that type of training. that particular poli