Events in 2 swing states and democratic challenger joe biden is leading in Many National polls with just over 2 weeks before the election john hendren has more from washington d. C. Hes been playing defense all across the map in florida georgia and iowa hes been campaigning those are all states that he should have handily in his column by now but National Polls show him behind across the u. S. The latest poll i saw said 12 Percentage Points behind joe biden and hes also behind in key battleground states those include michigan in wisconsin the 2 states that hes going to now so he has been aggressive there speaking very much like hes on this steroids that he was on just days ago when he tested positive for the coronavirus standing in front of the air force one showing people that hes back. Police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at antigovernment protesters in haiti is the country marked its Independence Day protests as a mean calling for president to step down for the past year over corruption charges mostly rules the country by decree after parliament shut down over the political impasse new zealands Prime Minister. Says shell form a new government in the coming weeks after the biggest political victory in decades the labor party secured a majority of seats in parliament after saturdays general election. Voters are heading back to the polls in the self declared the republic of Northern Cyprus for the president ial runoff people are now facing a choice between the current president whos probably reunification with the south and the Prime Minister whos backed by turkey and that was the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera in about half an hour after faultlines say that. Cyprus a european island offering citizenship to those who can afford it in august made global headlines with the cyprus papers confidential documents that reveal a murky passport by Investment Scheme for. Now is Investigative Unit goes undercover to expose further revelations that go to the heart of the cypriot state Al Jazeera Investigations the cyprus papers under cover. What can i do or the black person in this country that isnt very near my black body my role as a small beam have been weaponized. Its all too familiar in the United States a black person killed by the police. Calls for justice and the cycle repeats the other. Night. Outside the white house by some estimates 2020 has seen the largest protest movement and u. S. History all centered on the killing of black people by police. Dont want to argue the march Briana Taylor shot in her own home. Alone but he was at the rallies and then in may george floyd in minneapolis where more than 8 minutes were caught on cell phone of an officer kneeling on his neck despite his pinning samata. The day after how tough they were up to the upper lip read across the country let him tell us that all of these millions of people across the blasts took to history in the middle of a pandemic that at large they shut down the country. But was not the center of all this were too many cases that are gone unseen and unheard. My name asta my son as marc hes hasta marquees was killed by d. C. Police on jails 12th 2008 its names like mark east alston they you may have never heard as well as the ones that are better known Michael Brown sandra bland eric garner but it pushed the us to this moment are dying right now our children are being shot right now black people should not be defending their very existence it is urging i do my brief in this violent we cant even sleep in a home we came up. Play video games are one of them are going to mourn with our nephews i came a book im playing music and a car the gas station at home. Its also years of promise is a performance change that came without justice reforms is just not going to work and so were not here for that conversation anymore we have to remove this institution that was built on systematic racism and built on the backs of selling black and brown individuals. When we met him at the alston in july it had been just over 2 years since her son 22 year old marquiss was shot and killed by police in washington d. C. How did you find out about what happened. Was headed to dinner and i got a call from one of mark he says friends and. As soon as i answered i heard the pentagon on the phone. And so i said whats wrong. And she said mark he says been shot. And i said ok what hospital are we going to because of course i thought positive. And she said were not going to the hospital hes gone. I got home. And of course on the 10 oclock news it was there police have been on scene here for hours they tell us the shooting happened just after 7 oclock investigators say a group of guys were out in that alley when officers approached them thats when shots were fired i had not been notified. I didnt sleep that night. I was just waiting for them to come. And they didnt get there until. About 2 oclock pm the next day. What is it been like for you to get answers about what happened that night. Its been. An agonizing traumatizing disheartening. Dreadful. Ive just been trying to get simple questions. What would it initially took place to cause this to happen. And i want to show you where it has the d. C. Police Department Said that officers were on patrol on the approach marquis they were initially it was unclear why when officers entered the. There was a group of adult males there one of the adult males produced a weapon there were shots fired but witnesses at the scene disputed the police account. It was. Shot multiple times. Report the gunshot wounds and stated if the gunshot wounds were repetitive that they would not individually list them so i cant even count. The total of gunshot wound. Crazy. Was one of the 13 People Killed by d. C. Police since 201512 of whom. Since her son was killed tried to find out what happened that night as of today in p. D. Has not provided me with any sufficient facts of this case shes testified before the city council submitted public records and piled a civil lawsuit against the city but its been nearly impossible to get answers from them what i wish the city would give me is. To treat me is i am black life matter. Human being that matters if that makes sense. The truth accountability transparency thats what i desire from the city. As shes fall prancer committee has also had to relive her loss when another black person is killed by police in the u. S. Each time. I hear a life loss due to the polies. Brings forth so much anxiety so much pain. It hurts. And i say here we go again. Here we go again. With. The. The the complete belief man that he it was a horrific killing of george floyd on may 25th captured on cell phone by a bystander but he repeatedly told the police he couldnt breathe it sparked the protest thats why i feel at. The. Time to forget it you know everyone is telling. Me the question now is will this moment be different people. Are tired. To realize that we have a whole generation of people who will die entire time just heard almost every week another black person killed another aspect. I came imagine what that does to psyche to grow up were over half your life is just another blood by the children the street and the black by the slain out of the black person killed by choke and you know by say my cape very like tracy wright is one of the thousands of people that took to the streets in d. C. In the protest after george point the scale last week that may be deployed with shields and tear gas as the protests grew police were more aggressive each day when i bust open leave someone how it was all over the body got teargassed purpose very and after they eyes were flushed out they went right back out to the front and that energy to me was just so raw and so sort and. I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters. On june 1st one week after the killing of george floyd and just after the president to liberate these remarks. Police began to clear protesters from in front of the white house. The police did this for President Trump who wanted to take a photo at the church across from the white house. After the by the clearing up the park that day the president flooded the streets of d. C. Discours the federal forces without police but 2 weeks later and as the protests continued the president took a slightly different approach signing an executive order and urging Police Departments station wide to adopt the highest professional standards to serve their communities the standards will be as high and as strong as there is on earth the executive order called for the creation of a nationwide database to track excessive use of force by Police Officers and for Police Departments to adopt better practices but it was unclear what tangible impact the order would really have. Even then it was still a change and how trampas approach policing since he took office by moving away from Police Reform efforts of the Obama Administration. Those reforms were sparked during another reckoning on Police Violence in the u. S. In the wake of the killing of 18 year old Michael Brown in ferguson missouri and 20. 00. Sort of felt like people who were used to being bullied for many years suddenly started to stand up for themselves just in hansford live 10 minutes from ferguson at the time working as a law professor people were excited people were happy he was a legal observer and one of thousands of people who took to the streets then even in the face of a heavy militarized response from the police. Ferguson was the spark i think weve had a long history of responding to Police Violence was. A ferguson was the 1st time were people who didnt just take to the streets in protest but but they actually had to bring out tanks because they saw that people were going to take it to the next level. 00. 0000000000000000 it was in the aftermath of this that the department of justice under the Obama Administration began to ramp up efforts to reform policing in the United States. One part of that was increasing investigations into Police Departments including purpose and this was about the death of Michael Brown but not only about the death of Michael BrownJonathan Smith was on the justice departments team that conducted a civil rights investigation into the Ferguson Police department and so we went into ferguson to try to understand what was happening the community the operation of its Police Department the effect of the police to work on the community and whether the Police Support was engaging in patterns of violations of the costs which. Among the findings of their investigation was that the Ferguson Police department disproportionately use force against the black community. While everybody looked like me got to be a criminal. Is no on in effect. I guess the rain on the daily give us a respite to go every day for people who live in myself included a lot of these black male 3 miners are under our law says there is 200 and that the police along with local officials systematically targeted black residents with tickets and fines as a way to make money for the city. Africanamericans were targeted. For by the Police Department or brought into the court system and their pockets would be continued to be drained sort of almost in perpetuity were you surprised by any of your findings and ferguson i wasnt i mean i had by the time that we investigated the Ferguson Police department with there was in the last research that was about the 20th i think it was the 20th investigation that we conducted a Police Departments across the country and investigations like this were one of the central components of the Obama Administrations Police Reform effort you know we knew that as you we looked across the country that there was a serious and deep problem and a core almost of all of them was a failure of Police Departments to be accountable internally so that officers who engaged misconduct were held in account to account and that departments themselves were all held accountable to their communities oh my god oh thank god. That was. The ferguson report do a lot to help people to really come to grips with what the protesters were saying from day one we had been telling people that there was racial profiling but they didnt believe it until they saw the d. O. J. Report. But the Obama Administrations Police Reform went beyond investigation funding and grants were issued for initiatives like body camera to increase transparency last year the ferguson and a task force and beyond making a number of recommendations to improve policing in the u. S. Specifically by focusing on Community Relations and having Police Officers undergo training for bias. But now 6 years after ferguson the country faces yet another reckoning in minneapolis where george floyd was killed there have been. Calls for the trumpet ministration to investigate the Police Department. But they have to have to do so were going to probably reacting to this and simply immediately putting the department under investigation doesnt necessarily results in improving the situation but this is consistent with the attorney generals previous Public Comments saying that the problem is only a few rogue officers and that theres no systemic racism in policing and not. The trumpet ministration has largely stopped federal investigations into Police Departments the more fundamental problem is in the structure of policing and the culture of policing what happened to george floyd is a very good example of that you had not one officer engage in misconduct but you had officers that were bystanders that didnt intervene to prevent that from happening. The minneapolis raises another question though does reform work. More than a year before george floyd was killed the city had put all of its Police Officers through trainings on implicit bias. And nationally Police Killings did not go down in the years after ferguson and the obama era reform efforts. Were going to. Be 5 or 6 years later we have cities Like Washington d. C. The city. Where there are plenty of body camera. Youve got all these different rules and regulations in place but these are all things that can be manipulated and. Body cameras were a key part of both local and federal reform with the goal of increasing transparency but even not has come a challenge as profamily. For you in your sons case what has it been like trying to get access to the camp but its. What they initially told me to do we submitted their request only for them that back to say markey needed to submit the request says he was involved in the body. And so my attorney didnt respond to. Make the request so thats why his mother is making the request she was finally able to see some of the footage in august of last year but not all of it and even then she says it was heavily edited. Ration of what they depict it happened. Which included some power points it was a package edited version 5 minutes of what we saw. Good morning this message is for mr. Days after we interviewed her committee i received a voicemail from d. C. Police department will be releasing the camera footage of the. Car. And what you know it will be. The footage was released publicly before can see it. In the Footage Police begin the interaction with mark east by jumping out of their car and running after him. Because the audio is not turned on until later we dont know why they went after him. I dont know which shot they claim they saw the outline of a gun in his pocket and that marquees shot 1st before the officers repeatedly shot him. The metropolitan Police Department declined our request for an interview. In a statement miss alstons lawyer said the footage does not show fired a gun or that the object in his hand was one. And that without the audio key details are still missing and they give me everything i have Everything Police made the video public along with footage from the deaths of 2 other black men but they were only released because of a new city legislation. That requires them to release body camera footage and battle shooting. It was passed in june in response to the latest wave of protests. But people on the street part calling for more reform or legislation nobody was holding up signs saying more body cameras for police more money for Police Training right thats how they got out of the last crisis was with more money and more resources body cameras in the training and all that but none of these directly addressed the sort of goal of policing and the substandard outcomes of policing. The lack of success or performances turn the National Conversation to one local activists have been advocating for years. Defunding Police Departments on the path to eliminating them completely abolition. They want to cut Police Budgets and the number of officers patrolling and often surveilling their communities and redirect that money to Health Care Education and housing. We have been following a lot of money into Police Reforms thats not actually keeping anyone in more safe i have no faith in the institution that needs to be reminded not to choke me we met with a group of d. C. Organizers and one of the most policed areas of the city what has happened over the years is that the police have become the place where people call for everything like we are creating work for police that not only does the police not to do that nobody nobody needs to do that work nobody has to be out there criminalizing being homeless is they need homes nobody needs to be criminalizing people who are dispersed enjoying addition they need health care what would abolishing the police mean and look like to me that looks like knowing where i can get food and water that looks like having safe housing all the time that looks like being able to stand outside and not be worried about being a little. Surveiling terrorize for existing. And any other war you have multiple choice. And over here we dont actually have no place to give birth theres no war over here is the ever and not the type of thing that like literally doesnt keep you safe like i think about even. Thinking about getting pregnant while this is dangerous over here as a black woman when i have a 13 year old to tell me that. He took the ladys purse because. His mother had no food in the house to feed his troops were you given the resources in the community. Still in the purse he can be a Recreation Center which would lead. D. C. s mayor has said that cutting the Police Budget will make the city last but that doesnt feel true for some residents we just had 11 murders kill. It was a policeman in there. And he still got shot and therefore you cant tell me that the police could have kept that little guy safe reform dont worry this mental one is what works and investing in black communities and resources that keep us a. Mothers arms the sister says we are at a moment of reckoning in america as the summer came to an end and as protests continued yet another black person was shot by police just within these past several days we have seen the attempted murder of jacob lake in wisconsin jacob blake was shot 7 times in the back at point blank range. It happened just 5 days before thousands of people gathered in the u. S. Capitol to mark the anniversary of the historic march on washington in 1963 and as they continued to demand justice and change. With her granddaughter markie says daughter lyric. She was also one of many family members who spoke about their loved ones killed by police all 7 this number right here for an hour and you get found out we get sunny unfortunately there has been the only soul communication the metropolitan Police Department has shared with me in regards to my 1st ever trauma sadly the mother no did i dont make sure and transparency from our chief doing. This aside she still doesnt understand. What it is to. To not continuously kill us as a people. Because of the color of mosque in. Its current form. And it just reach traumatizes each time. I was just going to see this right now. Thats no matson for a monster zoids for brianna for. All prominent journal. For Michael Brown. d and anybody else who loves them. There is a strength enough coming together as mothers who lost our sons due to police brutality. And this to reach a firm in me that im not by myself. In this walk in this journey and find out what we go through. Be strong stand tall and courage dont stop sampling the net on down you stop oh just stop it dont. Know what this is about what of this. Today is the recharge for more to come to me advocating for marquee fish truth. What keeps me going is marky this 4 year old daughter shes very curious and so i want to be able to provide her truth as to why her father was killed by the metropolitan Police Department. Oh hello her. 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