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Many others around the nation one week after the Police Killing of george floyd the unarmed black man in minneapolis. Has been covering the story all week she is joining us in studio now so far the curfew has been in effect here in d. C. For almost an hour now what did you see that was different today versus yesterday so one of the biggest things that i saw was is yesterday you had barricades that came up to about my waist well today they had. Yards and yards of a 10 foot high fences actually all around Lafayette Park there directly in front of the white house so youre having this line of protesters where theyre getting pushed back farther and farther away against the white house now the one thing that we did have is there is Peaceful Protesters during the day just like how we had it yesterday but what we noticed last night that i did notice again this evening is you have different protesters that are coming in at night that are turning making it making things a little bit more violent you also had which really isnt anything new but its actually more surprising mill in the sense that you youve always had snipers on top of the white house right but today you actually had 4 guys up there the most anyone ever really sees as one to 2 men but you had 4 propped up there also different today religion was front and center at the protest after what theyre calling Donald Trumps photo op. Where tear gas and flash bangs were used yesterday to Disperse Protesters in front of St Johns Church so that trump could make his way over to take a picture with his staff the day after the church was actually torched by protesters now today you had priests rabbis the moms all religious leaders out in full force at that church praying with each other even catholic priests sprinkling holy water. Walking through the crowds crowds of protesters sprinkling them with holy water now it was attorney general bill barr miller who says that he ordered that area in front of the church to be cleared adding that it was actually supposed to have been cleared well before trump made his speech at the rose garden there but you know had my photographer. And i left yesterday though or hung around for maybe 5 more minutes we would have been in that tear gas in the middle of it all and right now theyre not being too kind of journalists we had somebody from the Australian News network he got punched in the face and you know his camera actually thrown into his face so i mean. We got out of there yeah just in time and tonight though another different thing happening a vigil held for george floyd where was that and were there a lot of people in attendance oh gosh there were thousands more than yesterday thousands more so where that happened it was on can 16th you also had it happen at logan circle there this is video that i shot where they all stood there in silence for 8 minutes calling for peace going silence those minutes though to kind of represent the amount of time that the officer had his knee on George Floyds neck in the video so it was a very peaceful moment of again nothing to be happening today during the daytime during the daytime right now another weird thing today is that it is the d. C. Primary and with voting going up until just right now 8 oclock but the curfew is at 7 so how does that work out so member your browser she actually okayed it for people to go out and vote she said you can totally do that but if youre out protesting past 7 pm you cant say that youre going out to vote youve got to be back home now its. There is a lot more of the National Guard presence in the streets you know actually around 5 oclock we were transferring to our next area where we were you know you had way more National Guards set up setting up earlier and you actually also to today had the erlandson county police they actually left their post after that whole photo op happened with trump Arlington County saying that you know they didnt want to be a part of that but todays protest though so far peaceful we did have trump tweet a couple minutes ago washington d. C. Was the safest place on earth last night you had blackhawk helicopters of the National Guard well see how it goes tonight but thats an interesting spirit duration of that runs out thank you so much for that update. And to separate autopsy reports conducted on george floyd have been made public now this as cities around the u. S. Witness another night of protest set off by the death of this unarmed black man killed by a Minneapolis Police officer now the 2 autopsies say floyd died by homicide however they differ as to how he died now one conducted by the Hennepin County medical examiner says floyd died of cardio pulmonary arrest while an independent Pathologist Dr michael bought in commission by floyds family says he died as a result of mechanical. While they differ it remains pretty clear floyd would have died had that Police Officer not pressed his knee over his neck for close to 9 minutes and right in the center where all this tragic stuff happened will turn to actually banks. I am here at the Minneapolis Police 3rd precinct which for many is a symbol of systemic racism once that disturbing video of officer daring children george boyd surface many people became enraged and took to the streets and said thats a very precinct i believe trying to send a message to Law Enforcement that this is one death you will not get away with a lot of people are still angry about your marquardt theyre still angry about 4 lando can still and as you can see here there are windows that are missing some windows are shattered the roof is caved in and the inside is completely destroyed last night i attended a peaceful demonstration at the memorial where 100010 didnt i spoke to them about president Donald Trumps threat to send more military National Guardsmen and police to stop the protests if trump wants to bring the military we are going to bring our people and we are going to show that we are not scared of heavy machinery we look at our president s our leaders and. If youre threatening the peoples and your people your own race everybodys looking at this is a black white thing ill tell you the artistry of this is beyond or george floor. This is an issue of manatee you know its just not right the way to kill. You know the military and this is a peaceful this is very very peaceful. To do is charge the police will step on the wound most people say all they want is for the remaining 3 officers involved in floyds death to be charged and for officer show binns 3rd degree charge to be moved to the 1st degree many others have stated similar and so dense demonstrators are expected to continue peacefully protesting throughout the week hoping that justice is served when family has announced that Memorial Services will be held this thursday it to remember has a life and legacy reporting in minneapolis im ashley bangs. In response to the massive protests across the country some lawmakers are proposing reforms in hopes of reducing the number of americans being killed by Police Officers and change the way Police Respond to protests are these racial blevins is joining us now live in studio with more on this subject so rachel what are lawmakers doing to try to make change at least in the way of Police Reform well at the heart of these nationwide protests there is a call for Police Accountability and many advocates are saying that one of the 1st steps that can be taken is to end a decades old practice that has been allowed by the Supreme Court which essentially makes it so that Police Officers are not held liable for their actions so when response about independent congressman justin amash is set to introduce the qualified immunity act this week now he released a statement about that in which he said quote the brutal killing of george floyd is merely the latest in a long line of incidents of agree just Police Misconduct the pattern continues because police are legally politically and culturally insulated from consequences for violating the rights of the people who they have sworn to serve now weve seen numerous multimillion dollar settlements after citizens were abused by police but in all of those cases it was the taxpayers in the city that were footing the bill so there is hope that maybe a Police Officer you know they will be financially liable for their actions that could make them think twice before resorting to violence you know i mean that makes a lot of sense but what about the fight to keep records of Police Misconduct whats the latest with that so in the case of george floyd we had 4 officers that were fired as a result of his death and only one of them has faced charges so far but theres no National Database here in the United States for Police Misconduct so those officers could just as easily go on to work for another department or they could even be rehired at the Current Department and we have seen that happen a number of times in fact if we take a look at some cases that were compiled by the freethought project we find that in arizona officer philip well. Fired and charged with murder in the shooting death of Daniel Shaver shown on video and 26. 00 team he was then acquitted and rehired by the mists of Police Department in 28. 00 scene then in tulsa oklahoma officer betty shelby was charged with murder and the shooting death of terence crafter also shown on video in 2016 she was found not guilty and then hired as a sheriff and Rogers County and 2017 and in Salt Lake City utah Detective Jeff Payne was fired in 27000. 00 after a viral video showed him violently arresting alex wobbles for doing her job he faced no charges and was then hired by the weber county jail in 2019 now to respond to this concern democratic senator cory booker has promised to introduce legislation which could lead to a National Database for Police Misconduct in hopes that it would bring about some accountability and transparency and you know theres also been a lot of concern about the use of military looking for Tactical Gear by local Police Departments when they respond specially when they respond to protests is there a move to change that there is so back when president obama was in office there was a lot of criticism over his use of the 1033 program which essentially a lot of local Police Agencies to be able to obtain military grade equipment from federal agencies now if we look back in 2015 obama issued restrictions cutting back on that program after widespread criticism over the fact that police were using military equipment to respond to peaceful protests in ferguson missouri but then president came along and he issued an executive order reversing those restrictions and 2017 now we are once again seeing police in riot gear using Armored Vehicles and deploying tear gas on protesters in the u. S. So democratic senator bryan schott said he plans to introduce an amendment to the National Defense authorization act that would discontinue that 1033. 00 program so there is hope that we could be seeing some legislation in a number of areas to help aim with Police Reform moving forward yes. Certainly a lot of work to be done there rich woman thank you for filing that report thank you. Write in st Louis Missouri 4 Police Officers were hit by gunfire after a peaceful protest quickly became violent monday night the Police Department says the officers were taken to a nearby hospital with injuries and are expected to recover it is still unclear who fired those shots. And over to seattle where demonstrations continued through the night with hundreds gathering outside of city hall and even though the mare imposed a curfew protesters defied those orders and continued protesting and over to colorado hundreds of protesters there also gathered near the States Capital overnight a group of people including denvers police chief marched in front of the capitol building. And wiki leaks cofounder Julian Assange missed a video Court Hearing from his prison cell due to respiratory problems a journalist who attended that hearing describes what happened had received an email from belmarsh prison stating that julius saw injured refused to go to the video link room and refused to sign the refusal form. Edward 1st gerald q. C. Said that in the email ive been sent to the court on friday from the sun just solicitors saying that because of his respiratory problems or history of respiratory problems he wouldnt be attending to the judge did i just search are you saying hes on a well i dont judge priest at work for sure and said yes thats pretty much how it ended. Wasan faces 170 Year Prison Sentence if extradited to the u. S. And found guilty and rick sanchez joins us to discuss how officers went from being a friendly part of the community morphing into this militarized police that you see today and then as sports were going to hand takes us to australia for im unique a bent involving camels and a racetrack and remember to keep up with all the latest news and anything you might have missed make sure you download the brain free app portable t. V. You can catch there 24 sevenths were back in just to. The land to new. Zealand. We go to work. Straight home. 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Today Police Officers are looking more and more like military special operators thanks to president bill clintons 1907 n. D. A. Which requires the d. O. D. To make various preowned equipment available to local Police Departments so since then there have been over 5000000000 dollars worth of military equipment transferred to your local Police Departments so here to walk us through how this all happened and host of news with rick sanchez our friend rick sanchez who has had a long history of covering this beat as a field reporter rick what do you got to tell us. You know cut my teeth as a cop beat reporter and its interesting how we got here we got here because weve allowed ourselves as a country to become a police state and in the process weve over militarized ourselves and this is not something we can put on the back of donald trump obviously hes trying to own this thing right now im glad you mentioned bill clinton but you might as well mention almost every elected official in the United States of america there was a time if you were growing up in america and you were a kid you probably had a mentor may have been a teacher may have been someone to your local park you would go to the park and a mr andrews or mrs ferris is somebody you would get to know and they would teach you how to play basketball or how to play football and maybe theyd have neighborhood teams that played against other teams thats gone it doesnt exist in america anymore the reason that doesnt exist in america anymore is because american politicians whether theyre mayors or councilmen or senators or local officials or state officials or federal officials cannot get elected unless they say in their stump speech i will give you 10 more Police Officers for your city the next one. I will give you 15 more Police Officers for your city the next one i will give you 20 more Police Officers and im going to give them bigger guns and im going to give them more cars and after awhile the budgets the municipal budgets in america that we used to have for creating those programs for kids the mentors go to the park anybody whos listening right now to the sound of my voice go to a park anywhere in america right now you know were going to find you to find sprinklers some guy doing maintenance moe in the lawn and theyll tell you to get off the park even if you go there to play catch with your kid because instead they rent them out to outside organizations to come in and play soccer and stuff the days of when Young Children in america had people who help them not become criminals have given way to a society where we almost encourage them to become criminals so then we can arrest them because after we arrest them we create another job not only do we have now more cops but now we can hire Correctional Officers the number of Correctional Officers the number of cops in america continues to go up and you know whats interesting you almost cant even put this on cops i know its an easy week to feel horrible about Police Officers and be very critical of them but we put those people in that situation right we told them all we want you to do is go out there and arrest people look my brother is a cop and hes a good guy i guarantee you if you took my brother chalk and most Police Officers out there and say you know what 2 days a week were going to take away your badge and your gun and were going to give you a whistle in a coaches have and were going to put you in a park somewhere in the inner city so you get along with these kids teach them how to play football teach them about life. We dont do that anymore america has turned into a militarization zone a police state and weve done it with each politician who we voted for who decided to take them into School Budgets all over the world all over our country and shrink them down to almost nothing so they can create more space for more guns and more cops and more cop cars and now you have Police Officers as you mentioned in the lead who arent only Police Officers they dress and act like soldiers why in the hell in the United States of america are our Police Officers wearing camouflage around us and an Army Uniforms as if we were the enemy and thats a big part of the problem this were the enemy and theyre the authority thats how we got where we are and its been a slow and arduous process ive seen it in my lifetime from being a recreation leader and a cop beat reporter and im saddened by it. Yeah i mean growing up in the eightys the cops. Really did walk by my neighborhood and on foot hence the name plaque put right. To remember officer friendly every school had an officer and i would come by and we became talk to us and we got to know them and they walk the beat but then we started taking them away from walking the beat and we started getting them cars and then we got a mess u. V. s and then we got him you know tractors and then before you know it they had cars that look like military vehicles and now their windows are closed and we have more ammo when the only time they write yes and every conversation is a confrontation rather than a conversation that it probably wasnt even. We know all this you know this most americans know this and nobodys talking about this and this is what we need to get back to this is how we can restore a sense of decency in america a sense of belonging for all of us and a sense where its not them and us now but rather all of us together all right our friend rick sanchez im going to leave that as the last word thank you so much. And as america continues to remain in chaos for more than a week after the death of george floyd here now are some of the most powerful moments weve witnessed in just the last few days. You. Know you cant walk in fear because if you want to fear youre not going to be here. Wonderful. Its like cant talk we cant breathe we cant walk cant we cant sleep we cant do anything cant drive without being here we cant even call the cops or see teeth. Marks or. A great. Great great great great. Great great whats going on in philadelphia in that moment its going for the law to become good to get it right. Breaking news. Comes. Out like restroom. But you could see. The. Situation. In that regard it is a federal. Or state law. If you get your state to show to show you are just like. You. Guys at school you know this is not news to me. I believe what i read. That they dont be stymied anymore and you know if you start to speak about these these things are important we do need to speak about this because they we keep. It these are just going to stay the way they are. You know to get it right. I mean while the pandemic continues to grip the world numbers worldwide now topping 6300000 cases with 376000 reported deaths taking a look at the top 3 countries now with the most confirmed cases the u. S. Still leading the way followed by brazil and then russia here in this country more than 1800000 total cases with about 105000 deaths. Right switching to a more happy note lets go over to the sports h. Q. Regina hamm is there would you know many mainstream sports arent on right now here in the u. S. So lets highlight some i dont know new ones why god theres interesting sports that we might not consider sports and while the ones we all know and love will eventually return to us why not for now give racing a try one of the most famous identifiable landmarks and the backdrop for the you lou ruvo camel cup the. Camel racing club held their night in edition of the event in the australian town of you lotta riders saddle up their camels which are actually surprisingly fast a clock in about 40 Miles Per Hour in their sprinting the 1st ever camel cup was held in 2012 on a wednesday or hump day very appropriate with the large crowds attending this year though no crowds to over 1000 but there was still plenty of excitement as text outlasted 2 time winner Golden Nugget lara villar lured her camel all the way to the finish line and all of the winnings to actually go to a local charities. Many names over the years have occupied the forbes list of the highest paid athletes in the world but one athlete climbed his way to the top or more way served his way to the top in the latest edition of the World Rankings so as tennis star Roger Federer knocked off christian out or not on lionel messi for the top spot in the highest paid app in the world the world number 4 is the 1st tennis player to grace the top spot since the rankings started in 1990 federers estimated to have earned a whopping 1. 106. 3000000 dollars over the past year the owner of the mens record 20 grand slam singles titles made most his money from endorsements and appearances are now though and messi said it still a comfortable 2nd and 3rd respectively and only 2. 00 women and the stock and Serena Williams made the top 100 to do a sport with a much larger ball spaceballs than played s. K. Y. Burns look to extend their win streak when they headed to show one south korea to face off against illegal leading n. Z. Dynamos top of the 1st with the fans in the stands wyverns left feeling young human with a deep r. B. I. Salable left field that want to score former major leaguer jamie romo as one to nothing later in the 3rd baseman choice young on the at bat hit a 21 double it goes high to right center field and dropped wyverns with a 3 nothing. On the 2nd inning is a little bit more of the same but if you dont know this time get on the board off a solo homer to left field by kwan hed gone though the visitors this is. I have a 31 lead in the cardboard fans are pretty quiet and calm before the but they should be 3 run double the center field gap off the back of a roma bat of roma hot and the visitors still maintain a heavy lead 6. 00 to 1. 00 this time and the bats are not going to stop this time didnt present john hell single right center field 2 and score wrong act the youngest tagged out on his way to 2nd s. K. With a 71 lead will actually add one more and win 8 to extending their winning streak to 5 games and back to middle all right thanks for that regina hamm and that is it for me make sure you check out check out our brand new app called portable t. V. Its free can catch up on the news 247 im a watch and see im at. The tease Holiday International memorial awards are now open for entries the media professionals are eligible whether youre a freelance journalist work through terms of media or part of a global News Platform to participate in the show published works in video written for. Go to award dot altie dot com and then to now. Seem wrong. Why dont we just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out these days become active. And engaged because the trail. Went on many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Rage and destruction scream and despair as the United States found itself in such a state of turmoil growing income inequality systemic racism or at least 60 years which is the difference between a protest and riot is it accurate to say the u. S. Has become. This is a boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss. In washington coming up protests and heavy Police Continue across the country talk to state lawmakers about the inequalities leading up to this moment and bite and scratch and a global pandemic. In the green. Pretty i will join us to break it down we have a show today so lets go and. We start off here in washington d. C. At the city join the dozens of cities with mass demonstrations that are connected to the killing of george floyd last week the Nations Capital is once again facing a curfew ahead of more expected protests arties fair outside the white house with the story fair and what do you see today. So sarah when we were here monday a lot of protesters here talking about racial inequality today its a little bit of a different theme here saying more talks about the economy and big talks about religion all because of a