Broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the weeks top stories with our Weekly Program this is r. T. International. Now another black man has died at the hands of police sparking violent unrest in the u. S. City of atlanta the citys police chief resigned after an officer fatally shot the africanamerican while he was being arrested on saturday night coming up is body camera footage of the incident and one of warning you may find these pictures disturbing. Well blah blah blah blah blah blah blah almost a 3rd. Grader a few words there see what kind of drinks did yeah. Im not sure some c. Order is on i think youve had too much to drink to be dry thats a chance when youre going. To translate about. I dont know. Something like that. And late on friday Police Received a call that a black man was sleeping in his car which waiting in the queue which was waiting in the queue at a drive through race car to brooks was breath tested and failed but he then resisted arrest during the struggle he appears to grab an officers taser and later pointed it while fleeing it was at this moment he was shot and then he later died in the hospital. Protesters set fire to the restaurant where the killing took place following the incident atlantas mayor said the officer who pulled the trigger had been sacked and the other one involved was suspended while the citys police chief had quit attorney general greggs told us what he thinks will happen next. People dont try to argue on both sides but georgia law is quite clear you cannot use lethal force in response to nonlethal force d so i think it will fall says will be charged with murder and weve had conversations with the District Attorney in this case and hes opened an independent investigation separate and apart from the Georgia Bureau of investigation and people need to understand that Law Enforcement is not alone in georgia the law in georgia happens in courtrooms and you cannot use. The non you cannot use lethal force to match non lethal force there is a case of tennessee versus gardner United StatesSupreme Court case stands for the proposition so i think that this case is going to end up in a superior court of Fulton County with murder charges against those officers. We also spoke with ben swan an investigative journalist and cohost of arties boom bust who explained why the use of force by police sparked such outrage in atlanta. In almost every case where were seeing black lives matter protests it comes down to use of force and it really seems to be the overwhelming theme that we see over and over and again so the point youre making here is its critically important that some people will say yes why dont you shouldnt lead others will say you came across a man who was asleep in a drive through and he wasnt moving his car and that when the drive through you gave him a sobriety test he resisted being handcuffed so at what point is it incumbent upon an officer to finish that arrest and to get this person behind bars how important is it to lock him up and thats where some protesters feel the use of force comes down to a common sense issue of this person did not seem to be a danger to the public he wasnt harming anyone at the time so why did you feel the need as officers and im this not necessarily my criticism but certainly the criticism of some protesters why is there a need by officers to escalate whats happening with that person. Meanwhile b. L. M. Protests have erupted in other parts of the United States hundreds of demonstrators have come to the streets of Portland Oregon to protest against racism and Police Brutality activists from the b. L. M. Movement were chased by the police who deployed tear gas it has almost been 3 weeks now since george floyd was killed at the hands of Law Enforcement in minneapolis on tuesday the man whose death sparked nationwide riots was buried in a small private funeral in his hometown of Houston Texas earlier that day thousands paid their respects. On tuesday around 6000. 00 mourners filed past his coffin in houston to the final stop in a series of memorials held in his honor around 30000. 00 was spent on his gold casket which is a money taken from a record breaking Fund Raising Campaign that amassed nearly 13000000. 00 the fallout from floyds death has provoked claims politicians are trying to use it to score political points democrats for example were criticized by some for kneeling for an 8 minute silence in congress the length of time prosecutors say floyd was pinned under a White Police Officers need before he died. Every american should try to stand in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to acknowledge the pain of george floyd and the pain of racism its hard enough to grieve for this much harder to do it in public its much harder with the whole world watching your incredible family his little daughter was there i want to say dad is going to change the world and i think her dad is going to change the world hopefully george is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing thats happening for a country this is a great great day. In terms of equality i just want to finish by saying to save the economy we passed several pieces of critical legislation. For this. Then it. Became clear that. The democrats have proposed a justice in policing act which would make it easier to prosecute misconduct and require local police to report data on the use of force officers would also be obliged to undergo bias training and chokeholds and other dangerous practices would also be prohibited officers would have to wear body cameras political commentator jeff charles told us that it remains to be seen whether the democrats are committed to meaningful change you know they say right i mean never let a good crisis go to waste there will definitely be people from both sides who are going to capitalize on what happened to george floyd to bolster their political careers it is an Election Year so its hard to tell whether or not people really pushing for this are really wanting to effect change or if theyre posturing for november the true test of whether people really want to effect change will will occur after the election is over if this is still going to be an issue that were going to be pushing in our in our media and also at it in at a political level as well then it is possible for d more positive change to come. At the beginning of the week a black lives that matter protesters seized control and barricaded themselves into 6 blocks of central seattle they are calling the area the capitol hill autonomous zone their move came after police retreated from that neighborhood hundreds of demonstrators that led by the local council also occupied city hall. Protesters inside called for the city mayor to quit the accusing jenny durkan of not being strict enough implementing reforms they also claim that the community and not politicians should control Decision Making while activists told us the key demand of all demonstrators is for the police to be defunded the main main goal i would say that i could see right now is that people are they calling for the defunding of police you know nationwide if you were to take out funding from the police and put it into communities that really need it you know for deescalation for for medical Services Hospitals education and you know the list goes on and on there really is no need for a police. The zone is a self declared commune no police or cars are allowed in the area and reports suggest to some inside are armed the citys mayor later defended the protesters saying they are just patriots and President Trump has demanded law and order in seattle he also called out those he felt are responsible saying all this happened in a quote radical left democrat state later trump threatened to send in the army if the local authorities dont deal with the situation but the issue of law and order is nothing new and has been on the lips of both republican and democrat president s for more than 5 decades. Law and order perhaps more familiar as the popular t. V. Show you running for 3 decades already law and order. But also exactly whats triggered nationwide protests across the United States. Thats the. Law and order is the 1st responsibility of government dont send people up there that come home and talk tough on law and order and crime and then go back and vote some other way around us all who merely a symbol of law and order a policeman on the campus and that was the moment when the ringleaders should have been taken by the scruff of the neck intro and out of the university one. By law and order i mean one order for everyone weve got to reestablish respect for law respect for law and order a concept thats existed since the Founding Fathers the catchphrase that helped take Richard Nixon to the white house during mass civil unrest and race riots. Around 200 people died back then in clashes Martin Luther king was assassinated so waving in a new era for society nixon proposed an agenda in which Police Powers were a bouncer increase in 1968 the green light was given for the use of stop and search and powers have expanded since. In new york it became infamous stops dramatically increasing under mayor Michael Bloomberg in the 2000 this morning but it raised a key issue racial prejudice during the peak of the program more than half of the people stopped to a black but the black community made up just over one quarter of new yorks population and 1st started new york philadelphia. California this. Was then oh as new ways to keep order were introduced laws became tougher since 1928 states have adopted some form of whats known as the 3 strike practice it meant lengthy sentences for repeat offenders even life behind bars the policy came in as the war on drugs peaked which raised further questions of racial targeting at the turn of the century more than half of all inmates serving time for drug offenses in state prisons were black 3 years ago it was still around 30 percent despite only being 13 percent of the population as a whole with both Police Powers and sentencing increased prison numbers skyrocketed there are more black people than any other racial Group Behind Bars in america something that has not changed under bill Clinton George bush or barack obama for every 100000 people in the u. S. Sentences for black people a 5 times higher than whites. So law and order it was a response to rioting like the unrest ravaging the United States from coast to coast in 2020 provoked by Police Actions it happened in los angeles and 92. 00 after the beating of rodney king by the authorities it happened after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in ferguson a year later in baltimore with the death of freddie gray. In the last 5 years on record the number of those fatally shot by the police per 1000000 people is higher among blacks than any other ethnicity and now history is repeating itself yet another Police Related death has provoked an arrest and again triggered discussion on black rights so as we look back on whats unfolded since nixon and his slogan in the sixtys donald trump has reassured the nation now saying i am your president of law and order trumps demands for law and order come at a time when police in the u. S. Are becoming increasingly militarized many forces that now boast of the kind of hardware previously only seen in frontline combat abroad hes killed and explains. Predator drones are a staple of u. S. Foreign policy they have been used in afghanistan pakistan bosnia serbia yemen iraq syria somalia and now minneapolis though the protesters didnt see it it was flying over their heads in order to help federal officials gain situation awareness and go reports indicate it was an armed people are angry and afraid the deployment of drones and offices to surveil protests is a gross abuse of authority and its particularly issuing when they used against americans who are protesting Law Enforcement brutality it appears that the war on terror has come home the mine resistant ambush protected vehicles built by the u. S. Military to a stand attacks in iraq have been rolling down american streets as well the 1033 Program Allows the u. S. Military to provide local Police Departments with weapons local police can order weapons like remade launchers automatic rifles and bayonets as well as body armor robots aircraft watercraft and survey one strongs these are Defense Department products deemed to be excessive old or surplus 7400000000. 00 worth of Defense Department property has been provided to over 8000. 00 different Law Enforcement agencies by the 1033 program ex new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg once referred to the new York City Police department saying i have my own army and the n. Y. P. D. The 7th largest army in the world well with lots of military equipment the n. Y. P. D. Certainly does seem like an army barack obama rolled back the program after the ferguson protests and National Outrage about the militarization of police who. 7 c are. Now back. However trump has route 5 the program now many are asking the question why does the department of defense have so much excess gear that it needs to unload anyway the u. S. Has been involved in so many words that they become occupations and the military is as developed techniques were operating as an Occupying Army and theyve brought this home they brought the war home after they made by these things and the military you know uses some of them they become surplus or if they dont buy of them all you know the military orders a certain number and then they back out of buying some of it a lot of the stuff sitting in military warehouses and so they want to get rid of them and they and basically Congress Passed a law saying that these things are to be given to Police Departments so we have the ridiculous situation where small towns are being given them wraps theyre totally impractical they dont make any sense theyre terribly intimidating though. And thats part of the purpose i guess for years americans have been told that the military budget is necessary to keep them safe and protect them from bad actors around the world but its starting to look like the bad guys these weapons are intended to be used against our a lot closer to home the very people whose tax dollars pay for them it will mop and artsy new york. After tens of thousands of coronavirus deaths in the e. U. And public anger towards its leadership over the crisis the blockade now accused as russia and china of waging a dis information war during a pandemic thats right much more after a break this is the weekly on our team international. With yeah youre right. And welcome back to the weekly right here on R T International now after being a coronavirus hotspot the e. U. Is emerging from the Global Crisis and is starting to point the finger of blame the block is accusing russia and china of orchestrating a massive this Information Campaign during the pandemic and the e. U. Commission is also calling on social networks not just to delete everything they think is fake but also to produce reports on the work that they have done vall details here. Oftentimes you hear what europeans see big headlines about disinformation and trolls and you just wonder that the russians or the chinese really have Nothing Better to do but then you read the headline again disinformation waves have hit europe during the current virus pandemic there originating from within as well as outside their opinion disinfo mission in terms of the corona virus can kill we have a duty to protect our citizens by making them aware of false information and expose the ex is responsible for a gaijin in such practices some years ago europe took action it created east strata com task force which runs a website e. U. The disinfo to identify and to track this information and think news every year they get millions of euros and the blessings of top europe kratz to do their thing leading elites in europe. Were in wall street the very much. And so all of course its. One goal of those 2 green for worked all night years who want to bring forward to society or bring forward the 5000000000 euro for Something Like finding freight news in 2018 e. V. Disinfo targeted dutch Media Outlets largely euro skeptic outlets surprisingly enough labeling their stories fake news but which they were soon forced to correct themselves because they lied and it caused a lot of them bassman for the e. U. Our analysis demonstrates that e. U. Vs does in force headlines and summaries border on dissent from asian according to the east track columns own definition of the term so they visit r. T. For example and report a sentence entirely out of context such as this bill gates is working on deep population policies and plans for dictatorial control of World Politics thats insane you might say how could ads he say such a thing well we didnt heres the full extract. And italian legislator has succeeded in taking the absolute theories of the koran epidemic to new heights by using her platform in parliament to denounce bill gates as a vaccinate and alleged globalist too so odd like many european an italian outlets route a story about and i quote absurd theories which by the taliban m p e u v disinfo copped out the part where an italian m. P. Said it and ignored the part where a plethora of other Media Outlets reported it and tried to frame it as if odd she said it like there was no m. P. And nazi was publishing huge across conspiracy theories and youd never know unless you went to check the Fact Checkers though its a stretch to call them that the creative artist came from a laboratory a recurring Conspiracy Theory that acars pro kremlin dissin from asian about the artificial creation of 19 a recurring program indecent from Conspiracy Theory naturally think ripped it out of context in that segment odds he was discussing how the media itself gives crazy conspiracy theories credits by paying attention to them but really really the unsubstantiated claims of who had nineteens lab origins up russian this information have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the would Hand Institute of raji was the origin of this virus. Yes they have we dont have certainty and there is significant evidence that this came from the laboratory the statements can both be true ive made them both Administration Officials have made them theyre all true why isnt my compare secretary of state on that lease or donald trump president of the United States y r t which never even made the claim because that isnt what strata call east is paid to do if they cant find anything to report. Bad big bad russia well people above will ask questions and cut Funding European Commission didnt fight the governments as well they didnt quite a consistent ready to end a covert to clamp of the corner crisis i think its a very dangerous way in the moment the incompletion tries to district. The attention away from their own crisis and bring forward an enemy in which that is not a good idea i cant speak for other publications that wound up on their website but every entry for r. T. Is either a made up allegation or a sentence completely pulled out of context and for this east rat com gets about 5000000 euros a year to find russian this information or make it up that is when they are busy targeting euro skeptics at home how many mosques or ventilators could you buy for that those medical supplies that were soon badly needed when the pandemic hit when tens of thousands of europeans died because of shortages when europe pratts had to have a big forgiveness were not there on time when italy needed a helping hand at the very beginning. And yes for that it is right that europe as a whole offers a heartfelt apology and thats why the desperate to make up any way to blame russia or china or anything to avoid apologizing again but hats off to strategy east you ask any seasoned mobster or cartel banker luring 800000 euros a week isnt easy as an idea proposed a magical European Agency to root out and banish maligned spirits because even if google still to exist strasbourg least knows how to conjure them up. For money this is been the weekly here on our International Beat back in about 34 minutes with a fresh look stay with us. Some control for a middle class to homeless overnight muslim are very hardworking people who want to get ahead that have either have some some Health Issues or have some of it out of trick of bad luck a full time job wont always pay for a place to live and missing just a months rent can get you a victim to gunpoint if anything bad happens to any thing that just throws your budget off slightly. 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