From our studios in moscow recapping the weeks top stories with our Weekly ProgramInternational Im sean thomas with us. 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 camera footage of the incident from the officers body cam in a bit of a warning you might find these images disturbing. Very good. Or not there are a few that see what kind of drinks again. Im not sure she orders on i think youve had too much the trying to be dry thats a chance when youre going. To put hands on about. I dont know how to stop either. Late on friday Police Received a call saying that a black man was asleep in his car blocking the entrance to a fast food drive through rush hour brooks subsequently failed a breath test but resisted arrest and grabbing officers taser then attempted to flee the scene after pointing it at one of the policemen he was shot and then 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 joel griggs 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 that both officers 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 the superior court of johnny with murder charges against those officers. We also spoke with ben swann the 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 should and like 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 in 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 new b. L. M. Protests have erupted in another part of the United States other parts all around the states actually 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 its been almost 3 weeks since george lloyd was killed at the hands of Law Enforcement in minneapolis on tuesday the man whose death sparked a nationwide riots has was buried in a small private funeral in his hometown of Houston Texas earlier that day thousands paid their respects on tuesday around 6000 mourners filed past his coffin in houston the final stop in a series of memorials held in his honor around 30000. 00 was spent on his gold casket with the money taken from a record breaking Fund Raising Campaign that amassed nearly 13000000. 00 the fallout from floods 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 but its 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 our 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. Was weaker than it. Takes for that. 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 it be prohibited officers would also have to wear body cameras political commentator jeff charles told us that it remains to be seen whether 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 the 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 affect 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 for positive change to come. At the beginning of the week black lives matter protests is they seize control and barricaded themselves into 6 blocks of a central seattle they are calling it the area the capitol hill autonomous zone their move came after police retreated from the neighborhood hundreds of demonstrators led by the local council also occupied city hall. T. T. Thank you testers inside called for the city mayor to quit jenny durkan of not being strict enough while implementing reforms they also claim the community and not politicians should control Decision Making for more on this we can toss live to sam shipman is an activist and a paramedic who is actually inside that autonomous zone sam thanks for being with us here on our team international. So basically for our viewers who might not be aware of what is actually happening there on the ground in seattle why has this zone been set up and what is the main goal what message do you want to send to people. Yes so were in the capitol hill on top of this down which is a 6 block radius around the actual the Seattle Police departments east precinct theres not purchase street going on for a couple weeks now. Primarily around the Seattle PoliceDepartment Excessive use of force which is primarily done out of the east precinct a couple days ago here jenny during. The withdrawal of we still arent from the precinct it which point the demonstrators were able to freely move in and just actually set up camp for that 6 block radius around it so reports have described a festival like atmosphere in the zone while the protesters intentions might be good are they taking racism and its deadly consequences seriously enough. Well theres definitely 2 kinds of atmospheres going on here theres the mix of the block party similar and occupy wall street kind of melded together theres very serious talk about the cynic Racism Police brutality and what kind of how we want our community to look Going Forward there are some people who are kind of here almost as tourists but overall the message is getting through matt and clear all around to stay close to the flyers talk to the People Killed must be on the Police Department so giving that all of this is happening during an Unprecedented Health crisis our people observing basic hygiene rules social distancing using masks and so on is it responsible to be protesting in such close quarters. Well something that weve seen really clearly along with all of the other flyers talking about black lives matter is that black lives matter and masks save lives the vast vast majority of demonstrators out in the capitol hill on thomas are Wearing Masks various levels from homemade to surgical masks today in 95 but the vast vast majority are using p. P. T. And back in the actual main area of the capitol hill on tom and down behind me there is booth set up where people are giving out Hand Sanitizer giving out masks and sharing hygiene is you know prioritized so i have to ask do you believe that the actions of the demonstrators there in the capitol hill district have or will have any real impact. I think that the Seattle City Council is definitely definitely listening. The seattle near jenny durkan has responded to jims threats of sending in the active duty army saying that she would not tolerate what she referred to as an invasion of seattle. They are listening some of the major demands right now are the defunding of the Seattle Police department by 50 percent of vocus enough funds to actually seattle based universal health care helping to end the removal of working class communities from seattle and there are definitely there are at least listening im not 100 percent sure when change will and will not come but i expect well see sunk see some changes in response to mr sam briefly i know that this is a question on everybodys mind you touched on it just a 2nd ago. What do you think the actions are going to be if police do attempt to reenter that zone. Well so this dont lose pretty much taken after weeks and weeks of protesters resisting Seattle Police department violence. And talking to a large demonstrators they are willing to resist Police Department violence again if they try and retake the area without there being any kind of meaningful change implemented capital so good made me able to but there will also be a strong resistance. To go see how it all plays out we can hear the crowd cheering Something Back sure i hope youll come back to us as this plays out and help us understand whats happening there in seattle sam shipman. Thank you so much. All right now the zone is a self declared commune no police cars or cars actually of any kind are allowed into the area and reports suggest some inside are even armed the citys mayor later defended the protesters saying that they are just patriots. President trump on the other hand 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 local authorities dont deal with the situation but the issue of law and order is nothing new it has been on the lips of both republican and democrat president s for at least more than 5 decades. Law and order haps 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 it was really 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 out of the university one. By law and order i mean order for everybody weve got to reestablish a respect for law respect for law and order a concept thats existed since the Founding Fathers the catch phrase 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 stocks dramatically increasing under mayor Michael Bloomberg in the 2 thousands but it raised a key issue racial prejudice during the peak of the program more than half of the people stopped were black but the black community made up just over one quarter of new yorks population and 1st started at new york philadelphia look california 7 7 is serving its 1st stop its a day at least. As new ways to keep order away. 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 that happened in los angeles in 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 unrest 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 us are becoming increasingly militarized many forces that now boast of the kind of hardware previously only seen in frontline combat abroad arties 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 dont reports indicate it was on 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 Surveillance Drones 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 in 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. 7 c are. Now back. However trump has roof vive 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 and they become occupations and the military is has 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 theyd 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 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 em wraps near 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 being a coronavirus hot spot 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 mass dissin from Asian 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 heres and hes not gonna give. 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 theyre 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 of the 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. Where wall street is. Very much on the level of program. And so all of course its a. Year or. Longer all of those too grim for worked all night years who want to bring forward a society you dont bring forward for 5000000000 euro for Something Like finding freight news in 2018 e. V. Disinfo targeted dutch Media Outlets largely europe 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 the 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 our t. 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 tool so odd like many european an italian outlets route a story about and i quote absurd theories which by the taliban and pete evy disinfo cop 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 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 liberal tree and recurring Conspiracy Theory that acars proved kremlin dissin from asian about the artificial creation of 19 a recurring program and decent from Conspiracy Theory naturally think ripped it out of context and that segment adds 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. 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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 so 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 office a heartfelt apology and thats why the suit desperate to make up any way to blame russia or china anything to avoid apologizing again but hats off to strategy on east you ask any seasoned mobster or caught tell bank of laundering 800000 euros a week is an easy as an idea high propose a magical European Agency to root out and banish malign spirits because even if goofs still did exist strasbourg least knows how to conjure them up for money z r t on art this is the week we got our International Well back about 30 minutes stay with us. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. Dares thinks. We dare to ask. For. A long while going to world a party for your east people in a regime change Vulnerable Countries have been joking that Color Revolution isnt possible in the United States because you would need an American Embassy for that well apparently they were wrong which trouble is the riots and even the seizure of government buildings continuing our americas foes taking being democratic uprising in the worlds most celebrated democracy to discuss and im now joined by David Kilcullen perhaps our own international and Political Studies at the university of New South Wales and corrupt and the author of dry runs be snakes how the rats learned to you by it was called and great to talk to you congratulations on your latest book and you for having me its great to be here now i know that its not your original idea to refer. Adversaries as rap tiles you borrow the wrong. Bill clintons 1st cia director but since you build a narrative around it i assume you find it snooty what are you still whining about it for you. So just to say this book is a