Good evening. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Racial tensions have flaired from new york to the bay area over deadly encounters between White Police Officers and unarmed africanamerican males. Separate grand juries weighed two of the most highprofile incidents in ferguson and new york, both did not indict the officers sparking on demonstrations and multiple cities across the u. S. Include manager the by a area. Civil rights advocates say thesications are igniting a National Movement calling for nation. The grand jury systems on a state level are broken and seem to lack the capacity to deal with police. As demands for reform in the Justice System and Police Training mount, president obama and officials like new york city mayor bill de blasio are offering solutions. A fullscale retraining of this police force in this extraordinary facility is going to do a lot o improve the way our officers work with community members, improve the way they deal with each interaction. Obviously work for a reduc
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Thereunder arrest. Police say that it could have been a much worse. And out to a Pleasant Hill neighborhood after a bomb discovered three teenangers under east bay say they were detonating them. No one was hurt in the initial explosion that destroyed just a mail box in Pleasant Hill last night. But police say things could have been far worse. As kron4s aleica reid tells us. The bomb squad had to be called in when officers caught up to the juveniles. We got a call of an explosion and found a mailbox that was. This is the mailbox the police were talking about that is a shortage to pieces after neighbors for this lau which last after is normally a quiet block. I knew that was something besides fireworks. And i called the 911 a. It was a pipe bomb explosion that left to residents and numb. My right ear was a number and deafening of base of this red as to be leaving the scene and it was found at college park. After leaving the scene it of this red as to be believed to be related s the mas c
Are proof of this. During a time of war, we ask our troops to give their best even to the point of sacrificing their own lives. When compared against that how much of a sacrifice is it for a president to engage in a possibly contentious debate. How much of a sacrifice is it for a member of congress to debate and vote about whether military action is a good idea . While congressional members face the political costs of debate on military action, our Service Members bear the human costs of those decisions. And if we dhoos avoid debate, avoid accountability, avoid a hard decision, how can we demand that our military willingly sacrifice their very lives . So i await the president s address on the real and significant threat posed by isil with a firm willingness to offer support to a wellcrafted military mission. I believe the American Public and this congress will support such a mission. It is my deepest hope that we have the opportunity to debate and vote on the mission in the halls of co