Earlier suggestions that multiple officers from each joan have walked off were inaccurate. The department is experiencing a higher than usual callouts with the incoming shift. We have enough resources to maintain operations and remain able to respond to incidents. Heres what atlantas mayor told cnn. Theres a lot happening in our city and the Police Officers are receiving the brunt of it quite frankly. What i will say is this is my administrations had a great working relationship with our officer. In the same way weve made that commitment to our officers, we expect the officers will keep the commitment to our communities. Former officer garrett rolf faces 11 charges. He faces 5 charges of aggravated assault. Devin brosnan faces three charges. One is aggravated assault because he stood on brooks shoulder. He said he was just trying to control the situation. He put his foot on the arm to make sure he didnt have access to a weapon. He still had within reach the tase. And the d. A. Says tha
5 a. M. Here in new york. With thousands protesting nationwide for police reform, President Trump is calling for only modest changes. Sources briefed on the order say it mainly leans on congress to do the heavy lifting because the president doesnt want to alienate the Police Officers. It includes incentives for Police Department to send Mental Health officials on calls. Jim acosta has more. Reporter christine and laura, later today the president is expected to unveil a new executive order aimed at Cushing Police brutality. It will add a new database to track police misconduct. Its calling on Law Enforcement agencies to refrain from using police choke holds. Heres more of what the president had to say. Were going to have some solutions, some i think good solutions. Some of it, as you know, its about great people. We need great people in our Police Departments and we have mostly great people. I would say that. I would say that with certainty we have mostly great people. I know so many of
Allegations. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im Natalie Allen. Cnn newsroom starts right now. Thank you for joining us. Our top story, the world is about to pass two pandemic milestones, almost simultaneously. Thats when the global total of documented cases hits 10 million and the global total of deaths marks a half million. And a big reason those numbers are going up is the United States. Americans are less than 5 of the global population but account for 25 of all the worlds infections and deaths. The u. S. Recorded 87,000 new cases in just the past two days. Among the worst hit are states that reopened in may. A month later, theyre facing alarming spikes in new cases and hospitalizations, many young people are falling ill and now the cdc says it is actually much worse than we thought. To date, the u. S. Has documented 2. 5 million cases of covid19, but according to the cdc survey, the real number of infected americans is at least six times highe
5 00 a. M. Here on the east coast, thank you so much for joining us. Our top story, the world is about to pass two pandemic milestones, almost simultaneously. Thats when the global total of documented cases hits 10 million and the global total of deaths marks a half million. A big reason those numbers are going up is the United States. Americans are less than 5 of the global population but account for 25 of all the worlds infections and deaths. The u. S. Recorded 87,000 new cases in just the past two days. Among the worst hit are states that reopened in may. A month later, they are facing alarming spikes in new cases and hospitalizations. Many young people are falling ill, and now the cdc says the true number of infected americans is many times higher than previously thought. To date, Johns Hopkins university has documented 2. 5 million cases of covid19 in the u. S. , but the cdc says the actual number of infections among americans is at least six times higher. And as mind boggling as
Since the unrest. More than half a dozen others are in the process of leaving. Were also seeing new video overnight from the arrest of two black teenagers in tulsa, oklahoma. A witness capturing the moment here when a 13yearold was thrown from the front of a police cruiser. His 15yearold friend also in handcuffs. The two teens were arrested for jay walking on a rural street that had no sidewalks. Lets begin with cnns Diane Gallagher live in atlanta at the scene of Rayshard Brooks shooting. Diane, tell us what were learning this morning about the Details Behind this. Reporter jim, look, protests continued overnight. They were generally peaceful. People showing up at the wendys again today paying their respects, taking photos, just kind of being here. As more video is released were learning a little bit more about what happened in those moments leading up to the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks. He talked about being there to visit his mothers gravesite with the officers. He talked abou