Listen. An attorney for Rayshard Brooks who was shot and killed friday after a 27minute encounter at an Atlanta Wendys the attorney saying what happened to his young client could happen to every black man in america. Its very much personal. Im Rayshard Brooks. Im george floyd. Its happened to me. Its happened to my friends. Its happened to my father. And every other black person i know. So we are all the same. So when we fight these battles, we are fighting them from a place of knowledge and really from the heart. Lets get straight to cnns at the white house. We have gotten a good overview of what is going to be in here. Reporter these are the first concrete steps youre seeing the president take in the wake of George Floyds address to take it in a successful manner. This is a modern order. Its talking about establishing a National Database and strengthening it on tracking the excessive use of force among officers. It really incentivizes replies to use a better set of practices when it
Americans are decent people. They want to do the right thing. Certainly republicans in congress appear to believe all of this or maybe they are so scared they pretend they believe it. Either way, just yesterday, the g. O. P. Leadership enthusiastically backed a Law Enforcement reform bill, they are proud of that, they seem to think that raining and the police will fix the underlying problems and pretty soon we can all get back to living in 2014 again. Republicans appeared to believe this iss a policy debate. But democrats know better than that. They dont lie to themselves for they understand there is a revolution in progress. The death of george floyd may have sparked widespread sincere outrage and they may share that outrage, but they also know that what is happening now has very little to do with george floyd for people like him. Ay like all revolutions, the point is to destroy the system and replace it with something new. But replace it with what . That is the question the rest of u
On, punching and kicking him. He got hit in the head, got hit in the neck. Kicked in the ribs. And more unrest in our Nations Capital as protesters burned American Flag. The group cheering as old glory goes up in flames. Steve look at that man o man. Good morning. And thats whats going on across the country right now. There is just a feeling in this country that things are a little off the rails, right . Well, we have heard from the president of the United States. He has made it very clear this kind of stuff will not be allowed. Then you see that this state lawmaker in wisconsin, Tim Carpenter was attacked protesters. Protesters one thing but then for them to attack the guy and where were the police in the g. O. P. Assembly speaker in wisconsin robin advisors said this is absolutely despicable. Im saddened the officials to deal with these thugs. Where is the and the question goes on. Where is the democratic Governor Tony Evers . Why didnt he stop the destruction of the statue . There w
Good morning to all three of you. Another act of violence Seattle Police chief carmen best says the chop zone needs to end and needs to end immediately. Enough is enough here. The precinct while important to us whats much more important is that this neighborhood is not under siege and people not being victimized it. Is absolutely irresponsible for this to continue. Todd here is what set all this off. Witnesses say an suv plowed into the cop free zone early monday morning and started shooting. Members of the selfappointed Security Team then returned fire. The shootout killing a 16yearold and another teen is in Critical Condition right now. Detectives say the area was tampered with before they got there this latest incident is the fourth shooting and second deadly shooting since taken over by occupiers three weeks ago. Echoing the chiefs calls to dismantle it . Im sorry this needs to come to an end, period. Its drawing a certain type of violence there and it needs to be shut down. End th
Brooks grabbed one of the officers tasers at this point, the officer, who fired the fatal round, garrett ralth, was terminated from his position after pursuing brooks and pyring his weapon. Officer Devin Brosnan is being placed on leave. The police chief of atlanta resigning 24 hours after it happened. The anger boiling over last night, as protesters set the restaurant where it happen, that wendys on fire. We have been getting a lot of new Police Body Cam video of the interaction between rashard brooks and the police. There is Surveillance Video thats also been released and is being further examined. So what took place before the shooting when officers were questioning brooks . And how did it all escalate . And why did it end in the 27yearolds death. We want to warn you, some of the footage is very disturbing. Just making sure youre safe to drive. I know, man. You scared me a little bit because you were sleeping in there. Thats why i was making sure you are okay. I know, you just doing