Host Eugene Odonnell is a lecturer at the John Jay College of criminal justice. He is a former new York City Police officer, and instructor at the police academy. Eugene odonnell, welcome to washington journal. Guest good to be with you. Host let me ask you about how this all started. Int do you think went wrong the encounter between the four officers and george floyd on that memorial day arrest attempt . It is a would say complex conversation. It is going to consume a lot of time. It is a terrible outcome. My condolences to the family. Pointview, the starting is political breakdown at the top. I dont know why Police Officers in the middle of a pandemic are involved in a 20 counterfeit bill custodial arrest. The same thing happen in the eric garner case. The mayors have to give more clarity. Any Police Interaction can end badly. This is obviously a horrible one. Nobody can promise that you cant have some version of this going forward. You will have issues going forward. It is the natur
Online if you are under the age of 30. Those of you between the ages of 30 and 50. And if you are 50 or over. You can also send us a text. Please include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter, we are cspanwj. Ourcouncil post on facebook page. We will start the program with a look at usa today, which says a day of grief, a call to action. The memorial featured a moment of silence aston lasted eight minutes and 46 seconds, the length of time a policeman laid his knee on the neck of george floyd. Police officers linked to floyds arrest and killing were dismissed from the force and charged with crimes, the most serious being seconddegree murder. Your comments on our social media pages, some of those right here on twitter. This one says every burning city in america has something in common, democrat mayors, democrat city councils, democrat sheriffs and Police Chiefs, Democrat Senate and house. Democrats need to stop blaming the right for the culture they created in the last 5
Enough for snow but it is snowing in the sierra. This is not far from tahoe in fact near the shores of north lake tahoe. I will leave that for you, and lets talk about back here at home. That is the scene across the bay bridge. It is cold. 40 degrees in santa rosa. Some places are 9 degrees lower than yesterday at this time. I think this morning will feel better than yesterday if you were out and about because of the next map i will show you, which is the winds. Much better, we had a strong an shore flow. We are not experiencing a lot in the way of wind at the moment. But that is not going to last as we get into the afternoon there is a wind advisory, even though the focus is in the mountains. That is where we will talk about the wind advisory for today. There is a small chance for an afternoon shower. I will show you that as well. Dont get your hopes up for too much rain. And the hdline is the warm up. A 4 alarm fire is now contained. Itef0 last night. The fire also destroyed a restau
Economy some more and the dow will hit, wait for it, 32,000 this year. Thats optimism. Were at 29,000 right now. Then theres this, the New York Times issues its endorsement for the democrats nominee. The times is the bible of the Democrat Party and they split their decision. Theyve endorsed Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. This is fascinating. Not biden, not bernie, not the former mayor of new york, bloomberg, no, left and far left is the times choice. Later today, the president flies off to the global elite get together known as davos. Picture this, please, the president fresh off trade wins and a growing prosperous economy, addressing over there while the trump haters over here try to impeach him. Im not keen on the expression but you cant make it up. Varney company the tenth Anniversary Edition is about to begin. Stuart watch out. Situation, step aside. I dont have tattoos and i wear a baseball cap the right way around but im going to fit right in, google. Weather, new york today
There. Chinese vice premier liu spoke with u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer and treasury secretary steve mnuchin. The Ministry Says they discussed issues related to a phase one deal and agreed to maintain communication on the remaining issues in the phase one talks. So, we are still very much in phase one talks. Bumping up against that december 15th deadline, though. Right. When you are expected to see new tariffs go in. Right. Thats been the big question do they do it its obvious they dont want the tariffs put in will enough progress be made at that point to say, okay, we wont so you think maybe not a deal by december 15th, but maybe enough of a deal to be able to i dont know. China trade wars are so 2019. Pushing into i just think you need to just, when we talk about beyond and impossible meat, i think you need to look into the future a little bit i just think you need to anticipate, not react. I just think it helps. What do you think happens before december 15th do you t